The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-09

him who shall have given his vote for this unwis,,
and ill-timed measure (as | honestly think and
believe) shall be held TO strict account for this
suicidal act, by the present generation, and prob
ably cursed and execrated by posterity for all
coming time, for the wide and desolating ruin
that will inevitably follow this act you now pro-
pose to perpetrate.
Pause, | entreat you, and consider for q moment
what reasons you can give that will even satisfy
yourselves in calmer mOments-what reasons YOU
can give TO your fellow-sufferers in the calamity
that 1t Will bring upon us? What reason car
you give to the nations of the earth TO Justify it {?
They will be the calm and deliberate Judges in
the case and To what cause or one overt act can
you name or point. on which to rest the plea of
justification? What right has the north assailed ?
hat interest Of the south has been Invaded /.
W hat justice has been denied ? and what claim
founded in justice and right has been withheld /.
Can either Of you to-day name one governmental
act of wrong. deliberately and purposelv done by
the government of Washington, of which the
south Las Il right to complain? 1 challenge the
answer
Now, for you to attempt TO overthrow such a
government as this, under which we have lived
tor more three-quarters of a century-in which
we have gained our wealth, our standing as Il ma
ton, our domestic safety while the elements Of
peril are around US, with peace and tranquility,
accompanied with unbOunded prosperity and
rights unassailed-is the height of madness. folly
and wickedness, to which l can neither lend my
sanction nor my vote"
SECESSION REPUDIATED BY SECEssIoN1srs.--It
has always been claimed at the north that a con-
tederacy. which recognizes the right of any Of its
members to secede at will, carries in itself the
germs of Its own destruction, that the rebel gov
ernment, if undisturbed by us, could not long
endure, provided it did not in practice refuse to
the several States the right of secession. Every
once in a little while we hear of rebel leaders in
a tight place, driven to the virtual confession that
we are right in our views, and forced TO recon-
mend measures quite at variance with their seces-
sion doctrines. \ Richmond correspondent of
the Chattanooga Rebel gives "a very significant
statement in describing Il debate which took place
In the rebel Senate on the organization Of the
Supreme Court OF the confederate States. The
organization was opposed on the ground that it
was not compatible with the State Rights doe
trine. The writer saws:
Very strange political doctrines were elected
during the discussion-very remarkable concep-
lions OF the nature of the governmental structure
OF these States were delivered. Among them,
this one, by Il distinguished Senator NO State
had Il right to sece6e, and if one seeded here
after. he was in favor of forcing her back ,rith the
Odyone, or words to that effect. Truly Il notable
sentence. On the ears of the weather-beaten
and war-worn soldiers who dropped into the lob !
by, on their return to camps, 1t must have sound
ed with Il perplexing dissonance since they had
thought proper at one time to stake their fortunes,
nay. their lives, on an abstract principle, the
OI WHICH Jney lnnOcently DelleVeQ
was worth the VENTURE
There you nave it. y rebel Senator proposes
to force back with the bayonet any State which
might wish to secede. The bill. which was
thought by its opponents to indicate a tendency
to a centralized government, was passed.
WINoNA.-This is the name of a splendid mer-
chant ship just launched at Newburyport. She
is 1l5O tons ~burthen, and is to be employed be-
tween Portland and Liverpool. This name
WinOna, which is used so often in naming ships,
and which is now upon one of the best ~gunboats
in the navy, is derived from Il pretty legend of
northern New Hampshire. Winona wasa daugh-
ter of an Indian chief, who had rescued from che
hands of the savages a traveller by the name of
with whom she elOped and whom she
subsequently married. A few years of forest life
so wearied the husband that he concluded to go
back into society, and communicated that fact to
lis wife, who was so overcome by the announce
nent that she killed herself by drinking tea from
he night-shade berries. Thornton, after per-
lorming the last sad rites for his devoted wife. re-
moved to Boston, where in the busy world he
hoped to forget this unhappy occurrence. Twenty
ears rolled by. when one day a traveller came to
public house in Winchester, New HAMPSHIRE,
nd after depositing his baggage FASTENED to IA
grove of cedar, and the following, which is the
verse of the legend, gives the sequel -
"On the next day, they who went there
Found him dead-his body lieless,
Lying o the grave he'd dug out
For his faithful, fond Winona
Name of whom he'd carved in cedar,
Near which he'd a wild rose planted,
Which had heaped the grave with petals,
With its soft and fragrant petals