Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-28
Thursday Morning. Feb. %. 1861.

A FEW months ago every thing in tins
souutry pointed to the coming year as a.
noncst the most prosperous the people have
ever known. Money in abundance, produce
beyond all parallel and European markets
earnestly inviting cur trade. Now how
changed: with all the elements still IN our
midst necessary to prosperity, hundreds and
thousands are out Of employment and FAINT
lies which, in times past. have not know
what It was to want, are compelled to sub
sIst on a most scanty allowance, and in ill.,
stances. not few, to seek that scanty sup
mort at the hands Of bcnevolenee. How per-
tinent the question then, what has brought
all this evil On the land and how ready the
answer,--the disappointment of designng
politicians For all tho evils that now
threaten us, even that the most Of all to be
dreaded, civil war, there ia not in the opin-
ion Of thoughtful men at home or abroad the
shadow Of justi6able cause. We aware
that tho election Of certain man to the Pres
ideucy and upon certain platform, is made
The pretext for that alarm and that loss OF
confidence hich has paralized tao business
energies Of this vast country aud nearly de-
stroy this great government.
Resistance to tyranny We believe to be &C
eeptable to God, but the destruction Of pa
ternal government, tho workings Of which
are so benevolent and benificent as are those
of that under which VIC live, must ultimately
involve its destroyers in ruin, from the con-
temptation Of which the humane heart turns
In sadness. When we look at the distress
10 which the people of this country are III
volved by the precipitato and unjustitiablt
proceedings Of the Cotton States, when We
contemplate the wretchedness and misery
brought upon the people Of th. lapd by the
action Of the politicians who have effected d
dissolution Of this government, we shall moi
DO surprised, if at an earlier period than We
Imagine, the people, whose wishes have moi
been consulted, shall rise up and crush TIN
men who have 50 basely deceived them. Hat
the Cotton States, as was their boun1en duty
submitted peacefully to the workings Of gu
most excellent Constitution, the present EN-
barrasments that have spread widely over
this country, and are daily involving hun
dreds of men in financial ruin would not have
come upon the land. And though nun and
. party obnoxious to them, might have held
the rens Of government for four years, it Is
not likely that any act impinsns their right
would have been perpetrated by the govern
u,ent, aud Il is more than probable, that al
the end Of that period, change might have
been effected by the REIMBURSEMENT of partis.
that would have been entirely acceptable t,
even the extreme Southern States. But driv'
en- on by madness unparalleled In the his
tory of the world, our couutrymen Of III,
Cotton States have torn themselves from th'
government. aud as will appear before many
months more, involved themselves in ruin
aud have been adopting every means Ill tbeI
power to precpitate us Of the Border State
iuto the sam. malestrom that is 10 ergu'pl
them. We rejoice that in tliS they have no
been successful. While, therefore, the peo
pie are suffering most intensely from the
criminal proceedings Of the disunionsts--
while the cry FIR bread Is s ing up from thu
uufed and hungry multi:udes, let them not
forget the men who by their wicked mach-
nations, and their unholy ambition an,
lust for power. 10 order to accomplish thcil
hellish purposes, are wreckless of the misery
they brin upon the toiliug millions of thi
once happy land. Yancey, Rhett, Keitt
Cobb and FlosI and all of that tratorous i'll
are responsible. for the present sulicrings o
size American people. Re-unite the States
--stnp the mouths of the disunonists. aud il
less than one month full employment will b.
given to all the workingmen in the ns,ion
aud the many f,mishilg families Of the lap'
will have plenty and to- spare.