Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-29
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"OharIoatOn Under Arms"
"A correspondent thus comments upon the
article in the April Atlantic, upon "Charies-
ION under Arms .'-EDs.l;
II was said by wise man that ''no good |
mercantile correspondent could frame letter |
upon the most ordinary topic and not give it |
because Of some good sentence
which was sure to appear" Equally true it
is that magazine, however heavy or stupid,
must and does have amcng its contributions,
all unwittingly, perchance, upon the part Of
its compilerSsoms redeeming trait. In fair
and truthful spitth hq theapth6f'of "Charles-
ton under Arms" presented us with his array
Of facts BE might have added largely to
the stock, and given US the benefit of such
statements, but there Is much for US to be
thankful for in what he has chosen to set
down. 'Ths old HOTEL" (the Charleston,
probably, by Mixer, twas well kept, &C."
No sane man at the North has ever believed
that the people of that city were suffering
from hunger, and more than that, the best
citizens have never at heart favored the seces-
sion movement. They have neither wanted
food to eat nor gratitude toward the North
for furnishing it, True, they have been
afraid that unless In some wise they recog-
nized the movements of their political wire
pullers, whose fingers now out of the public
crib, are itching to steal something some
where their property would be confseated.
But they understand as well as the people Of
Ohio do, that the Republicans have at least
as good right to elect their rulers as the De-
mocracy have, and that these rulers when
elected will be as good men and true toward
the general veal, as ever were their prede-
oessoFs,
We have so often listened to similar braga-
docio from the pupils of the Naval or Mill
tary School, at Charleston; have seen so
many times staggering dragons swing into
the Charleston Hotel or Mills House, and
make their boastful threats; have met so
frequently South Carolina politicians sans
sense and sans argument; that the veritable
heroes of this article in the Atlantic are be-
fore our minds eye, and we at once confess
the justice and the accuracy of its state
ments. Particularly is there great truth in
the description of the pro-slavery New
Yorker, and in the detail of conversation at
the euchre table. The most ignorant men
who traverse the Southern country in quest
of trade, are the New York drummers
The New York houses that bend and sup
plicate for Southern trade, must needs employ
for their purpose, people who can underrate
with will all that is good or great, or inde-
pendent and advocate with zest whatever
may, in their short-sighted and avaricious
estimation, conduce to the benefit Of the
pocket.
The Arkansas man said, we know, exactly
what the Atlantic sets down for him. These
men are plenteous in all parts of the South.
Ill bred that is, not bred at all, owning
niggers and using them as they please, drink
whiskey and swearing fierce oaths,-these
men, from not Arkansas only, but from Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, and all of the rest Of the
States in which education is ignored, books
of value never read, academies unknown,
and literary societies never heard of congre-
gate at certain seasons at Charleston and add
to the great cauldrOn already seething dis
union sentiment, unlawful action and slavery
propagandism, the hateful tribute of foulest
venom, which