The national Republican., 1861-02-19
"MILITARY PRINCIPLES"

s.a. "MILlTARY PRINCIPLES"
Il was upon military principles" that Mr.. |
Walker, of Nicaragua notoriety, and who was |
thoroughly indoctrinated with the opinions Of
the chiefs of the GulfState conspiracy, whose
freud, agent, and pet he was during his whole |
career, proposed to organize his Central Amer.
lean Republic. It was by an organization upon
"miliary principles, that he proposed to "hold
in check" the numbers of the North.
This is all the purpose which, speaking for
his GulfState co conspirators against the lib
critics Of North America, he dared to avow, but |
il vas not the entire design which those men
entertain.
Ruling the black race by domestic institu.
ton, they seek, at once 70 secure the safety of
that institution, by using up in armies that
portion of the white population in the planta-
ton States which is dangerous to all forms Of
property including slavery, and, also, by means
Of such armies, to domineer over political op-
ponents at home, and to crafty their lust of
power and plunder by enterprises abroad.
The Gulf States are essentially " aristocratic,"
- Gen. Noell, Of Missouri, said in his late let
ter to his constituents, and the ruling class
have long meditated the establishment Of
military despotism. 1t is "military principles"
that they love most, and which they wish to
carry out in their political arrangements.
With their "poor whites," now useless, and
even dangerous, converted into soldiery, their
revenues from their black subjects used in labor
will not be diminished, and with their armies,
they can lord it at home over white subjects,
and have convenient instrumentality for seiz-
ing plantations in Mexico without price.
These men, drawing their incomes from
their black slaves, governing the poor Vhites,"
converted into soldiers, by drum.head courts
martial, and with armies to rule at home and
threaten abroad, will have attained that un.
bridled power, with less than which they are
not able TO content themselves.
The Governor of South Carolina bas already
proclaimed martial law in considerable dis.
tricts, and that the forms, as we'll as the sub.
stance Of despotism may not be wanting, regi.
nents are paraded in review before his wife,
whenever her pride demands the qualification
Of that incense.
Men being impressed into the military ser.
vice, and contributions being forced from the
rich, no man in South Carolina is, to-day, in
the secure enjoyment Of either fortune, or per.
sonal liberty, and 3 military despotism, instead
Of being remote aud ultimate consequence of
this revolution, already exists there in full ma
turity.
We have been led to these observations by
bill to establish . standing army, under the
name of . State Guard, )" which has been re-
ported to the Missouri Legislature, by the dis
aaion plottsrs, who, Disgusting themselves under
the name and mask of Democracy, control the
Government of that State. In itself, this bill
might seem TO be q matter of local concern,
but Il is not 90 in its true aspect, as part oi
he concerted plan of the Southern nulli6ers
70 establish dynasty upon military prin
ciples."
This bill prescribes new form of oath fol
the officers, viz 1: to obey the orders of the Gov
srnor and Of their superiors in rank. The oatt
does not require that these orders should be
lawful, but covers all orders. And its form is
sprecise notification of an article of clause
in the Constitution of Missouri which requires
oil civil and military officers to swear to sup.
port the Constitution of the United States.
The bill further provides that all present, OF
future military organizations, not embraced in
these State Guards, shall be disarmed, and thai
their arms shall be confscated to the use o
the State. The old right of the people to keel
arms is to be taken away. Nobody is to hav'
arms, but these men sworn to obey orders, nj
matter of what Sort
The bill further provides that no member o
the State Guards shall "speak dis,espect
fully Of tie Governor, or Of the Legislature
under the indefinite penalties Of a court martial
The storm of attempted revolution has burst
upon the country with such suddenness, that i
il only slowly that its scope, and the long-lait
plans which preceded it, are understood. 1t
true key is found in General Walkers declara
ton in favor of governing upon " military pri'
ciples" That was the declaration of man il
the innermost confidence of those who direc
the revolution now in progress. That declara
tion unmarked him. Recent events have uu
masked them, and we now see that in pre-
nouncing for military principles" he spok'
for them, as well as for himself
South CAROLINA FNANoEs.-We find tn
following paragraph in yesterdays Baltimor
Sun:
sc. M. Furman, Esq, president of the Ban
Of the State of South Carolina, officially al
nouuces the readiness of that institution to il
sue, in compliance with an act of the late Legil
lature, bonds to the amount Of $675, 900, beal
ing an interest Of seven per cent. They are ii
susdin sums of $50, 800, and $500, and thos
taking them may, it is intimsted, have then
converted into stock by the next Legislature
Uha funds thus to be raised ara infandad q