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DECEMBER, 1860.    DOUGLASS' MONTHLY.    383
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out feeling his heart swell with emotion, and his arm nerved and strengthened with a determination to stand by it to the last. 
From the Charleston Mercury.

We commend to our readers the following letter to a gentleman of this city. It was written by a prominent and leading minister of the Baptist denomination, now a Professor in the South Carolina College. The view it presents is no less striking than true, and will address itself to the hearts and understandings of a great and influential class of readers. The fervid enthusiasm that animates our people finds a beautiful exemplification in this letter, and it will not diminish an earnestness and devotion to our cause to feel and believe that it has the sanction of religion as well as of patriotism:

Columbia, S. C., Nov. 14,1860.
I am glad to find a coincidence of opinion between us. Like you, I have clung to our Union as associated with the blood and sufferings of our grandfathers. It was endeared by the reminiscences of the past, and cherished as the fruit of those toils which were narrated to us when children by our grandfather, who shared the perils and sacrifices of the Revolution But it is no longer what it once was; and we should be false to our blood and our ancestral traditions if we were to submit to Black Republican rule. I am for immediate secession. My profession interdicts the use of arms, and I have no son old enough to offer to the Commonwealth, but all that I have is at her command. The sublimity of this great struggle kindles my imagination, and raises my heart. It is not simply a contest between different forms of civil policy or of civilization. It is the conflict between Devine revelation and human reason--between the Providence of God and the devices of man. Our institutions are scriptural, sanctioned by the practice of patriarchs and prophets, and the precepts of the Savior. The fanaticism that assails us is the product of infidelity, of rebellion against God, that presumed to be wiser than the Scriptures, and would substitute its disorganizing dogmas of liberty and equality for the conservative teachings of the New Testament. We Southern ministers are the only preachers who proclaim an unmutilated Bible. Northern ministers have suppressed or perverted its teachings, and dare not say--Servants, be obedient to your own masters,' &c. In this view, the struggle upon which we have entered assumes the grandeur of a divine mission. We are the champions of God's truth, and he who falls in the contest will fall a 'blessed martyr.' How fortunate is it that our duty to our country coincides with our duty to God, and patriotism is sublimated into religion! I feel that God is with us. 

ALABAMA.

From the Selma Sentinel.
We ask the people of Alabama to consider well upon these suggestions before they act. Let our young men who are full of blood, in the full vigor of manhood, and who are urging South Carolina to go out of the Union by herself, consider well what they are doing. Let them look well to the consequences of their course, and the results to follow such a course on the part of one State, or even two or three States.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Henceforth, the Government, with all its patronage and power, will be in the hands of the enemies of the Southern States. Henceforth, the Abolitionists will undertake to govern States What will be the result? Look at St. Domingo.

From the Mobile Tribune. 
The Governor of Mississippi made a speech last week. In speaking of the probably election of Lincoln, be told the people what he would do as the Chief Magistrate of the State. He said, 'that the same wire which conveyed the electric flash that brought the intelligence of Lincoln's election, the next instant should carry back his proclamation convening the Legislature of Mississippi, and he warned them now, if there were any members present, to be prepared to set out for the capitol of the State the next minute.'

GEORGIA.

From the Atlanta Confederacy. 
Every Member of Congress representing a Southern constituency should resign at once. 
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Let us have nothing further to do with the Government until the eternal and everlasting question of Slavery is settled. If the South cannot settle it in the present Union, we can doubtless do so out of it. But it is her first duty to settle it if possible upon honorable and equitable principles in the Union. 

From the Savannah Republican.
Mr. Hartridge of this city, in the House, and Mr. Sprayberry of Catoosa, in the Senate, have respectively introduced measures announcing a positive and immediate separation of Georgia from the Confederacy. This is a hasty step, and whatever may be the eventual resolve of the State, we have not thought that any considerable portion of the Legislature are now prepared to give it their support. 

From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Union is a very clever copartnership when the South can have equal rights and privileges, otherwise it is a curse, and secession becomes the glory and prosperity of the South. Peaceable secession will be the salvation and glorification of the South. Union and submission, without protection for our property, and without equal rights, will be ruin and destruction to the South. Let us be prepared to have our rights in the Union if we can, or out of it anyhow. 

MISSISSIPPI

From the Oxford Mercury.
We must put our house in order. The day for arguing the question of slavery with the North has passed. We hope that no Southern man will ever again enter into a discussion with any one North as to whether slavery is right or wrong. We will hereafter tell them: 'These negroes are ours, and the moment you lay hands upon them your life shall pay the forfeit.' That is the way to stop aggression. We have fulfilled every Scriptural demand of forbearance. To forbear longer will be a violation of the Scriptures. To advocate the Union now is to advocate the humiliation of the South. Some men hold the Union high above and paramount to everything else. True it is a valuable heritage, and would be priceless were it not perverted to unholy purposes. 

From the Vicksburgh Whig, Nov. 16. 
It may be safely set down that Louisiana will not secede, even if any foolish attempt is made to test the question. The Douglas and Bell vote united beats Breckinridge out of sight; and a large proportion of those who supported Major Breckinridge are as strong Union men now as they were during the canvass, when they all professed to be Union men. No matter what other States may do, the Mississippi Valley will stand by the Union as our fathers gave it to us. Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana will not secede! Mark that. 

LOUISIANA

From the New Orleans Courier.
Of one thing, however, the whole South may rest assured--that the sons of Louisiana will not remain indifferent spectators of the drama about to be enacted, and if the sword is to be drawn, they will not be found in the vanguard of the Southern phalanx. There has been already too much blustering. When the time for action arrives, let it be the result of calm councils, sound judgment, and patriotic feeling. 

From the Oxford Mercury. 
From all portions of the South we hear the notes of preparation for the coming storm--The reveille is being beat, minute men, riflemen and dragoons are forming, and making ready to march at a moment's warning to repel the for and assist the people of any of the States in throwing off the thraldom of Black Republicanism and asserting their freedom. We are treading on times of the utmost moment. The North will find, in less than six months, that the blood of the South has been aroused to resistance, and that their odious abolition principles cannot be carried into effect before a sea of blood shall have first sprinkled the ground. 
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TEXAS. 

From the Houston Telegraph.
We are satisfied of one thing. If Texas goes out of the Union, her people will be as one man when she does go. Once established in independence, this State will become the nucleus of slavery, and the harbor of the wealth attached to slavery on this continent.
 
TENNESSEE

From the Memphis Appeal.
The Palmetto State has postponed the holding of her Convention, very fortunately, we think, for the country, until the second Monday in February, 1861. Alabama will be compelled by the legislative resolutions of February last, to act within forty days of the time that the Electoral College holds its meeting and votes for the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, as required by the Federal Constitution. Mississippi will, doubtless, order, through her Legislature, which is soon to convene, in accordance with Governor Pettus's proclamation, a Convention of the people within a like reasonable period. We candidly believe that a fair discussion of the issue presented before the Southern people at present, if properly pressed, will result in the determination to demand their rights in this Union, and to exact the use of Federal power in enforcing them. 

From the Nashville American.
While we are for the Union, we cannot indorse the sentiment which we have seen upon some of the political transparencies during the canvass: 'The Union, right or wrong.' We are for the Union 'right,' and would be willing to suffer much wrong in it, but we cannot say that we would submit to every wrong that fanaticism and power might feel disposed to inflict upon us. 

From the Memphis Bulletin.
The rumors which reach us of the hasty and precipitate action of South Carolina, in taking steps to go out of the Union, made a profound impression. The general voice is in condemnation of such a course. 

KENTUCKY.

From the Louisville Courier.
The times are full of danger. To guide the ship of State safely through the perils that surround it, requires wisdom, prudence, firmness, courage, patriotism, and the soundest statesmanship. Whether those who are to control our destiny are equal to the dreadful emergency is the question which deeply concerns every American citizen, and on the solution of which depends the hopes of the people of the whole country. 

From the Covington Journal.
If the people of the North persist in violating those provisions of the Constitution which were intended to guard the rights of the South, the people of the South must do one of three things: 1. Retaliate; 2. Submit; 3. Secede from the Union. 

From the Bowling Green Sentinel. 
If you, Northern men, love the union, give us assurance of that love by a speedy repeal of your unconstitutional and obnoxious laws, and, our word for it, the trouble will pass away. Until then, cease the pharisaical hypocrisy which professes a stronger regard for the Union and the Constitution that we of the South possess.

MISSOURI
From the St. Louis Democrat.
The true remedy for the excitement which prevails in a portion of the country will be found in Mr. Lincoln's own utterances and declarations. Throughout the campaign just closed, he has been portrayed by most of the newspapers and stump speakers of the anti-Republican factions as an Abolitionist; a fanatic of the John Brown type; the slave to one idea, who, in order to carry that out to its legitimate results, would override laws, constitutions and compromises of every king, nor shrink, if necessary, from overturning the whole fabric of society, like another Robespierre. Never was a public man so outrageously misrepresented. 
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