The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-08-23
The Skies Brighten.

our army to upwards of million, is a
guaranty that the project of the conspirators,
Missed on by the crowned heads of Europe.
to overturn civil liberty on this continent,
and plant in its stead Il government of
the few to rule the many. must fail. Rich
mond, ere long, will surely be ours, and if
our generals have the requisite amount of
military skill to follow up their blows, the
rebel army of the Atlantic States must
speedily be annihlated
The great rebel victories in the West, of
Baton Ronge and Cumberland Gap, turn
out, when the truth is known, to be rebel
defeats. European intervention looms up
more and more dimly and remote than ever,
and the Southern Conthicveracy draws,
apparently, more surely every day toward
its fna! doom. Oar Government is doing
now, what it should have adhered to from
the beginning, which is massng the army
in Eastern Virginia, and if this plan is pur-
sued the army of the rebels, though they
strain every nerve to swell it to its utmost
proportions, must eventually be overtakcu
and ovcrthrowa
That government, founded on tie prin.
ciplcs of the southern rebellion, never can
succeed, must be apparent to every moder
a el y informed man with enough of common
sense to guide him into house out of the
rain The right of secession itself is the
seeds of dissolution to any government; and
the constant looking up to European powers
for support and protection, is an acknowl-
edgment Of dependence and serviitv, which
is q tacit acknowlcdg ment of impotence and
insigniiccnce that would not stand the test
Of time.
Let US suppose that monetary peace
and an imaginary independence were vouch
safed to the so-called Confederacy, what
would be the result? A sleepless jealousy
on the part of the Northern power, which
must ever be cminently democratic in its
institutions a constant intriguing of Euro.
pcan powers in American affairs. which
would reduce the South to q mere colonial
dependence; a dissatisfaction in those parts
Of the South which would be drained of their
slaves, by escaping over the line; constant
flow Of emigration from Europe to the North
and West, where liberal institutions. free
schools, commerce, manufactures. agricul.
ture and the arts would always invite capital
and industry. And thus. while the NORTH
and West carcered on their course of empire
wealth, greatness and independence, the
South with its half arstocratic dependent
government, would inevitably wax weaker.
fill a f,urrnann we tbn
oil the old world, then the Northern power,
like Russia on Turkey, would pounce upon
the sick man, and annihilae him.
But will not every new effort the Govern
ment is compelled to make in order to put
down the rebellion, intensity the deter,
mnatlon of the people of the loyal States,
and no means that can weaken the rebels
will be left untred? The slaves have
scarcely been touched as yet, but does any
man. who has studied human nature, even
but specifically, suppose that this chief
element of rebel power would remain
untouched and the nation lose its existence?
That the slaves have been protected thus
tal by the Government is an evidence of the
confidence OF its power Suppose foreign
nation were invading the South, would it not
declare all slaves free and muster them into
its armies? How have the English done in
India? They have conquered the country,
and now hold it in subsection by its own
people, and what foreign nation would not
serve the South in the same manner? No
one.
With althcsc facts as plainly in view as
the noon-day sun, what GORGEOUS folly it is
IN our own pcople-thosc who live in Mary
land and Cecil county cspecally-to be
taking sides with this hcll-born conspiracy.
he more they, by those means, assist in
protractng the war, the more crushing and
overwhelming must be the calamity of the
South III the end. Those States, as at pres
ent organized, can never compete in the
race OF empire with the North and West.
with their developed and developing untold
millions of wealth, and their rapidly in
crcasing, uncomfortable, gigantic power
The immense fleets which those States are
putting alloat and will continue to augment
must unayodably control the waters of the
Atlantic and Gulf Of Mexico, and those
waters arc the highways of the countries
they drain. The rebels, by usurpmg all
power in the rcvoted States and welding it
by the concentrating machinery of a military
government, are, by using the entire re-
sources of the country, enabled to make a
formidable show Of resistance. But that
power must rapidly waste away and thei,
cotton, with which they bride the cupidty
Of the English to smugge them arms, give
out, whilst the resources Of the North and
West are incXhaustiblc.
These things are cited in order to show
the rebels among us the fallacy of the course
they are pursuing If more men are wanted
they will he drafted, and forced into the army:
the property of the wealthy rebels will be
taken to dctray the expenses Of the war, and
.. the more they persist in their opposition to
the Government as heretofore, the more
ruthiessly will the strong arm OF power force
them down. This result is inevitable, and
no sympathy of friends can save them. The
arrests that are constantly being made
should be sufficient warning of the inevita-
bic fate that is rapidly closing round them.
y The only escape from this impending doom,
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