The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-04-13

10 anticipate tacts which are rushing upon
us, like visible whirlwind We decline to
believe them until they have been cQnsign-
ed for at least month to history, and
when it is at last impossible for us to avoid
stumbling over them, we protest against
considering them, because we are satisfied
they are unconstitutional. Secession is
against the fundamental law, and therefore
we insist that the seeded States .must be
in the Union, although they are in fact
out of it. Our trade is annihilatea; our
industry languishcs and starves; capital is
disappearing; commerce furls its useless
sails energy and enterprise stand idle,
with folded arms; and yet "nah6y is
hurt" because the damage has bsAn un-
constitutionally done. If we pass into
wreck and ruin, we will enjoy the consoa-
ton of having done so according to the
most approved theories 1t is not, after
ALL" says MoLIERE's doctor, g tAxvss our
daughter will not die, but you will have the
satisfaction of knowing that she has died
according to the FORMS" Such being the
practical frame of mind, in which so many
excellent people among US arc disposed to
deal with the facts of startling and, to a
great extent, a consummated revolution,
we hardly know whether they can be ex-
pected to recognize, in the General Gov
eminent, as at present administered, any
features which distinguish it from all the
Administrations that have gone before
And yet, to eyes not wholly blinded, it
does seem to glare all over with the
most defiant and exclusive sectionalsm.-
1t is the Moth, governing the Middle
States, and seeking to govern the South,
under the guise of the Constitution and
in the prostituted name of the UNIoN.-
We are told by the supporters of the party
in power, and the Northern sympathizers,
OF all parties, that the government hereto
fore has been in the hands of the South, and
that the whole secession movement is but
the selfpreserving effort Of Southern politi-
cans ousted from federal control. Yet who
ever heard of any administration, down to
this time, which excluded the whole peo-
pie of the North and East from all the
high offices Of the National Government,
at home and abroad-in fact from all par
tlclpatlon whatever in that Government
We do not speak of mere plumber and
place, but of those high trusts, the distri-
button Of which. as a matter of right, among
the distinguished and able men of all Sec
tons, makes the Government represent all,
and gives it the confidence of all. Of the
four Democratic Presidents since General
Jackson, only one, Mr.. Polk, has heA6
Southern man. Of the two Wing Presi-
dents elected as such, one was from the
North. Mr.. FILLMORE, elected as Vice
President, the Southern President, was
Northern man in the full sense of the
word. In the Cabinets of all these Presi-
dents-in their appointments of Ministers
abroad-who ever complained of sectional
preferences ? Both the Wing and the
Democratic party, whatever their differ
ences, agreed in this, that they belonged
to the whole UNION and rested upon the
and support of all parts of it.
1t Is not little strange that the Admins
traitor which comes into power upon the
broadest assertion Of nationality, as the
theory of the Government
and the basis Of its cocrcive authority
should be the first to ignore nationality
altogether, in the beneficial exercise of its
functions.
We have already called the attention of
our readers to the fact, that with the ex-
ception of Mr.. PEARcE, of Maryland, who
is left at the head of the Committee on
the Library, not one Senator from Border
State Is chairman of any committee in the
Senate while, on the other hand, eleven
of the twelve New England Senators are
chairmen of the most important Ones
Need we further note the extraordinary
fact, that with the exception of CAssIUs |
nj. CLAY OF Kentucky, not one individual |
from Slave State has been commissioned |
as Minister Or Envoy? In the construc-
ton of the Cabinet, who can have failed to
observe that the two officers not actually !
classified as Northern men, that is to say, |
MIR. BATES ana Mr.. BLAIR, are both from
Missouri-the farce of calling the latter
gentleman from Maryland being too Stupid
to be even laughed at? In the appoint
ments to the army to fill the vacancies
caused by resignation, can we shut our
eyes to the fact, that Northern and not
Border State men, are both called and
chosen? An administration taking such
course, at moment when it is appealing
or pretending to appeal to the confidence
The allegiance of those of the Slave States
which are still members of the UNION,
can be guided by but one of two opinions.
1t must either regard the intelligence and
of the people of the Border
States as beneath contempt, and their sup
port not worth conciliating, or it must
have made up its mind to the permanent
disruption of the Confederacy, and have
'ecklessly resolved to concentrate the nom
'laveholding States as Northern Repub-
ic, ruled only by Northern rulers. No
men having even the sagacity which be-
ongs to the Cabinet of Mr. LINcoLN-nay
not even that rnntlomon b;psolf x,;.Lo,,t |