Year: 1861

In the " First General orderH of Major.Gen
Polk. published in yesterdays Crescent, there is
much admirable sentiment and sound political doc
trine. Nothing that he says, however, is truer
than his declaration that the Northern invasion
comes bringing with it a contempt for Conshtu"
tonal liberty, and the whitening influence of the
infdeity Of New England and Germany combined.
| It's success aco,,ld depfire us of a Jita9'e."
| Let us see how much of truth there is in this


declaration of the venerable Bishop-for, although
it is a military order, we cannot read it without


thinking of the sacerdoal character of its eminent
author. What would be the future, then, of the
States of the South if were possible for them to
be conquered and subjugatea by the barbarian
hordes of the North?


Leaving out of the account the false morality and
religious hereses to which allasion is made, it is
plain that in such an event the position of the South
would be one of utter degradation. Bad as it was


in the old Union, it would then be infinitely worse.
Bishop Polk says itwoud deprive us of q flture,'
but it would be worse than that Just as death is
preferable to existence made miserable by horri-
Bile ortures would it be better for US of the South
to have no future at ALL than such future as will
be in store for us if we again pass under the
Abolition yoke.


In the old Union we were annually plundered of
our substance and deprived of the fruits of our
iabors by tariffs bounties, and special legislation
for the benefit of the North. What we have suf-


fered in that respect will be nothing to what we


will be compelled to endure if we ever again sub
| nit to the Northern majority. war debt of i'm


mense proportions will hang over the land, and
that debt we of the South will be made to pay.
We have too often shown that it was the produc-


tions of the South that Kept up the national credit
and constituted the annual surplus wealth of the


country to render it necessary to repeat the facts
and figures by which that conclusion is reached.
Here then, alone, if there were other reasons,
do we find motive for resistance as long as South
ern man is left alive to defend Southern soil.
The North, in the old Union, had secure major
tiles in both houses of Congress, and it had the
numerical power to elect President by Sec
tional vote. For some years there were o few
Northern statesmen who refused to side with the
Abolitionists in carrying out their unhoy purposes
But where are they now? Either driven from
public life Or apostates to their former faith, in
open alliance with the enemy. In the event of re-
construction of the Union Eve hate to write the
word) there is scarcely in the whole North single
man TO whom we could look for sympathy or as
sistance. Worse off than ever before, nothing
would be left US but abject submission to every
kind of unfriendly legislation, and what is more
CALLING still, continued insult and contumely from
people who know not how to respect either the
feelings or the rights of those they may have in
their power.


Fortunate, indeed, was it for the South that she
struck the blow when she did. We tremble to
think what would have been our condition after
one year of passive submission to the Abolition
despotism Sooner later, of course, the issue
had to be made; for it is impossible to suppose
free people would have bowed their heads to the
tyranny for all time. Bat it would have been after
Abolitionsm had insidiously gained foothold in
every Southern State. The military stations of
the South would have been in possession of Aboli-
ton armies. Imported Abolitionisfs would have
filled all the Offices The struggle to be free would
have been infinitely greater and more costly than
it will now prove.


What our future would have been in the Aboli-
tion Union, as well as what it will be under our
own Government, it is easy to see. Submission on
the partsof the South would have been dshonor
and ruin. Resistance 6 till the last armed foe eX
pires,n and is the highest obligation of every
man who is not bastard and a craven. While
our subjugation as is truly said, would 'deprive
US of FUTURE" except future of shame and
slavery, our success will give us such future as,
in after ages will cover with imperishabe renown
the names of the brave patriots who have naugu-
rated, and are now accomplishing, our independ.
ence Of Yankee despotsm. ~