The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-06-19
HOW RebeIIions End.

AIe and instructive article on the fnal
results Of tsbslliODs, from which We make
the following extracts:
Rebellion seems ta be schronIc fnfrn-
lty OF all cations. None have escaped IL;
many have repeatedly experienced it;
most have survived it. II involves the
single certainty that ssriehow, and ut
some time. 1t must come 10 an end. As
We know how other rsbeilions have end
cd, We may infer Fesults as likely 10 sue.
ceed the termination Of this. We grant
that the long smothered but 6srcs bsstt.
burnings which preceds srd participate
thsff. are not, have rever been, aud can.
not be Immediately forgotteh. in. s5tne
instances. they have been wholly otliter-
stsd In single generation. In others,
they have survived for ages. Scotland has
no scowl for England nov. fotHltlistand
Ing the murdsrots oItbrake century ago
and fhe equally bloody war Of the roses
no longer lives 10 persopal animosities;
yet Ireland continues sIllen and untaiis.
bic. Even the Reign Of Terror survives
only in Parsian history. But the desols.
zion Of modern Greece remains fresh 10
THE public memory. BECAUSE l6s family Of
Boztsrs still survives.
r0Hr oWn history, however, furnishes
ABUNDANT illustrations of how Eebellions
end. They arc Of greater Significance.
toci be6suss occurring among ourselves
What the past has done for us We may
feel assured the future will accomplish.
The Revolutionary Nar closed With the
Withdrawal Of the British armies from our
shores. and the breaking up Of the very
foundations Of the tast TeTy society whose
opposition had greatly incfeaSsa llls hor.
TORS of the contest, as we'll 40 prolonged
il. These domestic enemies astb' fsso-
lutsly refused either protection, indemni.
y. or even immunity. by tho treaty Of
peace. whose terms we're dictated. By our
Commissioners. Tho public evaporation
against them was deep and universal
No act Of oblivion was passed by any oil
the States, but bsnishnsnt and confscs.
ealion was The. Iule. Tie lsaders Became
fuei.iyes and beggars. Even the rank and
Gle Jared no better. As many oi the form
or as the British fleets could carry away
sailed with the troops ipr England. The
vast remainder, thus abandoned by Eng
land. fed the country from eyefy bullet
BY which they could escape. The South
ern Tories sought refuge III Bermuda and
the West Indies. Those i'd the Middle
and Northefi Sts,es escaped to Canada
and Nova Scotia, where thsy settled in
numbers SO large as to give to British
power in those regions its first successful
momentum. The, breaking up Of families
by this terrible exodus occasionsd inds-
scribable suffering. Thousand fed from
rich homesieads and ample means, cary
ling with them little else than the clothe,
on their backs, losing all they POSSESSED,
aud beibg refused Perfiission to fsluin.---
The less active Tories. the mere sympa-
thizars, who secretly desired the British
ITO succeed. just as thssymoathizing trai.
tors of the present day desire the rebellion
to triumph. remained in the county, But
they lived dsspised and hated. Honest
men Stunned them.& society spewed tRsth
out. Many. unable to live under an in
,olerable odium, abandon locations where
they we're known as Tories. and sOugh,
new homes among strangers. The break.
! ing up Of families from this cause oCcs.
stoned widespread suffering. The m.
, merous gangs Of marauding Tories, now
, tepresSnlsd by the Rebel guerrillas, wsrs
forced to quit the neighborhOods they had
desolated, the people whom they had out
Iiaged executing the task with sanguinary
thoroughneSb.
The rSbsllions which succeeded the Re
4 volutiOh were military episodes. .hOugl
at tides presenting an alarming, front 4
. the then feeble authorities. Shay 's rebel
lion ended with the dispersion Of his fol
lowers, the fight, capture and pardon o.
: iIs leaders, with an amnesty to the rahl
b aud fle on returning to their allegiance
The moro formidable Whisky Insurrec,ior
!. I'm Pennsylvania ended quite as iguomin
!. iously to its instigators. As tI The cas-
e of Shays, that outbreak was fSmsnisd b.
i single reckless demsgogue. who, Ausn
. OF speech aud reckless Of results, tfafers
: ed the country aud reused the people t,
|. arms. He in, turn became fugitive, wit
multitudep Of his followers. Others Wer
4 ruined pecuLiarily. While Two were con
! demn6d and sentenced 10 death for treason
d though subsequently, pardoned. while
4 proclamation Of amnesty secured genera
: pacifeaiion. The leaders banishadb bth
): masses we're forgiven. In DORIS robsl
4 lion the same general facts and eonst
Q quences are prominently visible. Bu
al eitheS oflhsse Instructions developed th
l Ilmurderous hatred which marked the Cou
k test betwocu Wing and Tory, or the Sti
il more blood thirsty views'wiIh which th
Slaveholdsrs' Rebellion has shocked th
world. Yet tie better feeling which thsi
al halEforgot,en contests engendered. VIII
!. the death Of the generations that share
lin them. il passsd away and the little {
u il tha. still survives exists only ia, Il
= handful Of veterans who yet lag superb
ously on tho stage Of life. s,.-
4. Thus tho thick coming future must
. coDjectured from the clearly defined pas
- As all rebsllions come 6 On end, go wi
:. the present one. The nation will be
of more likely 10. tolerate . iis bloOdstaine
10 instigators within its boaom than our latl
10 ers tolerated the masses ofithe less gun
!. Tories. Though this Government. hI
q never executed d man for treason, yet
~ will seem to many that the gallowsshoul
now Dome. actively into dee. Fight
a the halter seems now the only alternati'
III for leading, traitors whose hands a
K dripping with loyal blood. The form