New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-28
THE PRO.SLAVERY REBELLION.
FROM LOUISIANA.
GENERAL GOSSIP.
men Our Special Correspondent

mail. was compelled to cut short my account
yf the debate in our State Convention upon Mr..
Cannon's ordinance for submitting the Montgomery
Constitution to vote of the people, Mr.. Roselius,
IN his mastery speech. completely exploded the
argument that time would not permit by showing
that the Provisional Government was sufficient for
present emergencies, and that if the ordinance
sSouid pass, the popular vote would be taken in
about ak weeks. He maintained that this Con-
Ecntion was not the Long Parliament to rule the
people of Louisiana without check or limit, and
ruug the changes with Uerciless sarcasm upon the
remark of Mr. Semmes (nOw Judge Semmes, by
appointment of President Davls) that il repre-
ssDted the "copcentrated sublmated quintes-
sence" Of the sovereignty of the State. .
Mr.. Lawrence-a spruce, smooth member of
tho order of sleek-headed men, and men who
sleep O. nights attempted to reply in very
earnest haraDgue against the ordinance. Just In
proportion ss his warmth increased, his voice grew
kiher aud thinner unpl be lost his control IT,
and it suddenly slapped Ike the string to kite,
and his utteraDce SCARED away up into shrll
squeakiDg treble, wAich would make the fortune
of ANY yentrloduist One OF his Secession asso-
cistes at last clicked HIM of with the previous
question, very unkiDdly for US outsiders, to whom
his astonishing vocal gymnastics were better than
play. Then the ordinance as wrote you, was
iost, by nearly a three-fourths vote. Mr.. Heron
"a rudy, porty geuIIeniaD, who had voted Win
he majority to enable him 10 do so-now moved
Reconsideration, and in arguing it protested fOrc-
81, against the majOritys refusal to permit discus
Soa. and it's determined and persistent subversion
ofthc rights of the people His motion was of course
voted down; and SO the Convention deliberately
refused to submit the Constitution to the popular
vote.
This illustrates the irrepressble conflict between
tAe Secession olgarchy and the Democratic prn'
eiple. This Convention, you must remember, IL
sef appointed the Louisiana delegates to The
Montgomery Convention, and DOW It passes upon
neir action, taking the whole business into Its
swn hands. By the way, do you notice how the
Seeesslousts have all become converted to Mi.
Scwurd's doctrine, that there is an irrePreSslole
conflict between Freedom aud Slavery, which
struck them with much horror when 1t was
frst enunciatedl Their organs now argue against
goiog back into the Union on this very ground
1t is amusing to see how they beat about the
bush to avoid using the very words OF Mr..
Seward. They ordinarily phrase IL IN =" Inherent
aBt4gonism," or an Essential incOrpahb!ly,'
bet~.en the North and the South, which Is only
ahJtLer method of saying between the two sys-
tens.
This action also nroves what have previously
asserted, that in spite OF their loud and angry
proseststioBs that the masses are with them' the
S,ccrssODleIs G0TU -rr--' - 49, PS~r'~' =
iterate that their programme IS TO force the ed
eral Government into the use of arms, and then,
when bloodsbed has aroused the popular passions
again. aud they can cry out that the Black Re-
publicans are making war upon the South, to
permit the people to vote If no collision occurs
they are sure to be OyertbrOwn, at no distant
day, at least in this State and Mississippi Their
tyranny is already exciting the opposition OF meni-
hers If their Own party. On the very poiut refer
red to above, The Jackson MisSissipPiGH-wbich
has advocated Secession for many years, and is
an accredited organ of the party-says explicitly
hat if the Montgomery Constitution is not sub
united to the popular vote, the people who have
had DO voice ia making it, will not acknowledge
its binding force. Then the prOscriptive policy
Of driving out every man who Is in favor OF the
Union, is awakening disgust and indignation.
This driving out business is all very well, you
perceive so long as it is confined 10 AbolltiOnists
and Black Republicans but when they begin to
apply it to Pro-Slayery men aud shareholders,
who don't happen to agree with the dominant
action it comes lTtle too near home.
In short, the SecessiOnists are taking the most
direct and certain course 10 strengthen their OPP
ponenfs and to oyerturn themselves, If it is only
practicable to let them alone severely. Whether
is or uot, of course it is not nay province to
Judge. But remember living in South
western community one Autumn when the
typhoid fever ragged in o peculiarly malignant
and fatal form. The physicians met it with
strong tfeatment-Nith caOnel, and qunine and
sometimes with blOod-letting; but still death
resped 4 rich harvest. O6e young Lady, who
came down with the disease, had q great antipi-
Thy against the physicians. Not one of them
would she permit to come near her. She even
made her attendants promise that if she grew
unconscious, physician should enter her
apartment She sank lower and lower, and was
Assured that she would inevitably die, if she did
nOt resort to remedial aid. She was ia forlorn
condition, among almost total strangers; but her
fortitude held out, aud she persisted: No ply.
stefan Cor me. had rather trust nature than
the doctors" And in good time nature indicated
herself; tie crisis passed, and the patient recog-
erred very rapidly. oh the contrary a good
many WHO put their faith in physicians, died, and
these who did lot, recovered but slowly. 1t may