Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-22
CAROLINA AND THE
REBELLION.

a Remarkable Article from a Jour.
nal tn the Rebel States-ReVleVV o.
tho History OF the Secession Move.
menG-what the Leaders PromIsed
To Do-WhRt They Have Failed e
Accomplish.
The following is the remarkable article
which appeared in the Raleigh, N. G.
Standard, on July 81. 1t is reported tc
have been written by Hon. R. s. Donnell.
Speaker of the House of Commons of North
Carolina, aided by F. B. Satterthwaite
President of the Governors Council, and
to have been published with the approval
of Gov. Vance. We publish the article
aud Italicise, &C., as it was printed in the
Standard:
THE sECEssIoNIsTs-THEIR PROMISES AND
PERFoRMANcRs--THE CONDITION INTO
WHICH THEY HAVE BROUGHT THE coUN-
z TRY-THE REMEDY, ETC.
MR. EDIToR: There is, so far as l re-
member, no war to be met with in history
entirely analogous to the one now raging be-
tween the North and the South. That pro-
duced By an attempt on the part of three
of the Swiss Cantons to separate them
selves from the Confederation, few years
since, in some respects, resembles it most
nearly. That attempt, it will be remem-
bered, was arrested, and the rebellious
Cantons speedily reduced to submission by
the arms of the Confederacy. 1t is fire.
quently compared to our old Revolutions
| ry struggle with the mother country, but
there is scarcely an analogy between the
two cases. The thirteen Colonies were not
like the Southern States, equal in political
rights with the other States of the British
Empire. They possessed no sovereign
tpower whatever. They were not, as
we were, entitled to representation in
the common Parliament of the British Uu-
/ ion, but were mere Colouies-mere de-
pendencies upon the mother country. In an
evil hour the administration of George
Grenville, and afterwards that of Lord
North, attempted.t to impose a 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 resistance in
a constitutional way for nearly ten years,
by representations, remonstrances, and
petitions for the redress Of grievances; but
all In vain. t,7a
AT length they took up arms, with tn .
avowed object of enforcing such redress
They solemnly diSclaimed all intention of
separation from the parent State, for they
were ssloyal in their feelings of attach
ment tothe British Constitution as were
the inhabitants of Surry or Cornwall.-
This resolute step they confidently expected
would procure the desired redress; but the
advice Of all the ablest statesmen at that
4 age-of Chatham, of Camden, of Burke,
of Fox, of Rockingham, and others, were
thrown away upon the narrow minded
monarch and the oigoted ministry which
L khn nE hn RPif
Empire. Sill in hope, they continued the
struggle for3one 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 hnt to proclaim their independence;
and defend it ii need be with their life's
blood. The battle of Lexington was fought
on the l9thi of April, 1775, aud on the 18th
of April, 1776, the Provincial Congress of
North Caroline "empowered their delegates
in Congress TO concur with the delegates
of the other Colonies in declaring inde.
pendepce and forming foreign alliances"
and on the 10th of the following month
Virginia, through her Convention, instruct
ed her delegates in the Continental Con-
gress "to propose TO that body to declare
the United Colonies free and independent
States, absolye from all allegiance to, or
dependence on, the Crown 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
solved 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 pretext
for the accompishlneut of their premedi-
tated schemts. The first effort was made
in the days OF notification by the Seces-
sionists of South Carolina. The grievance
then complained Of fwas the tariff, although
the State of South Carolina, herself, had
been from the foundation of the Govern
ment nearly up 20 that period, as strong an
advocate Of q high tariff as any State in
New England, That question was com
promised-South Carolina obtained all that
She ostelsiblg deman ded. Arevenue tariff,
with incidental protection, became the
settled policy Of the Government, and. ex-
cept for q short period under the tariff of
ls42, was never departed from. But still
they were not satisfied. Immediately af-
ter the passage Of Mr.. Glay's Compromise
bill. the newspaper organ of the Secss-
sionists at washington declared, ''that the
South could never be united on the tariff
question, and that the alaUs question was
| the onIyone that could unite them" And
Mr: Calhoun, If mistake not, said the
same thing ina spsech at Abbeville, in
South Cafolina, about the same time; and,
of course, was followed by all the lesser
lights among his adhsrents. Then COM
/ meuced that violent citation of the Slave
~ question which bad nearly eliminated
upon the admissionof California, in 1880.
Again, by the efforts q those immortal