New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-12
MANIFESTO OF THE PIRATES.

Upon another page will be found authentic
against the commerce of the United States and
all citizens engaged in it, while travelling on the
high seas, and on our gulis, inlcts and harbors.
1t offers in terms a bounty of twenty dollars a
head for every male person sailing under the Flag
of ihe Union; twenty dollars if murdered by fire,
steel, or water, through piratical attach; and
twenty five dollars if made prisoner, to be SUBJ
iect to the tender merces of slaye-lashiog mobs
OF traitors and ruiIians.
When the Nice-President of the so-styled Southern
Coniederacy A. II. Stephens, was not yet traitor,
but tried In the Georgia Convention to keep his
State out Of the Secession circle, he spoke OF the
United States Government as the most beuehceut
of goycrnmt nt', likened treason crawling into
our country to the serpent in Eden, with
promise of the same deadly results aud said
that Secession the fruit of disappointed poll
teal ambition. This was but the other day.
Now, the most benelcent Of governments has be.
como in the opinion Of the traitor stephens, the
mod,l-iyranny Of mankind, and he turns pirate
by putting his signature to pirates manifestoes.
Out Of such an unqualified falschood treacLery,
meanness and crime is the Southern Bloodbub-
bic blown. The acknowledged leading politician
of the South who lately found no cause for Seces-
sion. is now chief utterer Of the mendacity on
which il lives, moves and has its being, and
turns criminal second in command.
With these lights, past and immediate, before
IA, the Free States know how to act They
feel they have offered no aggression to the
South, bat have been patient and long suffering
under aggression end injury. They have cou.
coded every thing to the South. With each aud
every compromsc-those Of $50, 1892, lSj0--
they have drunk the cup Of humiliation, cOmprc-
missed against light aud Liberty, and for dark
ness and Slavery. But the day Of compromise
is past aud gone forever. The South has drawn
the sword and thrown away the scabbard.
They have hurled the last indignty in the face
of free people; they have gloried in the arch
cOwardice of ten thousand men attacking one
hundred, weary and starving; they have sought
to iuname the majesty of free people by every
gibe and lie that swagger and low breeding
can fling at the tenderness of an honorable and
courageous spirit; they have inflicted every per-
sonal indignity which stripes tar and feathers,
mutilatiOn, and death, can on our citizens,
showing them at heart to be savage and brutal
and a living evidence of all the effects of Slavery
painted by Jefferson; they have murdered our
troops, the men Of Massachusetts, the descend
ants of the heroes Of Lexington, Concord, and
Bunker Hi-murdered them while first and
glorOusly rushing to the rescue of the Capital
at the requsition of the President; they have
organized terror and rebellion throughout the
Slave States; they have disorganized trade and
industry, and spread suffering, calamity and
want; and now they come with the grand eli.
macteric of war to the knife under the Black
Flag on the high seas
Let them go on. Events will take place rs
they ripen. The North had to be kicked into
defense, before action was had; but it came
finally. Murder our sailors Murder our travel.
ers Murder our men for $50 head There
will come retribution for this. Our troops,
whether in Florida or Maryland, have acted
against slave.disaifectOn. The Governor Of
Pennsylvania has refused the transit of
black troops across that State. The people
of the North have desired no incendary
action. They are for the things which
make for peace. All their career shows
this. They do not go armed in peace Like assas-