New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-21

the form Of linen pants. The green yards aud
and cemeteries smile with myriads Of roses and
pinks, and are carpeted with velvet grass; tue
morning air is redolent Of orange and clover
blossoms, and nosegays abound, sweet with the
breath of the tIopi,s.
INCONSISTENCIES OF SECESSION.
From Our Special Correspondent.
NEw-ORLEANs, March 10, 1851
Some of our leaders grow argumentatiye. They
are even proceeding TO elaborate justification OF
their little eccentricities, such as sci2ing the
Mint, lsudng Twiggs, &c. OF course this Is a
mistaken policy. To explain and argue is TO de-
liberate: and the Secessonjst, like the woman
who celebrates, is lost Still, it afcr1s an out
slider good opportunity for suggesting two or
three points, which impress him as the ineon-
sistencies aud incOngruities of Secession.
]. The Tyranny of the Majority. This is the
fundamental grievance complained of, the ostensi-
bic cause of their whole movement. They admit
that the Republicans are legally and fairly IN
power, having elected a President according to
the Constitution; but aIege that the Tyranny of
the Majority has become so intolerable as to JUS
tify the South in armed and revolutionary resist
ance. OF course We should expect such people
at home to avoid the oppression from which they
have sufered-tO be scrupulously, chiyalrously
careful of the rights of the minority. But how
il it
The Delta-rRuch the abest and frankest Of
their organs-declares explicitly, that any man
| who would "retard or weaken the movement, is
traitor, ,chO should be driven from our bOrdrs. "
The same journal, in lie issue of last Sunday said
! semi-editOrally:
at should be recollected that in Orleans, even
before Louisiana had seeded Lincons picture Wac
tolerated, and in1iscreet Austrian pedder came
being hanged for Offering miniature Of the Pres
ident elect for sale J.
noticed only yesterday, in two provincial papers
of this State, direct in.imation that the publ
cation Of another interior paper, which stin owns
allegiance to the Federal Union, should not
longer be permitted in Louisiana. A Mississippi
organ expresses the wish that George d. Prem
tice of The Louisville Journal, who is q thorn, in
fact whole forest of thorns, in the side of Secs
sion should visit this section. ave want"
adds the editor, with the peculiar mildness of the
South, " to see performance on the tight rope! r.
Here is our own State Convention. In elect
ing it, the State was very evenly divided; and it
is still yehementy asserted by our party that the
popular vote. By an absolute majority Of between
two and three hundred, was against immediate
Secession. Yet the Convention has not only pre-
cipitated the State out Of the Union and assumed
dctatorial powers generally, but even now, If il
dares, it viii refuse TO submit tho peTi1anent
Constitution adopted at Montgomery to the popu-
lar vote. And / think it will dare; for Secs
zion, thus far, has dared do everything, except
permit the people 10 pass upon its acts
Then look at the notorious reign Of terror
throughout the seeded States. You are
NOrtherner, travelling On o southern railway or
steamboat. Somebody lsSds you into a conversa-
ton upon the atabsorbing topic of the day.
You are, perhaps, pro-sayery man; you never
voted Republican ticket in your life, but have
always opposed that party. Still, you may be-
leve that very few of the Republicans are AbO-
litOnists in any just sense Of the word, and that
the new Administration viii not knowingly in
fringe upon the constitutional rights of theSouth
You may believe al this, cay, but you'd better
not mention it in Mississippi or Louisiana, or 10
the Republic of South Carolina. Neither pro-
claim it in Florida, OF Texas, unless you are
tired Of life, or, at least, anxious to have your
head shaved at somebody's expense beside your
OWN. Cases have come within my own knoWl.
edge, this month, in which parties have been
w::laed, at their personal peril, to refrain from
uttering exactly these sentiments. Let every
candid seees;i6nlst who can, point out another
resiea in the civilized world where the tyranny
Of the majority is so proscriptive and opPreesiys
as it is in the Confederate States to-day,
III. Coercion in trade, both teays. Don't al
lude 10 the absurd belief that the great laws of
demand and supply-inexOrabls. as the forces Of
physical nature--can be controlled by political
movements; but simply TO this idea, frequently
expressed by the Secrsionists: 1--WE can cocrce
Great Britain into acknowledging our independ-
ence by refusing to supply her with cotton; tho
North, by refusing to buy her goods. Cotton,
YOU see. is to be not merely king, but absolute
autocrat; he il to rule one-half the world by re-
fusing TO sell to it; the other half by refusing to
buy of it, Insatiate Cotton, would not one suf-
fee
III. Diversified Industry. The Secessionists
urge, no doubt wisely, the Importance OF building
"a, in tha Gnufh RUt lslde from