New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-19
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A thoughtful minority in the Northern and
order States are slowly becoming conscious
/ the change of government which the conn-
~ has undergone. Rip Van Winkle like
hey express senile astonishment at the meta
norphosis time has worked during their i've
7ears slumber They seem to be surprised
hat the federal Congress has become
lespotism. It is the very " Vine of astonish-
ment to them that two hundred members
Of Congress can gather together on the barks
of the Potomac. and exercise tysanny over
thirty millions Of people more complete than
was ever before felt by any nations on the
green earth. They have awakened to the tEcs
that the liberty won by the prowess Ct their
fathers is lost, and that States which once
bore honored names among tree ana
sovereign nationalities are now only
the mere provinces and dependencies OF
4 central oligarchy, unbounded IN lts
exactions, unlimited in It's power, unserupu-
1oRs III its measures, infinite in its audaclty,
Unsuitable in its greed, malignant in its perse-
cutions, remorseless in its revenge. Ihey
see all the once sacred guarantees OF the fede-
raj compact ignored, all the solemn pledges
Of sovereignties violated, all the consecrated
boundaries of federal authority obiteratea,
all the holy, lines and landmarks between
commemorative blotted out and torn down.
They and the government wholly changed,
and ell the limitations to the power of that
many headed tyrant, majority, swept away
While they slept they dreamed Of the glory
Of federal power and of tie trlumphs Of tede-
ra1 armies; but they wake to hear the clank
of their chains. to groan under heavy bur
lens, to mourn over lost liberty, to blush for
lie crimes done in the name Of law, to wIlthe
under taxes remorselessly gathered aRd wick
edly suuan6ered. Where once a free govern
ment bore equitable limited rule over a free
and happy people they find enthroned q
boundless, soulless despotism. Their dream
of constitutional liberty is ended
Too late, the thinking, honest, conservative
men of the North are beginning to learn that
| they have suffered the central government to
assume powers inconsistent with the liberties
| Of the States and Of the people. The author
| ity which by their own consent and full ap-
Eprobation was first exercised for the coercion
and conquest of the seeded States is now as
completely supreme over Illinois, Kentucky
81 Michigan as over Texas, Alabama Or the
Garolinas, They fear with good reason thai
tie West may feel the same odious and un
bridled tyranny, at the hands of the radicals
3as is now felt by the South. They see nj
limit to the exercise Of Jacobin power ant
have no pledge that the radicals in Congress
may not exclude their own opposing mem
bers IN the same way as they now exclude th
representatives of the oppressed South Th
measure Of tyranny and exaetion which to-da,
is meted to Alabama, may tomorrow becem
4 the LOT of any Northern State All govern
Y mental power is centralized at Washington
ali this power so centralized is assumed b.
one branch, the legislative; this boundIes
congressional power is in the hands Of
Jacobin majority whose sleepless purpose il
to enlarge and perpetuate it. To do thi
they will either corrupt, impeach, over
/. awe or crush the coordinate branches Of tht
government until there shall be none il
authority to exercise check upon their des
i potisnl on to vindicate the rights Of the States
OF the liberties Of the people.
sItisn not strange, therefore. that the con
seryate men Of the North who really love ant
prize liberty, and who are fully sensible of th
stupendous change which the government ha
undergone should begin to cast about 70
means to win back their lost independence
Many Of. them are earnest and bold and wi
not surrender their constitutional rights Will