The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-06-18

Ine opposition In the South was much
less troublesome than might have been
expected. The causes of this, and the
means taken to suppress resistance, are,
no doubt, we'll known, and neednot be stated
One fact, however, deserves to be noted,
and its importance cannot be overrated
The whole slaveholding class, with its
numerous dependents, enlisted in the en-
rerprise of secession with such violent
alacrity and zeal that the very word
Demonstrations" soon became an cpl
thet Of reproach that no politician dared
incur. Two results followed, viz: First,
the Reconstructionists hastened to become
"Secessionists per se,' and Secondly, it
became impossible Cor the leaders of the
movement to keep faith with the recon
structionists of the Northern, Western,
and border States, even ie such had been
their original intention
That this design, if ever entertained, is
now abandoned, is clearly manifested by
the open and frequent avowals of late
made in Southern prints, and in the Con-
federate Congress-even by the peace
advocating Mr.. Foote-that the South can
never, and will never. enter into q Con-
federacy of any kind with n-slaveholding
States. Nothing can be palmer, or more
emphatic, or more earnest, than the asser-
tons of this determination on the part of
the South. They mean precisely achot
they sag and it matters not, so far as the
future is concerned, whether this determ.
ination, now so plainly avowed, is wholly
the result of the war, or whether it exist
ed in the minds cf the Secessionists prior
to the war. That the latter is the fact,
however, / can confidently aver, as ] had
frequent intimations to that effect from
various southern men In the fall of 1860,
and the winter of l860-61; and besides,
long before tue Inauguration IF Mr. Lin
coin, it had ceased to be safe for any man
to broach in the cotton States, the expedi-
ency of reconstruction of the Union on
any basis whatever. Further than this
one of the original ''per Sc" Disunionists,
q man of high standing in his State, and
of the ultra States Rights school, after re-
marking to me of the Montgomery
Constitution, shortly afterits PRONUNCIATION,
that it was but provisional instrument,
"designed for moral effect abroad and in
the border States," went on to speak of
the adoption, in due time, of permanent
Constitution, which should not only ex-
clude all free States, but also prohibit any
member Of the Confederacy from ever
slaves without the consent
of all the other States.
it is certain that pure slave Con federa-
cy had been originally determined on,
and that the admission of the Northwest
ato that Confederacy, even on terms, was
not, from the first, in the programme, as
understood by the initiated. Not even
was the doctrine of State Rights to be
Internationally admitted-that peculiar
and cardinal dogma Gas had been supposed)
of the Democratic faith according TO Cal
houn The Border States were not to
be allowed to shape their policy, at any
future time, so as to meet their own views
of expediency, but they were to be held
by constitutional restrictions In complete
subservience to the views and interests of
the Gulf States
1t viii be seen that neither accuse nor
suspect any Northern or Western Demo-
crat Of the design to aid in the permanent
dissolution of the Union; and certainly
the Democratic party, as party, is liable
to nc such charge. But one assertion
may safely be made, viz, that the Demo-
cratic politicians of the North and West,
whoever they may be, who were privy to
a portion of the Secession scheme, and
thought they were taken wholly into the
confidence of Southern men, were grossly
deceived, and have been betrayed and
deserted by their supposed Southern allies.
And yet these politicians seem to be acting
precisely as if the original programme, as
understood by them, were still being ad-
hered to by the South in perfect good
faith, the plainest acts and declarations Of
Southern men to the contrary netwith-
IF, disregarding the late disclosures of
their real intentions by Southern Seces-
sionists, any Northern or Western Demo-
Gratis suffer themselves to be deluded by
private and confidential assurances from
any quarter into :he belief that the South
will voluntarily enter into reconstruction
of the Unior, in whole or in part-of
Union embracing single free State-if,
acting upon this persuasion, they devote
themselves to the execution of the pro-
gramme as originally palmed off upon
them, but now impossible to be carried
out by Southern politicians, even if these
we're really desirous that it should be; if
they permit themselves to be used, in any
way, or to any extent, for the furtherance
Of plans devised or participated in by those
who have bascly abused their confidence