Year: 1861



 lrmies are collected and are only waiting the word from Washington to be launched in deadly conflict against toe South-to visit us with fire and sword, the shame of and the develtries of war; But a more horrible mockery and profana- ton of the words of peace and patriotism to the most unholy purposes was never A greater imposture upon the crcduality of the people was never at Itis one of those mockeries with which interruptions tyrants, resolved on unjust wars, deny, while they do not mask, their real objects. The "preservation of the Union" now means the maintainance of repudiated government over an unwil- ling people. It means to crush out among twelve millions of people the liberty of judgment on their own happiness, the power to choose their own institutions and all. indeed, which distinguishes freemen from the most abject slaves of tyrants.

 There was Union once, which was well worthy to be preserved and which might have been preserved, if men had loved H better than plumber. It was Union of equality and justice, cemented by affection. While these prevailed in the land, no dis cord within could have shaken the firm cohesion of its parts. No external power upon earth could have prevailed against its strength. It has perished because the men now fmiously raging to recover 1t by blood, lid not love it enough to be just; because they loved it only as an instrument of do- minion and profit Intolerance and fana- ticism grew with the increasing conscious ness of sectional strength, until they ex- panled into insupportable tyranny.

 Nothing could mitigate the intensity of the northern determination to rule over the people of the South, in disregard of their rights, in contempt of their wishes and in derision of their apprehensions and rem on strances A long train of wrongs, with a

 final refusal to concede particle to south ern feelings or southern rights, and culmi- hating in the brandishing the cord over us as criminals, and the sword for compulsion, is the course by which the North has alien

 IL d. hn and extinguished even the hope of renew al. | has placed gulf between us, which might be btidged for peaceful intercourse between independent nations, but which if crossed with the intent to subjugate, will be d seething calIron of fire and blood.

 Such is the condition of what was a great and might have been Q perpetual

 Union, but which is so utter y and hope lessIy sunderel that one sht less easily

 hope to re-unitc the parts a they were be fole, than to recover the lost Atlantis from the depths of the ocean, and reconstruct II

 our own day the happy commonwealth o the classic fable. The Union in the spirit in which our fathers reared 1t, IS dream of the past, from which we are awakened by the clangor of arms and the hoarse cry of the invader, to the conviction that the flag of the Union which we renounced as the engine of tyranny is also to be the sym Dol of hostile foreign invasion.

 What possible faith could be reposed in the northern people, if the fortunes of war should be in their favor, or if the southern States should think of co.n!css1ing anyythins; l; fold where these furious partzans now rule. If the engagements of the constitution and the fundamental truth of their own system that C all governments are based on y on the consent of the governed" could not restrain them from rushing to arms on the single claim of dominion-if all the ties of kindred, association, common blood, com mon language and intimate interest could not induce them to stay the uplifted sword hrust at southern vitals--if these have not ,uliiceI in the past, what promises they night make would be worth regarding?- It would be like the pledge of the Plataens o the conluerel Thcbans to send back heir prisoners, which was fulfilled by send ng them dead; or of the Roman general vho undertook to return to the vanquish d one-half their ships, and kept his pro- nise by severing each ship in two. The Worth is demonstrating that it would have ,een fatal te trust them even if they had made such concessions as would have been to the South. But now that that ream is dispelled forever, and the issue is nade with us of submission or sub jugation, here is not a man in the South whose cart does not beat with inextinguishable esolve to meet the insolent invader with he spirit of freeman and to resist him to he last extremity.

 A people with such cause as that which alls the South to acticn--a war for de- ence, for liberty, for civilization, for inde. 'endence--is one that may loose battles, ut IS never lost. With such leaders as Te have, with united people and inspired with so holy determination, the issue can lot Dc matter of doubt. And when the lot.bood of actual strife shall cool down, here will be thousands in the North who will acknowledge that in fighting the bat le of State rights now, the South will nave been fighting that of American free- lom everywhere.

 Es'' On Saturday last, says the Ft. Smith Times, the election for colonel ofthe lst re. ,iment Arkansas volunteers, under Gen. .ierce's division, was held. De Rosey Jarroll was elected on the first ballot. No better selection could have been made. He s a man of fine sense and true and devoted

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