The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-27
From the Dublin Nation, June s. I
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| TEE FLA IRAClBAL WAR.
| As the news from America flows ia the languape
OF the Northerners and of their Journals tends more
and m )re to disgust and outrage all who hold the
| sacred faith of human freedom, and to ms Ike them
WEI Wegp IN poignant modification and deep despair
Of The Sight tie world sees to-day. republican
people, whose liberties won by a rebellion
whose Independence was achieved by secession,
parrot as giibly as any minions of oldword yran-
NJ ''the rebels' aud the rebellion" as phrases of
| odium and reprOach! Those who profess to hold
sacred the popular will to reverence the desire for
! sefgovernment, proceeding to drown the popular
will in blood and td the desire for self.goy-
eminent by butchery and slaughter!
Ii what is ROW passing 10 America took place in
any of the oldworld empires, it would b. at least
Ineligible If the citizens of nearly half of an en-
| pire five times as large all Europe, with an unan-
| unity never surpassed, and rarely eqralled, de.
cared, by free poll, in open day, by universal suf-
frage, that their interests ard their feelings de-
manded the substitution of the Imperial Govern
ment by one of their own choice; and that the In
| perial Government marched its armies to crush
the demand in the blood of the ''rebels" it would
| be nothing rev amongst despoic systems But in
| great confederation of republican States in a
| system based the will Of the peope-based on
the right of rebelliOn-that all this should happen
that we now see-that no tyranny or d4spoti SIN of
| old Europe ever drew the sword more savagely to
! put down "rebelion,' and trample on the voice of
| the people, than this same Central Government of
republican con tederation-it is enough to wiring
! the heart Of any man who believed in the greater
| humanity and liberation of popular governments
! Well may the advocates of despotic monarchy
laugh in bitter mockery at those who believe that
people ruling themselves would never spill blood
| in popular suhjugatiun, and that such murders
were done by kings and despots of old Europe!
1t is hideous sarcasm of repubcanism to hear
the journals of the Northern States yelling for the
blood of "the rebels" for their utter subjugation
ard destruction! ave mean to CONQUER them"
says the New York Tribune, mot merely to defeat,
but to conquer, to subiugate them. But when the
rebeliious traitors are overwhelmed in the field,
and scattered like leaves before the angry wind
it must not be to return to peaceful and conteuted
homes. They must find poverty at their tresides
and see privation in the anxious eyes of mothers
and the rags of children" Was ever more hellish
sentiment uttered! Where in the annals of despot-
ism, the records of its butcheries shall we seek
for parallel to this! Where-even against retels
who had not particle of Justification! If the sub
lects of the most legitimate sovereign that ever
held a sceptre had acted the Southern States
have done, would these sentiments not be infames
if uttered his part? Yet infamy of infamies are
they when uttered by republicans against brother
republicaDs-uttered By the descendants of the
rebels ct rs, against men who, with far greater
unaDimty. now demand the self-same right those
rebels claimed-self- government.
We shall be told that the South had no right to
secede; therefore, war upon it is ustifable. When
England made war on her reDellious American
colonies she said they had right to 'secede"
and that, therefore, that war was iustifable We
shall be told that the South exhibit no wrongs
10 justify rebellion. The same was held bv those
who sought to crush the colonies in their struggle
for seli-government. But why should we be called
upon by republicans to consider these points at all?
Have we not been told, as the republican principle,
that the subjects of State themselves, and no one
else are to be judges whether they have proyoca-
ton, justification or right?
Yet, let us consider that the case of the South
as regards its right to secede, is far stronger than
was that Of the American colonies to rebel I'm
der the old monarchical systems no such right was
ever toerated-no such principle ever heard Of
as '.the voice of the population" determining the
justice legitimacy or duration of a Government
The American colonies originated under that mon
archical system. They had never claimed or pos
seSsed the attributes of 'Independent Sovereign
States" nor had their connection with the En-.
giish crown originated in a compact having for
object mutual benefit and defence. What, on the
other hand, is the position of the Southern States
IN the present case? They are not mere colonies
counties, or districts of any state kingdom or en-
plre. Tney are number of 'Sovereign Indepen-
dent Sates; styled in law and so proved in fact
Their political systematic political system of the
whole United States of Americas based ON the
fundamental principle of the right of rebellion de-
terminable BY the voice of the people, These sew
eral Independent sovereign States of their own |
free choosing and for the purpose of their own and
the common welfare interest, and protection fed
crate with certain others to this end. number |
of these States declare that faith has not been |
kept with them in the compact of confederation; |
and that the cause and purpose of their federal |
association with certain others no longer urge its |
ontinuance, but on the contrary demand its term-
hauon. w nether tney possess the right to so ter
inmate the connection, is neither asserted nor de-
MED by the deed of Union. This silence is claim
ed by each side in the quarrel as favorable to it's
own case. Upon which side the construction NAV
be said to weigh, is doubt, nice and intricate
question for political dnctrnaires and hair-split-
ting controversiaists. But what we have to say is
this, that it is something than meurnfu it is
it is an outrage and disgrace to hu-
lnanity, that point which may be ruled either
way, the shocking spectacle must be seen of tor
rents of blood being made to flow in the conquest
the subjugation-of those independent States, who
merely ask for self government and freedom to de-
eide their own destinies? We say it would be de-
olorable even il those Southern States were mere
colonies or outlying districts of despotc empire
We say that, in the face of such unanimous de-
for secession-right or wrong accord
ng to construction of constitutional technicaties
this bloody war to force union on the Southern
people at the point of the sword-to sabre
hem into brotherhood and dragoon them
nto ''libertyp'-is blot upon humanity. We
cannot pause weigh the nceties of the rival con-
tructions of the silence of the deed of Union with
eference to the right of secession. We turn in
iisgust from all this, denying that the proof at best
IAN be plain enough to reconcile us to this butche
to be done, let us remember. not by
saings, autocrats, tyrants, but by Republicans
ruxocates OF popular liber.y-themseves the Off
'P'as VI rebellion. We have often enough and