Washington telegraph., 1863-04-22

Of the Treasury may direct; provided,
that the bonds hereby authorized shall
not exceed one hundred million dollars,
aud shall be applet U"iy to the absorp-
tiun of Treasury Notrs.
Section ninth requires the Secretary Of
the Treasury to make publication of this
act in at least two newspapers in each
State, and 10 have said publication con
tiuued ii the lst day of August 1868
How TO MAINTAIN OUR LIBERTY
The intelligent portion Of the Northern
people are now fully aware that their lib.
critics are completely gone, and that the
government has fallen into the grasp of
arbitrary and unlimited power. The reader
has seen 10 the extracts from their pro-
vinciaI press published in this paper yes
terday, that they are occupied with sad
aud hopeless speculations Oh the question,
whether another general election will be
held in lis proper time. 1t is evident
that the thoughtful portion Of that public
know their condition without possessing
the will or power TO struggle for change.
Remembering the rights they possessed
two years ago, aud looking on the politi-
cal mauacles whicl now bind their hands,
they utter only the natural phrase of
weakness and iinpruvidence when the ca
lamity they have rendered inevitable has
1T length arrived, "who would have
thought ity''
1t is too late to attempt resistance now.
The. first encruachments of power are easily
resisted, but if permitted, they become
difficult 10 check; when they are compile
ted, even in quiet times, it is almost i'm
possib 10 redress them but at period
like Il present, when the country is a
camp, and a machine, called an army, con-
sistiny Of eight hundred thousand meu.
a. really 10 crush the bold individual who
shall insist on exercising the privileges he
supposed himself 70 have inherited, sue
successful resistance to arbitrary power is
not only impossible, but the attempt is
mere madness.
Let the South be warned by the specta-
Gle Which the uortn has presented during
these two years. What has happened
there has not happened here; but il might
have done so, aud may happen. The
elastic plea of public necessity deluded
the North. The people were told that all
the power of the oonitry must DC concen-
trated in the hands of one man that he
might crush reucllion; that private suf-
ferlug and injustice must be committed to
preyeut the destruction of the nation.-
The same OverpOwerlng argument has
been often urged on the floor of the
Southern Congress, and in the Southern
press. The nation has refused TO listen
to it, AND up to the present point in the
war, h as preserved its constitution intact.
But when the tn, of trial comes, aud the
weak are alarmed, we shall hear it again,
aud if the representatives of the nation
then listen, the constitution and the cause
will then die together.
For never was sophism more fallacious
thar this. The strength of the Confed-
eracy will depart from it the moment it
bee ,mes a pale reflex of the Northern
empire The North possesses greater
numbers and physical advantages in q
greater degree than the South. Yet the
South resists with success, and why? Be-
cause of its superior moral force, This is
still a free republic. Our armies fg bit
with courage for their property and lib
orty. Our people endure the ills of war
with fortitude, that their laws aud privi-
leges may be secured. The North is gov
erned BY . despotism. Its soldiers and
its people are slaves. But if we do as the
North has done, aud surrender all the
power Of the State into the hands Of one
man, the South will also be governed by
arbitrary power, and its people, too, will
be slaves. Then the war will resolve it.
self into q struggle between two despo.
tisms, each possessing certain amount
Of brute force. As the South has far
less Of this than the North, the conclusion
is inevitable that the South must sue
cumb. The only hope Of this country
rests in strict adherence to its republi-
can principles. The restoration of the
Union becomes possible thing tho mo.
ment it Is presented in the form Of this
question: Shall We belong to a great
country governed by arbitrary and despot-
10 power, or belong to little country also
governed BY arbitrary and despotic power?
RicAwo~d Examiner.