Year: 1861

ever gone, and the people will rise on them
| and expel them from power, and the Union Is
maintained If they fight their whole military
strength will be crushed on the sands OF Pen
sacoIa. without one act OF violence or injury or
war against any but those actually III arms as
! sailing the United States troops and the peo-


pie of the Gulf States will at once put down
the revolutionary usurpation, and the Union
is maintained.


| How can troops be concentrated at Fort
! Pickens? Under the laws of 1894 and 1oO(,
the President can embody and employ the
whole militia for the purpose. It is the law OF
the United States that the United States au-
! thoritics shall hold the United States f0rts.--
Resistance to hostile military force attack


ing them is the only mode Of enforcing that
| law; and thus, under the existing law, the
! President can act without calling Congress to-
gcthcr


Instant orders should be given in the prop


quarters to the militia in sufficient bodies, to
hold themselves in readiness to march for EN-
barkation-vcssels should be chartered to
transport them-as many Of the regular army
must be concentrated at the nearest points
practicable-and the moment a gun istired at
Fort Pickens, the forces in sufficient bodies
must be embarked and landed, and marched
to raise the siege.


This course is demanded 10y the national
honor and the national safety. If resolutely
and promptly acted on, it will end the revolu-
tionary outbreak just where it ought to be en-
ded now that it cannot be dealt with at
Charleston. None Of the disorders of civil war
will mar the peace ofany OF the Revolutionary
States, and they only Will fall by the sword
who draw the sword.


JONES CoURT.-We went over to Jones
County Court on Monday to see our old friends
and patrons in that region and found quite Il
number out.


The bench of Jones, with VIM Foy Esqr
as chairman, is a tribunal ia every way quail
fled to manage and control the business Of the
county so as to bring the greatest amount of
public veal to its citizens.


Jones' unlike Craven County, is not only
out of debt but has money enough in the treas
ul.y, as we learned from the sheriff, to dcflay
the expenses Of the county for two entire years
without levying cent of taxes for county pur-
poses this year, which course he advised the
court to pursue


The people of Jones county are, ordinarily,
very quiet and civil and seldom become much
cXcitee}5on the subject offpoitics: but we no
tced, on Monday, that they are beginning to
wake up and cast about and are looking out
with considerable interest upon the political
ocean to see if the great ship Of State is
not about to loose its moorings. We were
approached by two venerable, highly respccta-
bic and intelligent gentlemen, subscribers to
the PrOgreSs, and earnestly entretted to re-
quest the editor for them to bear Il little igh-
ter on his secession principles. They said they
had always loved the Union and still loved
it and believed it could be saved. But as soon
as they are canvinccd it cannot then they are
for going out too. Others seemed highly
pleased at the course Of the Editor and with
hearty good cheer, bid him Gods speed. The
secession sentiment is largely in the ascen-
dant in Jones and constantly increasing.


In the Northern State elections held few
days since, the Republican vote fell off consider
ably from the late Presidential election-Su
Iem Press.


This is mistake-no election held in the
North since November shows any ."returning
sense of Justice" Our impression is that Re
publicanism is stronger throughout the North
to-day than on the 9th of November and we
doubt not but the spring elections soon to-
come off in some Of them will make good our
supposition. 1t is wrong to delude the people
Of the South by such ungroundcd statements.
We think we watch the political movements
in the North as close as any one can, at this
distance and we certainly can detect no change
for the better. The elections soon to como off
however in some Of the states will show us
how the land lies.


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