Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-03-09
The Northern Dictator.

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q ready acquiescence to the "inperious ne
c~essityD which that paper says exists for
giving such unlimited powers to the President.
THIS inauguration Of an absolute Sovereign
over the Northern States. as the Richmond
Examiner observes, has a Specification of
vital Importance to every man and m
in this country" The startling aspect of at
fairs is so strongly pointed out by the Exam
liner, that we quote the following from its ar
ticle, as it presents the matter in all its
strong significance. fairly and dispassionate-
Iy. After noticing that the last relic OF Repub-
lican constitutions has been abolished, and
Lincola declared Dictator and invested with
both the purse and the sword. upon che ex-
press condition that he will destroy the peo-
pie of the South and take their properly for
distribution among his followers, the Exam
liner proceeds:
The moment he departs from this purnose,
the s.ord and purse drop from his hands.
and he will be torn to pieces BY his own
dogs. Therefore, while he stands on the
bad eminence where he is now placed, he
will fight Us with an inveterate determina-
ton and with Interchangeable cruelty. While
Lincoidi is President-dictator, and the North
contains a man or u dollar, they win be used
to carry on the war.
1t is certain that the war will not last as
long as Lincoln's Government. How long
viii that bey Those who suppose that his
term is necessarily limited to the 4th of
March in the year 1855, are indeed n simple
people. Lincoln has been made Dictator be-
cause q Congress has been elected which was
opposed to his will. That Congress is ANN
hiiated by this coup d'etat. Can any one
doubt that d popular election, which would
be certain TO replace Lincoln with a ruler of
different principles, could and would be pre-.
vented, or rendered imperative, with equal
ease and certainty, 1t is the trst step onlv
that costs. The first step has been made
with perfect success. The second will be
made IN time. The servants OF this rnon-
arch represent to the pcpulace that they are
secure against such perpetuation of his pow
er by his entire want oi ambition, the sim
pliclty and homeliaess of bis character
Did any usurper eVor seize a throne with :
out similar, pfotestations Lincoln repeats
by his pimps of the press, the very language
Of Cromwell, modernized to tile ca .seitv Of
his subjects. A temporary dictator! What
man in modern history has gained by force
or fraud the possession of absolute power
and laid it down of his own choice i?
But one thing will end the reign of Lin.
coin ;Evioleece-iorce- revolution. If the
Northern States regain their liberty in this
generation they wifi do so BY an appeal to
arms, which can be successful only because
I Lincoln IS not Crome ell. not Napoleon. not
even a Francia; but a fool and a coward
~heehas undertaken |" a Job for which he
is incompetent. That the Northern none
pie will make that effort is in the last de-
gree improbable The unanimons sarv;I;,u
with which this onsummationo of am orron:,
alteration In the Government has hem ra-
celVeu, may not prove that it is uniyersaJlv
liked oy me country, but it does prove thai
ehetspiflt OF me naiien is reduced TO such q
temper that It Is tit for slavery and incan,.
DC vi resistance to II master. Hereafter
WIFI the grinding tyranny of arbitrary
power comes to be generally felt. there will
oe sporadic attempts to revolt. They viii
ne suppressed by terrific executions. bloody
massacres, and prescriptions Tbi. bos
oeen the course of such tnings in nj. o,l,1r
M and al other countries. WIN .b',ld
It not happen so here? Already tIi,. no@,'-
latlon OF New York is diSai med
Adyersaries whose feud is endless all
whose hate is Immortal, now erapnle on tb;s
continent. A Republic and an Ah.olnto
monarch, a Government by Law and ! c..
ernment by Arbitrary Power. have = daath
holu each OF the other. The Sontb can en-
we oh.y by adhering 10 its organic nr;ne;.
pies. II moment the Executive &c A.
Goniederacy IS converted into an imitation IF
ne u'ctatoro Washington, and the Govern.
Iheht becomes a despotism like that of Aho
h'iieoin' the struggle becomes a mater ~
mere physical force, and the South will s;nL
nes US Keep our liberty and prepare for ~
tE, An other occupations are idle. all othex
reflections now too late.
re- The Greensboro Patriot save H..
ria'ey 0naw and his two sons, William and
robert of Guilford County, are. and b.vs
oeen since the war, distributing every popnd
Oh meal and flour they had to snare amer.
'ne poor families of soldiers and others i
need at 81 per bushel for meal. and s5 r. &c
per hundred for flour. And MIR. Rohf n,
Ihom Of the same County, is doing likewise
'e' 'nelr good names be heralded to all tho
- Dy the way, would il not be . GOOD
,'ea' Tor every neighborbood to keen , NH.
COOK OF record in which to have insc, ;hod ~
names ot all such, and. a black book to recora
Tue names of all extortioners and pr;nders ae
Tue iace o. the poor. Then at the close Of
''o war - could De made Enthusiastically 10
appear wao We're the true ii lends os A..