Another Star Transferred to the Southern cross.
The State of
Georgia seceded from the
Union on Saturday, at 2 o'clock, by a vote of 208 to 89.
The telegraph states that the act will be made nearly unanimous, --we suppose upon the signing of the Ordinance.
Georgia was regarded as the most conservative of the far Southern States, and the result of her exfoliation has been regarded as one entirely improbable, by those who were for ‘"exhausting all remedies within the
Union."’ She is gone!
What State can now be relied upon by them?
Can any one doubt that there will be eight States out of the
Union by the last of February?
And yet we constantly hear persons talk of "preserving the
Union!"
The literature of politics does not keep pace with the rapidity of events!
The Union is gone, and though it may be re-constructed, it cannot be preserved.
In a legal sense,
Abraham Lincoln could not now be
President; for the
Confederacy he was elected to preside over is not in existence.
The
Gulf States are making the
"Views" of
General Scott dissolving views.
They are relieving
South Carolina from the attitude of forming a
"gap" in the territory of the
Union, by establishing a continuous line of secession from
South Carolina to
Texas, and terminating the line of the
Federal Government at the
Northern border of the
Palmetto State.
In that event, even
General Scott does not propose, nor even think of
"Coercion." He utterly repudiates it. Warrior as he is, and inclined to the imperative mood as military chieftains generally are, he yet sees the utter madness of any attempt to control the seceding States.
It is for such demagogues as
John Sherman, and
Hale, and
Wade, and that arch-traitor,
Seward, to present the argument of the
"ultima ratio" to ‘"enforce the laws and uphold the
Union."’--What men, indeed, are these to pick up the sword which the greatest General of the age puts a way as bootless and ruthless!
