Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-20

The style Of manufacturinG Secession in
the South The Mode of Bxo1udIng the
People from all Direct Participation In
the Movement.
The New Orleans True Delta thus shows
up the mode by which the people have been
excluded from all direct participation in the
recent Secession movements, and how the
usurping Legislatures and Conventions have
actually taken action against the popular
will: .....-... o-..... a-r-
In the movements that preceded, accom-
panied, and are likely to attend the consum-
nation of the extraordinary revolution
which has overthrown this Government
nothing which has occurred is so remarkable
as the heroic disregard of the popular
strength and sovereignty which has signal
lied it. The State of Louisiana first COM
menced its share of the work that has been
done, by recording the vote of the people
against separate Secession and Cotton Con-
federacy; but scarcely had the delegates
elected with this recorded protest Of the
people before them, met in convention, than
they utterly disregarded the restriction, and,
in the style of John Perkins, jr., ridiculed
the idea Of popular sovereignty.
Then followed, as a matter of course, the
election from among themselves of delegates
selection again by the members of this usurp.
ing cabal Of members from among themselves
to constitute Provisional Government with
just such limitation upon their irresponsible
wills as they themselves might see fit to i'm
pose, and with no other check upon their
possession of place and power than it may
suit the interests or conveniences Of their
mighty highnesses for appearances sake to
create.
We are told that in their secret wipwam
they have made Constitution; we are pretty
certain they have imposed rules, laws and
regulations ruinons to this city; and while
the first, in some future day, may see the
! light and be fastened upon the people locally,
| we are in no doubt that, by the second, q
! different regime is upon us. The Louisiana
| delegation in the Montgomery dark-lantern
1 conclave have, bowever, graciously appeared
in print with the comforting declaration
that they and their associates are deliber-
ating for their reciprocal advantage with
unexampled harmony, Cancellation and fra.
ternity i and that there is perfect truth in
this assurance may implicitly be believed
for in the distribution of places and profits
among each other, with the single recusancy
of our distinguished compatriot, the Hon
Houmas Slidell, who declined playing second
fiddle to precipitator Yancey, every thing
has gone merry as a marriage bell.
See with what alacrity, even to the neglec
of his libel-suit against the Yale story edit
ors, our little man Benjamin hurried of Il
Montgomery, where, buried in the heaps o
official acquisitions, Yale and its remiuis
cences, Houmas lands and the Floyd accept
ances, are alike passed into utter forgetful
ness. Amid all these important movements
it is, therefore, laughable to find an occa
sional recollection of the possible dissatisfac
tion of the people, some of these days, at tn
] ho 0har
in the ascendant, SO defantly perform to th,
formers injury and the sacrifice of their bes
interests; for the most lurblind of the dark
lanternites can not be such fool as to sup
pose that the people will never think of wha
the perils that surround them imperativel,
require for their own preservation, or tina
the day will not soon come when the actor
in the proceedings who are now seemingl
floating upon an irresistible current, will b
called to a strict accountability.
To vote themselves salaries, to distribut
/ among each other grand offices, and to ar
rogate to themselves powers, privileges, ant
! importance unknown in the past history O
America, may, for the present, all appea
right to the contracted visions of tho star
chamber conclave at Montgomery, who
sharing the contempt for amenability to pop
ular control, expressed by Mr.. John Perkin:
jr, think no more is wanted than a stron
!
to ride, drive, slash and spur the America
people, whose labor, industry, intelligenc
and enterprise are to be ruinously taxed 70
the comfort and convenience of their i'm
perious masters.
We are somewhat dubious whether til
complacent view of their exalted destinie
will long be allowed unquestioned to tn
wigwamites of Montgomery, or of that {
any other convention; and although tn
power Of the people is hard at times to arous
TO needful action, sooner or later it mus
come forth, and when it does woe be to tn
qpacks whose shallow ignorance and pre-
sumptuous egotism blinded them to its ex
istenee.
Already we find among the most violen
advocates of a Cotton Confederacy som
msgivings that all is not right-that, to
certain extent only, alarming experiment
upon popular forbearance may be tried wit
complete impunity; but experience havin
Whispered to them that perhaps the sut
mission point is pretty near reached, the
are disposed to recognize the necessity of q
, appeal to the people, who, up to this tim
they have been studiOus in ignoring.
+ We incline to the impression that thes
late recognizeTs of popular sovereignty al
J about right, are wise of their generation
, for although political vagaries and the suu
mersaults of political harlequins may astol
!. ish and amuse for time, and when the CO..
. cfthe amusement is not too great, there wi
come day when sober sense will examir
the bills and prudence dictate the adoptio
, of those precautions, neglect of which hi
lost to people their liberties, and made II
i purest governments the most insupportab
of despotisms.