Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-29
EFFECT OF SECESSION"

In another place may be found very nota
bic article on the Effect OF Secession" taken
from fiery print published in Georgia. We
find it copied into the Savannah Morning
News as something very good, and we print it
in the SPY in order to show our readers how
genuine secessionst thinks and feels, and also
how ignorant he is of both political economy
and the northern states. His account Of the
terrif3 consequences 10 the northern states Of
the secession OF single southern state, South
Carolina for instance, would be laughable, if
his ignorance and folly, under the circum-
stances, did not awaken other emotions.
That ignorance of the northern states which
is so common in speeches and newspaper ar.
tlcles that reach us from some Of the slave
states, is something to wonder at and to study.
Soon after the presidential election, and when
the seeessionists were beginning their ugly
howl, it was told through Alabama and Miss,
issipp, that terrible riots had already begun
at the north, and that the Aslor house, where
republican committees are accustomed to meet
for council, and the New York Tribune office,
had been laid in ruins. The rioting, it was
said, had been caused by belief that the
southern states would secede because
of Mr.. Lincoln's election to the presidency:
and these stories, told in the newspapers, and
otherwise, were believed. Men would nor
write or speak such things if they did not ex-
pect belief and it is possible that this editor
of the Columbus Corner Stone actually be.
leyes what he says.
The political economy of the Charleston
Mercury appears to be just about as luminous
as that Of the Georgia writer The financial
condition of South Carolina being very much
disturbed by the secession antics of her PEG.
pie, the Mercury proposes the following plan
for getting supply of specie. Some.
body in Charleston must charter big
New York steamer, take in a load of cot.
ton, 60 directly to Liverpool, and wait there
until the cargo is sold for specie which must
be taken to South Carolina. When the Charles
ton people go to New York for that big steam.
er, they may as well take a few lessons on the
proper method of conducting the business of
trade and transportation. If the Mercury's
plan is adopted the experiment may prove too
costly for a second trial. If they use north
ern vessel they may as well take a little north.
ern wisdom along with it. Yet the Mercury's
politics are a great deal more impractical
dreamy, and stupid, than its political economy
And men of this kind talk as if they could
construct successfully "a great southern con
federacy." thorough trial of their proposed
exnerinent nj disnniou would taacb tI,on,
more wisdom than they are likely to acquire
by any other means. If they could try it out
and then have it disappear and be for.
gotten, like nightmare, it might be
patriotic for the whole country to encourage
them to go on with it to the extent Of their de.
sires, But the experiment could not be harm.
less to anybody, Willie it would certainly
ceatainly lead them to ruin 1t is an evil that
should not be played with nor will it be uu
dertaken it reason in the south can have faii
play against ialsehood, ignorance, prejudice
and passion.
The mostLamentable thing about these se
cessionists is, not what they say or do bel
what they are in themselves. They seen
destitute of loyalty to that spirit which create,
the Union, and TO the ideas which it renre
sentS. The success OF their policy. il
the Union, would destroy it by subvert
ing the foundations ON which it rest
and exiernnatng the principles which Civ
II value. The men Of the iree states shoul
do Their whole duty 10 the south with all DOS
sible patielce and forbearance but it is no