Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-18
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FRIDAY, SEPT. rs, 1868.
S.o..sion Rryond the Mississippi.

Secessiou Reyond the Mississippi.
report comes from Texas that the reoels
in that state. in Arkansas, and in Louisiana
west of the Mississippi, are plotting TO secede
from the "confedcracy," set up new govern
ment of their own, and claim the protection
of France. There may be some truth in this
report, for the traitors who manage the rebel
lion in that quarter are now in condition to
act without much regard to the conspirators
at Richmond, and the doctrine OF secession
stands foremost in the rebel creed.
If the "confederacy" could have been for
mally recognized by our government and
allowed to undertake career as an
independent nation," it would have fallen
to pieces very swiftly. Irrepressible antago-
nisms and strites for pre-eminence, encOur-
aged by the doctrine that any dissatisfied state
has right to secede, would have given the
rebel states cure and long experience of Sc
cession and civil war. The oligarchs of South
Carolina would have become still more reso-
lutte and arrogant in their purpose to rule or
ruin; Georgia would have put forth and main
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ty: Texas would have been more than ever
disposed to draw off and set up business
again as an Independent nation; and instead
of union, harmony, and prosperity, the "con-
federacy" would have had strife, disunion,
weakness and ruin.
The rebels in Texas may undertake to do
what is reported, if our government does not
send an army there to crush their power and
reorganize the Union men. Although mi
nority of the people of that state, they are
now supreme by means of military organi-
cation, which the disarmed Unionists cannot
resist; and, seeing that the rebellion in Vir-
ginia and the gulf states cannot maintain it.
self, they may renounce the ''contederacy"
and undertake to secure French protection
or, even, to become part of the ''empire" of
Maximillian. That is to say, the leaders may
attempt this, and they may be reinforced by
beaten and despairing traitors from every
other state in the ''confederacy." 1t is not
unlikely that we shall have the closing strug-
gle with the rebellion in Texas.
Louis Napoleon might listen with favor to
such an appeal from the traitors in Texas, not
because he cares to aid them, but because
the remuneration of Texas to Mexico might
strengthen the ''empire" he has manufactured
for the Mexcans. This measure would be
very popular in Mexico, and, if success
full, would strengthen the French infu-
ence in that country But Louis Napoleon
is shrewd enough to consider carefully that it
might not be successful, and that by under
taking the work, he might lose rather than
gain prestige 1t is said that some of his
agents from Mexico have visited Richmond
and held conference with JEFF Davis. viii
the conspirators at Richmond ''sell" Texas
to Mexico and take their pay in "recogni
tion?" Perhaps they will do SO, hoping to
involve our government in war with France.
We may hear soon that the French junta at
the Mexican capital have declared a reannex-
alton of Texas to Mexico, just as they de-
clared Macmillan emperor. OF course such
a declaration, if made, will not come from
Paris. 1t will be put forth as a Mexican
measure by Louis Napoleon's imperial MI
chine, called ''the supreme Mexican council"
or something like that.
If the man who rules as emperor of France
has any purpose to interfere in our affairs, the
movement will not be very long delayed.
Whatever he does will be done to serve his
own interests. Neither our government nor
the rebels will ever find him acting towards
them with disinterested benevolence.