Year: 1860

A CHEERFUL PRosPECT.


The Cincinnati Times is kind enough to inform
us, in advance, what will be our fate if we attempt
to secede from the Union. Thus speaketh the
bold, brave editor of that journal:


Whatever wrongs the State of South Carolina
may have experienced in the administration Of the
Federal Government, it is beyond the power of her
people to dissolve this Union Every foot of land
within her borders is part and parcel Of the national
domain, and the moment the South Carolinians, or
the people Of any other State, haul down the ma
tional flag and defy the Federal authorities, they
become John Browns and deserving of his
fate. We no more respect the plea of South Caro-
|inians for secession, than we did that of John
Brown nsnrrection; and holding that the people
| of no one, nor Of half a dozen States, have the
right to destroy the grandest Government ever
framed by the hands of men, we are for coercion,
prompt coercion, and, If need be, bloody coercion
We have no sympathy with, no mercy for, traitors
to this Union, and we would SERGE them al as Yir-
| gtrsid disposed Of old John Brotcn.


| We are much obliged to this Cincinnati editor
for giving notice, beforehand of his kindly and
humane intentions towards the people of the South.
It will be observed that he is not in favor of any
| halfway measures. No conciliaton, no entreaty,
no temporising. He is in favor of coercion, and
Of coercion that shall be prompt and bloody.
He intends to shoot us down, and hang us upon
the trees of the forest. We already feel " bind
ing" sensation about our throat, as if we were
suspended from one Of the live oaks out at the
Deachase grounds, where, last summer, our citi-
zens used to have such glorious baseball matches
| and fttes cltdntp6t-es.


| The people of the South, too, are lilened unto
John Brown, and if they attempt secession they
will become John Browns, and deserving the same
fate that overlook that enterprising old seoundre
The Times asserts that the people of the North
| will serve us g. dN'i as Virginia served Brown
Much obliged TO the Times. 1t is said that misery
loves company; and therefore it is consoatory to
| know that not a few Of us only will hang, but
" all Y Of us-eyery one. We think we already
see in " minds eye,'' all the surrounding trees
pendant with citizens of the South--all the tele-
graph poles all the chimneys, and all the caves of
| the houses garnished with dead Southerners hung
up by that terrible fellow Of the Times. What a
splendid spectacle it will be, to be sure I How
happy an expedient it will prove for making the
people Of the South love the Union and strive to
| perpetuate its existence!


We confess ourselves, however unable to.ietect
the felicity of the comparison. If there is any
| similarity between John Brown and the Southern
! people, we are not acute enough to discover the
4 points of resemblance. The Southern people are
] making no war upon the people of the North
| They are not destroying Northern property. They
| are not numbering inoffensve Northern citizens.
| They are not stealing, and setting fire to the
houses Of the North. All of this john Brown did
to the South. If we are to meet John Browns
fate, we insist that the editor of the Times, before
he swings US up, shall justify his action upon some
other ground than identity Of views and princi
pies with the hero Of Harper's Ferry.


Inssmuch as South Carolina has had the hardi
hood, 10 defiance Of the fearful warning of the
Times, to haul down the National iag.s w


shall expect speedy execution of the threat o
4 g bloody coercion.n The Palmetto flag now aout


the skies in Carolina, and the Pelican flag nov


waves to the breeze here in the Crescent City Q


the South, though are not quite out of til,


Union yet, but soon will be. The Times editor
therefore, in making his ferocious pilgrimage te
South Garolna to execute vengeance upon them,
Ia John Brown, had just as well call by, and give
us little turn here, before he proceeds upon hi:
holy and benign mission. We think we can guar
antee that he will have 'a high old time" of i
| among our people. @
To speak seriously, there is nothing in this threa


of coercion, except an empty show of buster
We do not believe that actual eoercion will be at
tempted. We have no idea that it will be done
either by the Federal Governne mt or the Northern
people. So far as the latter is concerned, ther,
are plenty of Northern men to put downs any coer


cion measures contemplated by others Of theil


own section. The threat of this Cincinnati pape


amounts to nothing but we have cited it only fe


the purpose Of showing what disposition thes


crazy fanatics would make Of us if they only ha


the power and the courage. All this, too, goes t


prove how deep-seated and irreeoncable is til


antagonism between the sections, and that nothin


remains but separation Every day shows, NOR


and more plainly, that we cannot get along tc


gether in peace and harmony. If there is an


other effeetual remedy for it except separation,


has not yet been dscovered-and we do not be


lieye it can be.