The weekly Butte record., 1861-03-02
T he N e VS..

Tennessee, carry hopes to the heart Of every
wel-wisher of his country, that the fanaticism
so rife in the land is to be dispelled by the
" sober second thought of loyal people, and
that tie difficulties which threaten the disrup-
tion Of the only free government on earth, will
soon be adjusted by peaceful concession and
fraternal feeling. 1t is true, that, a recent ar
rival of the Pony announces that, jeff. Davis
has been elected President of the Southern
Confederacy, and yet there has scarcely been
concert of action, between the States claiming
to have withdrawn from the Union. There
has been but the single expression of the will
of the people of those States, and that in the
election of delegates to Conventions to decide
upon the course TO pursue. All else has been
the work of traitors, unsupported by any de-
liberate act of the people, expressed through
the ballot-boX. The sensation dispatch, an
nouncing the election Of Davis, does not state
the manner of his election or by whom he was
chosen. Doubtless he has been proclaimed
President of the Southern Confederacy" by
an oligarchy of traitors. who desire to stifle
the voice and wishes of the people, and by a
/ hasty usurration of the reins of State Govern
ment compel the people TO acquiesce in their
/ reasonable demands. Whether this be so or
not-few of The deluded people of those States,
should sanction this usurpaton of authority
We still believe the calm Judgment, and sober
reasoning of the Border States will prevail,
and that no portion of the people of the
American Republic, will be found ambitious
TO rival the petty disSensions. and petty gov
ernments, which have rendered the Republic
of Mexico Il by-word and reproach amongst
nations of the earth. Is Davis satisfied to be
proclaimed President Of the Southern Con
federacy," now, and in the next month rival
Miramon in his flight from bis native country?
Is the Federal Government myth and delu-
sion, that Southern Contcderacy can be
formed by portion of its States? Is it a
nonentity, that States are permitted to wheel
from their orbits, and desecrate the flag to
which every American has been proud to look
for protection amid the anarchy of the old
world and the fret dom of the new? Is South
Carolina, proud and imperious in her solitary
and defiant grandeur to succumb to the au-
/ thority of the Southern Confcderacy, or will
she turn upon and depose President Davis, as
she has President Buchanan? Can the divi-
sion of the Federal Government into sectional
J cor fnJo IN aof.h of bor
wre ched Mexico has done for years, render a
better protection to their peculiar interests
than they have found under the broad folds of
/ the American Union Is it not more rational
preciptated into revolution without the
consent Of the better judgment of their people,
and that a re action, through the mediation of
the great States of Virginia, Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Missouri, will consign their treason
able bodies, if not to the deserved halter. to
the more poignant suffering and retirement Of
an Arnold and Burr?
The election Of delegates favorable to the
| Union in Tennessee, is no more than was ex-
pocted from the gallant State containing the
remains of the hero patriot, Andrew Jackson.
The memory of his love and devotion to his
country has not been eradcated from her peo-
pie by fancied wrongs and broodngs over alb
stract questions. craftily presented by the wiles
of treason. From these States there is much
to hope. From the Peace Congress, now in
session, at Washington, much MORE A calmer
review of the grievances Of States under the
present Constitution, by Convention assem-
blcd at the Federal capital, cannot fail to point
out a proper remedy, and save the American
Union from the policy which has destroyed
the Mexican Republic or, at least, rendered
her Government only by sufIerance of other
nations
There is, also, much to hope from the re-
organization of the Executive Department of
the Government, which will take place at the
Federal Capital, on Monday next. Although
opposed to the sectional principles by which it
came into power, we sincerely hope that the
Executive may be endowed with wisdom and
frrnness to preserve the glorious heritage trans
mitted by the patriots of &c to their unworthy
| descendants. That the counselors he may call
around him may be patriots, instead of traitors,
and that an undivided Government and coun-
/ try may be preserved to us and transmitted
unmpaired TO those who shall follow us.
/ \ feature of the news which DESTROYS the
blood and thunder argument of the anti coerc.
onsts of California, is the announcement that
there has been no outbreak at Pensacola,
where there are several ships of-war. and some
Of the Government property that had been
seized by the State forces had been returned
to the Government. 1t is quite different at
/ Charleston, where there are no vessels of war,
and where passenger ships are fred upon and
driven from the harbor II this proves any
thing, it proves that proper action of the
Federal authorities would have prevented any
outbreak whatever. and awed rampant traitors
into a decent respect for The Federal authority
+ WAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY.-From all parts
+ of the State the cheerinr news comes that tha