Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-01-10
ExEcUIIvE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, Jan 5 1851
The south DespaIring.
A YEAR CLOSING UNDER GLOOMY AUsPIJns AND
OPENING WITH EVIL IIDINGs-

oPsSING WITH Evil IIDiN6s-
Prom The Acnns1ai II. ner OF January :.
The year closed under gloomy auspices with
a check at Dr,iHrsviile, and rumored disaster
IN Missouri The year which yesterday began
has opened with evil tidIngs- We fear that
there Is no doubt OF the fict that the Northern
Union has consented 10 the surrender of Mason
and Slideli and with that event all hope of an
immediate alliance between the Southern Con-
feieracy and Great Britain must cease
Under other circumstances We might derives
consolation for the loss by considering the in
etfacrable disgrace that falls on the enemy
Never, since the humiliation of the Doge and
Senate OF Genoa before the footstOol OF Louis
XIV has any nation consented TO a degradation
So deep. Ii Lincoln and Seward intended to
give them up at a menace, why, their people
will ask did tn, ' ever capture the ambassadors
Why the exultant hurTah over the event that
went up from the nineteen millions OF th1oatsr
Why the glorifcation of Wilkes Why the
coward insults 10 two unarmed gentlemen,
their close imprisonment and the blood thirsty
movements ot Congress IL their regard Rut
most OF ALL why did the Government of Lin
coin indulge full Cabinet with an unanimous
resolution that under no circumstances. should
the United States surrender Messrs Mason and
Slidell Why did they encourage the popular
sentiment to similar position The United
States Government and people swore the
great oath to stand on the ground they had
taken the American eagle WIS brought out, he
scIeeched his lOudest screech of dehance-then
"Dropt Like a crausn eoel has conquered ring
a. the first grewl of the lion This is the atti-
tude of the enemy. IL would greatly console N
to contemplate him, did We not know that NO
new exhibition of insolence and cowardice could
sink him lower in the worlds estimation. The
United States has lost no character by an eXhi-
bitiOn of poltroonery as vet unknown in the di-
plomacy of other nations. That country has
already sunken beneath the reach OF infamy.
The only charge OF bayonets made during the
war by lincoln's soldiers was that of the Fair
fax marines on Miss Slidell and the endsr
of her father at the first menace Of Great Brit
ain will create rather more disgust or further
disgust.
Nor can we hope for a popular revulsiou In
the Nornern people against the folly and pusii-
animi,y Of their rulers. People and rulers are
alike 1t is only in the sentiment OF England
that we can find ray of encouragement. 1t 10
certain that the British wanted war that they
were confident of getting it and they will be
bitterly disappointed at the unsatisfactory re-
suit, Now, this result, though apparently due
To the lilly livers OF tue Yankees is partially
attributable 10 the management of the Palmer
StOn Ministry lndt NItlutt gave SvWaru anu
Lincoln the chance of humiliation, whsn it
could have taken redress with the high hand,
and shut the door 10 apology by recalling
Lyons, sending home Adams, and setting the
British fleet at once full sail for the scene Of
action. The Palmers;nn Ministry is the friend
vt the north, and Is directly antagonistical to
the majority of the British nation. On these
data We venture the prophecy that in less than
three months this Miuistry will fall from power
\ Whenever it does so, We may anticipate i'm
mediat Intervention by CIR at Britain in the
affairs of this continent Tue inciinations and
interest Of that people are So closely united on
this one point, that We do n". hesitate To de-
clare the result moral nrcesSity. But for
some time we may oe left alOae in this quarrel.
Let Us not repiue, though the task be heavy
on the arm. If we would respect ourselves.
consolidate our nationality. ensure our future
independence, and ansmit a heroic memory
to posterty, we must prove to ourselves AMI to
all others that our c%n unaided strength -
sufficient for our own redemption III 1t s NOT,
there remains one resolution by which every
lcitizen that is worthy of freedom can avoid
the sight Of its extinction and the spectacle Of
his countrys ruin-to die i'll the last ditch OF
their defence.