The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-02-13
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
The Penalty of Treason.

NO one can look at the condition Of the Cotton
states without seeing that the simple and natural
current vi events has been and il melting out u
treason the punishment that j. its due. The
Whvie south - at this moment in "a state Of suffer
ing unparalleled in the country's history, and ey-
cry passing month adds o. thar suffering and will
add To It. With tremendous taxes to pay and no
money TO pay them with and no possibility Of
obtaining money for anything tie people have To
sell, there ~ nothing in their future, but ruin
and desolation. Sickened by the dark prospect
on either hand, they can only look forward to a
darker prospect before them.
There needs" as a cOtempJrary says, mo
giboet tor the leaders, none of the : aIlities Of bat
tie, 10 teach the masses of the Cotton States the
Jolly OF the hell-begOtten treason in which thew
have been involved" They are Occu pants of a
vast prison-hOuse- They are surrounded on all
sides by ~bristling guns and glittering bayonets.
lney are smut mp BY sea and land from all the
rest of mankind. Their mmer has COLLAPSED.
The elton which they SO fondly and EoolishIy
thought would make them master Of the world IS
useless TO them. They can neither sell il, manuflc-
fnre 10, nor eat il. They are in want not only
OF the customary luxuries, but even of the com
mon necessaries OF life but goaded by mad pas
SION, inshed TO fury by the foul representations and
adrsit appeals Of eurrupt and reckless adventur-
ers, they still persist in rushing upon the fate
their own crime invokes.
The great hope, the chief trust, of the Cotton
states IN this rebellion has all along been, that
N"SAS, AhpciicI ny Tie Necessity
OF obtaining cotton, would unhesitatingly break
the blockade along the whole Southern coast and
open the ports to the world. Except for this
hope and trust, the rebellion could not have been
maintained till this time by its yotaries and
champions. But bitter, bitter, very bitter, has
been ths diapPointment of the re- eli mind. The
leaders there have been finding for some time,
end we presume have at last found. there is not
the slightest prospect of any interference with
the blockade or with the relations between the
United States and the Confederate States on the
part OF the European nations. The South is left
20 hew out its own destiny through the desolate
and dinty rock, and it is already fainting and
ut It's hopeless task. None of its expec-
tations have been realized, not one. All of its
and predictions have been falsifed,
whilst all the gloomy antIcipations of patriots in
regard To its Fate have been more than realized.
u peace were now made and the Union re-
stored. the condition Of the South would be vast
ly alleviated, but even a restored Union could
hardly restore the South to her old prosperity.
That, We fear, is sacrificed forever. No future
events, whether of peace or war, are likely ever
70 render the cotton of our Southern States as
G. half as important Us il has been in
the worlds If Southern cotton has
been king, Its throne has rumbled, and its crown |
turned to ashes upon its withered brow.