The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-03-12
The Reaction.

ES The Corinth MISS. J Advertiser,
of February 9th, speaks as if the newt
able reaction Of sentiment in the seced-
ing States had commenced. The id
yertiser argues that the Mississippi Con-
vention, SO unanimous for secession, was
by no means ayerso to reunion, even I'M
der the excitement Of sensation dispatches
from Washington, for it voted down, by
a large majority, a resolution against re-
union. The people, in many cases, voted
60" di-nninnists under the belief that they
were not secessionists, and so conscious
were the disunionists that the people were
against them, that they refused entirely
to refer their action back for approval.
The -4avertiser says: Even the first
levy of the new government has so eX-
asperated the already burdened tax pay
ers as to only require leader to induce
them to resist the collection Of the tax"
Many" it continues, now quiet un
der the belief that the burdens OF an in
dependent government will be obvia;ed
by reconstruction, will become insubord-
mate when hope is lost for reconstruction,
and the border States refuse to enter the
Southern alliance" Many citizens Of
that State, it also remarks, consider the
whole secession proceeding illegal and
revolutionary, and look with pleasure to
the probable enforcement Of the laws Of
that government to which they claim to
owe supreme allegiance. That this is
now question in Northern Mississippi,
we think there can be no doubt and
that it must grow into solid proportions
before the regular State election this fall,
is as clear"
Thus talks the 1Advertiser, and We have
seen other extracts from papers in the Sc
ceding States which express similar SEN
timents. There is one astonishing fea-
ture Of this secession, which can only
be accounted for on the suppositon that
the leaders were afraid to trust 10 the
calm judgment Of the masses. They
have hurried their revolutionary schemes
through in the most precipitate manner
possible, and in no instance have they
seemed disposed to have their acts and
ordinances go TO the people ior discussion
and for acceptance. In North Carolina,
in Arkansas, where the rule of the Oil
garchy has been as supreme and as ty-
ranical as in the Cotton States, secession
has met with overthrow when submitted
fairly to the masses, as it has in each OF
the border States. There is fair reason,
then, for the supposilion that had time
and opportunity been given to the people
Of the seeding States, for fair discussion,
and for untrammelled action upon the
question OF dissolution, they would have
defeated the scheme to break up the gov
ernmert. In Georgia, Alabama and
Florida, and even in Louisiana, u large
party was opposed 10 precipitate action,
aud it is not at all unlikely that when
taxes press heavily upon the people, when
ports arc closed, and trade annihllated,
that the question of reconstruction, as
here announced by the Adoert'ser, will
come up, and that secession will be forced
10 succumb to the party of reunion.-
Discussion, and the course of the new
administration, must make patent the
fact that pothing beyond what has exist
ed since the foundation OF the govern
ment, now exists. TO impel estraugement.