Year: 1861




be pursued in regard to it, we consider
as not entitled to the esteem Of Bal
timore plug ugly,' because they are
less honest, less brave and have less of
the attributes of men about them than
he. These two instances have come
particularly to our notice; had we time
and inclination we could hunt up many
others, differing but little in meannes
or cowardice, and calling equally as
loud for the stern denunciation of an
unbought and unawcd press.-&ate
Journal.
THE DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY OF


THE GOVERNMENT IN IT'S RELA-


TIONSTO THE PEOPLE.


The experience Of mankind with the
Institution Of Government is that it's
strength and stability depends to a
great extent upon the security given to
property and the protection given to-
life including the personal rights re-
served by 1.-THE people. No Govern
ment can be premanent which does not
afford security and protection to prop.
erty and life, and which does not re.
spect those personal rights of nature
which are inherent in all men and in
alienable.


The internal disorders experienced
by the best as we'll as the worst Gov
ernments have their rise generally in
the insecurity which the people feel
respecting their property and lives.
No people on earth are SO insane as to
rebel against a Government which
affords them security and protection,
and whenever the people do rebel, it is
because they feel that the Government
is not performing its duty towards
them, in these respects.


The rebellion in the South is case
in point. The Southern people, or at
least such of them as have become re5--
els, acted under the impression that the
Government, under the influence of a
political faction which declared itself
hostile to certain rights of property,
was about to withdraw it's protection
from slave property and leave their per-
sons exposed to the consequences of
servile insurrection. Right or wrong
as this impression was, it had the same
effect as if it we're we'll founded.


The first duty of the Government un
der the new Administration should
have been the removal of the wrong
impression made upon the Southern
mind that the Government was about
to become an instrument for the de-
struction of property and the insecure
ty of life; and this it could have Gone
without humiliation or disgrace. The
enactment of either the Critendcn,
Border State, Kellogg, Peace Con-
ference, Bigler Or Douglas PROPOSE
tions and their submission to vote OF
the people would have removed the ap-
prehension from the Southern mind
that the Government would reflect and
carry into practical effect the we'll
known sentiments toward the South OF
the political party which placed MIR.
Lincoln in the Presidency. Had the
Government proved by any one act
that the impression respecting its
course in its relations to the Southern
people was not we'll founded, those who
have favored Secession in the South
from any other cause or for any other
purpose than to protect themselves
from hostile aggressions by the people
of the North, would have been reduced
to so few in number as to be enabled to
make any effort to accomplish their
purpose. Instead of adopting this
course, Congress under the influence,
it must be presumed of the party in
power, refused to disabuse the mind of
the South of the bad impressions made
upon it by the political declarations Of
the dominant party in the North. And
not only did the Government refuse to
remove these impressions; but its course
up to the attack upon Ft. Sumter only
aggravated the feverish uncertainty as
to it's probable future relations towards
the South.


It is now a matter of record and of
public notoriety, and we call the atten-
ton of reasonable, candid men to the