Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-04-10
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must be u;ado.oi ste neF stuff than ordinary
mortals, or else bis views are shared by 4
majority of the community In which he re-
sides, when he dares to speak as he does In
the following article, which appeared in thai
p1per on the 2eth ultlmo;
THE ANTi-DENooRATIc REVOLUTION.
It Is an acknowledgment Justice requires
MS to make, to say thas the odds and ends oi
every faction which have combined them
selves together TO precipiute the cotton States
into revolution have shown an audacity
which Marat, Danton or Robespierre might
| hava anvied
Here in Louisiana, for instance, we fnd the
hereditary foes OF equal and responsible gov
ernment banded as one man In opposition to
every proposition that seeks or would tolerate
the submission OF the acts of the revolution
ary bodies TO the approval Of the popular
vote; and the dark-lanternites Of Lyceum
Hall, blindly believing that day Of retribu-
ton win never come to the people, are now
re-ineOrporating in the organic law Of this
commonwealth principles Of government
against which, for the last thirty years, the
people Of Louisiana have waged perpetual
war.
The people of north and south Louisiana
will now perceive the scope Of the game in
which they have allowed the gamblers for
their liberties TO use them as counters; they
will see in the Joint work OF the Moores, the
Moutons, the Sparrows the Declousts, the
Romans, the Elgees, the Nileses, and the
small fry Of would-be dictators-togelher
with the Know-Nothing city Office -holde.s Of
the convention or wigwam now in session
here, and the allies or living representatives
OF the old enemies Of popular rights and the
equality of men-into what hands they have
gone, and TO whose keeping in an hour Of
an unaceountable insanity they have permit
ted their dearest interests and most yalued
rights to pass.
Special privileges, a rag money aristocracy
and favored classes, will now be fastened
upon unfortunate louisiana and in return
the people will have the consolation deriveble
from the reflection that one Of her greatest
domestic interests is destroyed and her i'm
portance as q State of the Union dwaried into
a pigmy association with deeGyiHg, retrogrGd-
ing and pennilesS sOltederqtes. The depth Of
our own degradation for the time distrscts
the attention OF the people from the progress
of oligarchical usurpation aud tyranny in our
sister States, which are made participatOrs
with us in a humiliating calamity; but the
address OF Governor Sam Houston to the
people Of Texas so exactly and elegantly de-
sctibes the modifs operaRd Of our revolution
ary dictators, that per1sal of it by our read
ers will convince them that the proceedings
which we now witness in the cotton states,
and from which we are suffering ruinously,
must emanate from a common source, and
have been determined on long since by the
associated precipitators of the revolution
The power and the rights OF the people are
everywhere derided and de6ed, and the farce
which the Mississippi nullifiers declare will
be played if the acts of the Montgomery Sc
cret conclave are not submitted to public rat
ifcation, the mockery, which they are still
capable of seeing will be practiced in such
event is now the rule here and elsewhere, and
will be, perhaps, is Mississippi itself.
Are the people mad, that they stand up like
fools and towards while their liberties are
being thus destroyed2 And by whom By
men of great achievements, drunk with past
success ? by statesmen of vast capacity and
boundless ambition by warriors whose past
military services to their fellow citizens bind
them to their present treason No; but by
the variest dregs of desperate factions that
ever were associated for a common purpose
or an atroeious design. If this incongruous
herd of heterogeneous disorganizers had
among them any element deserving Of re-
spect if even asmall leaYen of ordinary states
manship pervaded them, the people might, in
stupid wonder, look on inertly while they
sapped the foundation of their institutions
and government; bat when the leaders are
seen to be only gang OF adventures from
other states, of short residence here, and du-
bious antecedents; lawyers without clients,
who obtain offices through their personal
subserviency; inveterate opponents of every
measure deemed democratic; planters whom
a little worldly success has deluded into the
belief that they are Of a different order Of
men from the bulk of their countrymen, or
individuals notorious for their wild hunt
after Office; surely the people must have eat
en- of the insane weed which, We are told,
takes the reason captive, whom they tamely
see and patiently endure, for an hour, such
revolving domination.
Can any man wonder that the democracy
of Mississippi, disunion though they be,
should feel alarmed for the success Of their
schemes when they are forced to contemplate
the character Of their allies among their new
confederates? They naturally take alarm at
the defiant disregard of the popular will
which, SO far, hers and in the Confederate
States, has signalized their movements, and
not unnaturally or unreasonably, conclude
that there. is danger that the people, outraged,
deceived and robbed Of their rights, may, in
their indignation, bury the sword in the
bosom of Gath.