The hydraulic press., 1861-02-02
wHAT wILL COME OFIT.

ton seldom live TO see it ended" It is much
easier to overthrow Government than to
reconstruct one from the rubbish of its fall.
Mr.. Stephens felt this. Every intelligent
man who pauses to reflect must feel it.
The seeding States have more to appre-
bend from internal than external causes.
They have rushed into a. revolution without
counting che costs or having the pecuniary
ability to sustain it. The nations of the
world will regard the act as precpitate and
mot justified by the causes assigned for it.
The seceders will thus be deprived of foreign
sympathy, and what is much better, foreign
aid. The State Authorities, in most instan-
ces, spoke and acted for the people, constru-
ing silence or an unwilling consent on the
part Of the latter to be a hearty cooperation
in their plans Among the first and most
obnoxious measures to which the new gov
'ecnmentS have from necessity been compelled
TO resort, are forced loans This is worse
than TAXATION without representation. No
enlightened people under heaven, and par
tlcuiaTly no eOnSlueraOle nulnO Der or tree
born Americans will long consent to this
species of exaction. 1t is contrary to their
nature, their pride and their education In
the present instance, the blessings to be
secured, compared with those relinauished,
do not offer compensating remuneration.
AT the first Hush, when tue prime movers
Of SSin oil l.>f
the imaginary grievances and insults sus-
tanned by the South when the prospect of
place and power is held out to those who
will never enjoy either; when the glorious
privileges TO rebound from independent
Confederacy are described the expectants,
and even the masses, may be stirred up to a
frenzy. Those who address them are ''all
honorable men," and What they say excites
lthe feelings of the popdlace, which viii
bliudly follow these counsels till the grand
project of disruption has been fully consum-
mated till all retreat is cut off, till famine,
bankruptcy and starvation obtrude their
lank visages; then must come reflection
mingled with the gall of regret. Wo unto
the Yanceys, the Rhetts the Davises aud the
Ketts in that dayl An Anthony will arise
to draw aside the veil of deception and ex-
hibt the ruin they have wrought The
gaping wounds of Il once prosperous and
glorious Government, destroyed to crafty
their helish ambition, will cry aloud for
vengeance on the traitors
This is consequence which we foresee
as legitimately flowing from these mseries,
begotten by secession and forced loans.
Private letters written by citizens of the
seeding States to their friends in the North
go TO prove that the people have not been
fully consulted on the subject of a separate
CoLfederacy. Many yield constrained as
sent, and pay the exacted tribute to avoid
ueing noted as "suspected,' and to save their
property from confscation. 1t is the promi-
nent politicians, self co instituted leaders in
the revolution, who propose and carry out
these stringent measures Does any one
suppose Il people trained to the American
dea of liberty will long submit to them
Never Prudence demands that they should
be silent now, while oyerawed but their day
will come, and it will oe one of fearful retr-
button. Presently murmur will be heard.
The FIRST reverse sustained by the new gov
ernment will increase its tone and volume
One of the discontents viii shake his head
Another. emboldened by the sign, will utter
his disgust in words. Neighbor will inter-
change thoughts with neghbor- secret clubs,
cabals, conspracies will be formed, until
counter revolution has been naugurated,
which will spend its fury upon the seeding
leaders, aud compel them to flee for an asy-
lam to that very Government against which
their i'll timed magnity was directed.
Well atiested history, analogous in its
teachings. furnishes evidence sufficient to
stamp this view of the case with the certGin-
J.. of veritahle prophecy
rI3e leaders of the French revolution, al
though at the ontstart engaged in better
cause, conld not stand before the violence Of
the wbirlwind they had created. but went
down amid the general carnage. 1t would
\ be well il the heros OF secession took warn
ing in tme and avoided like fatal destiny.
WINDY Jim McDougall spoke two hours
at the meeting convened in the Assembly
chamber on last Saturday evening. to hear
the Senatorial candidates 'sexpress" them
selves. Old Kettledrummel, the covenanter,
could have spoken Eve times as long, and he
wouldn't have nsade very good Senator
either.
An OPINION AS fs.-John White, men,
Der OF the Assembly from Shasta, has offered
three Union resolutions, aud the country is
safe The first enunciates the doctrine that
1.-THE Union of the States, under the Consti-
tuition, the result of Compromise"