, 1862-01-27
SECESSION GR0ANS.
What they Say Of their own Prospects,

From Tue Meupa1B A1SuE, dal- H.
Federal forces have been massed in Kentucky
bre to venture to attack; and the paralyzlng
Of Price through the Withdrawal Of McCu1-
1och has rendered the overTunning Of Missouri
to the Arkansas frontier an easy task to the
Federa1s. We are forced back out Of Missouri
-chcckmated in Kentucky. Chase has oh.
tanned his moneys in Wall street.
The blockade is uabFeakable by us yet. ln
one word, VIC arc hen,med ln- Day follows |
day, and in lieu Of being weakened, we fnd |
the Federal armies, at all points, being |
factufing and domestic necessity IS enadrnpled |
in price, and our money Will Eo0n be exceed |
ing scarce for lack Of paper WlereTith to make
Cabined, c1ibbed, confined as VIC were, and
evidently would be, OUT shortest, clearcst, and
most noble policy WIS to find in the rapid use
of our early revolutionary enthusiasm an
oycrmatch for the slower and less spirited,
but more enduring North: We speak plainly
to-day, because ere the full military policy OF
our LEADERS, vas made known, We persistently
opposed any outside pressure By tue press
upon it. We speak plainly, because as a
Southern paper We have right to speak, and
ask to see the benefits that are to compensate
for this prostitution of business, these domes-
tic bcrcaycments and heroic sacrifices made
by OUT women as.wcll Is our men We ask
why the year has passed, and We further than
ever from recognition at home or abroade We
usk why re are tifty-fold worse off than when
the var commenceds
Indirectly every mouthful we eat is taxed,
our babies wear taxed caps and shoes, our
boys write On taxed paper, our girls wear tax,
cd calieocs, OUT men do q taxed business, and
Lopelessly ride in d taxed hearse to taxed
grave, and We, forsooth, are hurting the
cause If ne dare to turn from MessFs. Mason
and Slidcu to look at the country We were
born and bred in, and, having looked, We are
hurting the cause If we dare tell what VIC see.
From the Same, jan 5th.1
We have yet to learn that this Confedcracy
| ia the private property Of Jefferson DaVls, or
| the Joint domain Of his Cabinet, and VIC fnd
| it still harder to comprehend how either the
President or his Cabinet came to be considered
| the autocrat dispensers of veal and woe to
this people untrammellcd by any rtsponslbtl1-
| ty to the same.
We, for one, were and are fur from consider
| ing that in voting for the secession OF Iennes-
merely making choice between two lrrespon-
aib1e Su1tans, pzopped By duplicate digans.
We never meant il abandoning the Union to
abandon with it the rights ofspeech and Of the
press, and as long as We can Tng tongue OF
WELD pen, we shall do both In the assertion
Of truth, however palatable OF unpalatable to
Presidents, Cabinets, minori'ics or major1ties
Our assertion, last Tuesday,, Of the true
state Of our affairs, has caused quite t1uttel
among few home soldiers, irresponsible ane
1 Illegal HlEluE1S u Auk40I1E3t Cft-f AACA NV
holding their positions from the higher servi
tors Of the people, think it Racrilege. ant
ssweakenlng Of the cause,' to fault any 0
their acts or no acts, and who, unable to de
NJ our statements, would cover the sins
their superiors By asserting that statemen
!. Of the results arising from said sins Is encoul
aerment ind comfort to the enemy. We sci
dom anathcmatize, but in such connectio
We can scarce help sayingg-something Of tn
| | enemy. We spoke and speak Of the state
z4frSr1r
icy Of both cabinets, is already better kno9
: to the Federal Cabinet than it is to our owl
Ne see access to peace rendered more an
e more distant By the wondrously accumuiatln
r | power Of the Federal armies and nayy. "
see the advance that Was easy six months ag
L difficult to-day, and likely to be impossible t
!. morrow. We see that, from shoe latchat
n ! a steam engine, we lack everything, and tn
!, the families of our obedient soldiers arc su
fering from the seeming fabulous prices tbe
n have TO pay for everything Of domestic US
d We look to the futnrc, and seeing but war, q:
"a ourselves ask our readers, ask our rulers, ri
y alI looks darker and darker as day follows da
q and onr vast armies prepare to rot III the
e camps, while their mothers and sisters suit
- from their absence ut home
= Three times since the inception ct this VI
+ has the road been opened unto rs into the ye
is leart Of the North In July, after Manassas
ID when Fremont resigned; when Johnst'
Of moved to Bowling Green: we hat blame u y
| u
1g wny they were not permitted to do what th
wished to do and could then have done
cured our peace and our nberys Whom
:, ne blamcf The men at Richmond. Not OF
IN to ask why's and uherefores. We say our p
IN Die are SO situated. We say the leaders to
az var have been the leaders through it, and
IL IL simply state the results.
- - from the Trenton Tenn) Standard. Ian. 10.
1T We regret to say that considerable evider
of lisloS atty to the Confederate GoTe1nmt
lis has been manifested in some os tho count
d- IN West Tennessee, since the; call upon
m;litia was made; one county (Ca!7oi} hayi
ry gone 20 far, we learu,' IS poeitiye1y to refI
on 10 submit to the detaiL In Weakly coun
in also, we learn there Was trouble, on Nom
ats LIST, which led to the fear that serious dtfs
ef ties would occur there; but we underst'
that matters were settled peaceably and VI
an t out h]oodshed, which YVES It one time apl
hended. In McNalry county, however,
nv dissatisfaction reached Its highest point, 10
see from tha Vest Tennessee H14g that It
k.l- | tound Necessary TO-: eend troops into
rch | eour.y to arrest some Of the authorities,
TO aerd detachm.nts Of soldiers Into som
zen the Other counties fe1!he same putpoa5.