Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-06-13

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our armies and threaten even the capital at
Washington
The word secession" is used to cover up
! treason and delude the nations They stand
to US III the relation ofone people" the idea
of State sovereignty" is utterly delusive-
We gave up the old Confederation" to avoid
just such complications as have now occur
red. The States are by our Constitution de-
prived of all the independent sovereigns, and
the National Gl vernment acts not through
State organizations, but directly upon the
citizens Of the States themsel7es-to that
highest power, the right of life and DEATH
The States cannot keep an army or navy, or
even repel invasion, except when necessity
will not allow time for national action: can
make no treaty. nor coin money, nor exer
else any of the first great essential powers Of
Sovereignty In a word, they can no more
''secede" from the Union than Scotland or Ire
land can secede from England.
The professed friends of the Independence
of nations and popular rights, they have not
only oyerthrown the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States but the Constitution Of the Con
federate States themselves. refusing in crc1y
case to refer their new usurpatons to the
votes Of the people, thus making themselves
doubly traitors to both the States and the na-
ton. The despotic rulers over 1900 900 of
enslaved Africans, they presume to extend
over US, the white races of all nations, the
same despotism, by ignoring the political
rights of all but their own class, by restric-
tons upon the popular franchise, by the sup
preston of the freedom of speech and of the
press, by the terrorism of Lynch law" or
tyrannical enaetments, backed by standing
armies, to crush out the Independence Of
thought, the ineradical instincts of our world
wide humanity-with the atrocious dogma
that negro slavery is the only basis of real
conservatism and progressive civilization, and
that the true solution Of the contest between
labor and capital is that capital should 0cn
the td60ref, whether achHe or d{ack.
The success of such demands would send
the tide of barbarism not only over the mil
lions of the New World and the isles of the
western oceans, but roll it back over England
and emancipated Europe, and blot out from
history this, the greatest glory Of our times
2. 'Bnt can you subdte tie rerolted States"'
Of course we can. The whole seven revolted
States z, l63, ,000) have not as much white
population as the single State of New York
1881 ,563) by 100000 people. If all the
slave States were to make common cause
they have only 1907 1874 whites, with 4, ,000,-
600 slaves, while the Union has about 90
100000 of homogeneous people, as powerful
In peace and war as the world has seen. In
telligent, hardy, and "many sided" their late
apparent lethargy and weakness was the self
possession of fconscious strength. When they
had made up their minds that force was ne
cessary, they moved upon Washington with
such speed, numbers, and steadiness as is not
surpassed in history. We have the money
lat lower rate of interest than ever before),
the men, and the command Of the seas and
the internal waters. We can blockade them
by sea, and invade them by land, and close
up the rebellion in single year if we are
"let atone" For the population of the slave
States is divided perhaps equally for and
against the Union, the loyal citizens being
for the time overawed by the organized con
spiracy of the traitors, while the North is
united to man, the late allies Of the South,
the Democratic party, being now more earn
est for the subjugation of the rebels than the
Republicans.
). But can you gocern q 'sutjHgated peo-
pie and reconstruct the Union ?" We do not
purpose to ''subjugate" the rcvolted States
we purpose putting down simply the rebel
citizens. We 90 to the rescue of the loyal
Uuionists of all the States. We carry safety,
and peace, and liberty to the Union loving
people of the South, who will of themselves
1.-THE tyrant overthrown) send back their rep
resentatives to Congress, and the Union will
be ''reconSt'Ucted" without change of a let
ter in the Constitution Of the United States.
Did England subiugate Ireland and Scotland?
Are the united Kingdoms less homogeneous
than of old, before the wars against the re
bellion? So will the United States arise from
the smoke of battle with renewed stability
and power. In turn now let US ask the Brit
ish public some questions.
l. Where should British honor place her IN
this c0nteSt2 We overthrew that political ell
ement in America which has all through our
history been the studied denouncer and real
hater of the British nation, while we have
been always from the beginning the friends
of England. Because, though under differ
ent forms Of government, we had common
cause, and therefore common interest
England was the conserVator of liberty in
Europe-the Old World; we in the New. If
the Confederate States are right, then is
England wrong. If slavery must be extend
ed in America, then must England restore it
in the West Indies, blot out the most glori-
Gus page of her history, and call back her
freed men into chains! Let her say to the
martyrs of freedom from all the nations vino
have sought refuge and magnanimous de-
fence on her shores, Return to your scaf-
folds and your prison houses England is no
more England!' Let the Times cease to ap-
peal longer to the enlightened opinion of the
world; nay, let the statues of the great dead
through which passed in reverence yester
day to the Houses of her political intelligence
be thrown from their pedestals, when Eng
land shall forget the utterances of her Chat
hams, her Wilberforces and her Broughams
that natural justice is the only safe diplo-
macy and lasting foundation of the indepen-
dence of nations.
2. Wkat is the interest Of England n01c?
If we may descend to such inferior appeals,
it is clearly the interest of England to stand
by the Union of the States. We are her best
consumer no tariff will materially affect that
feet. We are the best customer of England,
not because we are cotton growers or cotton
sn;nnera eoricrIturists or manufacturers but