Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-07-04

war but as constituents, you had a right to
know my opinions and positions and brief
ly, but most frankly, you have them.
My only answer to those who inIulged in
SANDER and vitupcration, was gIIzG in the
card of the 18th of April, herewith enclosed
Very truly,
G.. i. VALLAND1GHAM
From the Dublin Nation, June 8.
THE FRATRACIDAL WAR.
As the news from America flows in, the
language of the Northerners and of thcil
journals tend more and more to disgust and
outrage all who hold the sacred faith of hui
man freedom, and to make them weep in
poignant modification and deep despair
Well may we despair of popular liberty in
the presence of the sight the world sees to-
day. A republican people, whose liberties
were won by rebellion, whose indepen-
dence was achieved by secession, parrot
as glibly as any minions Of oldworld tyran-
ny ':the rebels" and the rebellion" as
phrases of odium and reproach. Those
who profess to hold sacred the popular will
to reverence the desire for self-government,
proceeding to drown the popular will in
blood, and to answer the desire for self-gov-
ernment by butchcry aud Slaughter!
If what is now passing in America took
place in any of the oldworld empires. ii
would be at least Ineligible. If the eiti-
zens Of nearly half of an empire five times as
large as all Europe, with an unanimity never
surpassed, and rarely equalled, declared, by
free poll, in open day, by universal suffrage,
that their interests and their feelings de.
manded the substitution of the Imperial
Government by one of their own choice
and that the Imperial Government marched
it's armies to crush the demand in the blood
of the ''rebels," it would be nothing new
amongst despotic systems But in great
confederation of republican States, in sys.
tenn based on the will Of the people-based
on the right of rebellion-that all this should
happen that we now see-that no tyranny
or despotism of old Europe ever drew the
sword more savagely to put down "rebel.
lion," and trample on The. voice of The, ,peo:
PIE. Than this same Central Government Of
a republican confederation-iti is enough to
wiring the heart of any man who believed in
the greater humanity and toleration Of popu-
lar governments. Well may the advocates
Of despotic monarchy laugh in bitter m ock-
cry at those who believe that people rul-
ing themselves would never spill blood in
popular subjugation, and that such murders
were done by kings and despots Of old Eu-
rope.
1t is a hideous sarcasm of republicanism
to hear the journals of the Northern Ststes
yelling for the blood of ''the rebels" for
their utter subjugatien and destruction :
eve mean to conquer them," says the New
York Tribune, mot merely to defeat, but
to conquer, to subjugate them. But when
the rebellious traitors are overwhelmed in
the field, and scattered like leaves before the
angry wind, it must not be to return to
peaceful and contented homes They must
find poverty at their firesides, and sec pri-
walton in the anxious eyes of mothers and
the rags of children" Was ever more hell
ish sentiment uttered! Where in the an
nails of fdespotism, or the records of its butch
cries, shall we seek for parallel to this !.
Where-even against rebels who had not a
particle of justification! If the subjects of
the most legitimate sovereign that ever held
a sceptre had acted as the Southern States
have done, would these sentiments not be
infamies if uttered on his part? Yet infa-
my of infamies are they when uttered by
republicans against brother republicans
uttered by the defendants of the rebels of
rs, against men who, with far greater un-
animity, now demand the self-samc right
those rebels claimed-self-go government
We shall be told that the South had no
right to secede: therefore, war upon it is
justidable. When England made war on
her rebellious American colonies, she said
they had no right to "sccede," and that,
therefore, that war was justifallc. We
shall be told that the South can exhibit no
wrongs to justify rebellion. The same was
held by those who sought to crush the colo
nies in their struggle for self government.
But why should we be called upon by re-
publicans to consider these points at all I?
Have we not been told, as the republican
principle, that the subjects of a State them
selves, and no one else, are to be judges
whether they have provocation, justification
OR right?
Yet, let us consider that the case of the
South, as regards it's right to secede, is far
stronger than Was that of the American
colonies to rebel. Under the old monarchi-
cal systems no such right was ever tolera-
ted-no such principle ever heard of--as
''the voice of the population" determining
the justice, legitimacy or & ration of a Gov
The American colonies origina-
ted under that monarchical system. They
had never claimed or possessed the attributes
Of Independent Sovereign States, nor had
their connection with the English crown
originated in compact having for object
mutual benefit and defence. What, on the
other hand, is the position of the Southern
States in the present case? They are not
mere colonies, counties, or districts of any
state, kingdom or empire. They are num-
Der of Sovereign independent Statcs;' 50
styled in law and 50 proved in fact Their