The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-14
WHAT THEY ExPECTED.

AHC CUuSptEatUEs Vi buc Oui DtotCr u0f e
from the beginning of their revolutionary
movements, regarded secession as one
sided game, in which the seeded States
were TO be the gamers and those remaining
loyal to the Government alone the losers.
They thought only of the injuries they could
inHict without taking into account the pos
sibility of retaliation. How much they
have mistaken their own position, and how
grossly ignorant they were Of the industrial
and commercial interests oftbe North, and
the sentiments Of the Northern people, Is
now being made manifest.
At first they imagined that Secession, by
interrupting the course OF trade, would re-
duce to beggary vast population who de-
pended exclusively upon the sale OF few
articles of manufacture that found mar
ket in the Cotton States. Bread riots were
to be the order Of the dey iufuriated mobs
we're to parade the streets of Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, and the heads Of
Seward, Greeley, Wilson, and others of that
stripe, were to be borne upon pixies by the
starving multitude who had been so Outra-
geously deceived. The North was to have
enough to do to keep in subsection the mil
lions of operatives thrown out Of employ
ment within its own borders, without Civ
ing any attention to matters in the South
ern States. Six months soerience in se-
cession has shown the fallaey of their ex.
pectatiOns ia this respect. The distress aud
starvation caused by the attempted revOlu-
tion has been felt only in the rebellious
States.
Again, the secesslonists supposed they
had large numbers of sympathizers 10 the
North, who would interpose every obstacle,
aud defeat any measures of the Govern
ment to check their aggressions. The New
York Herald had told them they could car
ry their depredations to any extent; that
any measure of the Government to resist
them, would at once light the torch of civil
war in the North, aud that Lincoln's troops
would FIRST have to encounter and overcome
an army Of Northern conservatives" be-
fore they reached Southern soil. How bad
ly they were duped by that mendacious
journal, the response to the Presidents call
for volunteers has told them.
But the rebels had not yet played their
highest card. They still held the right
bower. which was Only to be launched 10
case of the failure of all other efforts TO con.
vince the North Of the rightfulness of rob
berry, and of the blessings that would follow
the destruction of the Government. The
commerce of the Northern cities floats upon
every sea, and the mere mention of priva-
teers would so frighten the commercial and
moneyed men that they would force the
Government to make peace with the traitors
on the most humiliating terms that might
be exacted. Finding threats of no avail,
JEFF. Davis at length issued bis proclama-
ton, which was to swarm the sea with pri.
vateers, and completely annihilate the vast
commercial interests of the North. But as
in oil their other calculations, they were
again at fault. Instead Of beseeching the
Government to make terms with The rebels
the merchants and ship-owners declared
that the pirates must be crushed out at any
cost. And it will be done. Every port
where prize can be brought will be block.
AIDED, and the privateers will be hunted
down and driven from the sea.
The rebels have thought only of the blows
they could give, without rejecting upon the
terrible blows that could be given 10 return.
The piraticai proclamation of JEFF. Davis
has called out declarations from sources
not given to unmeaning threats, and for
humanity's sake 1t is to be hoped the seced-
ing States will learn their own weakness
and cease their aggressiOns before offensive
operations are commenced against them.
A Private DISPATCH was received 10 San