The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-08-28
The REACTION.
NORTH CAROLINA AND THE RE-
BELLION. oJ l3d91 %
Remarkable Article from Governor
Vance,s Organ.

From the Raleigh, N. c., Standard, July 81.
The ecessiOnists...Their Promises
and Perform ances..-The Condition
into which they have brought the
Country---The Remedy, etc.
Mr.. Editor: There is, so far as re-
member, no war to be met with in history
entirely analogous to the one now raging
between the North and the South. That
produced by an attempt on the part of
three of the Swiss Cantons to separate
themselves from the Confederation, few
years since, in some respects, resembles it
most nearly. That attempt, It will be re-
membered, was arrested, and the rebel
lious Cantons speedily reduced to submits
sion by the arms of the Confederacy. 1t
is frequently compared with our old Rev.
dictionary struggle with the mother coun-
try, but there is scarcely an analogy be-
tween the two cases. The thirteen colo
mics were not like the Southern States,
equal in political rights with the other
states of the British Empire. They pos
sessed no sovereign power whatever. They
were not, as we are, entitled to represent
alton in the common Parliament of the
British Union, but were mere colonies
mere dependencies upon the mother coun-
try. In an evil hour the administration
of George Grenville, and afterwards that
of Lord North, attempted to impose tax
upon the colonies. This oppression was
resisted, and the resistance was made the
pretext for other expressions more unjust
still. The colonies continued their resist
in e.,
ten years, by representations, remonstran-
ces, and petitions for the redress Of griev-
ances; but all in vain. At length they
took up arms, with the avowed object of
enforcing such redress. They solemnly
disclaimed all intention of separation from
the parent state, for they were as loyal
in their feelings of attachment to the
British Constitution as were the inhabit-
ants of Surry or Cornwall. This reso-
lutte step they confidently expected
would procure the desired redress; but
the advice of all the ablest statesmen at
that age-of Chatham, of Camden, of
Burke, Of Fox, of Rockingham, and
others, were thrown away upon the mar
row-minded monarch, and the bigoted
ministry which then swayed the destinies
".
continued the struggle for one whole year.
At length the British Parliament declared
the colonies out Of the protection of the
parent state. And then at last, no other
course was left them but to proclaim their
independence, and defend it if need be
with their life's blood. The battle of Lex
ington was fought on the 10Th of April,
1875, and on the 18th of April, 1776, the
Provincial Congress of North Carolina
''empowered their delegates in Congress
to concur with the delegates of the other
colonies in declaring independence and
forming foreign alliances, and on the 18th
of the following month Virginia, through
her convention, instructed her delegates in
the Continental Congress "to propose to
that body to declare the United Colonies
free and Independent States, absolved from
all allegiance to, or dependence on, the
Grown or Parliament of Great Britain, ;"
and on the 4th of July following the ever
memorable declaration was made.
But how different has been the course
Of the secessionists. They seem to have
resolved years ago that the Union should
be destroyed, and then to have set them
selves to work to forge such grievances
as would seem to give them a decent pre-
text for the accomplishment Of their pre-
meditated schemes. The first effort was
made in the days of notification by the
secessionists of South Carolina. The
grievance then complained of was the
tariff, although the State of South Carroll
ma, herself, had been from the foundation
of the government nearly up to that pc
Rod as strong an advocate of high tariff
as any State in New England That
question was compromised! South Caro-
ma obtained all she ostensibly demanded.
A revenue tariff with incidental protec-
ton, became the settled policy of the gov
eminent, and, except for short period
under the tariff Of 1912, was never de-
parted from. But still they were not sat
lsted. Immediately after the passage of
MIR. Clay's compromise bill, the newspaper
organ OF the secessiOnists at Washington
declared "that the South should never
be united on the tariff question, and that
the slave question was The only one that
could unite them" And Mr.. Calhoun if
l mistake not, said the same thing in
speech at Abeyville, in South Carolina,
about the same time; and, of course, was
followed by all the lesser lights among his
adhe: ents. Then commenced that violent
agitation Of the slavery question which
had nearly eliminated upon the admission
of California, in 1850. Again, by the eff
forts of those immortal statesmen of the
last age, Messrs. Webster, Cli y, and 9TH
ers, was the matter compromised. The
whole country at first appeared to be sat-
isfed with the settlement, but it soon APP
peared that there were number of rest
less spirits among the extremists of the
South, that would be satisfied with nothing
short of a dissolution of the Union. Of
this class of politicians, W. L. Yancy may
be fifty selected as. representative man.
He. Immediately began to agitate the
question again. He went to the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Baltimore,
in 1852, as delegate from the State of
Alabama, and there proposed as the uAi-
NAHUM on which he could continue to act
with the Democratic party, and upon
which, in his opinion, the slave States
could consent to remain in the Union, that
the doctrine of non intervention by Con-
gress in regard to slavery in the terrific
ries should be incorporated in the Domo-r
cratic /nlatforrn. In this he failed. and