New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-21
TORIES AND TRAITORs.

attract no notice 10 the general crowds Dut tnoy
are there, nevertheless. But the country news
papers have long been filled with accounts OF
bnnished families arriving or passing through.
and they have reached our own city by every
conveyance they could command. They have ar.
arrived in the Delaware by soop-losds, glad to
escape with even the clothes on their backs.
The utterance of Union sentiment in the in.
surgept States, the mere refusal to entertain
Rebel cpioion, is enough to precipitate either
fight or fogging. All the river towns In the
West are swarmlDg with these unhappy people.
/ Hundreds of them have been forced to abandon
comfortable homes and properties, business. money,
everything, at the bidding Of ruffans. No notice
is given, many are turned out Of their beds at
midnight, and ordered of. Women and childreo
sick or WELL suffer alike. Those in the INTERIOR
away from steamboat or railroad, have worked
their way as best they could foot all horses being
seized for the Rebel nrmy, Vast quantities OF
valuable furniture and merchandise stock and
provender are thus abandoned to plunder. Some
are whipped, some imprisoned, and others are
hanged. Those who escape are thankful TO get
away with even lie. A single boat has brought
| up 600 of these fugitives from Louisiana aud
Arkansas. Nor are they all Northern citizens
Thousands we're born in the States WHOM Dan
lsh them. They are, moreo'cr. the flower ot
the population educated, intelligent industrious.
and law abiding the very classes which have
built up the South, aud ven to it what little re-
spectabllity it ever had If their advent built 1t
up. their exodus must be its ruin.
| No such compulsory emigration has been wit
messed IN this country since the Tory stampede
of the Revolution. That exile was IN retalia-
| ton OF the most atrOcious barbartes CON-
mitied On the Whigs. This is one of people
| who have done no man . wrong. As tue day ol
re,ribuon overlook the Tories, 81, unless justice
| ALEC has gone iuto Punishment, must 1t o'ertake
the perpetrators Of the crimes we daily witness.
But the fate Of the two easses of einisrants If
very dlssimar. These ay from barbarism to
civilization, to the free and cultivated North atd
West. where heart aud hand Of sympathizIng
communities will be open with generous vel.
come. The others fed from cultivated society to
the bleak wilderness Of Canada aud Nova Scoas,
| the Southern Tories only finding 1t convenient To
settle IN the West Indies or the Bahamas. The
number who then left the country was enormous
Tney we're leaving constantly during tue whole
eight years war. When It became suddenly
known that the British army would evacuatc
Boston, they we're sezed with panic aud dl.nay
Mutitudes Of prominent men departed immediately
with their families, unable to take their effects
Nth them. Other large emigratIons followed ut
various tunes. The surrender Of Burgoyns 80
discouraged the Tories that multtudes Oi them
fed. It was the same way when Cornwalis
WAS taken. The miserles which these people EN-
dured IN consequence we're very great. Most Of
them went away poor. and punglug {" they did.
into an unsettled country, many we're actually
without means to provide for their common
wants from day to day. 1t is true tue British
Government assisted them. aud gave them
liberal quantities Of land, but their suiicrings
were nevertheless severe. SO numerous were
they that New Brunswick was separated from
Nova Scotia for their accommodation, Canada
was divided into two Provinces for the sane
reason. and British North America then began
its present prosperous career.
Washington regarded tho property of these
fugitves as deserving Of conhscstlon, and IN that
way il was almost invariably treated. This has
been ono of the usual penalties of treason. Res
ttution was made to but few, nor was the rlgor
of the laws against them relaxed for many years.
Even then but few returned. Wnen the negotia-
ton for peace with England was entered on, the
question Of compensation to the Tories was
found to be q most embarrassing one. The
British Ministry demanded restitution Of oil con.
iscated property, or compensation, when tue
American Commissioners as stouty resisted,
unless compensation were made to injured Amer
leans. They contended that the Tories were
tho authors of their own suferngs. Besides,
Congress gave them positive instructions " this
effect All they conceded was that Congress
should recommend the States to provide for the
restitution Of certain of the forfeited estates;
that certain persons should be allowed
year to endeay0r to recover their estates
that persons having rights in con6scsted lands
should have the privilege Of pursuing all lawful
means of regsinng them. Congress unanimously
sssented to this arrangement, aud issued the
stipulated recommendations. But they were
known and understood to be mere pretexts as
seuted to by the Commissioners tor saving the
honor Of the Ministry which thus practically aban-
doped the Tories to their tate. All England
was impatient for peace, aud Lord Shslburne
declared in Parliament, when tho Ministry was
violently asssiled for consentins to such treaty,
that he "had but tho alternative either to accept
q" the terms proposed or continue the war. !"
The latter had become extremely unpopular in
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