Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1866-04-27

courts decisions that submission to Pow
er that could rot be resisted rendered
reasonable acts justifable. -
But now the tables are turned. and there
is no such allowance for the people Of the
South, who are under duress while the
conspirators were establishing an absolute
usnrpation over them by military force,
and the leading men in the administration
going out and that coming in, at Washing
ton, Were both united in a negotiation with
that usurpation to acknowledge speace
and amity" with it, as the result of "a
manifest and accomplished revolution in
the Government Of the Union" and this
confirmed by the promise of the Premier
that the strcngholds Of the United States
in the harbor of Charleston should be sur
rendered to that usurping government
The men who stood by the Union in the
South until the whole region was given
over by the Government bound to protect
them, but Which, instead of Interfering in
their behalf, was capirulating for their
surrender, had no alternative when thus
permitted to be environed within the mill
tary lines Of the toe, which expelled every
thing Union hey ond their border, but sub
mission. What right has the National
Government now to hold these men sub
ject to penalties for acquiescing in their
enforced condition, and yielding to the
will OF the State governments and the mil
Iitarv power thus established, and going
into the war, more than the United States
had to hold the men of Maine liable to
punishment for giving aid aud comfort to
the British army there III the war of 1912.
The districts there found no difficulty, al
ter the war was over, In getting repre-
sentation in Congress. II ere were no test
oabs imposed to exclude them. Why
should the conspiracy OF the Calhoun jun-
to bring greater punishment oH its inno-
cent victims than did that of the Essex
junto and It's Hartford Convention? The
scheme OF each was equally crininal-a
dissolution OF the Union-but the means
of the latter were much more inviduous,
tor forei gn force was introduced into the
heart OF the country hostile to all the es-
sentiai principles OF our Republican sys-
tenn.
A md is there no atonement in the calam-
tiles with which the unfortunate masses of
the South have been visited from the des-
pofism OF the usurpation which would new
er have been put over them had not the
treachery and the collusicn of our Nation
al Government assisted ?-nothing in the
utISi idIu WI oiCCCCSC0 14OLu CuO al v d
sion of our army, which necessity made
destroyers, to plead for justice and gene-
rosity to the victims OF war gniltless of
its provocation? The whole South has
been field of battle-all it's agriculture
has been, to great extent, PROSTATE for
four years. Towns and homesteads innu-
merable have been swept away in flames.
Halt million Of It's mos: vigorous youth
have perished in battle-conntless mil
lions Of money, invested in the means of
production, have been lost, and it's proud
1 est cities are ruins. Charleston remains,
! like the ruins Of Carthage of old, an ap-
Epropriate monument Of the perfdy which
has sunk the sunny South in darkness and
fdesolation. Meantime the North has ris-
en- in increasing grandeur and wealth
Throughout the progress of the war. What
fhearts those men must have who, standing
q aloof from the war and enjoying the glory
and blessings of the victories won by our
+ gallant armies without sharing their tolls
I and perits. now, instead Of initiating the
soldiers magnanilpity in lifting up q fallen
i brother, would strike down again the help
4 less; and who demand spoil, contiscation,
I more blood, and would have it shed on a
! seafold, where they could enjoy the trag
, edy at ease as in a theatre. - = = s"'s'S'''
i THere follows an historical account OF
u the rebellion and the efforts OF the Gov
/ ernment to suppress it, showing from the
81 L. ,,,ot;c,y,o nf President sIsncOln. that