Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-03-19
spiri, Of IN. Morning Press

Spirit Of the Morning Press
The Int,IIissnesr shows from Southern jour
nails the dissatisfAction manifested by the South
ern people with their new government.
The Republican says Of the disunion efforts Of
Roger A Pryor and his associates:
awe have no belief that this thing will have
an end, until these democratic demagogues, who
have been clustering and threatening for twenty
years, are put down by cold steel and cold lead
The mischi has come to such head, that IL
the South itself. The people Of that region have
too much energy ana too much courage, to be
made slaves of BY Roger A. Pryor and Roger A.
Pryor's associates. The war Is inevitable, and
VIII come before the year 10 out"
How TO DO 1.-THE Louisiana Convention
have voted down the proposition to refer the
made-in-secret constitution to the people by ma
jority Of three to one!
The disunion majority Of that convention was
elected, II will be remembered, by a minority Of
the vote csst-amounting to perhaps less than one
third Of the whole vote Of the State cast In the
Presidential election In November.
When elected, the idea that II was designed to
clothe that Convention with authority to elect
Louisiana's members to an improvised confed-
erate congress, which should make in secret con-
stitution, that should In turn be forced upon the
people Of the State the law for their permanent
government, without permitting them to vote
upon the question Of its acceptance, Of course
net preached. Nevertheless, all that has already
come to pass.
The newspapers In the interest Of the oligarchy
boldly proclaim (see the New Orleans Delta, the
Mobile Tribxns, and the Montgomery Advsrsissr,)
that under existing circumstances the man who
questions the proprlety Of what has been done In
the formation Of the permanent Constitution"
must, necessarily, and will surely be treated as a
traitor; the necessities Of the situation of the
new Government (oligarchy) do not admit Of the
liberation Of two opinions in the " Confederate
States" to Its right to do it has done without
consulting the people, or as to the propriety Of
anything 1t has done.
From the dawn Of civilization to this hour there
never arose despo:ism Justly odous to the lovers
of civil liberty that failed ere getting firmly seated
In power, to justify its usurpation Of the peoples
liberties upon precisely the same pleas w hich the
newspapers Of the oligarchy are now putting forth
In behalf Of the State necessity for the entire sup
preston Of the liberty Of the press Of free speech
OF the popular right to sit in judgment at the
polls and Of the Of individual property at the
South; all Of which have already been expunged
from the list Of what so recently were the rights of
American citizenship there, as elsewhere.
IL Is to accomplish these same " glorious re.
suits" Of disunion, in Virginia, that the presses
and leaders Of her disunion minority are now in
solentiy abusing, blackguarding, maligning, and
otherwise insulting every true advocate Of the
preservation Of the liberties won for US by our
revolutionary fathers, In the State. 1t In to &C.
comPlish just such results in Virginia that her
disunion members Of Congress are threatening
to take up arms to compel the majority Of Viz
ginia to submit to the yoke Of the olgarchists IL
the former longer decline to accept the disunion
policy Of the minority Of the State.
We fancy We see them "trying on" that game
1t Is fortunate, indeed, that tie disupionists in
the Gulf States, well their Virginia leaders,
have 30 soon been compelled to develope ffeir
purposes and policy-the former at one blow
striking down all popular liberty and every in
dustrial interest where they have power; and the
latter, realizing that the people Of Virginia will
never Voluntarily surrender their liberty of free
speech, and OF the press, their freedom from enor-
NOUS taxation, the right to vote upon the acts of
theiE rulers, Re nc &c. &C.. as they are being
urged to surrender them, now proposing to rob
them OF these and all the rest OF the manifold
blessings Of the government Of our fathers At the
point Of the bayonet, as last resort.