The national Republican., 1861-03-19
MIR. PRYOR UPON BRUTE FORCE.

meeting, Hon. Roger A. fryor ""S '"e 'p'AS'
man and representative man, and seems 10
have been in one of his most exuberant
moods. He characterized General Scott as an
"apostate chief" and President Lincoln as "a
pisshapen ape, now occupying the pedestal
uhere once stood the great Washington" He
"Daanked God that the Union ,oas gone for
erer," and proclaimed "by authority" that the
Gulf States would not come back, if the Re.
publicans would girc the South a carte blanche
for all that she could take" And in an ecstacy
of sentiment, he declared himself ready to lay
down his life, if Virginia would only initiate
the glorious example of South Carolina.
So far, Mr.. Pryor dealt in generalities, but
he did not get through without pledging him
self to specific course Of action, and this being
civa par among the people Of Virginia them.
selves. On this point, we quote him as reported
in the Richmond Enquirer:
of it should be the demonstrated purpose
of Western Virginia, by the despotism of brute
force, to hold the Eastern portion OF the Com
monwealth under the bondage Of a Black Re-
publican majority, he for one would raise the
standard of revolution"
This is the true style of disunion bullying.
These insolent Democratic demagogues, not
satisfied with trying to break up the Union be.
cause they have ceased to rule and plupder it,
ore ready for revolution and civil war in their
own States, where the majorities are against
them. The "despotism Of brute .torce," or
as they sometimes express it, " despotism Of
numbers" is as odous to these gentlemen, when
exerted by their ellowcitizens at home, as by the
Black Republicans of the North. They are as
restive under the restraints Of Western Nir-
gina, as they are under the restraints of West
ern New York. The only despotism which
they can tolerate is their own, and this they
mean shall be complete over everybody, at
home and abroad.
We trust that this threat of Mr.. Pryor will
be thoroughly circulated in Western Virginia.
We shall see how the people there will bear it,
and what response they will make to it.
This rule or ruin spirit is not the character
istic of Mr.. Pryor alone, but of the whole class
of disunion politicians, and is manifested wher.
ever they are found. Thus, in Arkansas, where
the northern and western portions Of the State,
which are in favor of the Union, have been
able to out-vote secession, the project is to di.
vide the State, so that the spirits of discord
may have little bailiwick of their own to reign
over. The Memphis (Tenn.) Aralanche, one
Of their organs, says
ave have been aware, for several days, of
the deep.seated feeling amongst the delegates
from Southern and Eastern Arkansas, to divide
from the other portion of the State, if the State
does not separate from the dominion Of Abra.
ham Lincoln. The proud spirits, who know
no such word in their vocabulary as vassal.
age are bent upon relieving themselves from
any such degradation. The following dispatch
from Little Rock, received yesterday afternoon
from a highly respectable source, confirms the
formidable existence OF such purpose:
LITTLE Rock, March IL, 1861.
90 To E. NJ Apperson d. Co.:
"' Nothing done yet. Propositions to form
a new State of Southern and Eastern Arkansas
and West Tennessee with Memphis as the cap.
ital Send this to Aralanche.'
Indeed, this is a proposition, not merely to
divide Arkansas, but to divide Tennessee, SO
as to relieve the disunionists of Memphis of
that despotism Of brute torce," which is ex-
erted over them by the obstinate loyalty of East
Tennessee.
We 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 lead and cold steel.
They are uneasy spirits, the fruits Of long
peace and of a vicious social organization.
They "knop no such icord in their vocabulary
as casalage,'" to law, and to the regular au.
thority of elections. They know no rule Of
action but their own unbridled and desperate
passions. Nobody can live with them, except
upon terms of abject submission, and that is
what they will not get from their fellow clizens
of the South. The mischief has come to such
a head, that it must end in a collision of arms
in the bosom of the South ITSELF The people
of that region have too much energy and too
much courage, to be made slaves of by Roger
A. Pryor and Roger A. Pryors associates
The war is inevitable, and will come before the
year is out.
TExAs.- The eghty.four counties, from
which returns were received, being probably
nearly all the counties which voted at all, voted
as follows upon the question of secession:
For secession 34,79i
Against secession 1926
Majority for secession 23,5j9
The vote for secession is less than one half
Of the ordinary vote of the State.
CoMMUNICATED.
"PLACE NONE BUT REPUBLICANS ON GUARD