The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-10
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sir Burke in his celebrated letter to The
yhcrifs &C. Bristol, makes Ties, memorable
remarks on the rsurpati,n % arbitrary pow
cr Far from so!trnin2 the features of
such principle, aud thereby rcmo'ing any
part Of the popular liam 80 natural terror.
attending it, I should b. s.rry that any
th;ng framed in contra ict:on to the spirit
of our constitution did not Instantly rg-
luce in fact the gro,scst 81 lie evil, With
which it i pregnant in It's nature 1t i
by lying dormant !,n; time, - being at
FIRST very rarely exercised, that arbitrary
power icals upon 4 PEOPLE. On rhc next
unconstitutional at al The fashionable
world viii be ready to say, your prophecies
arr Iiliculous, your fears are vain you sec
how little Of tho n.;sfoitpnos which you for
mcrIy 'reboded is conc to pass. Thus, by
dc-r g, tina. artful softcning of all arbitra-
ry power, the ALLEGED in?rcqucncy or narrow
oN''nt II IL operation, will be received as
q .ort Of NJ h,rism, and NJ Hume viii no;
h.. singular in telling " tha, the felicity of
mankind is more disturbed ~ it than by
earthquakes or thunder, or the other more
unuau1l accidents Of nature"
We, like other foreign nations, looAIng
on from outside stand point, bchell all
he grosscst evils with which, in tie Ian
'uage OF burke, the violation Of the consti-
luton is rrcgxant, to low i'm Immediately from
the accession Of the abolition party to pow
II, while at the same time instead of any
awakening" On the part of the people, their
only cHdeayor seemed to he to yield up their
constitutional GUARANTEES with greater haste
than tire government could demand them
aStonis ment, but with n seeming regret the
sincerity OF which We have no right to oucs
;inn Wr bchcld with undisguiscd salts
faction aud with open congratulations. 1t
was tic ruin from which We had fed, and
rho spectacle Of it was our justification to
.irsclycs aud to the world. The French
rcsplc, in u moment of intoxication, once
" rshippcd the goddess of liberty under the
form of p.ostitutc the yankees had always
con 5isiently worshipped prostitute in the
nansc or Liberty
Thu, it Is that we have no choice but 10
Il .ht this war to its end II we are CON
quc-cl We know the doom that awaits Us ];
of which our people have had sufficient
forctaste wherever the invader has prevail
Il l. L
with arms in our hands, it wuald not be an
election to return to the government We
left, but would be the resigning Ourselves
~ government we haze not known; one
which has not yet been tried in peace, but
which has struggled through two years Of
war, general object Of abhorIence and con-
tempt Doubtless they Would meet us more
than half way with the book of the consti-
tuition IN their hand. But that guarantee
we hal before. 1t is not much to be doubt
Il that they would agree to put into it any
had enough before had they been respected;
and what security have we in the history Of
the recent past that new ones would be OBJ
served any better? They would bind them
selves BY oaths; but they were bound by
saths before. The security at last would be
that VIC must accept their character, and
their Sonduct in the past for evidence of
their good filth in the future.
On the battle field VIC are their masters,
hot at The polls they are ours. The vast
tide offhinigration would re commence, but
not one new State wonld sre,' come into our
brotherhood, as proudly as we now stand in
he worlds estimation. a few -.ere gears
indeed, and they would have been 'ielc, by
lawful change of the c0nss itGtion to bring
.bout all that they now aim to effect BY
orce TO propose that we SHOULD retain