Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-29
The Charleston Mercury and the Charles
ton Mob EnraEod aL their Leaders.

The ChnrIestOu Mercury and the Charles
ton Mob EnrRsod RI their Leaders.
The Charleston Mercury comes down on
Gov. Pickens, JEFF Davis Col. Bayne, and
other 'tempOrizers, - in the following strain:
Southern Senator'S upon the floor of Con-
gress demean themselves BY pitiable lamen-
tations and achrymous appeals to naughty,
cOnlemptuOus and openly threatening enc
mies-Rep epublicans-Yankees. It is not
enough that they openly scout the Constitu-
tion-not enough that they deny our Terri
tOrial rights-not enoHgh that they rob US at
thei will-not enough that they declare
their Intentions to crush our own State lnsti-
tutIons, industry and social organization
not enough that they laugh US TO scOrn--not
enough still, that they seize the sword, aud
in open Senate proclaim that with the sword
they will subdue US to their viii, but South
ern Senators, representing directly sovereign
States, must fall to begging, kneeling, like
very mendicaIts for Yankee charity. II pa
triotism is buried in ambition, and honor ban
ished in terror, is there no pride left to stay
mems knees and stop their tongues Is sup
plieation, evasion, concession, subm issiou, to
be the eternal attitude and programme of
Southern politicians Yet, TO look TO Wash
ington at this moment, it would seem So
From first to last, in this great Southern
movement !or independence the Southern
politicians have been but stumbling blocks in
the way of Southern advancement Vain
schemes of compromise upon compromise,
they have labOred, cOncocted, and offered to
their scofing enemies. And still they cling
to their skirls and whine and weep. Away
with their eounsels and compromised The
people Of the Southern States must look to
themselves, and not to their leaders IN the
rear rank.
For ourselves we look 10 the Abolitionists
for the deliverance of the South.
Here, too, is communication which it
publishes uHder the signature of "Bellum;" :"
What then, detains Col Hayne at Washing
toni Are the teegraphic reports corrects
that be has modified his views7" that re-
presentatives of other States have urged mod
Grafton, and that Senator Davis of Mississippi
has requested that Major Anderson should be
ermitted TO supply himself with fresh pro-
visions from the market7 We know that
Car1linians are chivalric and generous, but
never before IN the Annals OF history, nave
we known that the inmates OF beleaguered
fortress were supplied by their enemies with
provisions, and permitted daily to receive
sealed communications from their govern
ment Such course We deem, to say the
least, worthy alone Of the Knight of La
Mancha. We beg the authorities Of the State
% distinctly understand that the people oi
the State are sovereign people-who called the
convention and demanded immediate seces-
sion, leading their former leaders have
determined that the "stars and stripes,
badges of Northern oppression and Southern
degradation, shall no longer hoat tauntiugly
on the breeze, but that the palmetto flag
shall alone float over any fortified point il
the waters of their State. Fort Sumter
we shall and will have peaceably if WI
can, forcibly if we must"