Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-04-24
REBELLION; ITS CAUSE AND CURE.

The rebellion was the work Of a gov
erning class, all whose ideas and hopes
were the agrandizement Of their own
order. Now one issue of the Rebellion
must be to put down, not only this
governing class, but also the system
from which it springs. We have no
such class at the North. We have no
such class. The very collisions of inter-
ests, the rivalries of trade, the thousand
and -one social relations all neutralize
each other, are checks and counter
checks, which. like the particles in q
vessel of water, always tend toward
the level of an equilibrium. Two
men meet in their lodge as Odd
Fellows, but they are opponents on
"town-meeting day." Two partners
in business are, one the most bitter of
Calvanists, and the other the most
progressive of Universalists.
But with the Southerner of the gov
erning class it is not so. One sympa-
thy, more potent than any other can
be, leagues them all. All are masters
of the whole race upon which their sue
cess and station are built. 1t is a liv-
ing relation, the most powerful and
vital which can bind men together
that sense of authority borne by the
few over the many.
Republics have fallen through their
standing armies. The proprietary
class of the South was the most
dangerous of standing armies, for it
was diciplined to the use Of power
night and day. The overthrow Of the
Rebellion will to a great degree ruin
this class. But since it is one not
founded on birth or culture, but simply
on white blood and circumstance, for
no Secessionist is so fierce as your con-
verted Northerner) it cannot fall like
the Norman nobility in the Wars Of the
Roses, or waste by operation Of eli
mate like the masters of Mexico or
Hindostan. II renews itself Vhenersr
Il touches sl0vs soil. That .giUes hEte.
The Government must for its own
preservation 90 to the root Of the mat
ter. And we cannot see that there is
any constitutional difficulty. There
are but few slaYe-proprietors In the
South whom it has not the right to ar
rest, try, and hang, for high-treason.
Having this right, it may say it will
not waive it except upon conditions
which shall secure the country from
any further trouble.
This is the attitude in which the
Nation stands towards the Rebels. 1t
may be good policy to take them back
as fast as they submit, but they have
no right TO come back to anything but
a prison and hard labor for life. Many
of them have trebly forfeited their
lives.-as traitors, as deserters from
naval and military service. and patrol
ed prisoners who have broken their
parole.
Slavery has proved itself nuisance.
Just as we say to the owner Of bone
boiling establishment, "You poisen the
air; we cannot live here; you must 60
farther off,"-and Il q fever break out
which can be clearly traced TO that
source, we say it emphatically. so now
Slavery having proved itself pestilen-
tial, we say MARCH We will give
every body time to pack up. We will
make up little purse for any specially
hard case which the removal may
show. But stay and be plague-strick-
en- we will no longer; nor are we dis
posed to spend our whole income in
burning sulpher. saltpeter and charcoal
TO keep out infection. And certainly,
when by neglect to pay ground rent,
or other illegality. the owner of our
nuisance has forfeited his right 10 stay,
no mortal can blame US for taking the
strictest and most decisive steps known
to remove him.-Ahantie Monthly.