St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-07-04

served from seccssion. The transatlantic
States were separate provinces and colouie.
from the time Of Elizabeth, each with its
own Governor, charter. early history,
laws. associations. 10 this day they arc
much more emphatitally statesmen than
nnited statesmen. They are not Ameri-
cans. but Virginians. Csrelinlans, Ken,
fnckians. men of tlss l3sy SSisss o. tls..
Empire City. State rights, in contraais.
tinction to Federal rights, is the Oldest
party cry Of the Republic The South
erners regard it as an insult to be called
"a Yankee. The Nmtherncrs are equally
contemptaons Of the South. Each Amcri-
can. when he talks of patriotism. is think
ing. not Of the general Republic, about
which his associations arc Of the most
hazy and his affections of the most artifi
cial and purely logical kind. but Of th.
State in which he was "raised," or is set
tied. whose rulers are Of his own appoint.
ment, whose laws are Of his own dictation
these laws and the rights Of citizenship
varying, by the way. in every State. We
have to conceive what England would do
it Ireland and Scotland succeeded in fore
ing a Papal Stuart upon the throne to
realize the feelings Of the South
ON the election Of Lincoln; or wha.
Scotland would say If the English law su-
pvrse.leI that Of Stair and Erskine, and
the Archbishop Of Canterbury and ..black
prclacy" were imposed upon the Free Kirk
and the Camcronians as the established
Church; or what ireland would think il
the Roman Catholic Relief Bill we're re-.
pcaid
The slaves If the Seccssionists are hon
estly worth E20O. O0O, 900 sterling. In
every Northern and Western State there
had been growing organized affiliated So
cicties ct Ah"litionis's, aiding in the es-
cape of negroes, battling pursuit, or
Wrestling the law to defeat Southern rights,
plotting Ilarr.r's Ferry martyrdoms, act
ing npon the elections, aud at last i'm
passing on the Union an Abolitionist
President. In these very men. too, the
:'outherners saw the usurers, mi,l.lle-men.
attorneys anl agents who had continued to
rat up their substance, to bear off the
profits Of their produce, to swallow up
their plantations in irredeemable mort
cages. To crown all. these "bloodsuck-
"rs. " ''craffy and snivelling cxtortioners. I"
a. they regarded them. had managed to
impose a tariff up"n the South which
taxed them for the protection and monnpo-
ly Of the North to the amount of at least
forty millions sterling year in differential
duties. Couid there. can there be two
opinions about tho policy of secession
from such lob-sidcd union whenever
there was an opportunity. Can there be
two opinions on the sal ject of the proba-
bilities Of the result of the struggle {?
What can the South porribly lose by : the
dissolution Of partnership in which the
whole capital Of the firm was brought to
the concern by one partner. and myste-
rinu.ly transferred to the other, who began
with nothing, and who had 70 kept the
books that he made it ou. the moneycd
partner had greatly overdrawn his ac-
count, and was a tyrant to all the SER
wants of the house. Did either England
or America lose anything by the Decla-
ration Of independence? We were de-
nudcd Of territory as large and produc-
tive as all Europe. Is our prestige. our
greatness. our glory, in the least impaired?
BY what logic is it argued that our COL
onies. our foresw"rn subjects, we're justi.
lied in throwing of their allegiance to
George the Third. while sovereign and
Independent States, have no right to disa-
VOW President Lincoln? Is It only the
subjects of Old World dcspotism that are
entitled to choose their own rulers, while
self-governed Republicans, independent
sovereign States, are rebels and traitors
for presumiug to elect their own admin
istrators? England made Massachusetts,
pay taxes on tea and stamps. Everybody
says Boston did well to secede from
President Guelph. Massachusetts,, Penn
sylvsnia. New York, impose upon Caro-
lina and Louisiana diffcrential duties ten
times as heavy. and not for the general
service Of the Commonwealth. but for the
selfish monopoly Of private interests.
Need we carry out the parallel farther :.
Have We forgotten that. when the landed
interest refused to reform Parliament,
We were within few hours of a rebel
lion3 Do We forget our Anti-Corn Law
meetings, Of which Disraeli said, "This
is not Free-trade. it is revolution 2" Did
not Lancashire petition to manufacture
in bond, aud to be allowed to barter
American breadstutfs for calicoes and
prints. offering to give up the custom Of
our agriculturists
The fact is the Lincoln war is Bunkum.
It is not to reclaim the South to the Un-
ion. but to appropriate to the North the
whole property Of the Republic. and TO
make the South pay its share of the I'm
Pcrial debt. George the Third had bet-
ter Army than Lincoln's, He hsdse Navy
ten times as large Yet he could not con-
quer the ralonists, and they laughed Ut
his blockade. Why is lincoln t. do to
the South-twelve millions strong-what
England could not do to the eve millions
Of lis5Y The Slave States form, uajor-
ity Of those which constituted the Union
OF Washington and Franklin. TAey have
2 better title to call themselves the United