The most sanguine Unionist in Georgia, if observant, must read in the signs of the times the hopelessness of the Union cause. The question now: secession, and a self-defending southern Republic — or submission, and the fate of Jamaica and St. Domingo.
Original passage & context
"The most inveterate and sanguine Unionist in Georgia, if he is an observant man, must read, in the signs of the times, the hopelessness of the Union cause, and the feebleness of the Union sentiment in this State. [...] With them the question is, secession from the Union, and a self-defending, homogeneous southern Republic, or submission to the Union, and the fate of Jamaica and St. Domingo."
A Georgia secessionist paper answering Gov. Joseph E. Brown's message; 'the fate of Jamaica and St. Domingo' invokes emancipation and slave revolt (Haiti 1791–1804; Jamaican emancipation 1834) — the core fear that remaining in the Union means the end of slavery. Text from the AHA "Sixteen Months to Sumter" reproduction of Dumond's Southern Editorials on Secession (transcription; original newspaper scan not cross-checked). Fragments joined with [...].
Read it in the original — Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), Nov 16, 1860 ↗