Washington telegraph., 1864-08-24

and accept at her hands the cup Of tem
lock. The law prescribing them was
long in full force in Athens. Sparta and
Rome. L is only d:sregaried whers the
cold arguments OF selfshness. appealing
/ to the reason and calculation only, sub
stitute in It's stead the obligations OF d
contract, and the inducements of interest.
/ 1t is expressed. and needs no definition
when we call our country, as has been
/ done in all ages, our Father or our No
; ther. P0trGa, the country, was tn the
: Romans but the feminine form OF Pdter,
! father. The same word, slightly varied
where at all, expresses this country Of the
frcnchman, the Spaniar; and the Italian
/ England is tho mother land of her chill
tren, and the Teuton everywhere calls
I his country "Faderland." EVERYWHERE
in tile world. and in all time, the relation
by the highest law between the citizen
and his country. has been the relation
between child aud parent; the duties.
those owing by the child to his father or
mother
! If this had not been so. the loftiesi
virtues Of the citizen would never have
been displayed, aud the loftiest deeds ny
patriotism never done. Whenever the
springs and motives of action, exertion
aud self-sacrifce, which these relations
can alone create. are wanting to a nation,
1t will be no longer a country to b. loved,
but great farm, to- be workel fyr profit;
10 longer a lame tor citizens. hut IN inn
Tor boarders by the day.
Hence the peculiar horror with which
all nations and al mankind Laye ever
regarded treason, or the subvers.on of
the Constitution of Government, and tha
laws, Of ones country Parlicide and
FatHclGe are crimes Of the same horrid
nature. Ii has sometimes not even been
dsemod necessary TO enact p law tD pun
lsh treason. more than one to punish the
Staying Of parent. because i'll was not
conceived as possible that a crime w un-
natural as either would be committed.
I Ii there had been no other reason fnr
; withdrawing from ,he Union, Virginia
/ 10r instance, would have owed it to her
self 10 DO SO. because by the doctrine
established in the Northern States, these
/ holy relations Of child aud mother no
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herself; these most sacred duties were
uo longer owing by thgn to her; but sgch
relations existed only between them and
the United States. TIE superior of Nir-
giuia, and such duties We're only due by
them to that superior. To rob State of
the loyalty. the reverence, the love Ol is
. children, was q crime against nature. To
teach them the lesson thus insisted Ja,
Was 10 dcbaaoh and corrupt tie children
/ u .hr' State, s.l leave her more chi!liezs
than Lear.
/ l; is hardly conceivable that any Ro
.nan citizen. IN tho better DAYS OF the
/ Commonwealth, could have been induced
. by any danger Of loss OF property, 5y auy
( threats or inniction of torture, by any
length Of Imprisonment, by any hazard
Of life o. even by the sword at tIu .hroat
O; his wife and children - submit to
/ the unhe,ud Of degradation Dbl swearing
/ allegiance and loyalty and fidelity i1
Nacedou or Carthage. when either was
at war with Rome; and by that net be-
coming Ronc's enemy, and the enemy
: q. his eountrymeu aud kinsmen. The
{ Roman virtue WAS Of a stcrnrr mould
/ The Roman would far sooner have sworn
his infant children TO eternal hostility 70
the public enemy, as Hannibal was sworn
] by his father on the altar Of thp gods Jf
/ Carthage 10 eternal hostility 10 Rome
ReguIus aud Ciucinnatu5 were posi-
, uiiities among the Romans; ana ul co4u-
Try has In any age been wanting III cz-
a.nplrs Of patriotism and loyalty proof
. against temptation, unshakpu ty anv
stress OF danger, or suffering, or loss
/ ques:ionabiy there is the same love of
country, and the same hatred anu horror
! OF treason and patricide now, that have
always been instructive in human nature
everywhere and in all times. Yet, while the
memory Of Arnold is hold in universal ex-
ecrahon, little feeling, even of surprise.
I is produced in the general mind, when
/ n citizen Of State. whils his State is in
/ the depth Of distress and the last rXtrern-
7 .ty OF danger, remaining within the enc
lny's lines, not only accepts protection
thure, but, to save his property, yolunta-
I rily swoars allegiance and loyalty to thr
/ public enemy OF his State, binds himself
! to bear arms against hor, if required to
do 60, and offers to accept Office under N
fraudulent government for his State, Set
up under the laws and maintained by the
arms Of that enemy.
I II demonstrates TO what 4 fearful ex-
tea, the mali snant and deadly poison Of
u false political doctrine had tainted and
corrupted the blood in the Yeins ID even
the States OF the South; aud 70 wha: IN
extent the feeling had died out, tA4t the
State was the motherland of its citizens.
Nor is it idle to remark that the State
which, in any danger or extremity, does
not exert her utmost powers to protect
her citizens against usurpation and op-
preston, civil or military, and ~ bring
to speedy justice and coudign punishment
all who, by making their will the law, in
the stead OF her laws, and their creatures
the ministers of that new law, TEACHES
her children to forget the duties they owe
her, and to look elsewhere for 2 father
land or n motherland. by her partial ab-
dication of sovereignty.