The national Republican., 1861-04-19
SOUTHERN DELUSIONS.

oOO DELOoloNo.
The delusious OF the South, which have en-.
couraged the revolutionary attempt now on the
eve of being summarily crushed, are in them.
selves SO absurd, that it requires good deal of
proof to satisfy the country that they can really
have prevailed to any extent.
In the Richmond (va.) Wing of the 18th in
slant is the following Speculation upon the ways
and means of getting rid Of the Yankees:
"The Crisis, paper published at Columbus,
Ohio, by Ex-Governor Medary, in specializing
on the effects of Virginia and other border slave
States joining the Southern Confederscy, says
that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, will refuse to
be tackled on to New England, and both from
inclination and interest will join the Southern
States. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
and Kansas will be constrained, by necessity,
to follow. The Territories and Pacific States
are involved in the same destiHies with the West
and South. And New York and Pennsylvs-
MIA they, with their instructive prejudices
against the Yankees, would rise up in arms
against any wooden.nutmeg connection
"The Ex-Governor is very near right. The
domination of the bigoted Yankees is dreaded
and ahhorred by every Northern State, and all
will fly association with them"
The Northern Democrats, Of the stamp Of
this Medary, who have been holding out prom
ises Of aid to the traitors, are numerous, and
they are largely responsible for the present con-
dition Of things. They are, of course, found
wanting, now that the pinch has come. Caleb
Gushing, who declared that nobody should 20
South from Massachusetts,, until they had frs,
conquered the Democracy at home ex-senator
Pugh, of Ohio, who declared, at a conference
last winter, that no armed force should leave
Ohio, except over his dead body: these men,
and men like them, have all shrunk away, since
the moment of danger has arrived. What is
wonderful, is, that the South should ever have
relied upon such creatures.
There is really a more uncompromising anti
slavery spirit in the Northwest than there is in
New England, and, aside from questions Of that
character, it is impossible that the West should
prefer Southern to Northern and Eastern
connection.
Free outlets to the ocean are the first neces
sty Of the West, and it will never yield its &C
cess, either to the Gulf or the Atlantic. But i
driven to choice, it could not hesitate mo
ment to prefer its access to the Atlantic. Tht
proportion Of the commerce of the free West
which takes the channel of the Mississippi, il
small, and growing less.
These notions of Medary are precisely thos'
which William c. Rives, of Virginia, elaborated
in his disunion manifesto of last December. Tt
get rid of the Yankees was the thing to be done
and nothing, according to Mr.. Rives, was easie
to be accomplished. Who could fail to prefe
a connection with such rich and powerful Com
monwealths as Florida and Mississippi, to
connection with such a population as that o
New England?
These old-school Virginians will find thei
cherished notions very roughly shaken by pass
ing events, and the process will be an improving
one for them, although very disagreeable. AM
especially will they find that their hatred of th
Yankees is mere provincial animosity, having
no sympathy among the great masses Of th'
nation, and, least Of all, at the West, which ha
received from New England so much of it
blood, and still more of its civilization, arts, ant
free ideas.