The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-09

gotnery, ana eXtempOrlZed their new Con
gress did not hesitate TO denounce the usul
patton.
The augusta Chronicle and SentineL-
leading paper of Georeid-openly declare
that the result had been produced b.
wheeling, coaxing, and bullying, and al
the arts of deception" 1t said =
I'VE know rs we'll a. any one living that the whole movener
least a. Georia il concerned. proc odd onIy on : 1Sg,i eo@.er
OF the people, and was pushed through under circumstances
graz excitement and frenzy by a fictitious maturity" Az
Tile Georgia Convention and the Confederate Congress hav
gone for~ard in their work, as none can deny, without expnc
This assumption q power should cease, aud that the peOpI
B-fors the convention assumes to ratify the permanent Constitu
t'on, let them submit tt a vote Of the people or else, let u
Inony-for strengh-we ask this simple act of justice"
Simple justice was not the aim of Jefer
son Davis and his co-conspirators. To thi:
day the people of the South have been al
lowed no opportunity OF passing upon ;he
profoundest question that can affect a n .ior
preservation or overthrow of its insti
%tutions; and the rebel government is a
usurpatlon of the grossest kind, not only
against the people of the United States in
their sovereign capacity, but against the
people of the states In whose name it as
sumes to act, and by whose will it pretends
TO have been established.
A CONSPIRACY OF LONG EARS.
The declaration, so solemnly made by the
seeding conventions, appealing to the world
for the justice OF their cause, that Mr.. Lin
coins election, the non-execution of the fu-
gitive-sleve law, and the personal---very.
laws OF Northern States compelled them to
separate from q government that threatened
their dearest rights, Is equally disproven out
of their own mouth. Listen TO the follow
ing utterances from the very leaders of the
rebellion -
Ma RHETI said: "The secession Of South Carolina is not the
by the non-execution of the fugirive-sIave law. 1t is a matter
which has been gathering head for years"
denly upon Us, but it has been gradually eliminating for a long
MR; KErrr-"I have been engaged in this movement ever
since 1 entered political life"
NR. ISGLIs@"Most Of US have had this matter under consid-
Grafton for the last twenty years"
That these declarations had a broad basis
OF truth, and that a plot to destroy the Union
has been Matching for a long period and has
been deferred only until a convenient oppor-
tunlty, is no longer a matter of speculation.
The election of Mr.. Lincoln was not the
cause but only the occasion. Mr.. Everett,
in a recent letter, said that he was swell
aware, partly from facts within his personal
knowledge, that leading Southern politicians
had for thirty years been resolved to break
up the Union as soon as they ceased to con-
troll the United States Government, and that
the slavery question was but a pretext for
up agitation and rallying at the
The Richmond Enquirer, in 1856. de-
"If Fremont is elected, the Union
not last an hour after MIR. Pierce's term
and a careful examination will
show that from the attempt at notification
1y South Carolina in 1892, which was de-
feated by the stern determination of General
Jackson that the Union must and shall be
preserved" a sentiment that was enthusiastic
ally responded to by the country at large,
he design has been secretly cherished, by a
mot of conspirators at the South, of des-
the Union whenever the men enter
aiming this design should no longer be able
o control its Government. So long as they
'ould enjoy its honors and emoluments, and
Use Its prestige, its treasury, It's army, and its
lavy for their own purposes, they were con-
ent that it should stand; but the moment
hese were wrested from their grasp by the
will Of the people, that moment the Union
vas to be destroyed.
So long ago as the year 1899, Judge
larshalI, in a letter to Washington, dated
t Richmond, remarked =
AHN ~ SNNbAS tAoh khSiS Tx INT VIII
'il hold power by any means rather than
OF hold it, and who would prefer a dissolu-
on of the Union to the continuance of an
administration not of their own part And
lr. Stephens declared in regard to the pres
mt conspiracy, that the ambition of disap-
ointed office-seekers constituted ga great
art of the trouble"
General Jackson, after the South Carolina
of 1882 was suppressed, foretold
5 attempted revival at no distant period,
,marking that "the first time the pretence
as the tariff: and the next it would be the
gro question"
In 1886, twenty-five years ago, a political
ovel called the partisan Leader" was
by Professor Beverly Tucker of
'illiam and Mary College, in Virginia. 1t
icited no sensation then, but it possesses
singular interest now 1t proceeds upon
e theory that the events it describes as
en- happening would happen twenty years
ter, that is, in 1856, when Fremont would
i've probably been elected but for the frauds
Pennsylvania and it gives, with singular
curacy. the programme of the conspiracy
hich is now in progress. The author de-
ribes the Southern States as seeding ''by
nearly Simultaneous and im-
forming a Southern Confederacy.
It me quote a single paragraph =
The suldenness Of these measures was less remarkable than
prudence with which they had been conducted. The two
left little doubt that there had been a preconcert among
leading men Of the several states, arranging previously
should he done. Nor was IL confined to the Sc
ing states alone. In Virgins also there were men who en-
II into the same views Not only had they sketched
yisionally the plan Of Southern Confeieracy, but they had
tn measures to regulate their relations with foreign powers "
What a flood of light is thrown upon the :
1spiracy by these few words from one of ,
: earliest of the conspirators, who seems :
have anticipated in part the role to be
.yed by his own State of Virginia. ,
being indications of her ultimate Z
:ession to the Confederacy, the author $
IS s. ,
leading men referred to- had determined to wait for =
no longer, but to proceed to the exception of their plans, !
ing her to follow
Could the acute novelist have nnticinat tod q