The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-03
A Southern Monarchy Proposed.

three OF the leading men of the South, including
Davis, his cabinet, and many senators, and Gen.
Toombs and Wise, wrote the French Emperor
in November last, urging upon him a speedy rec
ignition OF the South. The letter offered tie fol-
lowing inducements to Napoleon:
1st. That it was the intention of the leaders
of the South, (Which intention, however, was to
be kept secret until the war was over,) so soon
as their independence was declared, to establish
q nobility 10 the South before their army was
Abandoned That the poor whites or non.Save-
owners, who would help them fight and Jnquer
their independence, so soon as a nobility is es-
tablished and they are left free to act, VII emf
CRATE North and leave only the noble and his
slave, constituting the frmest nobility, because
the peasant will be the property Of the noble,
while the line of demarcaton between them will
be that of color and race. That their ability so TO
establish bilitY cannot be doubtful when it is
well known that the leaders of the South had
forced this war and established The present Con-
federacy in opposition majority OF every State.
81. That it is Tie duty of France, as other
monarchles, to encourage nobility and to dscour-
age democracy.
81 That in accordance with the above inten-
fiou they these seventy-three) designed to secure
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their conscrpt law, 50 as to exempt and preserve
for their future Con|pderacy as many sla veowners
or future MOBILES as possible
If the statements of this correspondent had no
confirmation but the writer's words doubts might
be entertained of their strict verify. But we are
not let to this unsupported evidence of the de-
sire and intention Of Save owners at the South to
establish government similar to monarchy
DIR. RUSSELL better known as Bull Run Russell,
IN his Diary frequently alIudes to he wish ex.
pressed by southern planters, during his journey
Through the slave states, fo4 monarchy. These
suggestions surprised him at the time, but they
were so frequent to establish 10 his mind the
conviction that the men who owned slaves,
and had large estates in the South, were sick Of
Democratic or Republican form of government,
and We're decidedly favorable to some stronger
form of national authority. A government more
after the English model, or at least Gle in which
what they are pleased to call the mob should not
participate in the choice of rulers, or the enacting
of laws, seemed to have the most attractions for
those who were building up country and a civil
ization upon the institution of Slavery.
And this admiration of monarchcal forms of
Government i. the natural and inevitable growth
sof tie system of slavery. That institution has
no foundation except in the proposition that one
mans right to life, liberty and property is, without
reference to conduct, better than another mans
1t rests for its maintenance upon force and des-
lpetism. In its creed the child of slave mother
vs. born slave and must dig in the fields and
grind in the mills of its masters as consequence
.of this accident of birth and this is the essence
o. the worst forms of despotism Without this
support the system could not stand year. And
it is against this theory and doctrine that the
child can never enjoy rights which the mother
did not possess that Liberty has been contendipg
for hu dreds Of years. 1t was against this doc.
4rins, announced practically by the King Of Great
britain, that the Colonies rebelled, and it was
upon the antagonist doctrine that they rested
aheir argument in justification of their treason.
Southern treason thus stands revealed as re.
sbeon against the ideas Of the Dec sratior Of In
dependence, and against the form of govern
established as the fruit of our revolution.
the reaction of those who uphold slave.
the despotic forms Of government of til .a,uent
OF Europe. 1t isa protest on the part OF man
owners against liberty and the rights of man. 1t
is struggle to establish over one half Of this
sesuuny, once wrested from the dominons Of
Crowns and .Emperors and laws in the framing o
Hhich the people had no voice, government oil