Year: 1861

We copy the following paragraph from the Gin
cinnati Enquirer of the 9th instant:


New ORLEANs.-Our dispatches tell lis that New
Orleans has elected " immediate secession" dele
gates to the Louisiana State Convention. We were
in hopes the great city Of the South would have
proved true to the Union, under whose flag it be-
came renowned in history, and has grown to its
present greatness What but the madness of the
hour could have made it so far forget its fame and
its interests?


Before commenting upon the foregoing we must
be permitted to observe, in justice to the Enquirer
that it has heretofore been Just exponent Of the
Constitutional rights Of the South, as well of all
sections Of cur late common countrE Whether
the destructive Abolition Influences, which are
paramount in Ohio, will constrain it to abandon its
previous patriotic policy, the future must deter
mine. We imagine those Influences will prove all.
powerful; and as the " madness Of the hour "
rnles in the Enquirers State, apprehend it will
be obliged to follow the wild current of fanacisn
or be extingushed.


We will inform the Enquirer that there was
neither excitement nor passion, much less ' mad
ness" in the vote which the people of New Or
leans gave this day one week ago. There was
deep and calm deliberation, governed by an inflex
ible determination to submit no longerto Abolition
outrages and expressions. For years the cup Of
Northern insult and aggression had been full, al
most to overfowng, and the vote of the 9Th Of
last November caused it to overflow. We had
been denied right and equality in the Union, and
we determined Hpon seeking equality and right out
of it. That right and that equality we shall assert
and maintain to the uttermost extremity Of mortal
hazard and sacrifice. Deliberately and dispassion-
ately we have taken our stand and we. will either
vindcate our rights, Or lay down our lives in their
defence. And what is true Of New Orleans, is
equally true in regard to the State Of which it is
the great commercial emporium


We presume the Enquirer will become indignant
when it learns that all the foTts and arsenals in
| Louisiana have been seized by order Of the Gov
| ernor, and are now garriaoned by State troops.
These forts and arsenals contain several hundred of
the finest cannon with some scores of thousands Of
small arms, and ammunition, shot, shell, and grape
in abundance sufficient to arm and equip nearly
| one hundred thousand men. Bnt the Enquirer
| should not become Indignant. Upon reflection, it
will see that it has good reason for becoming
angry Self preservation is the first law Of nature
| and is universally recognized throughout ChlIsten-
| dom and HeathendOm. We had TO take care Of
ourselves and we have done so. But for the recent
| treachery at Charleston, these things would not
have occurred, and Mr.. Buchanan might have
served out his inglorous term in comparative peace
| and qnet. When a President falsifes his owr
word-forfeits his implied and well understood
pledge-it follows, as a natural consequence, tha
the people of the threatened section should take
care of themselves. We have done SO, and are
ready to account for our acts, whenever called
upon, either by argument or gunpowder.


But it seems to us that Cincinnati is the last city
and the Enquirer the last paper, that should com
plain of the action of the Southern States. In few
weeks a Southern Confederacy will be in the ful
tide of glorious experiment; and in six months VT
shall be prepared to sell Ohio and the Westerl
States imported goods at from twenty to twenty


five per cent. less than they can now purchase then
in the Eastern cities, At the same time, we sha1


offer them the best market for their products on tn


c9ptnent-a cash market. Our river We sha


make free river, to all the States of the West 8


least. and as the reciprocity Of interest will be mU


tu1lly beneficial to a very great degree, we are III


able to discover why the Western people shoul


grpmble at us, much le5s seek cause Of quarrs
! with 1E