The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-07-18

dence or respect ofany people, for HI
brings the faith of promises into disre
pute. :.
"The faith of treaties-constancy II
fulfilling our engagements7-ls to bt
held sacred and inviolable, and if man
kind be not willfully deficient in theil
duty to themselves, infamy must cvel
be the portion ofhim who violates his
faith
If Sand, in general, the
sovereign, whose word ought yer to
be secured, is bound TO the faithful OBJ
servance ofevery promise lie has made,
even 10 re6e(s-I mean to such Of his
subjects as have rebelled W4hout reason
or necessity y
"But tyrants alone will treat,
as seditious, those brave and ~resolute
citizens who exhort the people to pre-
serve themselves from oppression, and
to vindicate their rights and privileges.
If a good prince has justice and his
duty at heart-ifhe aspires to that i'm
mortal and unsullied glory OF being the
father of his people--let him mistrust
the selfish suggestions ofthat minister
who represents to him rs rebels those
citizens who do not stretch ont Meir
aechs to the yoke of slavery-who re-
fuse tamely to crouch under the rod of
arbitrary power"
"And il there existed no reasons to
Justify the insurrection a circumstance,
which, perhaps, never happens,) even
in Such case. 1t becomes necessary, as
wehave above observed, to grant an
amnesty when the offenders are numer-
Gus. W.Aen the amnesty is once pub
listed and accepted, all tie past must be
buried In Oblivion; nor must any one
be called to account for what he has
done during the Disturbance Vancl.
There arc many cases in which a par.
ty to Il conflict may increase his de-
mand, during the conflict, or he may
make these demands during negotia-
tons for peace. He may demand the
removal Of the causes which, in his
Judgment, produced the conflict orhe
may demand securities for the obser-
walton of promises or the expense of
the war or any other terms which may
reasonably tend to make the peace per-
manent. But in all cases such demands
must be distinctly made before the
treaty is agreed to or before the surrcn-
der is accepted. TO make such de-
mands afterwards is q base treachery,
of which any power, great enough to
be q victor, ought to be deemed totally
incapable. Even in cases ofrev0H, when
the revolters are subdued aud sac for
peace, the amnesty may except the au-
thors of the disturbance but even then
only that they ''may be brought to ale
gal trial and punished if found guilty"
cat the present day it seldom hap
pens that either ofthe bclligcrents per-
severe to the last extremity before he
will consent to a peace. Though u ma.
ton may have lost several battles, she
can still defend herself; as long as she
has men and arms remaining she is not
destitute of all resources. Ii she thinks
tit, by q disadvantageous treaty, to pro-
cure II necessary peacefully great sac
ri1ices she delivers herself from immi-
ncnt danger and total ruin--the residue
which remains in her possession is still
on advantage for which she is indebted
TO the peace; it was her own free choice
to prefer Il certain and immediate loss,
but of limited extent, to an evil Of more
dreadful nature, which, though yet at
some distance, she had but too great
reasons to apprehcnd."- VaAel.
But how does she have a "rcsiduc of
rights remaining according to the
terms of the peace, if new terms Of to-
tai ruin may be prescribed after the
peace? How is the extent of the loss
'hnited' by the terms OF her surren-
der, ifunlimitcd eXactions may be made
by the victor afterwards Whatever
the conqueror demands he must de
mand while his adversary has "men
and arms remaining" A conquered
people are never subject to the uW of
the conquercr." None but very bar
berous people and Northern Radicals
and Southern renegades ever said so.
a conquered people arc subject to the
terms g'Ms conquest made known and
demanded before on at the time the
conquest is admitted, and to no after
terms or will Whatever; and none but
Il trcaci!Grons cGunqucror would de-
mand more; and none but q more
treacherous and very base conquered
would concede lore. Rapacity only
claims more than the bond. Servile
cowardice alone consents to more. "lf
an unjust and rapacious %conqueror sub
dues Il nation, and forces her to accept
of hard, ignominious and insupportable
conditions, necessity obliges her to
submit but this apparent tranquility is
not a peace it is an oppression which
she endures only so long as she wants
the means OF shaking il of, and against
which men of spirit rise on the first IA
vorablc opportunity. n
Will any man pretend that a people so
oppressed would not be justifiable in
Selling q convenient opportunity to re-
cover their rights, to emancipatc them
selves, and to expel or exterminatc The
horde of greedy, ~insolent and cruel
usurpers? No! such q monstrous alb
surdity can W. be maintained. BE,
sides, were you to preach up the con-
trary doctrine, which is so repugnant
to all the feelings and suggestions oil
nature, where could you expect to make
proselytes - VcAet.
Must the answer to the question OF
this noble writer-who lived in a form
er generation and in the midst of Eu-
pcan dcspotism, be, that proselytcs to q
doctrine is rcpugnant to the feelings OF
nature as found here in free America
in proud South America? Yea, more
that here, in Georgia, mcn claiming to
he lenders. lavOrite advisers OF the peO.