The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-06-22

| vars IelI IN I0eS0 latter cODHtCCS, out, De
fore the following September, the last @
their fortresses were evacuated; and tn
| last of their armies surrendered at dis
! erection. Fourteen of the insurrectionist
were brought to trial by court martial
and suffered on the seatfold. Mr.. Allison
adds: Here the seventies of the victo
rious government ended. The inferio
officers and private soldiers were all dis
| lnissed, without punishment, to thei
! homes. No massacre of common mer
] took place. Seventy thousand of The
rebel soldiers, afte" short interval, en-
| tered the Austrian service, and have eve
since remained faithful to their colors.
! 1T is difficult to see how the conquered
| party could act in any other way. TX
| pursue the contest was to present thei
| naked bodies to the sword. 10 submit
was the necessary consequence of thei
| position. The Hungariaps did receive
The Emperor's amnesty; did sdbmit die
renew their allegiance did yote at cleo
tons; did participate IN the government
OF the election.
1t would be quite as difficult to dis
cover rational motive on the part OF the
the vlctors TO prevent the conquered
rebels from renewing their allegiance
from submitting themselves again to the
laws OF their country. Every civil wal
originates in the fact that portion O
the citizens OF a government resists ii:
| uthority-refuse TO obey its laws-anC
attempt to overthrow them by arms
The existence of civil war implies a pre-
cedent civil contest, wherein the insur
gents sought to attain some end through
| the regularly appointed action of gov
eminent, and in which they failed and
SO failing, resorted 10 arms.
What, then, is the legitimate purpose
of a. government in resisting insured
tons? Undoubtedly to compel the in
surgents 10 lay down their arms, and re
turn to those appointed modes of action
which are acknowledged by the govern.
nlent.
The civil war in which we are involved
grew cut of an attempt by a political
party TO carry an election, in which they
failed. 1t was their privilege to use the
elective franchise, as appointed by the
laws. 1t was their duty to submit to the
result of the balloting, as declared il the
lawful mode. When, therefore, they
are beaten in arms they are forced back
to their former just rights ana duties as
citizens the right to use, as formerly
the ballot box the duty to submit, as
formerly, to the result.
Unless this is true it follows that the
suppression of the rebellion necessarily
includes a change in the form OF govern
ment. Unless 1t is true no rebellion is
suppressed until the form of COVE lment
is so altered as to cast out from its fold
all who have stood in opposition to it,.
Shall the right of popular suffrage be
rejected from our system of liberty, be-
cause our enemies have endeavored to
destroy it.
The United States, prior to the rebel
lion of 1861, was a government based
upon the fundamental idea that the peo-
pie are the original source of all its pow.
err and that these people shall exert
that power by means of suffrage, and
through represen tatives whom they select
under the laws.
But if, when the military power of the
rebels is effectually put down, and all
their means of resistance taken away,
they are forbidden to renew their ale
glance, and excluded from all political
influence, it is plain. that is not the old,
but ne'0 government, to which they are
made subject.
In that case, the old Government,
against which the rebels rose, and which
they sought to destroy, was not destroyed
by them, but has, in fact, been destroy ed
by its own friends.
Carry out this policy, already adopted
in Missouri and Maryland, and put for
ward by Mr. Ashley and others 10 Con-
gress, and the Southern people, embra.
cling from four to six millions, will be
sunk to a position lower than the strug
Cling masses OF Europe a century ago
Every privilege hitherto enjoyed by them
As freemen will be taken away. Not only
| 50, but since it is impossible to deprive
one man of liberty without making one
or more men his masters, you cannot
adopt this policy without setting up an
arbitrary government. You may call it a
republic, as Mr. Ashley does, but that
does not change its quality. 1t is in prin-
| ciple monarchic or aristocratic. The
character of the whole proceedings is
manifest, and not to ha disguised by any
abuse of terms, CIR palliated by any mo-
tives which its friends may avow for it,
You commence the war confessedly to
maintain free Institutions you end it by
overthrowing them you commence the
war confessedly to preserve the liberties
of the people you end it by crushing the
liberties of five or six millions of these
people you commence the war confess
eddy to maintain the government of the
United States you end it by destroying
that government yourselves.
An attempt is sometimes made to dis
tinguish between the two sections of the
country with reference to maintaining
the government Of the United States.
gentleman recently remarked: ''Y on
must admit that even in the event of the
Acknowledgement of the Southern rebels,
and the establishment of an arbitrary
government over them, the North would
still represent the government of the
United States and remain free people %
The remark shows how little reflection
the most intelligent persons give to the
gravest questions. 1t belongs not to our
system OF liberty. but TO the most violent
and stubborn forms of feudal despotism
Such governments recognized the doc
| trims that power and slavery are inseper-
able. They conquered whomsoever they
| could, and whomsoever they conquered
they chained often literally to their cha
riot wheels.
A republic can make no conGuests save
such rs may consist with the spread of its
own fbce principles. There is no oblec-
ton &c conquering the rebels in arms
againsi our government. We must con.
quer tom. Unless they lay down their
arms Nenast utterly annihilate them. -