The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-16

TnseiPei Have you no alarms Tor the continuance q that
shen the tIoas u power we're uneasJSi Or our drssruetian!
Have you no apprehension that When ,Le votari-s Of freedom
beerme apcsiates from the hrmer' For nv own part, I lave
polluted through the foul mire Of partial bondage. or tAat hey
~h9 have been habtaAted 70 kri il over others. viii no, in time
Il Ill be the struggle Of pride ard 'sLf.AHe.r, not q YyHei-
The hour so ph~ilosophicaIIy predicted sew
enty-two years ago has come. The u~surping
hand is lifted against the most benignant
Government the world has ever seen. Tie
usurpation is unresisted, the country is pre-
cIpitated into war, and popular government
overthrow, and a military rule established,
the people, IT would seem, have cast to the
world the historic memories we this day meet
TO celebrate. Mr.. Russell, the correspondent
OF the London Times, now travelling at the
South, treated with every attention. charmed
with their courtesy, and evidently inclined
to regard their rebel movement with a favor
able eye, writes from South Carolina on the
3Oth April. and makes this sad disclosure
" From all quarters have come to nv ears
the echoes of the same voice it may be
ieIgned, but there is no discord in the note,
and IT sounds in wonderful strength and
monotony all over the country. Shades of
George Ill, of North, of Johnson, of all who
commended against the great rebellion which
tore these colonies from England, can you
hear the chorus which rings through the state
OF Marion, Sumpter, and Pinckney, and not
clash your ghostly hands In triumph ? That
voice says, 'lf we could only get one of the
royal race of England to rule over US, we
should be content"
HOW THE REBELS ACQUIRED THEIR STRENGTH.
Let me say next a word of the means by
which IA conspiracy so contemplate in its
1 0rIOIn en- dnEttnfo IF 1891 v.-L II r
popular support, has attained to its present
dimensions, BUSTING the Federal Government
oil Its jurisdiction in more than half of our
national territory TO the east of the Rocky
MOUNTAINS, and obtaining possession of ar
senals and nayy-yards and fortresses, seven
teen In number, which had cost the Ameri-
can people more than seven millions of
dollars.
On the 29th October, 1860, before the
presidential election, Lieut. General Scott
wrote n letter to President Buchanan in
which he referred to the secession excite
ment which the leaders of the conspiracy
were actively tanning at the South, and re-
marked, that if this glorious Union were
broken by whatever line political madness
might c%ontrive, there would be no hope of
re-uniting the fragments, except by the lace
ration and despotism of the sword pointing
out the danger, he proceeded TO point out the
prevention =
From a knowledge Of our Southern population, he said
:" It Is my solemn conviction thar there is some danger OF an carly
some . r an Of The following posts, Forts Jackson and Philip in in
Fort Morgan, below Mobile, without a garrison Ports Pickens
and Melsae, Pensacola harbor, with an insufficient garrison for
Mog,srie and Sampler, Charleston harbOr. the former with an
,s suTS,en sa'rson; and the latter without any and Fort Mon
opinion al these works should Immediately he so garnsonei as
coup de main, Ridiculous. '
bly, equally 50, and with a Federal execntiye Tor N. neT i rgoI
months Of hrmness and moderation, which the country has a
than hnnness-there is good reason to hope that the DANCE of
arms one execution, or che arrest for treason"
Gentlemen, Lieut. General Scott knew
well, we all know, that what he recommend
ed Mr.. Buchanan 10 do, an honest Executive
might have done. Again and again in the
history OF our country have attempts been
made TO resist the execution of the laws, and
again and again has the Federal Government
triumPhantly indicated its supremacy.
Ihe hrst armed rebellion was that headed
by Shav IN Massachusetts, i'm the winter of
The rebels attempted to seize the ar
senai, and were met with cannon, that killed
three and wounded another of their number.
and the state militia, under the command of
Lincoln, routed their forces. taking
many prisoners. and peace was restored, not
by any compromise, but by the enforcement ,
Of the laws.
As a Lincoln suppressed the first insur- I
-ectIon, so will a Lincoln suppress the last. |
You will readily call to mind other similar =:
where the Federal Government. l
by prompt action, maintained Its supremacy I
Inimpaired. !
First came the whiskey rebellion in Penn. Il
during the administration of WASH J
ngton, to suppress which the President q
allied out fifteen thousand men from three u
lifferent states. led by their governors and :
ieneral Morgan, whom Washington at first u
proposed himself to accompany across the II
A~lleghanies. o
Next President jefferson crushed in the u
nd the opening conspiracy of Aaron Burr. y
President Madison, during the war of 1916. :,
rhen doubts were entertained of the LOYALTY Il
/ the Hartford conventionists, who were |"
llsely reported to be in correspondence with !"
ne enemy, stationed Major Jessup of Ken. o.
lcky at Hartford, with a regiment to sup ~
ress any sudden outbreak. Gen. Jackson. L
bout the same time in New Orleans. pro- re
Ialmed martial law in consequence of at ~
by the civil authorities to embarrass pr
ie necessary measures of defence. Pr
President Jackson, in 1882, depressed bv
lie arm of General Scott, and amid the
earty applause of the nation, the defiant TO
OF South Carolina and Presi- in
ent Tyler, in 1913. with the approval of his NJ
Mr.. John &. Calhoun, sent United m
tates troops to Rhode Island to suppress the 81,
revolution organized by a majority of TO
e people of the state, but in violation of the 81
listing state constitution, under the leader Of
mp of Governor Thomas w. Dorr. MI
When, In 1850, General Scott, in advance Sc
any outbreak, recommended President ia
to reinforce the forts instead of att
commencing active measures of ~interfer- ter
ice such as his predecessors whom | have tire