Year: 1860

A very large majority of the Northern people, |
notwithstanding the palpablc evidences Of dsaf-
fection and revolution at the South still adhere to
the mistaken idea that there viii soon be peace,
and that the Union will again be reestabshed upon
it's ancient foundations. They believe that the pre-
sent excitement is merely temporary and transient
in its caracterthat the storm will be followed by
another calnl-that even if any Southern State
goes out of the Union she will make haste, after
brief trial of the experiment Of independence, to
come back, and sue, with penitential ferYor, for
readmission into the old family.


Such is the prevalent sentiment of the Northern
people. Such, we learn from gentleman who
has lately been among them and ascertained their
opinions, is the view they take Of the recent
movements of the Southern States.


But it is a vain deasion. No Southern State,
once out Of the Union, will ever beg for admittanee
again. No Southern State will ever go back into
the Union, except upon terms Of absolute equality
and with assurances of being defended and pro
tected from all assaults upon the rights OF either
persons or property. No Southern state-amply
capable, as each one is, Of taking care OF herself
will 20 back into the Union TO be oppressed, plum
dered and insulted, when she can have, as an in
dependent sovereignty that public peace and tran
uuility which are as essential to the general pros
perty as to the individual happiness Of the people.


South Carolina, they say, las threatened before
this-but has always yielded and become pacified,
And they anticipate the same result now. They
call it brag and buster-mere empty yaporing
which will eXpend itself upon the air, and will soon
cease to be heard altogether. How grieyoualy
they mistake the temper Of the people of South
| Carolina they will soon learn. Already the most
sagacious Of them begin to feel that the crisis is at
hand, and that the last indignity in the Union has
been submitted to. Their cherished purpose Of
| subiugatng the South, and crushing her beneath
their heels, will be defeated at the very moment
when they thought it ready for fulflment and
the prize for which they have toiled so long es-
capes their clutches just as they reach forth, with
greedy hands, 70 grasp it.


| South Carolina has been dissatisfied with the
Union for many years. Not that her people, or the
people of any other Southern State, object to a
Union Of constitutional equality 1t is because it
does not promise to be a Union of equals that her
resentment is aroused and her people ripe for rev.
olution And the men who fought for the Union
| under the victorious banner of the Palmetto Reg
ment, in Mexico, will fight only the harder and
more gallantly, if need be, to defend their own
fields and firesidea from the approach Of those who



ton and perpetual disgrace.


Let tile Northern people dismiss the delusion
under which they are laboring. They may sneor
at the idea Of the withdrawal Of Southern States
from the Confederaey-but it is, already, almost
an accomplished fact. Those of them who know
the value of the South to the Union-those who
know that it is Southern industry that produces
tlree.fourths Of the annual surplus wealth Of the
4 country-thoge who know that the South is the
principal market for the sale of their manufactures
and the region which gives profitable employment
to their shipping-those who know that the South
has been the section from which they have drawn
tribute in the shape Of Duties fishing bounties
robberics Of the public lands, and every oonceiv,
able mode of unjust exaction TO sustain prodigal
Federal Goyernment-may learn now what peril
they have incurred by "preeipitating the Southern
States into revolution and forcing withdrawal
from a Union where tile Southern people submitted
to be plundered SO long as they were let alone
with their property in slaves, but cannot and vii
not be both plundered and dishonored at the SAINT
moment II the lesson which the North will soor


learn costs them dearly, they at least have had fa


warning. If they choose, in the face of the disas
ters which stare them in the face, in every respec
Of their material interests, to expel the South from
the Union by heapiag upon her continued insults
!


by imprisoning her citizens in pursuit Of thei
property, by fomentng insurrection among ou
slaves, by burning cur villages and towns, by send
ing John Browns to cut our threats aud murder On
wives and children, by continued taunts, ridicul


and contempt for our social habits and customs
if they choose to do this, we say, upon their ow


heads let the responsibility rest. There IS n
]" "conseryatyet party in the South now. III


last chance to the North to repudate thatirrepref


sible conflict which looks to the extinction {


slavery was rendered to the North at the LAT


election. That opportunity was rejected, an
! now, we say, let the issue come. The South


self.sustaining. She is rich in productions whic


find markets in every quarter of the globe sh


can feed her people from the productions of h


own soil, and then sell two hundred millions


dollars worth every year in foreign markets. W
6 repeat, if the North SO choose it, lot the issr


come =