The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-05-04

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est asunder all these liganents. abroga,edI
oil the obligations"
Now, sir, fer once at least agree with
The distinguished gentleman from Pennsyl.
vania. that the Confederate States ate out
Of the Unien. occupying the position Of an
Independent Power de faeto; have been
acknowledged as q belligerent. both by
foreign nations and our own government;
naainfainea their declaration ofindspendence
for three years. BY force Of arms; and that
the war has cut asunder all the ligaments
and abregated all the obligations that bound
them under the constitution. So far /
agree with him. and however unwilling
We may be to accept such positions as the
actual condition of the Confederate States.
the history Of the past three years. the law
Of nations, the genius Of our government.
and regard for truth, compel me at least
to except it. and my judgment to approve
il. and if the charge Of disloyalty is brought
against me for this opinion, | have only TO
shield myself under the broad mantle of the
distinguished leader Of the Republican par.
". At the commencement OF the war
England and France both declared the Con-
federate States to be belligerents; the
United States has treated with them as
such in the exchange Of prisoners. and the
Administrator is to-day. without the hon
esty. Of Independence Of the gentleman
frsm Pennsylvania to ayow il. dsing pre-
cisely what he proposes to do under his
war of conquest. waEed against the Cen
Tolerate States as . foreign nation. II Is
not now even pretended that The war is
carried On having for its objects the resto-
ration. Of The Union; reconstruction :
s. conselidation," ~" GENERALIZATION" " with
Al entire change in the Constitution. are
the terms employed in speaking Of the go.
vernment that is. to exist hereafter. Il.
speak, Of the Constitution IS il is, and thu
usien az Il was, is an offence, subjectins
40, eficer in the army to punishment b,
dismissal from the service, and conclusiv,
evidence Of disloysIty il the eitizsn. II
the time ever was when the Union coult
have been restored By war. which do mo-
believe. il has long since been dispelle,
BY emancipation. confiscatien. amnesty ami
the like proclamations military order,
annuliny State constitutions, setting asid,
State laws. celebrating State lines and at
tempting to organize and set up form .
State government in their stead, in which
one man out Of ten who shall tasn Adolf
ZIONIST, take and subscribe an oath to exc
cute and obey the will Of Abraham lincoln
whatever il may be, shall govern and rul
over the remaining nine who refuse to be
come Abolitionists. These follies Of IN
Administrator and others of the like cha
racter have, instead cf " crushing the re
beifion." crushed out whstever Union sea
timeat may have remained among III
Southern people.
WHAT SUBMISSION ExTsRTBD UNDER FEAR |
weRTH.
Il il possible that in districts Of countr
occupied BY the army. occasionally a ma
may be found, Who. seeing nothing befor
him but ignominy and death, his wife an
innocent children appealing TO him Tor pre-
lection, with all the ties Of flial affection
his property to be confscatei, and his "a
mily to become outcasts and beggars 10 81
world, that such a man, in order, Tor III
tine being. to save himself, save his lam
w and save his property, may take n
oath. but the effect oft will be. a. it oust
TO be, like that Of GaiIileo, who insenie
the telescope. and who first taught The "a
tary motion Of the earth. Thtt noble oil
Italian, after many years Of labor ~ q
study OF science. and wien he had adyan'
ed to The extreme age Of seventy, was sun
meBed before an inquisition, tried, COZ
denned and imprisoned 10 . dungeon f
teaching a heresy; subsequently he ";
brought out and offered liberty on eond
ton Of renouncing his heretical docirin
The eject Of beholding the glorious ligl
Of the san and breathing sgsin the pu
air of Heaven as contrasted with the loatl
some dungeon 10 which he had been es'
and 10 which he must return o. renoun,