Daily national Republican., 1865-10-03
SECOND EDITION
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= As the smoke Of battle clears away, We
learn something Of the interior history of the
rebellion. The confessions Of ofBEAUREaARD-
for go we must consider the effusion of JoR-
aAN-haye already been given to the world.
More will follow And from the great mass
OF evidence ELECTED in one way and another,
sNe shall, after awhile, get at the whole
truth. Thus we have learned from the rooo-
lutions Of conventions in Mississippi, Ala
bama and South Carolina, from the testimony
Of ladies of these and other States, from the
asseverations Of the mon Of Texas, who, ac-
cording to the truthful and interesting corre-
spondent Of the Associated Press, were giants
thirty years ago, that JErr. DAVIS, so far
from having instigated the Southern people
to rebellion, was himself driven by a Vis
major, which is not very clearly described,
but which, very possibly, was in some degree
akin to the odic force. .
There is plenty Of evidence, too, that
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS was Union man
from the start. He was driven into soem.
ing acquiescenco in the secession movement
out Of tenderness for the life Of TOXINS, and the
pugnacious ROBERT, equally humane, fol-
lowed suit, in order that his lesser friend
might come to no bodily harm. Mr.. RoBERr
e. LEE, who Is supposed by some fanatical
persons TO have driven his State in rebellion
at the point of the bayonet, ii is now seen
was himself forced in some mysterious mau.
ner by Mr.. SEWARD, Mr.. STANTON, and Ho-
RACE GREELEY ey into an outward manifes-
tation of approval and apparent support Of a
cause his heart abhorred, and so on to the
end of the list.
The careless boys pint of milk spilled IT,
self. The rebellion had no FIRST cause. 1t
came into being spontaneously. In 1861 the
whole mass Of the Southern people, we now
know, under the guidance Of DAVIS, LEE,
STEPHENS, md the rest, rose up as one man
in support of the Union and the Constitu-
tion. They pledged to the defence thereof
their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honors. To a man they refused to have part
or lot in the rebellion. Yet 1t came. And q
force as mysterious as BRAHMA united them
ALL in spite Of themselves, in an attitude oI
seeming-but only seeming-hostility to the
Government. Rev. DR.. WELLINGTON, OF
Newburyport, Massachusetts,, used to tell a
story Of an atheist neighbor of his-a
bachelor-who believed that in the be-
ginning oil matter revolved in chaos,
until it happened that the proper com
bination of particles, took place, and the
earth and all things therein, thus sprang into
existence, gathered together the materials
for wife, put the same in barrel, which he
made to revolve constantly by machinery, and
patiently waited for the combination Of mat
ter, in full faith and confidence that in due
course of time he would be blessed with q
wife to his mind. How far he succeeded we
are not aware; but if he be yet engaged in
his task, he must derive exceeding encourage.
ment, as he learns from the study Of cotem.
porary history what great events may be
brought about without the Intervention of a
Cause.
Gov. BRowNLow, in his message reported
in another column, declares that the leaders
of the rebellion must be punished. Very
good. But first catch your leader. If there
are, or ever were, any leaders, then all the
evidence which comes to us from those who
ought best to know is at fault. And now we
think of it's it possible the rebellion failed
for want of leaders,