The national Republican., 1861-04-11
DEPARTMENTAL.

DEPARTMENTAL.
REMOVAL AND APPoINTMENT.-Mr. John
Larcombe, of this city, has been appointed to
an 81, 800 per annum clerkship in the Office Of
the Superintendent of the Public Printing, rice
Mr.. z. W. Mcknew, removed.
REMOVALS.. L. Cramer, of N. Y, late
third class $1,000 clerk in the Land Office,
has been removed.
Mr.. Barrett, of the Cincinnati Gazette, has
been appointed Commissioner of Pensions, uice
George q. Whiting, removed.
SECESSION DENOUNCED AT HOME.
The New Orleans True Delta of March 26,
under the heading of The Anti. Democratic
Rerolution," thus denounces the leaders of the
secession movement:
at is an acknowledgment justice requires
US to make to say, that the odds and ends Of
every faction which have combined themselves
together to precipitate the cotton States into
revolution, have shown an audacity which Ma
rat, Danton, or Robespierre might have en-
wed. Here, in Louisiana, for in.
stance, we find the hereditary foes Of equal and
responsible government banded as one man in
opposition to every proposition that seeks or
would tolerate the submission of the acts of the
revolutionary bodies to the approval of the
popular vote; and the darklanternites of Ly-
ceum Hall, blindly believing that day of
retribution will never come to the people, are
now reincorporating in the organic law of this
Commonwealth principles Of government against
which, for the last thirty years. the people of
| Louisiana have waged perpetual war.
"The people of north and south Louisiana
will now perceive the scope of the game in
which they have allowed the gamblers ior their
liberties to use them as counters they will see
in the joint work of the Moores, the Moutons,
the Sparrows, the Declouets, the Romans, the
Elgees the Mileses, and the small-fry of would.
be dictators-together with the Know Nothing
city office holders of the Convention or Wig.
wan now in session here, and the allies or liv-
| ing representatives of the old enemies of pop.
ular rights and the equality of men-into what
hands they have gone, and TO whose keeping in
an hour of funaccountable insanity they have per.
| mitted their dearest interests and most valued
rights to pass.
Especial privileges, rag.money aristocracy
and favored classes, will now be fastened upon
unfortunate Louisiana; and in return the peo.
pie will have the consolation derivable from
the reflection that one Of her greatest domestic
interests is destroyed and her importance as
State Of the Union dwarfed into pgmy asso.
citation with decdying, retrograding, and pen.
niltss COntederdtes. The depth of our own
|
of the people from the progress of olgarchical
usurpation and tyranny in our sister States,
which are made participators with us in hu.
initiating calamity; but the address of Gov.
Sam Houston to the people of Texas SO exactly
and elegantly describes the mOdus Operdndi OF
our revolutionary dictators, that perusal of it
by our readers will convince them that the pro.
ceedings which we now witness in the cotton
States, and from which we are suffering ruin.
ously, must emanate from common source,
and have been determined on long since by the
associated precipitators of the revolution. The
power and the rights of the people are every.
where derided and de6ed. n
| "Are the people mad, that they stand up like
fools and towards while tteir liberties are be.
ing thus destroyed? And by whom? Bymen
ofgreat achievements, drunk with past success ?
by statesmen OF vast capacity and boundless
ambition? BY warriors whose past military ser.
vices to their fellow citizens blind them to their
present treason? No; bu. by the verest dregs
of desperate factions that ever were associated
for common purpose or an atrocious design.
| If this incongruous herd of heterogeneous dis.
organizers had among them any element dc.
serving Of respect; if even small leaven of
ordinary craftsmanship pervaded them, the peo.
pie might, in stupid wonder, look on inertly
while they sapped the foundations of their in.
stitutions and Government; but when the lead.
ers are seen to be only gang Of adventures
from other States, of short residence here, and
dubious antecedents lawyers without clients,
who obtain Office through their personal sub.
serviency; inyeterate opponents of every meas.
ure deemed democratic; planters whom o little
worldly success has deluded into the belief that
they are of different order of men from the
bulk Of their countrymen, or individuals noto.
rious for their wild hunt after office; surely
the people must have eaten of the insane
weed which, we are told, takes the reason cap.
tive, when they tamely see and patiently en-,
dure, even for an hour, such revolving DONNA.
ton.
"Can any man wonder that the Democracy
of Mississippi, disunion though they be, should
feel alarmed for the success of their schemes
when they are forced to contemplate the char
acter of their allies among their new confeder.
ates2 They naturally take alarm at the defiant