Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
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from l8c New orleans True Delta
Every day brings new illumination to the
minds of those whose purblind hopes led
them to anticipate from the deliberations of
schemiDg and bankrupt politicians the in
auguration of a political millennium in these
Cotton States. So long as the people judged
Of the capacity of the leaders in the Mont
gomery secret league by their careers at
Washington through the haze which envel-
opes the corrupt and mephitic atmosphere of
that place, they naturally saw through an
exaggerating medium; but now. when ex-
hibited through their published acts there is
no longer misty veil to conceal their selfish
and vulgar shallowness and their utter ina
bality to construct any practicable system of
government in lieu of that which they, with
out the consent or authority of the people,
| having assumed to destroy. Their tariff
scheme, tn ir postal system, their defensive
| measure, in grand propositions display the
character of the minds of those who have
undertaken TO initiate plans of separate gov
| eminent for Louisiana, and TO detaeh her in
interest and feeling from the great valley OF
which she forms by nature an important
part. indissoluble by any effort which pigmy
conspirators. envious of our advantages, and
| aiming at their diversion, can employ or put
in operation.
Take the foolish tariff these selfeonstituted
creators Of new nation have promulgated.
Why, any man possessing the most humble
! range of intelligence must see that it can
have no other object or intention than the
| annibilatiOn OF the commerce of this port,
| for what is the extent 0f interitr country de-
| pendent upon any other seaport of what the
| PROFESSIONALS call the COnfederated States oil
| America, compared with il? If revenue was
| the object aimed at, how, in the name of
| common sense, CIn il he obtained by the
| adoption of the most stupid and self-stultify-
| ing combination of conflicting schedules,
| which men ignorant of trade, and operated
| upon in the North by selfish manufacturers,
| had put together? We suppose, of course.
| that the country lawyers aud half-hedged
| statesmen who have cOngregated themselves
at MontgOm and constituted themselves
and their associates the repositories of dc
| tatorial lower, suppose they possess all the
| intelligence in the world. and reasonably, TO
be sure bring themselves to believe that a
people who are SO uncOncerned about their
usurpations to allow them to supersede
their authority and control OF their own al
fairs, will be equally ready to carry out
crude, indigested and ruinous theories OF
finance, trade and government, as they are
sent ont from the secret laboratory of these
political chemists at Montgomery. We do
not deny that they have much to encourage
them in the indulgence of this expectation.
The adoption by them of the infamous
tariff system IF the Federal Government,
which necessitates an army OF officers to en-
force lis provisions ard collect its revenues
is a well judged step to surround themselves
with an army of stipeDdaries ready and will
ling To carry out their demands. however
dangerous or unlawful, is an adrOit move TO
perpetuate power in the hands of the daring
adventures who have had the audacity 10
grasp it. Within very few weeks, or per-
h.f days the satellites Of tho ne ruo ct.,rs
OF the people will infest every accessible ave-
nue. of approach to the Cotton States, and
steamboats, must as they approach the north
ern frontier line of Mississippi take an .'offi-
cer'' on board to conduct them to port of
entry. fatboats put themselves under the like
supervision and surveillance, while upon our
railroads running north, as we reach, home
ward bound, the boundary between us and
the foreign nation of Tennessee, well paid
Ietainers of the new regime will be stationed
to examine our trunks for cOntraband arti-
les. In fact our self constituted masters are
taking their first lessons, preparatory to our
rehearsal of them. in the French system of
fiscal and political espionage. Meantime all
business is suspended here. No merchant
however sagacious, knows how to regulate
his affairs. a killing tariff system has been
proclaimed which is absurd and ipapplicable,
but which we conscientIously and sincerely
upon New Orleans, for upon no other city or
place, none ether being metropolitan, can it
operate so injuriOusly or ruinously. The
limited range of interior country depending
for supplies of foreign manufactures upon
Mobile, Savannah and Charleston, enable the
comparatively restricted merchants of those
places to adapt their stocks with almost
mathematical nicely 10 the wants of their
customers, which wants are regulated by the
f.,F,I frr- ht,f i- for
otherwise with city of the magnitude aud
Importance of this, where importations are
demanded and are being steadily
made TO meet all ordinary or extraordinary
acquisitions whencesoever they may come.
As ii is now, however, under the provision |
ais of Montgomery, no merchant. however |
;agaciOus, can either know how to sell what |
ne has on hand or to order to supply def |
,iencies; for if he sells, he must do so, if at |
Ill, in this time, of great depression, at old |
prices, and in unreasonable doubt of how he |
S to replace what is so disposed of; because
he distinctly perceives that tariff stupidity |
napplicable to the new condition of affairs /
INTO which this section is being forced, can
lot long exist, and yet he knows not what to |
expect from the charlatans who will under |
AXE its tinkering. Had the PROFESSIONALS |
been possessed of the smallest practical &C |
IuaintaRce with the organization and admin
vi RONtTUmOul, HOW easy was IL fOE
hem to have arranged simple and reasonable
system ofduties, which would have ensrued re-
venue, conciliated European sympathy and
confidence, satisfied the people and operated
lpon our divorced friends of the Northern
states. Instead of that we are thrown in
mass into state of utter helplessness, and
he only approach to a practical proceeding
5 in the sixpenny proposition to put sixty
wo and half cent export duty upon cot
on, to guarantee the punctual payment of
he interest upon loan of fifteen millions
If dollars the PROFESSIONALS of Montgomery
lave undertaken to negotiate. For this pur-
,cSe This little operation may suffice; but of
hat we can speak with greater certainty
when the experiment is tried. The banks of
his place will doubtless take at least five
Millions of such loan, when we shall be
'etter able TO judge how they will regard the
ecurity offered by Government self-cousti-
uted, which natures its plans and policy in
ecret, like the ancient Star Chamber, or mo-
lerG wigwams, and which ignores popular
anctiOn as inconsistent with its new ideas of
epublican government. Ii is clear, however,
o our mind, that the intelligence of the
;obbs of Montgomery will scarcely suffice
or the emergency, and if the PROFESSIONALS
xpect TO do anything worthy of approval,
'thers than q pack of inexperienced, pre-
umptuous and ambitious lawyers must be
with voice in public affairs.
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