Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-03-18
From the 41sl Rerimert.
CAMP ANDREW JACKSON, TENN,
March IL. 1852.

CAMP ANDREW JACKSON, TENN,
March IL, 1852.
Eos. LEADER;--The camp Of the 4lst
within sight o. the spires Of Nashville, is
much more cheerful than the dssOlAte vi !
Cinity Of Camp WickliGe,O on the wild banks
Of the NOlin. II 1t we're not for the cease
less movements Of troops and army stores
through its beautiful streets, Nashville
might we'll symbolic the 'city sitting SOL
itary,7 where is ne more heard 1.-THE sound
Of the srtizsn or the voice Of revelry."
Communication with the South is, Of course,
cut of; ell avenues Of trade with the
wealthy planters Of the Cotton States
are in possession Of our forces; and the
"Pride Of the Cumberland Valley" is no
longer a depot for dispensing supplies to
the rebel armies. The hesitation and dis
trust manifested in opening trade with the
North illustrates the truth that confidence
is a plant Of slow growth f#.a
On Characteristic Of Southern society
strikes the observer ct once-the vide diff
ference and strange enmity existing be-
tween the two classes This distinction,
founded mainly on the possession Of prop
erty, Is IS strongly marked as the heredit-
AIRY distinctions Of sristoorAtio England.
The naughty pstricisn, as he trod the
streets Of Rome, never look more dis
dsinfully upon the toiling plebeian than
does the descendant Of the @6rst families"
upon those less favored than himself in the
possession Of property, slthough his bossted
| family line, may, as SAKE says, have been
"Waxed at the other end" The Jealous
Watchfulness displayed by the less numer-
GUS but dominantclass lest the ''poor white
trash should acquire sufficient political
| influence to endanger this supremacy, and
/ the suppressed loyalty Of the poWerlsss
laborers, are striking proofs that the pres
ent rebellion is q warfare by an organized
sristocracy upon Democratic institutions.
Andy johnson is prominently the leader
of the masses. Springing from the poorer
class himself, he is cordially hated by the
slsveholding ohgsrohy, but Wields power
/ full influence over those whose rights he has
dared TO assert
A few evenings since, in company with
Lieut. MoOleery, visited the residence, of
one Of the citizens, the owner Of q beautiful
place near our camp. Our treatment
svinoed the characteristic Hospitality and
politeness Of the Southern gentleman, as
well as that questionable loyalty that man
iSests itself ct the approach Of Union
army. BE had been an earnest politician,
an ardent sdmirer Of Clay and Webster,
and in the recent campaign had given his
support to Bell. Since the defeat Of Clay
in 1874, like many Northern politicians,
he had lost all interest in politics; and, BY
some strange process Of reasoning, pro.
fessed to discover in that untoWsrd event
the origin Of our present df6culties.
While he acknowledged that further re-
sistance on the part Of Tennessee would be
useless, and he gave it as his belief that
the inhsbitsnts ef the Cotton States would
resist to the last extremity; that when
driven from their populous cities and for.
tilted stronEholds, they would rendezvous
in the glens Of the mountains, and, like
the three hundred Spsrtsns, resist to the
death the invading host. BE advocated
the impOssibility Of reconstruction Of the
Union; and with q strange inconsistency
admitted that two seperste nstionalities
could not exist in peace; and reahrmed the
statement, so often contradicted, that the
Ultraists Of the South would prefer the
military protection of Englsnd or France
to further association with the ''Yankees."
A storm puri6es the atmosphere; and af-
ter the present wild uprosr has subsided, 1t
is to be hoped that better state of feeling
will exist. The protrscted "Wsrs of the
Roses" producing alienation 30 bitter that
it seemed impossible to restore good feeling
among the contending factions, were followed
by long calm, sworn enemies uniting TO
support the throne Of an odious PlsnGagenet.
History shoWa that in every csuseless re-
bellion, q speedy return to loyalty follows
any serious reverse. In the days of Abso-
Iom, the time serving Shimsi, forgetting that
he had scarcely finished reviling IsrsePs
king, prostrated himself In the dust, as the
victorious David passed by. And we may
reasonably conclude that, as the Federal ar
my advances, unfurling the starry baSner
over one after another of the rebel strong
holds, and gradually divesting the public
mind Of the erroneous impressions insthled
by ambitious and designing men, the lead
ers of the rebellion, like the apostate israeli
ite, will acknowledge the powers that be.
After one or two more great reVerses, JEFF
Davis will add another to the list of those
possessing too little moral courage to bide
the storm raised by their ON efforts. It is
the history of all such transactions-the
failed usurper makes of himselfa voluntary
exile, leaving his deluded followers to shift
for themselves. The "Pretender" TO the
English throne exiled himselfin the Wilds of
Scotland after his first deFeat after the battle
of Pultona, E
"When fortune left the loyal swede,"
Charles XII. fed to the protection of the
Ottoman, on the banks of the ''swift Borys-
themes" Murat left Naples and attempted to
escape in a boat as soon as III fortune befell
him-conduct initiated By his unfortunate
successor, the last Of the Bourbons, at the sp-
Proaoh Of Garibaldi; and Napoleon, after his
disastrous defeat at Leipsic, abdicsted his
hsrd-earned throne. The muse Of history
will soon record another instance Of ''Vault-
ing ambition that o'erleaped itself, the fall
of another traitor, gone down
ssTo the vile earth from whence he sprung,
UnWept, unhonored, and unsung,''
Yours, @. ". HILLS.
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