Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-03-14
The Groans of the Afflicted.

The New Orleans hot-heads clamored
loud and long for secession. Their wishes
were grstifed and now they find that the
tempting object, like Dead Sea apple,
turns to ashes on their lips, In the True
Delta Of March I'd there is s'wailing and
gnashing of teeth" over the proceedings
of the "Cotton Congress" That paper
says:
"Every day brings new illumninations
to the minds OF those whose purblind
hopes led them to hope from the delibera-
tions and schemings of bankrupt politi-
clans the Inauguration Of a political mel
lennium in these cotton States. So long
as the people judged of tho capacity Of
the leaders in the Montgomery secret league
by their careers at Washington, through
the haze which envelopes the corrupt and
mephitic atmosphere of the place, they
naturally saw through an exaggerating
medium; but now, when exhibited through
their published acts, there is no longer a
misty veil to conceal their selfish and vul-
gar shallowness, and their utter inability
to construct any practicable system in lieu
of what they, sUitho,a the consent or au-
thority of the people, have assumed to de-
stroy. Their tariff scheme, their postal
system, their defensive measure, in grand
proportions display the character of the
minds of those who have undertaken to
initiate plans ofgovernment for Louisiana,
and to detach her in interest and feeling
from the great valley of which she forms
by nature an important port, indissoluble
by any effort which pigmy conspirators,
envious of our advantages, and aiming at
their diversion, can employ or put in oper-
alton.
Take the foolish tariff these self-consti-
tuted creators of a new nation have pro-
mulgated. Why, any man possessing the
most humble range of intelligence must see
that 1t can have no other object or inten-
ton than the annihilation of the COM
merce Of this port, for what is the extent
of interior country dependent on any other
seaport of what the PROFESSIONALS call the
Confederated States of America compared
with it?
We suppose, of course, that the coun-
try lawyers and halffedged statesmen who
have congregated themselves at Mongom-
cry and constituted themselves and their
associates the repositories of dictatorial
power, suppose they possess all the intelli-
gence in the world, and reasonably to be
sure, bring themselves to believe that
people who are so unconcerned about their
usurpations as to allow them to super
-sede their authority and control of their
own affairs, will be equally ready to carry
out their crude, indigested and ruinous
theories of finance, trade and government,
as they are sent out from the secret labor
atory Of these political chemists at Mont
gomery.
Within a very few weeks, or perhaps
days, the satellites of the new masters of
the people will infest every accessible av-
enue Of approach to the cotton states, and
steamboats, must as they approach the
northern frontier line of Mississippi take an
"ofhcer" on board 10 conduct them to a
port Of entry, fatboats put themselves un-
der like supervision and surveillance, while
upon our railroad running north, as we
reach, homeward bound, the boundry be.
tween us and the foreign nation of Ten.
nessee, well paid retainers of the new re.
gime will be stationed to examine oul
trunks for contrabrand articles. In fact
our selfconstituted masters are taking thei
nrst lessons, preparatory to our rehearsa
OF them, in the French system of fisca
ana political espionage. Meantime all bu
siness is suspended here. No merchant
however sagacious knows how to regulat,
his affairs.