The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-12-14

Tins they sought, and luckily their victims did
not have the same views as to their good. But
liberty utterly forbids it; she denies us the right
to force what we think our choicest blessings on
another; he may not deem them such we must
leave him to Judge and TO choose for himself
There is another charge brought against the
south. That she wishes and designs to set over
herself a monarch, and to firing in the powers Of
Europe. The evidence adduced is mainly this:
Mr.. RUSSELL of the London Times, states that he
| conversed with many persons in Charleston, and
they told him, not that they had n design to es-
tallish monarchy; they said it would be impos-
sihle; but that they wished they could have one
Of the English royal family to reign over them
We cannot suppose Mr.. Russell talked with every
man in Charleston, much less in South Carroll
ma. Those he did talk with were of the extreme
ly wealthy, and very possibly if he had spoken
with the same class of people at the North, and
they had been equally frank, they would have
confessed the same thing lie does not say any
one said this in the other States he visited, and
we must allow for some eXaggerations in state
ment so singularly tattering to the monarchy of
England. Let us not be eager to listen to hear
say but test it with the strong proof of fact -
The Constitution of the Confederate States does
not favor such an ntroduction; it expressly pro-
hibis the reelection of President, and recog-
Mes the independence of the states; an effectual
barrier, so long as understood and conceded,
against monarchy; for what monarch ever adj
mitted the right OF any part of his 1ominions to
secede? We are ourselves in more immediate
danger; we are hurrying to Capitalization and
consolidation, the very bases on which all mon
arches and all despotisms rest.
No, if your southern brethren are driven to
this, il will he because you have put them to the
wall; because in their despair they seek anything
that will deliver them from you. Be magnan-
imouS then, and while you have the power save
both them andy ourselves. Say, as Mr.. Jefferson
said, when it was suggested to him at the pur-
chase of Louisiana and adjacent territory that
in time when great and powerful strtes had
grown o,l of this territory, peopled by many
people, they might desire to quit the Union, and
he made rcply, that we should have conduted 10
their prosperity, we should have nculcatcd re-
publican Institutions They WILL he SAID, be
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. God
bless them, let them go. Initiate the magnani-
nifty Of your Jefferson; of that great mind, which
so we'll comprehended liberty; say of the south,
God bless them, let them go, and God will doubly
bless you and your children. 1t is, moreover,
your sole chance for the final restoration of that
Union, we all so love, for subjugatioD (ifyou can
suhjugate, in no way likely is not and never can
be union. 1t was your sole chance when South
Carolina alone had gone, and if it had then been
tlcu; II lou sdiuj bIutuCIS, We w
not think that you have cause; if we have
wronged you we will repair the wrong, yet new
ertheess, if it seems to You best, go seek your
happiness in your own way, according to the
words of your fathers" If you had then said
this, who can tell what might have happened,
how many of the Gulf States might have re-
NAMED to us? and we know, we have good rea-
son to know, that Virginia and North Carolina
and Tennessee and Arkansas would not have
left US, and Maryland and Missouri and Ken
lucky would be with US; not as now. Maryland,
poor Maryland, degraded and humiliated, her
citizens put under military rule il-beGtting free
men, arrested without warrant of civil law, con-
fined in fortresses without trial or judicial ar
ragnment, the writ of habeas corpus suspended,
her beautiful city threatened with bombardment,
and the Constitution for her completely set aside.
Missouri almost is as bad a case. And Ken
lucky, that brave and good Kentucky, that in
Ohio's early days of Indian wars and trouble has,
tened so generously to our assistance, perturbed,
unhappy, i'll at ease, knowing not what to do
No, not thus. But serene, happy and at rest,
grateful and well pleased with their northern bro
theirs, pressing to their hearts the paternal bond
of union, not regarding it, as now, as an iron
with which their hands are bound.
Leave, then, the southern people to achieve
their own welfare; if they bring on themselves
evil it will be their fault and not yours; but il
this war is to 60 on, it will abase you both at
the feet of monarchy, or of some government
strong and inscrutable, against which you will
lift up your hands in vain. Strong Government
of what do we speak? Strong Governments are
those which use the people at their own discre-
ton, against which they dare not lift up finger,
nor utter a word, and the mere breath of suspi-
con may cast men and women into prison for
years. They tend to the exaltation and aggran-
dizement of a few; but to the utter afasement and
of the vast bulk of the popula-
ton. They set out iron barriers in place of the
kindly distinction of nature, and designate with
the great laborng and producing mass,
as the common people," In some cases they