The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1861-05-18
PROGRESS OF COERCION.

ern fanatics doubtless regard it.
There has been cowardly attack upon
the regularly organized and legally au-
thorizcd camp at St. Louis by mongrel
congregation within her borders, instiga-
ted no doubt by the authorities at Wash
ngton, in the face of the peaceful require
nents of the State There awaits heavy
vengeance for that mongrel brood OF time
serving vassals Of Lincolnism and the
despotisms of the old world, when the time
comes for their punishment.
Troops are rapidly concentrating from
the Southern Confederacy for the benefit
of those who shall first inaugurate the war
Of humiliation. From the appeals made
to the men who have been marshalled in
the service OF Black Republicanisn, We
can Judge of the measure of punishment
which awaits them upon their promised
campaign for "beauty and booty" Des-
pite the appeals of the sensible men. of the
North, Lincoln is yet persistently inviting
his hirelings to the banquet of death.
| We can see now, no other alternative but
the terrible test of war. We had hoped
that this would be avoided, that some rea-
son and judgment would obtain in the
councils of the fanatics-tbat they would
abandon the mad idea Of subjugating the
South, but other considerations have pre-
vailed, and the Illinois baboon has deter
mined by advice of his councilmen, TO rule
or ruin. SVhat hopes can exist of his
effecting aught save his own infamy, no
reasonable man can conjecture.
The idea of this conquest of the South
by, ten times the force which can be
marshalled for wfr of aggression upon
her, now constituting as she does, one half
the old Union, is utterly ridiculous. The
sequel of all this mad foolery will prove
this position, cost what it may, and when
inc Idft-S anu Nul'uitS dsc ltcuinS upol
the earriOn Of the blind and mental tools
! of that mad fanaticism which has cursed
the nation for years, and destroyed gov
ernment once the admiration of the world,
! the trnth of our assertion will be fully
| recognized in a quarter which has hitherto
fattened upOn the generous heart Of the
South. 1t will require bat one or two
manifestations of the internal purposes of
the cormorant crew who have responded to
Lincoln's proclamation,--demons whose
passions have been fostered and nourisbed
and inflamed for years, for this OCCASION
to call down upon their heads vengeance
terrible as it will be swift and annihila-
| ting.
The South las thus far exhibited q
forbearance and mercy which has no equal
in the annals Of history. 1t has been met
by the maiignancy of fcnds incarnate.
When they provoke beyond all bounds Of
honor and pity, the vengeance of insulted
and outraged millions of unconquerable
| frccmen, those craven-hearted Abolition
robbers will curse in the throes of death,
| the false-hearted instigators to their crimes,
| and infamous death.
The North has opened the iron doors Of
its penitentiaries, rid the jails of the rob-
bers justly incarcerated, to turn them in
all their loathsome infamy, loose upon the
South, after tramping the Constitution
under foot, ignoring the great truths for
which our forefathers periled their all,
through long years of suffering and blood,
the provokers of this strife NOW saereligi-
ousl y appeal TO that Constitution as the
bible justifying infamous doctrines. II
condemned them Of treason years ago. and
Judged by it to-day, they are convicted
traitors to the Government, false TO the
Union, and not even fit for association
with the negroes with whom they have
sympathized, and made them the stoler
suffering dupes Of their iniquities.
Upon the one hand We have arayed
the scum and filth of Northern paupprsm
the crushed and starved seris, the dreg,
and convicts, and offals of Northern des
potism; on the other We have the chival
rous gentlemen Of the South, men who
have voluntarily offered their services t.
the death, i'll defence of their country, thci
homes, and every interest under heaven
When the first great battle COMES, when
ever aud wherever it may be; these tw,
hostile armies shall meet, the lesson viii
prove one which will be appreciated by
the hirrlings of n craven and covardly
administration which will then hay,
fulfilled itsAdestinv as curse and pest
when its infSHy shall have become a by
word and repioaeh among the nations o