Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — Signs of the Times. [ARTICLE]

Signs of the Times.

The Democratic papers in the different parts of the Union are groaning awfully in anticipation of the said fate that awai.s them. The Messenger published at Pendiet >n, S. C. says: “We fear that the Democracy, like many other parties, has had its day, and will go to pieces in 1860; of which catastrophy we think the present session of Congress has offered many portentious signs.” The Washington States, acknowledges the same when it says: “Why attempt to bear up under our accumulation of embarrassments? Over and over again have we encountered defeat in support of the South, but th£ sacrifice is not sufficient. Why make further effort, when! at best, it will be unavailing against o< r toes, and unsatisfactory to our friends!” Of a kin to these, is the declaration of the Charleston Mercury, the leading organ of the fire-eaters of the South, when it says: “We repeat our views, that at the assembling of the Charleston Convention in May, 1860, the South should prepare tor Disunion, and lay it down as their alternative to having the Presidential nomination that the South must have new guarantees for her safety and rights. ”