New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-04
HOW REBELLIONS END.


cate. the question has been constantly debated
i =. to what is to be the condition of the Rebel
/ statss and what the attitude Of North and
1 Soutb when this rebellion shall have been
crushed. 1t is alleged that subjugation will be
succeeded by sullen and scOwling submission
% tina laws, a peace in name only-that, under
thi, novel dominion of the laws, the South will
cbafs and fret, and be as intractable and
uslCnant as ever. A real, hearty, lasting
oeace. a thorough determination, is predicted
a, imnossibls. Old associations divided by the
sword, are presumed to be beyond the hope Of
reunion The nation, nominally colnpacted,
sill be- in reality an enforced association Of
radically antagonistic elements, liable to be
sgain convased by rebellion, and by this labil-
lty 80 weakened as to become dangerously open
10 foreign aggression. Constantly on guard
against domestic treason, it will be impossible
20 combine against foreign attack. Intercourse
between the sections will be greatly diminished
business between the two will never revive
Did friendships will die out-no new ones will
De established-and so general an estrangement
two distinct and hostile communities.
These are not such views as we either en-.
terrain or desire to express. We give them as
the utterances of others; and it may be added
that, while they are peculiar to one class of
thinkers, they are in direct conflict with those
Of another class, whose habits of thought and
action entitle their opinions to be received
with equal Difference. Between the two, let
history and experience decide. The annals of
almost every nation are luminous with instruc-
ion touching the finale of such crisis as
his because all nations have been subject to
similar commissions. Rebellion seems to be
chronic infrmity of all nations. None have
escaped it; many have repeatedly expe-
fenced it; most of them have survived it.
e involves the single certainty that somehow,
and at some time, it must come TO an end.
as we know how other rebellions have ended,
ne may infer results as likely to succeed the
ermnation of this. We grant that the long
,mothersd but fierce heartburDiDgs which pre-
;ede and preciptate them. are not, have never
,een and cannot be Immediately forgotten. In
,ted in a single generation. In others, they
ave survived for ages Scotland has no scowl
or England now, notwithstanding the murder
JUS outbreak century sgo, aud the equally
bloody war of the roses no longer lives in per.
,oual anim0sities; yet ireland continues sulen
,nd untamable. Even the Reign of Terror
survives only in Partisan history. But the
jesOston of modern Greece remains fresh in
be public memory because the family of Boz
:aris still survives.
Our own history, however. furnishes abund-
an, Illustrations u how rebellions end. They
IRE of greater significance, too, because occur
ing among ourselves. What the past has done
or us we may feel assured the future will
accomplish. The Revolutionary war closed
with the withdrawal of the British armies from
our shores, and the breaking up Of the very
foundations of the vast Tory society whose OPP
position bad greatly increased the horrors OF
the contest, as well as prolonged it, These
domestic enemies were resolutely refused either
protection, indemnity, or even immunity by
he treaty OF peace, whose terms were dictated
BY our Commissioners. The public exaspera-
ion against them was deep and universal. No
act of oblivion was passed by any of the States,
but Punishment and confscatiOn was the rule.
The leaders became fugtives and beggars.
Eren the rank and file Jared better. As
many Of the former as the British fleets could
AIRY away sailed with the troops for England.
The vast remainder, thus abandoned BY En-
ylapd. fed the country from every outlet by
which they could escape. Tie Southern Tories
,ou INT refuge in Bermuda and the West Indies.
those in the Middle and Northern States escaped
a Canada and NoYa-ScOtia, where they settled III
numbers 80 large as TO give 10 British power i'll
be,e regions lis first successful momentum. The
breaking up of families by this terrible exodus oc-
.osoned indescribable suffering. Thousands fled
rom rich bomesteads and ample means, carrying
with them little else than the clothes upon their
packs losing all they possessed and beng REUSED
permission TO return. The less active Torres the
mere sympathizers, who secretly desired the
British to succeed, just as the sympaihzins trail
ors OF the present day desire the rebellion to tn
imDb. remained in the country. But they lived
iespised and hated. Honest men stunned them,
md society spewed them out. Many unable TO
i've under an ntOerable odIum, abandoned loca
dous where they were known as Tories and
ought new homes among strangers. The break
nc up OF families from this cause Occcsioncd wide
spread suffering. The NUMEROUS gangs Of maraud-
ne Tories now represented by the Rebel guprril-