The New York herald., 1862-02-14
The RebeIlion . Faflurc-The Duty of
Union Mem of the south.

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ganization, the objects, the calculations of the
conspira.ors, the outbreak, and the subsequent
history of this rebellion, that it is failure,
bankruptcy which will never pay one penny on
| the dollar, South Sea bubble on gigantic
| scale, which has been the ruin of thousands OF
dupes, and which, if longer adhered to by the
people of our revolted States will bring de-
struction upon them all, including their vital
institution of slavery.
| We say that, from calm and dispassonste
| review Of this rebellion, from its initial pro-
| eeedings at the Charleston Democratic National
| Convention of 1860, down to this day, such must
be the conclusion to which every intelligent
| Southern man will be brought, however strong
his sympathies for JEFF Davis or his hatred
of "the Yankees" The calculations upon
which fhe conspirators precipitated this rebel
| lion upon us, with the election of Mr.. Lincoln
| were plausible, and to Southern men, fearful of
| the increasing power and bloody designs OF the
| abclitionists, these estimates of Southern
| confederacy were extremely fascinating. First,
| the States had, each for itself, the reserved
right of secession, and against its exercise the
interfere Secondly, if the new administration
should resolve upon coercion, it would unite
the South and divide the North for the North
ern State rights democracy would never con-
| sent to coercion. Thirdly, the disunion con-
spirators, including the ''Southern rights
members of Mr.. Buchanans Cabinet, had pro-
vided for the extremity of war by disarming
the government and arming the disafected
| States and furthermore, in the event of war,
| Southern army and naval officers devoted to
the South would be found sufficiently numer-
| GUS to break up the army of the United States
| and to bring over to the South considerable
number of the ships of the navy, including the
milton, artillery and projectles provided in Nor
| folk through the sagacious arrangements Of Mr.
Buchanan's War Secretary, Floyd. Fourthly,
| simple Southern coup d'etot, after the fashion
Of the French republican revolution of lS4S,
including, however, if necessary, the expulsion
| of Buchanan or the assassination of Lincoln,
would place the Southern confederacy league
in possession of the capital Of the Union, and
thus enable them at once to command the re-
cognition of foreign Powers, and to dictate the
| terms and the boundaries of Southern con-
federacy to the States adhering to their old
| government.
But should all these calculations fail, and
should the States committed to this programme
of new confederacy find themselves called
upon to resist the consolidated strength of all
parties in the loyal States, even to the extent
of blockade of the whole Southern sea
coast, then "King Cotton" and free trade
would infallibly secure for the rebellious South
the armed Intervention of England and
France. There might be some little delay
about it.; but few decisive battles, exhibiting
the superior fighting qualities Of the trained
| chivalry of the South against the 'feeble and
undisciplined rabble of Northern cities and
Yankee factories" would soon give to England
md France the justification for Intervention in
half of Southern independence.
Such was the schedule of calculations upon
which Southern minority, contemplate in
numbers, but powerful as a body, from being
organized, armed and desperate, were enabled
to drag out and fasten ten other Southern
States, ss tail to the secession kite of South
Carolina. But how have all these beautiful
and plausible, yet silly and shallow, theories of
Southern independence turned out in being re-
duced to practical tests They have all failed,
from the beginning to the end, the State right
of secession, q united South and divided
North, the disarming of the government and
arming of the South, the great coup d'etat of
the seizure of Washington, King Cotton, South
ern chivalry and all. The government has
rallied from its helpless situation. Weak in
the outset, dsarmed, surrounded by traitors
and spies, and cropping in the dark, it is
now strong, and sees its way clearly be-
fore it, The government and the people of the
loyal States have ceased to be troubled in
their nightly dreams with visions of q rebel
foray into Washington, and are anticipating an
early opening to the United States mails, in
land, from the Potomac to New Orleans. The
distribution of our well equipped and for
midable fleets and armies, from Kansas to vir-
gnia, and from Fortress Monroe to Ship
Island, clearly indicates the speedy suffoca-
ton of this rebellion. Somerset, Fort Henry,
Roanoke Island, and the Union revelations Of
our late gunboat trip up the Tennessee river
into Alabama, all point in the same direction
the overwhelming power of the Union, material
and moral, and the exhaustion of this sinking
Southern despotism of Davis and his confede-
rates. There is no escape for it; and the sooner
the suffering people of the South rise up and
cast il of, and return to the protection of the
Union, the better ii will be for them.
1t is the duty Of the Union men Of the South.
. duty which they owe to themselves, their
families, their domestic institutions and their
immediate necessities. and their future safety,
to rise up and shake of the shackles Of
this despotism of Davis. A prolongation of
Southern resistance to the Union may possibly
secure the intervention of England and France;
but, should it come, it will be fatal interven-
ton to the independence, State rights and