Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-11-28


medium. A large amount of It NAV be cifcu
lated at pas. There is every reason to beliezs
that tho Confederate treasury note ia fast be
coming sr1n medium. The provision tha
tnese notts shall be convertible into Confederat,
/ s,ock, bearing eight per cent. interest, at tht
pleasure OF the holders, insufes them against q
appreciation below the value of that stock, and
no considerable fall 10 that value need be fsar.
Cd, so long as the interest ehall be punctualIy
PAID. The punctual payment OF. this interest
mas been secured By tho act passed BY you at the
last seaaion, imposing such a rate of taxation
Us must provide sufficient means for that uur.
pose.
''' TRANSPORT FACILITIES.
For the successful prosecution Of this war Il
IS Indispensable that the means of transnortinp
troops and military anpplies be furnished, as far
es possible, 10 such manRer IA not 10 intertuot
tne commercial intercourse between our penple.
nor place check upon their productive et,er
gies' TO this end the means of transportation
ron one section Of our country to the other
must be carefully guarded and improved; and
TINS should be the object of Rpxious care on the
part the State and Confederate governments,
60 Iar IS they may have power over the subject
| y hAFe already two main eystems OF through
Transportation from the North to the South, one
from Richmond along tho seahoard, and the
other through Western Virginia to New Or
ieana third might be secured by completing
iink OF about forty miles between Danyille
li ~ virginia. and GEeenborough, North Carolina
Inc construction jf this comparatively short
line Wonid give US through route from North
70 ouulh Ia the interior OF the Confederate
otHtes, ana give us access to o population and
TO military resources from which we are now in
q great measure debared We should increase
greatly the safety ana capacity of our means for
transporting men and military supplies. Ifthe
construetlon oi the road should, in the iudg.
ment OF Congress, as IL is in mine, be indispen.
sable for the most successful prosecution of the
war, the action OF the government will not be
restrained oy the constitutional objection which
would attach to work for commercial pur-
poses; and attention 10 invited to the practca.
billty ofsecuring its early completion by giving
the neediul aid TO the company organized for
its construction and administration,
SECESSION RREvocABLE.
II we husband our means and make q iu
diclous use Of our resources, il would be diff
hoult to fix limit to the period during which
we could conduct war against the adver-
sary whom we nov encounter The very
enorts which be makes to desOlate and in
wade uS must exhaust bis means, whilst they
|
productions of Cpr industrial system The re-
construction which he seeks 10 effect by arms
becomes daily more and more papably impossi
Ole Not only do the causes which induced us
to separate, still last in full force, but they have
been strengthened, and whatever doubt NAV
have fingered in the minds of any must have
been completely dispelled by the subsequent
events.
If, instead of being dissolution of league,
1t we're indeed a rebsllon in which we were en-
gagged, we might fine ample vndicaton for the
eonrse We have adopted in the ecenes which are
now being enacted in the United Slates. Our
people now look with cOntemptuous astonish-
ment on those With whom they have been so re
Gently associated. They shrink with averson
from the bare idea OF renewing such a ccnnec-
ton
When they see President making war with
out the assent OF gress-wheu they behold
judges threatened bscause they uphold the writ
OF hsbeas corpus, so sacred to freemen--When
they see justice and law tramped uuder the
armed heel OF military authority, and upright
men and innocent women dragged to distant
| dung geons--when they find all this tolerated and
applauded by people who had been in the full
enjoyment OF freedom but few months ago,
they believe that there must be some radical
incompatibility between such q people aud them
selves. With such people, we may be content
to live at peace; but our separation from them
is hoai, and for the independence we have as
sumed we will accept no alternative.
CHARACTER OF NORTHERN WARFARE.
The nature Of the hosilites which they have
| waged against us must be characterized as bar
barous whenever it is understood. They have
bombaIded undetended villages, without giving
notice to women and children to enable them to
escape, and in one instance selected the night
as the period when they might surprise them
most effectuslly whilst asleep aud unconscious
Of danger. Arson and rapine, the destruction of
private houses and property, and injuries Of the
most Wanton character, even upon non combat.
ants, have marked their forays along their bord-
ers and upon our territory. We ought to have
been admonished BY these things that they were
disposed to make war upon US in the most cruel
and relentless spirit, yet we were not prepared
to see them fit out q large naval expedition With
the confessed purpose not enly to pillage, but to
incite servile war in our midst,
If they convert their soldiers into incendaries
and robbers, and involve us in q species of war
which claims non-combatants, women and child
rem as its victims, they must expect to be treat
ed as outCasts aud enemies of mankind.
There are certain rights of humanity which
ere entitled 70 respect, even in war, and he who
refuses to regard them, forfeits his claim, II
captured, to bs considered priaoner OF war
and must expect to be dealt with as an offender
against all law-human and divine.
THE CAPTURE OF sLIDELL AND MASON
But not content with violating our rights un
der the Law of nations at home, they have ex-
tended their injuries to us within other juris
dictiOns. The distinguished gentlemen whom
with your approval at the last session, com
missioned to represent the COniederacy at GER
tain foreign courts, have been recently seized
by the Captain of United States ship-of
war, while on board a British mail steamer, OF
their way from the neutral Spanish port of Ha
vans to England, The United States have thu
claimed a general jurisdiction over the higt
seas, and entering British ship, sailing under
its country's flag, violating the rights of embas
sy, for the most part held sacred even among
barbsriRns, by seizing our ministers whilst undel
the protection and within the domains OF neu
trail nation. These gentlemen were as mucl
under the Jurisdiction Of the British Governmen
upon that ship, and beneath its flag, as if they
had been on its soil; and a claim on the part
the United States to seize them in the streets O
T London would have been as well founded as tt
spprehend them where they were taken. Ha,
they been mslefactors and citizens even Of tn
United States. they could not have been ar
rested on British ahp or on British soil
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