Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-09
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TUESDAY nORNINe, JUNE ., 1853.
The Yankee Car.

The Yankee Gzar'
The character Of the Yankee Government has been
so thoroughly changed by the withdrawal OF the South
ern States Fat it nay Re fairly assimilated to the Dss
potisms Of Europe, and Lincoln nov ly differs from
Akuandero Russia in the duration Of executive tenure
and the rule of Euea succession We DO not doubt the
purpose Of his party 70 continue the Government in bis
hands by force Of arms and other reason why
it should not descend upon his Bob, than that an
hundred greedy competitors viii intercept tie scepre
The readiness with which Lincoln has adopted the ideas
and usages common to al Kings occasions US 10 sur
pr;s' An inst was 60 be prosecuted by la~less
methods Much the larger PORTION OF his subjects are
Europeans or Of immediate descent from European
pareuss. They inherit edience 10 power, aud with
them The sfegsd neeessit.s Of government generate
the authority tor any action.
But VIC confess that the assurance with which Lincoln
assumes towards tho ttzens Ct the Seeded States all
the relations Of monarch to his reeusant subjects,
and the impadenes NitS which be applies 10 them all
the teFns by which Great Brtain characterized her re-
voted colouie,-has oCcasioned Us much amszemenL-
Among the t,rns employed 10 mark the obligation OF
The citizen TO the Government those of allegiance
and "loyal.y" These are Lot republican words They
are borrowed from feudal despotisms. The one signi
sed the subsection Of yasal hs lord, the natural
sabiection due rom subecs to their sovereign. The
Other describes fidelity to Sovereign Prince or STATE
Neither OF these describes the relation between c-
zen and the governments which he has created the obi
cations Of which least reciprocal with bis own
The most barelaeed application OF the terms EN-
ployed by despOts consists in the current aPPl-
cation 70 the citizens Of the Southern States Of the
term rebel" Il Was doubt potent phrase IN the
circle Of potena;e9 each Of whom had, in his mind an
Ireland Poland or La Tendee IL no doubt con-
iureo up eouspaoies. GethFonemen the sack Of cities
and the exile Of FIRE But violated the theory OF
Republic aud s only indicated from absurdity by the
cunning object with which it adopted. Ii has been
made the pretenee Of denying to the Southern States
the rights Of civilized warfare, and the justification Of
rapine, nusder, and oppression of every kind Let
Lincoln see how he is rreading IN the tracks of the
British, aud how faithfully have followed the exam
PIE of our Republican ioreathers. Chief Justice Mar
shall in his life Of Washington. says tina; Gen. Gage
s'considsred the Americans merely as rebels, and
treated them if the grea. national resistance, which
they we're making principle, was only to be con
sdered as the Of few daring aud turbulent spirits
rising against laws Of unquestonabe obligation, who
would be qleed and punished for their disobed
ence to legitimate authority" Under this view, he
threw SONS prominent citizens Of Boston into prison.
and when General Washington demonstrated and an.
nounced bis determination to ie.aate Gage rvtOrted
that it should be regarded as an instance Of cenency
that the cord vas not applied to those who complained
Of imprisonment"
How exactly does this correspond with the language
Of Butler and With the treatment applied to the ezcus
of Maryland and Missouri by the Government Of Lin
coin The handouts at Manassas and the dungeons Of
lafayette carry the doctrines Of Lord North and his
prison shps, whilst the deportation Of free citizens for
trial under tribunals foreign to them reminds US Of
Ethan Allen Hayne and other victims Of transatlantic
tyranny.
Such doe riDe and such treatment Tere according TO
Judge Marshall wholly unjust when applied TO thirteen
distinct Independent colonies, possessing at first le
climate cover ment, possessing governments entire
ly independent Of each other" carrying on bur-
dsnsome war again Of the most powerful nations
Of the world How prepOsterOus, then, must j. be to
see such terms applied 10 States the equals of each
other in the theory Of tbsr association and each de
wing all It's rights from successful resistance to the pow
er Wheh designated them all rebels and subsequently ac
knOuledged that they we're not.
We sometimes see the press and sometimes hear or
people employing the to which have taken e1
eepdoa. The term rebel should be applied ,ven
in Jest to Southern fighting against the Yankee des
potsm. It Is concession 70 be made under no crcum
s;Anees whatever. Allegiance and loyalty, except so
far as loyalty fidelity to engagements, should be
stricken from the Republican vocabulary We &C.
knoWledge no such reato they imply in the mouths
Of despOts We not the subjects of the Confederate
G0yernment. Il owes more to Us than we owe to / .
Wewin obey its laws. Il must not exceed the powers
conceded to it It is by such strictuess alone in terms
and doctrines tha: this COnfederaey Is to be dstin
Rushed from the Government of Lincoln either in tie
ewes Of the world or pOsterity.