Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-10-11
prAOE IN AMERICA.

ly olreul6teo shaookaous Nte~
Ireland:
The People Of the United Ktngdem Of GTsa'
britain and ireland, 10 the People o. ms
i'nit.i Sfatss, Greeting:
We "a of The saue rase, ani many OIL You
ars .,.r i:cthers. Can wo not, therefore, eeme
=, YOU ~ psuoe makers, AID address you 10
frinn,!s.i We Wculd AK you, Las mere no,
!,ea,, of strife aud blo0Ishod, $40 misery Shu
suffering enough and is it net time :" cease tn
he crl.al war 10 which ycuars e'Gageu "e
hei;c 70 theirs is rrt Christian :nan OF "oihHn
arsopgss ne whore heart i3es not fc-poHn
affis.au.ively to this question. with tn'' cen
y;o.ion Wa wish to speak 70 ycu ID pM'h men,
u.ing plain language. We have Gcmitea Jour
FREQ Institutions, and have gladly ~iness'o
your rise nv q people to eminenco IN wea'ln
and poiitiuul power. You ara Of the oaAon
blood, and We hoped that you would mako lhe
Nav World renowned for trus greatness
You promised to become one mighty people
and @ great nation, famed for the hpefues OF
its citizens, the triumpbs Of psnoe' ana the
cnrouests of it's commerce. We felt that you
ye,s doing honor to the Mother County
Whom. therefore, this unfortunate war pagan,
our learta we're more inclined towards you
than towards your sister States, because We
believed with you that the action Of the
South was but The work Of a isolI9n. The
evsnts Of the struggle, however nave cehVinc
cd IA that more united peopl6 than those OF
the Southern States never rose up III aeiencs
o. their rights.
Whsn YOU asserted that secession Vas the
work Of disappointed ambition, and promised
to quell il within sixty days. We aGoepteo
your assurances in good faith, and ioosed 10Y
the srsody restoration of peace. we olo not
wish to eee the American Union broken up.
But 90 far from this promise being fulniiea'
land YOUR efforts to accomplish II nave pcen
greatly pesce and the restoration of tho Union
ere euparentlY more remote than over. surely
tLna must be many now among you VINO
share with us the conviction thss IL ls utterly
innoHsible to subdue the South, or To- restore
thu Amsr;osn Union, as it was in the psst
days nf the Republic. You have tried sud-.
,;ont,y ard found the gulf between you end
ths ss,,dad States to widen with the e8ort that
ia made to subdus them. Is it not hme, to o.
to rsuss, aud, ait ;r calmly reviewing oil taat
van have ACCOMPLISHED, tho distance winch
You have travelled from your we'll known land.
marks. and the difficulties and dangers tnat
nro yot before you-is it not time, we rsk' that
YOU should take COUNSEL together IS to the best
means Of restoring peace! we oannct iorge'
tLst tho question Of peace or war WaS never
pubmitted to you for your serious ccns'usfa-
ton before hostilities had actually mnonoso;
that ttey came upo1 you littlo by little and
that both Government and people found them
selves p!uuged into this fearful contest a'nios'
uuawares: nor have you as yet had an Hppof-
UNITY Of consulting together IN general Co.'S
yen,i6n for the rurpcsa Of making known your
cnininns ard wishes about the war or any u
tho 1astissues growing out OF it.
Tbe war hos changed flor the present ct
| lcasn the character OF your Governmsnt.--
| What has beeana Of ti,s freed ni speeen:
Won FREQ nrcas, and ,ha inestimahle right OF
}nbeas corpusp Wha., permit us 70 usk' are
the Southern people doing beyond following
The nr,cepts and example taught and prsc-
tiaed by YOUR fathsra end theirs, whom they
w;thdreT thcir allegisncs from the mother
oourtty and asserted their right TO esta1ith
CIoyeynment of their own? The Dsolara.
zion Of Independence. which you hallow and
celebrate every fourth day of July, ASSERTS
sclC-oyiJent tia right os tho Southern people
70 .ss NO government Of tEeir own: :,
Bot va would ak, suppose you shooi9' ~
| rho end Of another three years ana IL mall
suocesJ in suhduing rlp South and restoring
,Lo r. c;on ty forcs 81 ARMS, might you Dol
| tIon tx, unt when il was too late that THESE
riiars moo yhicp rests your form o. govern
u,srt Ind i.eer 7mlol;tly torn down, ana tna'
yorr o>y1, Liberties bed he6n 6nnsd ID the
sn;ns, IF YOU will rrn the pAfaliei between
mo Sonth now ard the dGlu,its IN !''n' sEH
,o,,,,.;. ,hs course pursued hy the NoFth no"
ANA ,be mother country then, We thlhk you
| y,;Il disooy.r some striking resemblance snc
amnns theu, that y IN For Eo.7, rs "ltn Lux
oro,,n tbsn, rests thu lrit!legs ut giving ps"o'
m tl,o Amsrican c;,n,intn.. Why nottnch
xi;hoot further delay, :eaegn,"+ the dntJ
| which attaches 70 GOnr high pINilsssl W.
w5 EnHTT NOS IIprps:7S
| Pei!t' he u:t1 You
unHusHrE OF rng FRENCH rHRos.
The principal editor Of "La France" NJ. Co
hen, has written, ol. this eddrsss, ono OF TIT
best articles hitherto published relative to thu
Anal .can question. The following hfe d't''
Of its leading passsgsa:
Can &c be that light hos hot yet d"Wnsi Of
| this great nation of Anlariea--a nation whose
sound Judgment ind practical intelligence have
boon to ug d snuroe Of admiration 7 Can It bt
that tho last four years of contentious, Of dla
sstera, of poworlsss s31rta, Of miseriss aud 81
teerp, hasa failed 10 convince he1' OF the tnlpos
si5ility q There establishment Of union beires'
tie North and South Is it not evident tha
the Seccssiorists arc resolved rather to bu'
~ themselves beneath their roins than to sui
nit, md that to the original and Fundamental
causes Of separation which fer s, long before
hand announced 81 inevitable rupture, 10 thi
direrrance in manners and inshtutiOns, tee
antaaUnem Gf interests, even to the Opposition
Of tho rGt,os, aro now added feelings Of haired
which tho war haa created between this hos
tia brotherhood?
| Il is not, therefore, folly tn imagine that
even surprising the srDies of Loo and Beaure-
gard were yanauished, implaoable feelings OF
resentment, such as those, could likewise be sub
dued, epd what blind infatuation conld induo'
the Northern States TO create aud maintain by
rorop, subject to their rule, an American Pc.
land, whose inevitable outbreaks would Per
petuate the horrors Of civil WARP
Mol the ill,lsio4 ia no longer possible; the
idea of reducing and geserning the South mus!
be at oncs abandoned In this war OF extermi.
nation, the Northern arniea waste and perish,
and the Government Of Washington il c3m-
peIled TO acknowledge that their heroic oppo-
nsnts are not rsbela, but people, a nationnli'
ty. boldly defending it, independence, and pre-,
pared, ut any cost, to protect it's threatened
autonomy.
n. Cohen then expresses his establishment
that the principle Of modern right which
admits the frssdom Of every patton to choose
the form Of Goyernmeu! best adapted TO itself,
should be trampled undor foot by society,
whose duty. on tho contrary, is to uphold and
respect such principle. Theloss suffered by
| thu Uaited Statss ia this war is not that OF
territory, neither il it simply the loss of mil
lions Of money nor ofthousands of oitissne; it
is far more than this-h is the principle Of
t,.:, rocrol and notitinal urautnasa Ha III no