Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-03-13
From the cOrinth tSIiss) Advertiser
A CRY OF COMPLAINT AGAINST
SECEsSION-SENTIMENT IN
NORTH MISSISSIPPI.

j Recent Developments point with uner
ring direetness to the greatest struggle We
ever fought between the friends and en-.
emies of the American Union. Virgin
ia, the mother of States and Presidents
has by an almost unanimous voice. dcclar.
ed for its preservation. and to-day, Ten
nessee will, we hazard the opinion, follow
in Eer footsteps. Their action will control
the action of all the Border States, if the
Peace Conference at Washington shall
settle upon a plan of adjustment That
that body will agree upon a plan of ad-
Justment, VIC have every reason to believe.
which will force upon the Cotton States
who have seeded. the question of re- union.
In considering their probable action, we
must consult their previous history upon
this point Even the convention of this
State, so unanimous in its passage of the
Ordinance of Secession, voted down, by
large majority, a resolution against reunion.
If the Convention under the excitement
Of highly wrought sensation di.patches,
would refuse to pass such a resolution, it
Is certainly safe to assume that tie people, |
who, in many cases, were induced to vote
for Secession candidates under the assur-
ance that they were not Disunionists (
would. BY large majority. favor reunion.
Indeed, so conscious were the Disunionists /
Of the opposition of the people to Secession,
that they refused to refer the question
back for their approval But Mississippi
saving South Carolina and Florida-is
the most, Of all the States now out. COM
mltted IN sentiment against recOns' '1uction;
therefore, her citizens will the more readily
: eQree to reunion when Alabama and Lou
isiau. agitate for the repeal of their Sees
sion Ordl RANGES. If for no other reason.
interest, the sreat prompter of human ac-
lions, would force them to aequiese in the
necessity and bow to Il. Federal authority.
Of one thing, at least, W, believe the in !
elligent looker-on is fully col yinced, viz;
hat civil war or reconstruction is ui2aYoid-
lbie. Ere1 the first lery for tie s.,elc =
T0ce171ment has so erasperated the already
ltrtteHed taxpayers as to only require a
saCter to induce them to resist the collection
f the tar. AS leader, ere long, will be
Ound, there can be no doubt, unless a :
urn in public affairs should take place; fJr a
lany, now quiet under the belief that the q
'urdens of an independent government :,
Till be obyiated hy reconstruction. will q
,eeome insubordinate when hope is lost :,
or reconstruction and the Border States n
efuse to enter the Southern alliance. y
In dispassionate view of the whole h
ield, the mind is forced to the conviction q
hat the question in the seeded States,
vii be reunion or separate existence. That E
will be intemperately discussed is as n
ure as that the question is the most excl
ing one that could be presented to the vO- Q
er, nor can it be disguised that the min
rity party will be rcstiv- under defeat n
f the Border States refuse to seeede as q
Te think they will, and the Cotton States
efuse to go back into the Union, strong .
rejudice will be ensendered between these a.
laying the ak at the root of the n
ice of Southern progress, for none who :
now human nature can doubt that retail =,
ltOry legislation will be adopted by the
.otton States to force them out of the In
IN, which will merely exaspcrate them in
eturn to like policy. elimination and
win be the order of the E,
,unter legislation, paving the way to the
are destruction of both.
If the Border States had been consulted, =
I'D had consented to a dissolution of the ~
'niOn. the numbers and power of the new a
government would have given confidence. 2.
nd insured the obedience of the citizen; .,
ut to-day. by our precipitate actisn, We D
ave lost the confidence of the other States, !:
) well as oUr own citizens many ofBhom
,nsider the whole proceedings illegal and =
and look with pleasure at Y
lie probable enforcement of thC laws of
lat Government to which they claim to
We supreme allegiance. That this is now
question in North Mississippi we think Ii
lere is no doubt, and it must 60 into solid W
roportiOns before the regular State cleo of
on, this II is as clear. be
No longer ago than last Saturday we W;
lw a letter from the central part of the "
tate, complaining of the States action. fo
I'd asking for material aid from friends. ",
ating that our financial troubles, coup Of
d with the failure of crops, would force ar
any of our best citizens to seek protec- M
on in the non-scccding States against te
hat is considered onerous taxation. he
Arkansas and Tennessee are now looked sn
by those who abhOr civil eommotion, as r
retreat in the last resort; while many O
e forced as per necessity. to stay aud e.
yht through the revolution. there being "a
, sale of lands or other property at half HI
e original prices. These considerations, in
e most potent, will surely bring a crisis
Is summer to be decided at the ballot o-