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WAS TIE CIVIL WAR A REBELLION
r-ooSCLUDED FRoN ~YEsTEnDAN.l
England and Scotland, having alread
but one monarch, and yet being indie
pendent realms, effected a union, an
by that means became q single nation
with s common Parliament. We
England now, in violation of the art
eles of union, to exclude the Scottisl
Peers from the House of Lords, or other
wise break the bargain, and Seotlan'
were. in consequence, 70 declare u
unien at an end and, she standing
srmed on the defensive, within her owi
limits, a war of invasion were to ensue
would the people Of Scotland be rebels
and s~traitors?i II England were so q
proclaim them, she would incur the con
tempt of the whole world, and beSomt
IS much the enemy Of the human rae
as q she-wolf is. II, c~Onquering, sh'
were to hang the Scottish leaders a
rebels, she would no more disgrace
them, or prove them traitors, thar
EDWARD the Second disgraeed WAL
LACE, and proved him q rebel. Sh'
would but prove herself a savage, brutal
bloody murderess and the pretext fol
the murders would be universally ad'
Judged more disgustingly infamous thar
the murders themselves.
States treating other States, theil
equals, as in rebellion against them,
offer to the world s still more revolving
spectacle. Still and always, human
nature seeks new and strange modes in
which to display its worst qualities. A
people whose Hierophants are Editors
without shame and Politicians without
principle, among whom the sWindling
Of the stOck-exehange has become re-
putable, and with whom to violate all
the obligations Of justice has become
patriotic, might have been expected tC
offer q reward for the apprehension as q
feIon Of the President of eight millions
OF people to imprison JOHN MITCHELL
as a traitor, and to hang innocent wO-
men by military commission. 1t makes
war like TAMERLANE and the Scythians,
and as the Hebrews did against the Ca
NANTES; and looking e~omplaeently
from afar of at the ruins Of unofending
villages and the ashes and CHASTITY
chimneys Of peaceful farm-houses, while
its men wear watches Of which they
robbed the dead, the wounded, and non
eombatants on peaceful roads, and their
women the jewelry Of Southern women
robbed and ravished, it hopes to hide the
enormity Of its own barbarities by
charges Of inhumanity against those on
whom it made u~nprovoked war, and
whose land it ravsged with sword and
fire; and vaunts the humanity with
which it conducted that war, while it
displays with pride in its hsmes, the
pianos, pictures, books and plate Of the
South. It will not be permitted to coin
its lies into history. To contradict
them, it viii only be necessary to follow,
many years hereafter, the track Of its
native-borR and foreign soldiery on the
Atlantic, in Georgia, or on and beyond
the Mississippi
So Hungary united itself with Austria.
The Emperor Of Austria became King Of
Hungary, the two constituting D EN-
pire, but Hungary retaining its
own Diet, laws and privileges.
A few years since, Hungary, be-
cause Austria infringed those privi-
leges, and 50 violated the Compact Of
Union, flew to arms. Did the United
States regard her people as rebels, and
hold them guilty OF treason? The war
had hardly begun, when Mr.. DUDLEY
mann was despatched TO Europe, to Oh
tain information that might enable the
United States to recognize Hungary as
an Independent Power and when that
which Austria called the rebellion was
crushed, KOssUTH was received on this
side the Atlantic with a National ova-
ton.
The only real security for the cOntinu-
ance Of the Republic consisted in the
Sovereignty OF the States, as the CON
stitueuts Of the National Government.
This was the only check on the tendency,
continual and otherwise irresistible, to-
wards misgovernment by that monster
the populaee the only security
the utteranee Of the
popular insanity in legislation and exec
action. 1t is passing strange that
Europe should consider the removal of
this only barrier desirable. The annihi-
lation by the Northern States, Of the
Sovereignty Of the States, is the suicide
Of the Republic, which is now become
Empire, waiting and wishing for the
man, and offering him a standing army
negroes TO rule the white race withal.
Unable to overthrow the doctrine Of
State constituency by argument, the
resorted to arms, when the South,
p~ropounding it in its last and most posi-
tive form, seeded. AT the end-of a four
years war, we have a Constitution that
its face utters a lie hat IS a lie and
sham and q Government imposed by
The large and powerful States On the fee
bic ones,-by the majority Of the peo-
pie Of the United States on the minor
.ty. Aad now, to justify this usurpation
themselves and the world, the revolu.
ionists propose to try and execute for
the leaders Of those who strug-
yled to maintain the Constitution as it
vas, and fought for the truth against =
ie. Even JOHN MITCHELL, who was re-
only 8 few years ago, with open
arms and great Qualification by this very
as a fugitive rebel from Ireland,
md at once became a prominent politi-
ian, was long imprisoned, as a rebel
the United States. john MITCH
ELL is more fortunate TO have been per-
ecuted than to have been henoured, as a
'sbel.
After the war against the South began,
{ became by insensible degrees crusade
domestic slavery. What men
md nations fight for at the end, is rarely
Fhat they fought for in the beginning.
rhe people can always be led to support
~ cause and their cause and that of
heir leaders are rarely the same. The
,Outh had its idea, of State Sovereignty
nd equality, with equal rights IN the
territories; and OF a government formed
compact while the Northern masses
Tere infatuated with the idea Of the
fuion, Nationality, and q Government
roper imposed by the one people on the
and were enthusiastically devoted
/, the flag under which all the States had
efore marched to victory. It was 8 war
: ideas, q wal for one thing with the
eople and for another thing with the !
q war, in reality, which COM {
,eneed with the Constitution, Of the \
roe States and the popular majority !
the small States and the minor !
a volcano that had smouldered from
= beeinnfag, 3 controversy transferred
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