The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-09-19
Loyalty in the South.

As our postal facilities are cut of, says the
New York Obserccr, we shall rarely hear from
the South hereafter But the following We lay
before our readers as the testimony Of one who,
having long resided in the South, knows whereof
lac atIrms.
&rs You are not fully informed about 81 the
South II our government is true. and wise,
and kind Is well a. active, earnest and deter
mined, il will soon be- successful and in five
years time the South Will b. the loudest m
praise Of It's energy and faithfulness. Mark this
prediction, Sirs, and chronicle IN 1866 it, failure
Or fulfllment.
The vital principle Of our Government and Of
all our free Institutions. j. the sorsragHty Of the
peOps and the right of the majority u exercise
that sovereignty through it, own chosen instru-
ments. With Us, then, HAJOKIIIE> are AUIUCEAIs,
ABSOLUTE SOvEREICNS, whether in the Nation, in
the States. in counties, in townships, or down IN
school districts and town meetings.
Now, sirs, appeal fairly 70 this SOVEREIGN OF
the South, and YOU will find that be is for the
Government as it was and is; for the Constitu-
ton and the Laws, unaltered, and unamended
but rightly interpreted, and rigidly executed.
But a minority. limited in its number, but very
powerful in its influence, which from Its social
position, Its pecuniary power, and Its general
intelligence, has long been permitted 10 hold the
Offices, State and National, and WELD the political
power Of the South and which has long been in
the habit, in It's pride Of power. of calling itself
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by others has at last, in fear Os its overthrow as
the controlling Power Of this country, holding
the treasury, enjoying the hOnors, and directing
the policy of 80 900 900 Of people this minor
Ity, | say, has at last risen in rebellion against
the sovereignty at once of the Nation and of the
South. And they know that they cannot safely
put their pretensions TO the test of a popular vote
even on their Owl soil and with all the misudg-
ments of ignorant and misled Constituencies, and
all the prestige of long-continued and unopposed
political sway.
How then can we Justly say that the South"
is in rebellion? 1t is not so. 1t is not even the
Slave Power. For thousands of Shareholders are
still true and loyal. And you know not, sirs,
how earnestly they long for the protection, the
peace. and the safety they once enjoyed. No IL
is an Oligarchy of the Slave Power, made up,
primarily, of the s%cheming politicians 10 whom
the Slave Power and the South had both commit
ted the management of their political interests.
Hence the activity and zeal with which this trait
orous and tyrannOus oligarchy is driving out the
loyal and true sons of the South from their pro-
perty, their homes, and all their citizen rights.
And all this, not for any overt acts against their
despOtism, but simply for want of such overt acts
against their country and against their own
views. at once of political interest and of politi-
cal obligation.
know, indeed, that whilst many of the slave
hOlders-rery many, indeed-are not willingly
in this rebellion, a still larger number of non
shareholders, and probably many true Christian
people, ARE In it, and some of them with all zeal
and earnestness. But / know, too, that many
are now in arms against their country, under
duress and cOnstraint, who will gladly turn their
arms the other way, so soon as their country's
protective power will enable them so 10 do.
Go on, Gentlemen, doing all you can to soothe
the passions of both parties, and to soften the
a~sperities and mitigate the horrors of this fratri-
cidal and most unnatural war but do not, | pray
you, misrepresent the South and claim that
Oligarchy TO be the South, which is rs much a
tyrant and 4 usurper there as it aspires to be over
the nation and which, in less than ten years,
will be execrated there, and especially by slave
holders, as the worst enemy at once of the South
and of the Nation, and especially Of the value
and security of slave property. For it has already
weakened both, and put both on the pathway to
extinction.
Hoping that the Government will in due time
proclaim full pardon to all who will lay down
their arms and return to loyal obedience; and,
when full success has ut last crowned its efforts,
will not wound the pride and hurt the just sensi-
bilities of the true South by unnecessarily impOs-
ing Northern officers upon them and praying
alike for the prosperity of the North and the
South, and especially of the Government, | re-
main, Very respectfully yours, -