Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-05-16
What will be the Effect of Secession
 DDon the North2

! From the very inception of the secession movement, northern journals and politi- clans cxulted in the immense loss and dis aster which they averred would result to the South from dissolution. They represented that the southern States have hitherto been a burden updn the federal treasury, and have received in the way of federal expen- ditures far mere than they have contributed. They declared that 1t would cut us off from our most profitable customers, and deprive us of the necessaries of life for which we have to look to the west-that it would eX- pose us to oallthe perils and endorsements incident to the organization of new go- vernment. l'hey even imagined that it would disturb our social existence, and that it would result in anarchy and such social convulsions as would render our destiny thick-set with disaster and gloom. But in spite of all tl,ese forebodings, the secession idea has marched forward with the dignity and logical consistency and philosophic moderation of all great truths and moral enterprises. :Ten slaveholding States have already seeded, and all the rest without an ! important exception, are gravitating in that direction Commerce is by no means par 1 alvzed in ou.. midst Our social system i never appeared moro stable and harmoni- ous. Anarchy no where exists, except in the malign hope of our enemies, and insur- rection among southern slaves is only a rhetorical vision of abolition optics. We have already established, and in successful operation, a stable and reliable govern ment, securing to the people all the fran chscs of constitutional liberty, and des- tined to an indefinite expansion southward and westward in the region of the tropics.
 So much for the effect of secession and revolution upon the South. What are its present and prospective effects upon north em society and the northern experiment of self government? It requires no philoso- ! phic speculation, and no extended powers of analysis to discover the disintegrating and demoralizing influence that dissolution is destined te exert upon free government at the North, and upon northern forms of social life The innumerablc brood of curses which for years it has sent forth against the South, are destined with uner- ring and fata:! certainty to come home to roost. With that pride which the proverb says "c0meth before destruction," 1t rush. ed on in a career of intolerance and aggres- sion which no constitutional forms, no obli- cations of good faith, no principles of equity, no feeling of fraternity or good ,neighborhood could check-which nothing could arrest but an unconquerable spirit of independence in the South, and the arm of the South clothed in soldierly might. But it has been checked, and fearful is the re- vulsion. IL is is though the waters of the Niagara were turned back at the very verge of the falls. The plunging torrent thus arrested must break over its banks and spread devastation on either hand.
 The North that would have desolated the South, is now threatened with desola- ton. The North that would haYa hann the cruel and memorable - 5Sen
 
 ern fate, IS now illI 'sfbiter of south It's owaI q. a position to deprecate
 he real evils flowing from south crn secession are now beginning to be felt, and it is not the fault of the South If these evils are falling upon those whose intoler- ant spirit and aggressive course necesitate the measures from which they result. tls not the fault of the South, if the hand of retributive destiny is commenting to north ern lips the poisoned chalice which north ern malignity had mixed for ours. Not one wound in the murdered body of the old Union effuses bloody accusatlon against us. The body and the murder both lie at the northern door. On northern soil the old Union: :must patrify, and only north ern atmos phere does it's putrefaction threat en to fill with pestilence.
 While the South is just entering upon new life and organizing future full of pro misc, symptoms of political decay are daily multiplying at the North. Its politicians and journals may in vain attempt to con ceal the dseale, but it is too apparent in the throes of she victim for concealment. The commerce of northern seaports is menaced with most dire disaster. North ern manufactories have ruin staring them in the face. They already crumble stone bv stone. But little while and they must fail with mighty crash and the whole fabric of northern industry and commerce will be shattered by such shock, as when an earthquake gapes and mumbles its huqe lips over sunken cities. From ma terial calamties, political discontent and social disordeT will be sure to spling. La bor will think of averaging its sufferings npon capital. Capital will become fugi- tive from labor. States will think of se- parately finding remedy for evils inflicted by central despotism. Cities will con. sider whether :hey cannot save their com merce by relic ing themselves of State op- pressiom. Thus the idea of making New York free city is already agitated and se- yeral of the western States are already re- s.ive at the prospect of being cutoff from the natural debouchmemt of their commerc in the South.
 We do not wish the northern people any harm. We would separate from them peaceably, and live near them amicably. We wish them happy deliverance from the thick troubles which are sure to come.