Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-13
Trouble in the /. Confederate states, ,,

Trouble in the " Confederate States"
1t seems that the Confederate Congress at Mont
gomery has passed an act on the slave trade, and
that President Davis has vetoed it The last
Charleston Mercury says: b
1t is said that the President has vetoed the Act
recently passed by the Congress to suppress the
African slave trade. The grounds of the veto are
not as yet known; but it is certainly unfortunate
that there should be difference between Congress
and the Executive such subject. Slavery is the
immediate cause of the existence Of the Confederacy
That differences should already arise concerning it,
in its councils, is very much to be deplored That
Congress expected no such thing is plain from the
fact that 1t removed the injunction of secresy and
published the act to the world"
So it seems the new Confederacy is already d.
viding on the question of slavery.
The Montgomery correspondent of the Mercury,
noticing the labors of the committee appointed to
prepare permanent Constitution, says:
Your members are fighting hard for Constitu-
ton such as the people of South Carolina will aP-
prove of but it is doubtful if they will succeed. If
the frontier States were in the Congress, their
failure would not admit of doubt By all means
let the black Republicans keep them until your
Constitution is made and adopted Bolts, Andy
johnson Co., are unwttingly doing Qike their
kindred spirits, the AbolitionistS) the South i'm
menSe service"
The above extract contains food for reflection.
The same correspondent refers to the efforts of
Toombs and Davis to establish standing army of
fifty thousand men, and also tariff similar to the
present United States tariff. He says Toombs will
make his report these Subjects and he fears
it will receive strong opposition well intense
disgust"
South Carolina or rather the ambitious oligarchs
who control her councils, must rule, or ruin. These
olgarchs already deeply excited because the
new Confederacy has refused to sanction the slave
trade and because it insists on a moderate tariff
They want the slave trade, and they want free
trade and direct taxes as the means of grinding the
masses of the people in the dust
The new COnfederacy bottomed as it is on the
right of secession at the mere will of State, will
end either in anarchy or despotism. If the States
go off and come back at pleasure, and thus repudi-
ate their solemn obligations anarchy will be the
suit; if President Davis, with his standing army of
fifty thousand men, should attempt to enforce the
laws and to protect society against the evils of
archy, despotlsm will be the result He declared in
his Inaugural that he desired government of strORg
physical poooer" He is soldier, and no doubt be-
hS'So III lulS. liz SuCi lulS heS-
essary and finding it necessary he will revert to it
1t is not only possible but probable that South
DINA will secede again in less than year from the
Confederate States"
Such is the wild dance of secession.
The Northern portions of Alabama and Mississ-
spp are said to be hostile to the new government,
and their people determined to resist the payment
of the heavy taxes imposed for military purposes
Mississippi has levied enormous military tax, to
be paid at under penalty of five thousand
dollars in each case. North Alabama threatened to
resist the Ordinance of secession adopted by the
Convention Of that State because the Ordinance was
not submitted to the people for approval or rejec-
ton; but Mr.. Yancey told the people of North Ala
bama that if they resisted they would be dealt with
as traitors Mr. Yancey was ready to coerce his
own countrymen. That man will yet find his level.
Five years hence he will be one of the most odious
public men in America. Mark the prediction.
There is no Democracy in the action Of the South
ern olgarchs. The people were rushed out the
Union without the privilege of being heard at the
polls; and in Georgia the idea Of the people having
the right in the last resort to shape their dcsti
MES, was sneered at by Cobb and Toombs. Such
things cannot endure. \ revusion will take place
sooner or later, which will vindicate the majesty and
power of the people AMI sweep the oligarchs from
the face of the earth.