Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-09-12
The South Fighting for no Prin.
ciple.

The rebel government at the Son,b
initiates all our governments as closely
as possible, thereby doing what it can
TO convince its own adherents of the
hollowness fits complaints against the
administration of President Lincoln.
and avoiding the adoption of the new
policy, to obtain which the rebels revol.
ted Alter complaining for thirty years
OF our tariff system, and demanding free
trade as the primary need of the south,
no sooner did they stand out alone than
they began by adopting a tariff for row.
enue and dlscarding free trade, notwith-
standing that they knew their tariff would
be dead letter in consequence of the
blockade of their coast. Cotemporane-
ously with this they set the sea- of con-
domination upon the pet project of a re-
vival OF the foreign slave trade BY ma
King the most stringent provisions against
IT, Instead of constructing q mere
league of sovereign States, as proposed
by the politicians of the South Carolina
State rights school, they organized n
strong consolidated national government
sinking every vestige of State indepen-
fence even more completely than had
lten the case with the original Union.
Nor were they more gingerly about State
sovereignty in the matter Of the army
nd navy, regular force of both being
established The same as with US. There
no regular army of South Carolina or
'lrginla, but of the confederate States.
nd the same is the case with the navy.
President Lincoln issued q praclama-
on declaring strict non intercourse with :
lie rebel States, and authorizing the G
azure of vessels and property engaged Il
intercourse. JEFF. Davis followed suit H
once. The carrying of letters to and Il
ON the rebel States by express was ar Il
sted by order of Postmaster General Fl
air and Immediately afterward the II Il
der was echoed from Richmond The II !,
'nsmlsslon of goods south through K,
entucky by railway was ordered bv our X,
vernment to be stopped, and at once HI
rebel authorities hustled about and Lo
entatlously did the same thing. When La
arrested the commerce of the Missis. Lee
pi they assumed to be doing it also. It
They have copied the exact amount of i",
our national loans and levies of troops Ia,
heir own acts. They have initiated S
conilscatlon act, leveid like us q di. -
war tax, contracted for gunhoats Z
as we did, issued Treasury notes =
'ated the framework of our govern !
Z organized the basis of army and
IN the same style, taken into their
Ice all our old officers, civil and other. \
) that they could obtain, parodied "A
routine of the White House and its .uiic
cations and generally shown ger. M; MoI !,
adherence to the forms of the great '''"'
bic from which they essayed to sep
themselves. The style of their "r mo
rnlhcnt Is as near to ours as tbev Arith
get, and their flag ditto phi,
more striking acknowledgment of N'S H.
rength of southern. feeling in favor Bo,
Union could not be desired than Tui
'rded by these Indications Tbev after
conclusiveIy that the conspirators The
so well aware of the love of their msn,a
for the old national government specia
IL Its forms and traditions that tbev becom
not vet dar,d tn sL,, =, Per!
IS Al. 'Nn the sciti- School
Of the masses by i rude departure For
rom. After daring to speak and
the Union againat all the things Cum
We mentioned, no sooner lo tber
take to carry into effect their lono MOT
ned scheme OF a seperate ,overne ~ ha
man all their iGolized notions are a. Allesnl
med. South Carolina and all her c sa' e''
II malcontcnts throughout Dixev's against
ire bound hand and foot, their to, hi,
thrown overheard, their complaints M Mae sui
d and their States sunk ,nta moro he "sS vni,
'es. They cannot even COMPLAIN person.
'ont's proclamation ofenfrapcbise. a ant p
the slaves of rebels, since it is 'A
ryinG INTO effect the law of con. Sept
adopted by our government and
immediately by the Richmond
atIOn, If they enforce their own AN AN
y must confscatc the slaves of sberianl
on, so that between the two they
'e no slaves remaining. In fact, Sept
ulster all our doings as their own ia.
y our laws more implicitly in open 10y
than ever they did while in A.z.a
i'yal'y. what, then are they lust
ioF' why throw away the LEC1
their citizens in opposition to a. MEN
tent whose outlines ,ho,, L.. MATORl
ON .nd H. ~. ny ua'e NOT Debility,
-"i "nUSu laws they repeat .inns. pro
own !-ihlu,ielJhtu North Mental al
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