Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-02-07
Fruits of the Rebellion.


in iuiquity, this Southern Upas has grown to
stately tree, whose exhaatons have already in-
fected the whole political atmosphere with It's
deleterous influence. To attempt the overthrow
of great and free Government, is certainly
grave crime, which unfounded complaints against
Northern aggression, and pretended fears OF dan
gers, wholly imaginary, fail to Justify. True,
, our Revolutionary ancestors as q last resort,
after all peaceable and strictly legal means OF
redress had proved unavailing, took up arms
against King George, to free themselves from the
most outrageous tyranny and expressions, which
: souglt shelter under the forms of law, but even
while their indignation was at its eliminating
point proclaimed as part of their Declaration
of Independence that obvious truth, that Gov
: ernmsnts long established should not be changed
i for liaht and transient causes"
b In I, country like ours where legal remedies
for all political evils speedily found, nothing
q but an imperative necessity, pure, just and
:, noble cause, can sanctfy rebellion, or an appeal
/ to violent and unconstitutional means But the
rebelionists who inaugurated the war; evidently
overrated their own valor and physical prowess,
and undereslimated the bravery, patriotism,
spirit aud determination of the loyal masses, or
they never would have entered upon so hazard
Gus an under taking. Two years have not elapsed
since they opened their hostile batteries on Sum-
ter and yet in that short period what untold
miseres sorrows and sufierings have they brought
upon the land. In eleven States OF the Union,
anarchy distress, confusion, harrassing fears and
perplexities, stagnaton Of business, famine, des-
truction of property, Of towns and cities, desc
lation of peaceful homes, fields laid waste, com
, merce ruined, slavery wiped out" and lastly
, thousands upon thousands of brave men hurried
into bloody graves filling the land with wailng
lamentation and woe, are some of the earliest
f fruits of treason. Where when these things
3 will cease, time alone can tell. The condition of
q the would-be Confederacy is already pitiable
that it should excite rather our pity than our
hate, and the madness of her rulers should be
e more deplOred on account of the ruin they have
e brought TO their own doors, than on account of
the demOralzing effects of secession upon oar
4 national reputation. OF course the Government
is suffering much by the contest in men and
money, and the interruption Of trade and busi-
;, to rebel territory, the horrors and calamties of
war visited upon the heads of those whose
g crimes have invoked It. Grumblers and fault
finders are too eager to magnify every Federal
= reverse, and decry the bravery of our soldiers
and the skill and generalship Of officers while
It they lose no opportunity to eulogize the Confed-
, crate leaders
> 1t should be bourne in mind that our army
Il have TO hunt the enemy and fight him in his own
selected and often strongly fortified positions,
T. who is always advised through spies and sympa-
- thizers of ahe strength aud number of forces,
r puIsed, as ut TredeTicksbarg, Vicfsbure and
't other points But at Corinth where the rebels
&c were the assailants and al Prairie Grove in an
Is open field and fair fight, army fairly whipped
o and routed them three TO one In order to fnIIv
u realize the trying situation of the Confederates,
: it is necessary to change situations. Suppose
! that the loyal States were blocknded, and mil
Lion rebels we're within our borders, loraging on
the country, occupying our chief towns, cutting
= off supplies and crowding US back at every as
sailable point In despair we would naturally
pronounce our chances desperate.
The contest has been forced upon the Govern
ment. Every offer of compromise and concilia-
ton was extended to the malcontents that a
great and magnanimOus Government could hon.
orably make, and preserve its dignity and self
respect But these were seorniully rejected
their ultlmalum being absolute and eternal sepa
ration, affirming that they would not waste the
paper on which to write terms by which they
; would consent to remain in the Union.
Every one must be aware that the armed trail
tors who are seeking to overthrow the edfce of
freedom in the United States are busy and alert.
as result of the apprehension that their lives
are forfeit and that they deserve no mercy at
the hands Of the authority they have defed The
position which their friends and coadiutors are
, continually assuming, unless summarily put
/ down, will work more mischief to the cause of
constitutional liberty than all their bellicose de-
, monstrations. In the rebel Congress-, the double
. dyed traitor Foote, long known as a nortable
r patriot, has moved resolution asking for peace
, simultaneous with the resolutions introduced in
3 the Indiana aud Illinois Legislatures, and the
same cry Is echoed aud re-echoed by every epe-
{ my OF the Government in the land At the same
! time they charge the President and his Admins,
tration with all manner of aggressons upon the
Constitution and the laws of tyranny disgrace.
full alike to humanity, civilization and the age.
1T Is unnecessary to repeat the thrice told eVi-
dence which has convicted jeff. Davis and his
, satellites, of all and more than all the crimes
and outrageS mat they falsely charge upon
+ Abraham Lincoln. A candid world will iudge
between the regular, constitutional Government.
on The one hand and the irregular, villain0us and
c plratlcal rebellion on the other. Let every
friend oi The Union be forewarned against this
G hypocrItlcaI phase assumed by the Confederacy
t"'ho VI compromise or peace in this
crisis, save upon the condition precedent of the
fullest recognition of the authority of the Fed.
era4 Government, and the most positive repu-
diallon OF the whole theory OF secession. should
De SCI down rs a traitor at heart Any oompro-
mise leaving these two questions undecided will
only be temporary truce, followed by series
Of Instructions such az the civilized world has
never seen Lot the seccders understand that
they can only have Peace by acknowledging the
power of The Federal Government, aud surren.
deriog to The genius of the Federal Constitution.
The secession of single State must be resisted
even unto death, aud tho lava maintained al
every hazard. Upon no other ground will this
contest ever cease.
II is clear to all that misery, anarchy, peou-
mary distress, and projects for reopening the
African Slave trade, the organization of pratt
cal expeditions, and for the establishment within
our territory of monarcba institutions, are the