The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1861-10-25
The Fruits OF: SECESSION.

rea0S ana long anu ahAiouSiy as VIC udVc
watched for the light to penetrate them,
my faith in the ultimate triumph of the
Government remains mistaken. If l did
not believe that our beniGcent and glorious
institutions would survive the atrocious
treason by which they are now so remorse-
lessly assailed, l would pray for the noun
tains to cover me and for the grave to open
at my feet" Remorseless indeed is seces-
sion, for it wars on what blesses and adorns
society. 1t not only tfamples on the flag
but blots out the triumphs OF civilization.
This judgment is not based on isolated
and unauthorized acts of vandalism, such as
the evil disposed may commit in the holiest
cause. The glory of the revolutionary day
of Lexington was accompanied with q
cruel revolutionary act at Concord Bridge;
and the advance of Mcclellan has been
marked by wanton destruction of private
property. But the latter elected the se'
we're but just order against future offenders
showing how this is regarded. Not so
with the vandalism OF Secession. Let facts
attest its method and barbaric progress
and how much it is like the Destroying An
gel.
Maryland was earliest visited by the
curse of secession and, unhappy for her,
found allies in her seats OF power. Both
Houses of her Legislature, in madly deny
ing the right of the Federal troops to march
over her soil to defend the Capital, styled
the entrance of our noble citizen sOldiery as
ian invasion of pisatical and excited multi
tudes of Northern cities )" and the Colum-
1,c "A rro\
her Abolition Governor (Hicks) had been
beheaded on the spot, and man of brains,
spirit and nerve put in his place, who would
have marched few thousand men upon
Washington, calling upon Virginia for
like movement from the West, the work
would have been done. Lincoln and Scott
would now be prisoners OF war or discOnso
late fugitives from justice, and the indepen-
dence and sovereignty of Maryland would
be intact" All this Maryland secession
lists did not do. An irresponsible mob" of
them, as it was so called, arose and fellupon
the brave defenders of the flag; then succeed
ed the vandalism of destroying bridges and
plundering railroad property; and to this
succeeded the blight on commerce and pros
perity of every sort, which but yesterday
made the State like garGen. This was
piratical But who did this? Who but
the secession mob? And who but these
very piratical soldiers repaired the bridges,
relaid the rails, and stayed the black tide of
devastation? If Maryland to day is not
cursed with the full swing of such ruin as is
seen in Fastern Virginia and Missouri, and
as threatens Kentucky, it is because of the
presence of the protective power of the
Flag which the secession Legislature so
grossly insulted.
Missouri comes next in secession fruitage.
The foray here has been horrible. Words
cannot paint the bitter results, more bitter
than Marah waters. On the day (June l2)
that Governor jackson issued his call to a
then peaceful community for fifty thousand
men to a war on the United States, Henry
Little, State Adjutant General, in written
order addressed to the military command of
the Fourth District thus directs: "The
General price, desires that you will imme-
diately on the receipt of this, cause all the
railroad bridges from Charlton river to
Grand river 10 be destroyed, and cut the
telegraph wires along the line. Also pro-
cure train sufficient to accommodate an
escort to hudson, and destroy the bridges
and telegraph wires on the North Missouri
Railroad" That was the authoritative
beginning of the vandal work in Missouri,
which, as it has gone on, has turned smiling
homes into places of anguish, and blasted
the fair prosperity OF the land ; and 80 the
fruitage of secession in this State is literally
scenes of desolation and death, which, to
parallel, we must 90 to the practices of an,
cient war, or to the barbarities of our own
savage wilds. Would that this were a
dream. Alas! it is the sad reality that
lays at the bloody door OF Confederate
power.
Kentucky comes next in the black order.
Who can blame her noble inhabitants for
desiring to fight off the scorching fame of
civil war from consuming her lovely homes?
But what availed her neutrality? Could
the fell spirit that would not spare the
magnificent Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
spare like glorious triumphs in Kentucky
What did it matter that these two great
public roads are of the noblest arteries of
trade of the country and even of the world !?
When secession, at this hour, is going on
with its plunder and ruin on the Baltimore
road, can it be expected that it would not
begin at its natural beginning, in Kentucky?
The proclamation of the rebel and hypo.
critical Buckner, for the ruin of the noble
series of locks and dams on Green river, is
but copy of the order OF the Missouri
Adjutant for like work in Missouri, and
but continuation of the work begun in
Virginia and Maryland. In these three
States, secession has been the Bohan Upas.
1t has poisoned every green and living thing.
Its truitage is deadly evil.
Now why, on Confederate grounds, are
Kentucky and Missouri, at least, subjected
to this devastation? The President Of the
Confederacy, in letter addressed to the
Maryland Legislature, dated May 25th, after
expressions Of sympathy with those 'svindi,
eating the right OF self-government," used
this language as to his government "Be.
ing formed of confederation of sovereign
States, each acting and deciding for itself,
the right of every other sovereign State to
assume self action and self government is
necessarily acknowledged. Hence conquest
of other States is wholly inconsistent with
the fundamental principles and subversive