Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1860 — Soulhern Sentiment. [ARTICLE]

Soulhern Sentiment.

Under the head of“plain talk,” the New ; Orleans Bulletin has the following: | “The Georgia papers evidently do not. like the disunion speech of Hon. Mr, -Gartreil. one of the Representatives of that State in Congress.- The Griffin American Union, referring to the proceedings of Congress, holds- toward Mr. Gartrell the following sharp language, which he will probably uuj dersfand: “We see from the report of the proceedj ings in Congress, that Mr. Gartrell has made a speech on Secession, and contended that a State has the right peaceably to secede from the Union. “Now, all we have to say is this: If Mr. Gartrell wants to secede from the Union, he is perfectly welcome to pack up and be off as soon ns lie pleases, and we hope that in his pereginutions lie may come up with some form of government that suits him better than this. “Our country would experience a happy deliverance if Mr. Gartrell, and all other I disunionists lika him, would quit and be off las soon as possible. Their places might ; then be filled with statesmen and patriots, who would carry on the government as it should be done. “The reason Congress cannot organize and proceed to the discharge oi the duties j required of them, is that there ire too many j fanatical simpletons there. They knowhow i J to keep up a row, but have no capacity for j business.” Jf Without wishing to be quite so severe on | the members of Congress as our Georgia cotemporary is, we must say that there is a ; good deal of hard sense in the last, sentence 0i r *h<: above extract. They do “know how to keep up a T‘ lW »” certainly, but as to their “capacity for business,” we cannot speak so confidently. They g; ve tbe co'.'h'ry hut indifferent proof ol the possess! un °* such capacity. The people sent them tliefC to public business in a business-like manner, and not to spout secession and utter threats of what they will or will not do. This is not any part of the business which they were elected to perform;