Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-07-05
From the Dublin Nation, of June g. /
THE FRATRACIDAL WAR.

II Il w N H..
As the news from America flows in,
the language of the Northerners and of
their journals tends more and more to
disgust and outrage all who hold the
sacred faith of human freedom, and to
make them weep in poignant mortiiica-
ton and deep despair. Well may we
despair of popular liberty in presence of
the sight the world sees to-day A re-
publican people, whose liberties were
won by rebellion, whose independence
was achieved by a secession, parrot as
glibly as any minions of old world ty-
ranny "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 by butchery and slaughter
Ii what is now passing in America
took place in any of the old-world EN-
pires, it would be at least ineligible.
If the citizens of nearly half Of an en-
pire 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 demand
ed the substitution of the Imperial Gov
eminent by one of their own choice; and
that the Imperial Government marched
its armies to crush the demand in the
blood of the "rebels," it would be moth =
ing new amongst despotic systems. But
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States, in q system based on the will of
the people based on the right of rebel
lion-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 rebellion" and
trample on the voice of the people, than
this same Central Government of re-
publican confederation is enough to
wiring the heart Of any man who believed
in the greater humanity and liberation Of
popular governments. Well may the
advocates of despotic monarch laugh in
bitter mockery at those who believe that
people ruling themselves would never
spill blood in popular subiugation, and
that such murders we're done by kings
and despots of old Europe!
1t is hideous sarcasm of republican,
ism to hear the journals of the Northern
States yelling for the blood of ''the re-
bels," for their utter subjugation and
Instruction. ave mean to conquer
them," sayshhc New York Tribune, mot
merely to defeat, but 10 conquer, to sub
jugate 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 peace
full and coDtented homes. They must
fnd poverty at their fresides, and see
privation in the anxious eyes Of mothers,
and the rags of children" Was ever
more hellish sentiment uttered Where
in the annals Of despotism, or the records
of its butcheries, shall we seek for par
allel to this Where-even against rebels
who had not a particle of justification
If the subjects of the most legitimate
sovereign that ever held sceptre had
acted as the Southern States have done,
would these sentiments not be nfamies
if uttered on his part? Yet infamy of
iIfam;es are they when uttered by re-
publicans against brother republicans
uttered by the descendants Of the,rebels
Of '76, against men who, with far greater
unanimity, now demand the sef-same
right those rebels claimed-sclf-g govern
ment
We shall be told that the South had
no right to secede; therefore, war upon
it is justi6able. When England made
war on her rebellious American colonies,
she said they had no right to 'secede. :"
aud that, therefore, that war was justifi-
able. We shall be told that the South
can exhibit 10 wrongs to justify rebellion.
The same was held by those who sought
to crush the colonies in their struggle for
sels-government. But why should we
be called upon by republicans to consider
these points at all? Have we not been
told, as the republican principle, that the
subjects of State themselves, and no
one else, are to be judges whether they
have provocation, justification or right ?
Yet, let US consider that the case Of