Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-02-27
prAc7qoN AGAINST THE D1sUNIoN1sTs.

prAcr1oN AGAINST THE DISTINGUISHES
Everv Jav brings some new indication Of
the reactionary feeling that is spreading all
through the southern states. The disunon
,pnacy is subsidiug, and there is reason 10 hope
that the provisional Gulf Confedcracy" will
presently be shaken down by return OF the
people 70 patriotism and common sense. The
men who planned the treason, and who have
stirred the people of the gulf states to such
headlong movement of madness, will cease to
be prominent in our politics. The Union par
ty, when it rises into power, will bring new
men,-men who are not traitors land, crush
ed into ruins, spit upon, and spurned, the
efIete political dynasty that has organized
treason to perpetuate its internal existence,
will be put away to moulder with the rubbish
of the ages.
The conspirators at Montgomery tell us with
their usual emphasis, that the Union is broken
beyond hope OF repair, and that the "Gult
Confederacy" is now separate and perma-
nent nation; but they cannot speak for the
whole southern people, nor can they control
that rising spirit of reaction which will over
throw their provisional edifice and bury
them in the ruins. Their movement did not
spring from the people, and they have sought
diligently to keep it as far as possible from the
reach of popular influence, Delegates to the
state conventions were elected in frenzy
of excitement; but nothing else has been
submitted to the people, neither the ordinances
of secession, nor the election of delegates to
the Montgomery convention, nor even the
question of forming new confederacy. Those
who lead the conspiracy really desire to an
initiate the ballot box, and to have popular in
ffuences entirely shut out Of politics. 1t has
lately been ascertained that the Union party
actually had majority of the votes in Louisi-
ana, and that her present connection with the
Montgomery treason has been effected by
means of the most astonishing frauds The
whole thing is a fraud on the people of the
gulf states, or, at least, majority of them !;
for the vote for secession was carried on the
pretense that it did not mean actual disunion,
but merely a strong measure to contound the
republicans and secure such "reconstruc
ton" of affairs as would restore the beaten
dynasty to power
1t is grave mistake to set down all the
people of those states as disunionists, and it is
remarkable blindness not to see that reaction is
a necessary consequence of such unreasoning
violence and precipitation. The Union senti-
ment grows and strengthens as reflection re-
turns, and developments are in store of which
there is no mention on the secession pro-
gramme. The Corinth miss Advertiser, in
an article which we have copied after making
note of various signs of turn of tie tide in
Mississippi, says, there will be "a reyolu-
ton against secession, and that disunion
will be put down, either~ffnt the ~hali1
box, or in blood. - that,
three Hanii ago, Virginia light have
elected a Revolutionary convention but,
now, the secessionists are completely over
whelmed in the Old Dominion and the infu
ences that have wrought such change there
will work irrepressibly and successfully against
treason, further south. Time, reflection, and
Cancellation will save the Union and annihiate
the secessionists. This view of the matter is
now prevalent at the south. A letter from
Raleigh, N. c., published in the New York
Evening Post, says the people of the seeded
states would now "vote overwhelmingly in
favor of coming back into the Union," if they
had chance TO do SO. The coming state
elections will give opportunity for some ex-
preston of this feeling.
Despotic governments have methods for
putting down such revolutionary movements,
which can not be employed in this requisite.
The correction of such disorders must come
from the people themselves. The methods
of despotism would be swifter and more de-
cisive for the moment, but they would not be
SO satisfactory in the end. In free country,
where. "the consent of the governed" has
proper recognition, there must be proper al
lowance for all the peculiarities of popular
movement. Let us understand this point
more fully and wait with becoming patience
to see the disunion traitors destroyed by their
own people. Never was there a more cause
less and suicidal revolutionary conspiracy, and
it can have no exemption from the lnexorable
DEGREES of reason and justice.