Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-11

ter OF the Southern Coufsderaoy.
The London Daily News has the follow.
lowing:
Politics and history would be greatly sim
pliied II the outward form Of transactions
were q safe guide TO their real cbaracter-iL,
for instance, we might say of every revolt
that u was o movement favorable TO liberty,
and that any attempt TO repress il must Re
tyranny. This age has often been called to
witness disruption Of old States and the rise
OF new ones by the process of Secession.
Men are alive who can remember the Amer
lean War Of Independence, and in Europe
since the peace, we AVE seen the kingdom
of Greece established by the courage Of its
people with territory torn from Turkey;
while in Italy the Acknowledgement Of indie
pendent political societies has been going on
for the last three years and is etill proceed
ing. 1t happens that all these movements
have been, happily, in the interest Of liberty
and good government. This time last year
il might not have occurred TO us 10 write of
the connection between liberty and indie
pendence as casual and local. We might
have been excused for taking it as fixed in
the laws Of modern progress. But at least
IL is certain that the secessions and disrup-
tions Of which we have seen so many, have
been until now undertaken in the interest
of freer and better government than that of
the States rent ssunder. So close has been
the association Of revolt with liberty, that
we had almost forgotten that it could be
otherwise, and that some Of the most odious
~tyrannies the world has seen have been
commenced by a war Of Independence.
But it is argued-revolt is revolt, and re-
bellion is rebellion all the world over. The
American Colonists wanted to 90 free, and
George III tried to hold them by the sword;
the Southerners also want to 60, and Mr..
I s-n.1. 4rsae O., IoNotr. Ahou, hv foroo, &c ro,,
do not blame Mr.. Abraham Lincoln, you
can not condemn King George. BY the
same rule we might say, Caleb Williams,
being uDjustly confined, broke out of prison;
Jonathan Wild broke out of prison, there
fore Jonathan was upjustly confined. 1t is
in vain to attempt q philosophy of the pre-
tended right Of revolution. The only JUST.
fication Of revolt is its necessity, and that is
enough, But in the present case, to judge
of this necessity, SO far as a people neutral
indeed, but not Indifferent to the fortunes
and character of thirty millions of its breth-
rem, is called to do, we must ask WIZ the
Southerners want to get out Of the pale Of
the freest Constitution the world ever saw,
and what they mean to do. It is more than
waste of time-it is mystifcation-t
wrangle about the so-called right to revolt,
as if that were not a contradiction in terms.
Those who uish 10 shoW that The seeding
States haze any credit to gain by appealing to
the pTecedents Of the Revolutionary War, must
sholo that the objects of the founders Of Amer
ican liberty and those Of the Southern leaders
are similar, or at least not contradictory. OF
course no such demonstration is forthcoming.
When the English public reads that Franklin
and Patrick Henry combining their talents
for the assertion of liberty, and Jefferson Da-
Wis and Mr.. Stephens, laying the foundations
of an empire destined to expand freelyto the
West and South by the multiplication of
bondsmen, resemble one another in carrying
out the principles of the Revolution, zoe can
not but respect the profound feelings Nth
tchich Americans must sec the fathers of their
country thus diShonored. The principles of
Henry and Franklin would have prevented
the cause of this Secession by annihilating
slavery, had they not been successfully strug-
gled against by the party which it is now
pretended reproduces the principles of the
Revolution. Is it not admirable that men
should invoke on behalf of the projectors of
a vast slaveholding State the names of men
who have borne the most solemn testimony
in favor of liberty Let US hear what Pat
rick Henry, who is brought forward so read
lily as the prototype of Secessionist, said;
us it not amazing that a timeiwhen the
rights of humanity are defined and under
stood with precision, in a country above all
others pr, I'D of liberty-that in such an age
and such a country we find men adopting a
species of violence and tyranny which our
more rude and boisterous, but more honest
ancestors detested; a principle as %repugnant
to humanity as it is inconsistent with lib.
erty?" The fatal political consequence to be
apprehended from slavery were always
weighing upon the minds of the authors of
their country's independence. They saw
that it would destroy Republicanism. But
the temper of the men who now have place
and power at Montgomery is very different.
The Vice. President of the Confederation, in
a solemn speech made recently, after refer
ring to the known aversion of Jefferson to
slavery, as politically and socially, as well
as morally, wrong, said: "Our new Gov
eminent is founded upon exactly theoppo-
site idea. Its foundations are laid, its
corner stone rests upon the great truth that
the negro is not equal to the white man;
that slavery, subordination to the superior
race, is his natural and moral condition.
This our new Government is the first in the
history ofthe world based upon this great
physical, philosophical and moral truth"
Such is the liberality of the new State.
This is the cause which we are invited to
identify with the Revolution, merely because
both Washington and his colleagues, and
Davis and his accomplices, had to cast off
some restraint before they could commence
the work Of building up a government. 1t
was the free and righteous Republic which
justified the war of Independence. tits the
dark and nefarious absolutism of the designs
entertained at Montgomery that damns this
movement OF Secession. The free States OF
the North declare that the wicked scheme
shall not be carried out-thst the American
Continent shall not be blasted with slavery,
but be preserved for the multiplication and
expansion of free communities. We are told
that the South claim to be the best judges Of
their interests, and hold that those interests
require independence. We have no. the
least doubt of it. And if they can make
that independence good they may become
like the earthquake at Mendoza "great
fact" which men must p~erforce recognize.
But until then the prayer of every true
friend of liberty must be that an indepen-
dence, vowedin advance to enterprises which
defy the morality and violate interests Of
mankind, may never be attained.