The Placer herald., 1863-02-28
Southern Independence.

"Must we recognize the independence OF
the Southern Sta,es?" That was the question
put to US few DAYS ago by prominent
LAWYER of this city, and shining light in
the Black Republican party. His ability in
sitting and accepting of evidence had con-
vinced him, at length, that Lincoln's and
Stewards war was done up. He owned
his surprised and unwilling conviction that
Lincoln and his whole Cabinet were imbe
Giles We were on record, in our own
columns, to the some purpose. long ago. So
soon as they tried it, we said they could
never "run" the Federal Government
When they tried war we said they could not
manage the war. When the war began TO
show signs of exhaustion, we sail they could
not bring about peace, except on terms and
in a way too disgraceful for our Northern
States to accept. What was last year pre-
dicton is now history.
Are we in favor of recognizing the "inde
pendence Of the Southern States?" We
were, from infancy, Jetfersonian Democrats.
We are, therefore, in favor Of the indepen-
dence Of all States. We are for the inde-
pendence of Ireland, of Scotland, of Poland
of Hungary, Of Lombardy, of Naples.
We are educated to believe "tha: all the
States of the old Union were free and in
dependent States The English Government
at tie close of the war of Independence,
recognized each one Of the old Thirteen,
severMly and by name. as an independent
State. Each one of them 50 considered
iset-thou9h Yankees are too ignorant of
the history, even of their own country, to
/ En,,u cr.h ba Tho
Union that was projected, in 1887, was ac-
cepled bv ca h State as Sovereign. In
deegaing and couceding certain accura ely
defined sovereign powers to the Federal
Uuion, each aud every State reSolced to
itself, and to its people, the whole residue of
unCefined and unoranted-i inaLenoble sover
eigntv. There is Our answer. We have
never supposed that the Southern States, or
the Northern States, or any one of them, to
lie otherwise than independent. The Union
was a voluntary Union. So it had to con.
Inue, or else it had, by revolution to be
changed into some other thing not the Union,
and not pro,i led for Y the Constitution
that made and constituted the Union. We
argued year AGO that secession was revo,
luton. 1t was not a constitutional right,
and it would he madness to suppose that it
could be permanent, and yet he bloodleSs.
Therefore we opposed it and with force
that no Black Republican paper ever equal
led.
We orposs Il the war against secession.-
Thank God, we did so. We saw then, as
clearly as now, that war could not preven,
seces> sion, but that it would, to the extent to
u,I,i !, ,,,,,,l1 1;.U,,;1n Iba
weak, bad members of Lncoln's Cabinet
either saw the same, or else they were
political idiots
What is to he done then? Are we now to
recognize the independence of the Southern
States? They are independent whether we
recognize IT, EN- or not They are so in law
ly the very Constitution Of the old Union
rhey are so, in tact--al except loval Mary
land, loyal Missouri and loyal Kentucky
| If the British were to take and hold New
York city, it would not DESTROY the fact OF
the Independence of the State of New York
They are harrassed. They suffer inolerahe
evils. But they are independent States
those States Of the South.
War has not robbed them of their indie.
pendenre. War will not, cannot rob them
of it, 1t cannot rob them of their negroes
| Is it not time to recognize. at length, the
impotency # the Federal Government to do
what it has no authority to DO? Were the
Administration indeed taking care Of its
citizens, and not extensively of negroes who
who cannot he It's ci izeus, a solution of the
problem would be easy.
Peocei PEAcN. PEACE. we cry, by the
Holy Name of Him who at this Christmas
time Was herolded by Angels as bringing
"peace to men OF good will"
Oh, stop this horrid butchery Of Americans
bv Americans. Stop this flood of woe and
desoaion, bv whirh this land is becoming
most desolare! Have you accomplished any
thing? bid we not furewarn YOU so? If
YOU are so blind as not TO see, YOU ought to
trust those who have proved they can see.
Stop this wal. Wicked and foolish men,
YOU are in despair at the prospects, before
YOU, and yet you dare, as if you were fully
sold to the demon, to cry ont still: "Sldy!
slay! MoRE BLooD MORE BLOOD.
CaIl a truce. Let US put off the renewal
of the contest, if it must be renewed, till we
know for what we are fighting. Let us put
it off till the vile cause of it, the abomlnable
thing, Nev England Fdnaticism, in the
manipulation of New York R,gues has been
put out of the way! Then, then only, we
NAV have, not a truce only, but PEACE.
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