Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-03-03
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@ null and void.
18Th Persons who prove their loyalty and devotion
10 me Union shall have their property gratutousy restor
y 18th, commission composed of Major Bell as Pres
dent and Col K!nsman and Capt Fuller charged witt
loyalty or disloyaty of claimants Of property on LIN
Thus in violation of the promise made by Commodore
which abridged the principal er rms established
inquiry into facts anterior to the surrender and
ed of acts words FEELINGS hostile the Union but
those who might be unable to furnish proof of their de
add hat in some districts persons dssya" or sDspec
d Of dib e are peculiarly
borhood In Maryland for instance two barns
ar In Termination and Mr. Joseph Perry having
hne all the owners of neighborng property
nnt to be Inflicted the incendfa les it dcovertd
ii torder Of General Sehenck of 9th July, 1853
atrocities ordered BY Berg and IewchIe; and ans
OF some hundreds OF dollars is small matter in compar
son with the penalty Inflicted Warsaw the owner of
every house in which Russian has been killed 1t mus,
De admitted no never that the OF the Federal off
hortss and that both tqaa1 c si IN sng ya a
ge9Ros on the n9Ooent 4 reach he guilty
less cruel than the Rassan equally unj7st. Besides
restricted theatre They Jet too much territory to
reconqueT to be able to punish that portion hc they
for craetes As lors as ttey have paces 10 TO
btsege, aud armies to defeat they thei Soldier too
But when the last regiments Of the Contederacy ,ush
ed scattered shall have dissolved into bands Of g1erriias
|
seeking COUNSEL only fQm despar sha throw aside the
musket for the revolver and the sSord for pognard
succeeded tie fierce emotions the and the ambush
only struggle assume in ali raIts Of the cor
tinent ta true character then will the nd
determination Of the rebels esy and they will
be pitess whatever may be the feelings Of moderation
ead humanity Of the ged with their execution
The existence OF the Union, like the integrity of the Rus
sian EMPIRE only bs preserved by
Let Us, then tee against Butler and
Berg against schenck and neGkof they are but
the Instruments of higher will Or, rather the OF a
fatal policy But if the of carnage and desolaon
which now disgrace the two worlds and affect If
our hearts revolt at the sight Of much useless boodshed
let US deaLd at both from Mr. Lincoln aud the Gar
rot to charge their generals not even to change their
lem but SIMPLY to abandon On Impossible system, but
simply to abandon an impossible coercion, AID yield
complete Independence he to Poland the other,
tao Southern States.
But in the name of humanity alone that We might
make this demand and shond we not also demand in hs
name OF right Is it just tina, fifty millions of Muscovite
should cCmbne to keep ten twelve millions of Poles
millions Of Northern Americans Germans and Irhmen
houd coaiesce to impose on eight millions of Southern
both cases an odous abuse Of force 2,
France has already replied to the first Of these two
questions with Imposing unauimi'Y.
What are The real titles OF the Russians to the
lion treaties. We admit, for moment this right of
cosqusst but valid only when the fruit of ust
od0us than that of which Russia
herself: What aggression was less astiable than
mark, also, that all rights impose due their
quence This is why 9on.ssqueu says " The right of
which axsys isavss e. ts an immense debt to hu
R sn sy The Sa s ss. ls
don tor his victory byte aying the varqushed all that
he is s sse and by fa
peciay by securing Them in the association which
he 1t a d
Alsatis--thus have legitmized conquests!
The Russians invoke the treaties Of is5 The Congress
Genna did, indeed ad1dcate to them the greater part
the nationality the Polss and granting national
institutions. How has Russia complied with these condi
The enslaving of Poland and It's incorporation into the
Russian Empire will not be- perhaps the sole political
accomplished the other end of the world and almost
the moment another outrage against human ber
IT, another violence legitimate unalterabe will
of several millions of men
the Union first thought combining efforts in order
free themselves from the yoke of the mother county
lance seemed doomed to PERISH and 1t required al
popularity and activity of men like Washington and
(no all at all together, but alter the other
with much hesanoy) to reform and consolidate the
constitution. To-day, of these States perceivng
that of changes in their condition arising either
from prosreRs of the Ill will of their
cates their interests compromise by the connection
breaking land OF resuming their entire independence
which they had partially and conditonaly sbdicated.-
Bat States refuse the dissolution
the They equip feets raise srmes subsdise
mercenares maintain BY force union formed by
This question propounded and solved lorg before
the crisis could have been oresee, by
enlightened aud best disposed LqQirers into the
American Constitution
1.-THE Union (says NJ de TocqneVie) formed by the
free will Of the States they did not by uniting lose their
nationality nor fuse themselves into and the same PEG
pe If of these States chose withdraw
1oTe that it cond not do So The Federal Government
could evidently rest neither on might nor on rghtto
test it." . - Ill.,, ..
pubcists who generally the principles and political
on,nons of de ToCqueVe, separate from him in this
single point and earnestly pronounce against the
the CONSTITUTION itse the small republics which form the
United States haye preserved their in al
infarnaI affairs although the Union has always been de-
Fne nv the ardent partSans Of unity eague OF
although the founders themselves unani
noonsy ejected the name of national government, in
ni;cahe TO the government which they framing,
these pubcists petist considering Gil the populations
sheltered by the starry nag as one ana me same nation IN
nrovirCes aud the same empire IN considering the
Individuals who nhabt these States as felowczens SUBJ
TO the same laws, and possessing Identical insu
lions 1t is from this cause doubtless, thai advocate If
the pocy objected recently to those who defended the
Cessiolists tha' nnoiIHCS oU6H' ~ suoul1 10 mdJo
ties"
This rriDcipe incontestable when the minority com
roScd Of individuals scattered through single
PA Homogeneous State; but it is quite iu8dmlssibe when
and sovereign States Then the former has al
WAYS the right relieving itself from the decisions of The
by renouncing the benefits well the burtheDs
of an association which it does not choose continue
Austria and Prussia have than once threatened to
withdraw the German Confederation and not
aware that any one has yet dreamed OF contrasting their
right to do so.
dsputabIe has been contested y many liberal minds
Europe BECAUSE for Them the question of slavery
renders unpopular the cause OF the South If, indeed
everything reduced to this question OF slavery
could blame thought, ahoug to tell the
truth, that is singular philanthropy which saughtes
eight million OF whites TO emanCIp&te three or TOUR mu-
lions of blacks.
tho apologists Union policy
is false that the generous Intention Of Fastening the