, 1861-07-25

sand federal troops, ready to converge to the as
sault On the 18th the Secessionist authorities
Of Frburg were sufficiently intimidatcd to re-
quest suspension Of arms. Unacquainted with
the halE-concluded armistce, the federal colonel,
Rallies commenced an attack. Such was the
ardOr and bravery Of the national troops, that
had daylight continued for another hour they
would have taken the city. Further bloodshed,
however, was needless. At 8 o'clock on the
4th, Friburg capitulated.
The fall Of Frburg did not make a decided
impression on the more violent partsans Of the
Separate League "Matters would be very diff
ierent," they said, Gin Lucerne and the primitive
cantons." The Sonderbuhd General, de Sails
Soglo, had at his disposal 10000 men, at present
entrenched behind mpresnable positions With
such advantages he would be able it was added
" to arrest for years the progress Of General Du.
tours GO,000 men," Lucerne was still proud OF
its victory over the Corps Francs, and as for the
Wald (ForesO States, they were set down as un-
conquerable. A slight success gained at Dietwyl,
in Argovia, by the soldiers Of the Schytz seces-
sionistS, had confirmed all these hopes. On the
Goth and 21St November, Zug,-the Georgia, as
to location, of the Sonderbund-" terrified by
the very appearance of the federal flag, and some
what lukewarm, moreover, in the cause Of rebel
lion, offered to capitulate" This alarmed even
the most ardent iire-eaters, at the very hcadquar
tiers Of resistance to law On the 22d Novem.
Der, the federal army marched on Lucerne, the
Charleston Of the SOnderbund in four columns.
A battle ensucd upon the Rothenberg, and at
Gslikon, OIL the banks Of the Reuss, the key Of
Lucerne. The skillful energy Of the federal
cOmmandants the courage Of their subOrdinateS,
and the resolution Of the federal troops, triumph
ed over the soldiers Of the Sonderbund. That
victory forced Lucerne to capitulate. The next
dav the federal troops entered triumphant and
qucnched the furnace Of revolt. On the 25th
the cantons Of Uri, Schwytz and Untewalden,
the MISUNDERSTANDING Mississippi and Flor.
ida" which in 1898 displayed so much hero:sm
against the French, initiated the prudence Of the
people Of Lucerne and capitulated." On the
10th, Valais-the Texas and most remote border
State Of Switzerland, of old ideas, bordering on
the most bigoted district Of Surdinia-petitioned
to be received back into the Union.
Meanwhile, on the 9th November, twenty
three days after the decree Of the Diet or Con-
gress ordered the Swiss General to draw bis
sword and unfur the federal standard, the mili-
tary chief of the Union was enabled to announce
that the secession alliance was dissolved. The
hasty cantons had gained nothing by their rash.
ness. But the organization Of the Jesuits, which
had been an original cause Of the trouble, was
extinguished, and the several cantons moved on
prosperously together, after they had tried their
strength, and the Jesuits were put down.
We should deplore It as among the greatest
calamities Of the age il the quarrel between the
free and slavehoding States Of the American
Union should como to the arbitrament Of arms {;
but nevertheless, it may do so, and in that event
these scraps of history will not be without their
instruction and Significance.