Year: 1861

the President Of the southern Republic (God
save the mark > We give it here:


"With the blessing Of Providence, we in
tend 10 maintain our present condition. We
have entered upon career Of Independence
which must he iuleXibly pursued. Through
many years of controversy with our late as
sociatious and Northern States, we have
yainly endeavorod to secure tranquility mud
obtain respect for The rights to which were
entitled; rs necessity, not "a choice, we have
resortcd to the remedy Of a separation, and
henceioFth our energies must be directed to
the condition of our own affairs and the pen
petuily of the Coufodcracy which we have
formed. With a Constitution differing only
from that of our fathers in SO far as it is eX-
planatory of their well krown intent; free
from sectional conflicts, which have inter-
fered with the pursuit Of the general welfare,
II Is not usual to expect that the States IRON
which we have recently p1Ited may seek TO
unite their fortunes under the Government we
have Instituted For this your Constitution
makes adequate provision. But beyond this
if mistake not, the Judgment and will of
the people are that union with the state.
from which they have separated, is neither
practicable nor dcsir bic


Ridiculous and contemplate! The bor-
der States are given to understand, in plain
terms, that the Gulf Confederacy, can get
along very well without them. If they
choose TO leave the Union and join this
bastard republic, they can do so if not, the
bastard republic asks no odds.


We said, on the receipt of the dispa ch,
regarding the establishment of the "Southcrn
Conicderacy," that it was an act indicating
an impudeut assumption, on the part Of the
States entering into it, that they would die
tate to all the balance of the Union and ac-
cept Of no terms which they themselves did
not propose: that they would pay no heed
to the will or the wishes of the Border States,
I but that they, regardless of the Constitution,
regardless of the efforts at Compromise, re-
| gardless of the Peace Congress, regardless OF
| the Peace Committees in the National Legis-
ture, would have nothing would agree to
nothing but what suited them and their ultra
yeiws and notions We said that their atti-
tude was an insult to the Border Stntes and
every HtuI'tI VI luC I OHItutIHtN, OULsiue OI
their own limits We secuted at the idea
that the election Of jeff Davis indicated
prospect of peace. Our readers find that we
were correct. They see the supercilious and
insulting manner in which this jeff. Davis,
doub yrd traitor, declares that "unon
with the States from which they(th seeding
States) have separated, is neither practicable
nor deSiraGie." The Union not desirable!
The protection of the Constitution. framed by
the great minds of the Revolution, nothing 4.
a few upstart States ON the Gulf imagining
that they can dictate to the world at large


They rely Oh their cotton. Cotton is well
enough. But is there no cotton many other
quarter OF the habitabe globe? China Goth, E
about four hundred millions of people with
cotton, and the main reason that it is not fine
cotton, is because the cotton gin is not III
u-e in the country. But the cotton gin will
work in one climate as well as another. The
explorations OF the English Government have
demonstrated that cotton Of the finest qual-
! ly may he grown in Africa, Gin which the
Government has Colonies and furthermore.
if it be contended that negro labor alone is
adapted to the cultivation of the article, there
the negroes are "native and to the manner
born" Cotton can be cultivated in India, too
Suppose experiments heretofore made have
failed Why have they failed ? Becaus,
the labor was not applied in the proper man
ner. But ii will be properly applied and cot.
II will be grown in India alone sufficient
to furnish all the manufactures Of England
with the raw material.


The idea that, in country where cotton
grows cotton cannot be cultivated, is an alb
surdity.


Besides. if England wanted a cotton-grow-
ing region very badly, we opine that she
would be able to tear up the little upstart
Confederacy of the Gulf States 10y the roots
She cannot contend against the Union OF the
United States, but what would she care for
such willing ofrshoot from this L Mon as the
contemplate republic presided over 10y jeff
Davi82 That Republic may possibly amount
to something in the course and tide Of time
but it will be a very sorry concern, in our
humble opinion, long after the present gene
ration has gone to the dust if indeed its
miserable and sckly existence last even for
that short period. Great hopes are enter
tanned of it. But, the men who have inau-
! gurated the movement are not of tue calibre
to found empires.