Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-07-11

mad persistency Of Great Britain 10 assert a new
and fundamental wrong heretofore unknown
TO even British monarch y Jour weakness becom-
ing suddenly clothed with power; our depend-
ence springing into self-reliance and courage;
our poverty det Grated with the lnagnihcenee Of
riches: our peaceful habits changing to the most
splendid chisalry; our ploughshare aud imple-
ments of agriculture magically transformed in-
10 cannon. swords and bayonets, and sparkling
and cleaning with ten thousand glories in the
bright rays OF the grand old sun Of the revolu-
tion. And people dazzled by the glare of q
proud and ancient throne, all a. once finding a
more glorious Light in the woods and swamps
and wildernesses-the inspiring camp fire-and
the serene brightness OF God's truth beaming IN
the face of WASHINGTON, giving up peace. plen-
ty and safety, and rushing into the arms of dis
cord, starvation and death. SeverIng natures
golden ties, the mother placed her son upon the
sacrificed altar. the sister decorated the brother
with the garlands of death, and all heats pull
sating freedom, welcomed. if God so willed it.
the bayonet of the oppressor. All these may
be the wonders of a heavenly philosophy. and
well suggest the inquiry. whether one that was
mighty in battle did not march in the van of
our armies, and constrain the proud heart of
CORVALLIS TO surrender his jeweled sword 10
the leader of bleeding and ragged army!
ciple, and illustrates the victorious character of
Justice when organized TO resist wrong. Claim
ing Justice to be the buiwark of our dearly pur-
chased freedom. we aimed ct making justice the
pervading principle Of our national and inter-
nal affairs. As might be expected from the
causes which produced our revolution, two great
ideas were involved in the formation of the
Government, viz: The inseparability Of taxa
lion and representation, and a careful division
of the power of the central government and the
rights of the States; and these two great ideas
SO pervade our whole constitution and gov
ernment, and have been so effeciually engraft-
ed into the body of our political system, and
directed into practice. that history does not re-
cord single act of injustice perpeiraied by
the government upon the rights of the people,
from the beginning to the present hour. Under
the vigorous and wise arrangements of our ia
Tiers the government sprang forth like Minerva
from the head of Jove, fully equipped and en-
dowed with intelligence and power, raising
her bright form in the full view of civilization,
clothed in the resplendency Of heaven S truth
decorated with carth's blooming honors-with
the scale of justice In one hand and the flag
staff of the nation in the other. its great ensign
unfolding its stars and stripes before the paling
banners of antiquity, in purer brcezes than flag
ever unfolded before, as they descended from
the hills of paradise 10 sport with the new wOn-
ders of earth. Every fact and phase of the
revolution of l776 brings that event within the
strict letter of the most conservative theory
with reference 10 the right which was finally
exercised by the colonies; so that our revelation
stands an eternal argument against mad and
uniustifed rebellion. And it is precedent
only when people find their cause of separa-
tion analogous to that of 1776.
But the dreams of 4 young nation are like
the dreams of youth, seeing the future through
the prismaiic medium of joyful tears and uncer-
tain hope, or in the light of that pure inspira-
ton whose animation can only be found in the
vigorous and sparkling energies of that purest
day of life. We thought our Government was
too beautiful, too magnificent for the hands of
the spoler. That our love of country was too
holy and too vital. Our virtue too well tried
in the cruciblc of patriotic fire. Our self-sac-
ritice too noble and too spontaneous. The ther-
mopy lac to our constitution too well guarded by
heroism. and that every American citizen was
too piously confirmed by the baptism of blood
10 yield up their spirits amid the red blazings
of war. or the roaring thunders of conflict with
4 single stain or deflement. from single
thoughts hostility to this great and glorious
people who have built the temple of human lib
erty. But there is degradation for nobility,
and there is a disgrace for that which is high
and sacred; and now we behold the descendants
of those true patriots, with no cause Tor the
blackness of their blood. no reason for the de-
Element of their honor-the descendants Of
Washington, whose sword was never welded
against n brothcr-of Patrick Henry whose ell
oqueRee never burned with the ardor of lost
spirit-of jackson whose heart never felt the
deadly hostility of a traitors ambition-ihe de-
scend ants of these men aiming their murder
GUS muzzles at the heart of American liberty,
and like the great archangel and his rebellious
followers, breathing defiance towards God and
his government, and only seeking from amongst
all good how much destruction they may leave
behind them in their aceurs,d flight.
Let no man say this rebellion has parallel
in the revolution of l776l Let no man stigma
tise freedom by assuming it their object! Let
no man say that they are struggling for sim
gle right for which our lorefathers bled. Let
no man SO defame history as 10 Iiken the pure
heart of patriot of rs to the fostering treason
of southern bUsomst
What have they been deprived Of? Echo
answers, what? The right of representation?
No! Any State right? No! Has the nation re-
fused to enforce any provision or guarantee of
the Constitution? Not single onel What
line of burning invectivc contained in the De-
claration of Independence can they point man
Not single wrong did them in the history of
this nations pablic character to Justify or pal
late the horrors of this bloody rebellion!
''IIow like mounting devil in the heart
Rules this unreigned ambition"
Oh! but there are justifcations they say:
Naural rights and Social injustice.
What man is there among you who claims
thai he can, and has the inherent right to vio-
late. let alone throw off the obligations of this So
cial organization. Free and independent by
nature call him, but still owing allegiance to
The condition of things in which he is placed.
and necessarily bound by the restraints of an
relationship With others. The rain
drops must fall. and even the thunder, the
storm and the wild blazes Of the lightning have
their laws and order Nor does our volumtari-
y becoming members of community, give Us
he right to voluntarily leave it, for we cannot
restore community 10 its original situation.
Nor can we leave community even when our re-
traints are oppressive, for social compact pro-
'ides a remedy fixed by us for redrrssing wrongs
II changing laws oppressive to ourselves. What
5 true of one individual is true of ten thou
and. And to assert that there is an inherent
atural right is to assert that which makes barbar-
sm the true and appropriate condition of all soci
ty which is an absurdty that can only be justified
y imagining all society perscni6ed by our first
aren't, Adam, and be sound asleep in the Garden
f Eden. The doctrine of General Jackson on this
ubject and advanced when similar rebellion was
lreatining the government, is so clear anS forci
lie that it may do us all good to reflect upon it.
n his message to Congress he says:
"That State, or any other great'portion of the
eople suffering under long and intolerable oppres-
ons. and having tried all Constitutional remedies
ithout the hope ofredress may have natural right
hen their happiness can be no otherwise securetl