Year: 1861

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Historians in ages to come will ponder over
the remarkable circumstance OF the Old and the
New World having almost simultaneously pre-
sented the spectacle of new nation springing
into existence. They will compare the relative
positions OF those two nations that threw off
the yoke by which they felt themselves oppress-
ed They will, on the one hand, take into con-
sideration the tyranny and obnoxiousness of the
Bourbon dynasty Of Naples, which impelled the
populace TO welcome their deliverer, Garihald
with open arms and on the other they will in
quire into the state Of feeling between the two
great sections Of the same community which
proved sufficient to make the one section sepa-
rate from the other. The conclusion will be
that both the Italians Of the new kingdom and
the Americans of the Southern Confederacy
were justified and actuated by similar motives
in declaring their independence. 1t will be
happy thing If the historian can then say, that
while the Italians had in the achievement Of
their liberty, to resort to the sword and wade
through blood, the Americans accomplished the
work by a peaceful process. He will see that
Northern opinion differed so from Southern
opinion, and Northern institutions from South
ern institutions, and that the abolition fanati-
cism at the North was so outrageous, that the
only road left open to the South was 10 sccede
and form a separate republic For a time he
will be able to trace the disastrous results of the
secession in all directions, and he viii find much
to dcplore in the dismemberment of the great
est of all republics-the United States.


BY and by, however, affairs will assume
more promising aspect, and the loss Of prestige
sustained by the shock OF disunion will gradu-
ally be resigned The South win have gone on
ILL, of hos
the cultivation of cotton, corn tobacco and rice
the working her coal and iron mines, and much
beside that the country abounds with-whle at
the same time she will have been preparing for an
extension of her territory by the annexation of
Central America, Mexico, and even Cuba. The
North will have been making rapid strides in
population and commerce, and looking forward
to an extension of territory also, by the admis-
sion of Canada, or even the whole of the Brit
ish North American Colonies, into her confcd-
eracy When these objects have been respect
lively attained by the two confedcracies, both
will experience an augmentation of power pres
tige and prosperity. \ similar movement may
be afterwards repeated by BOTH till in the end
thewhoe continent Of America will he dividedbc
tween the two great confederaces Then not on
ly the historian, but the world will exclaim great
indeed must have been that people from whose
differences, and that republic from whose disrup-
ton, two such mighty nations could arise
Magma est Hbertds et preGrdlebh


The same motives which induced the fathers
of the republic TO wrest the old thirteen colo
nies from the grasp Of George the Thirdwc now
find actuating the people of the Southern CON
fedcracy in proclaiming their right of selfgov-
ernmcnt. They found as their forcfithcrs and
the Italians under the Bourbon dynasty found,
that they were living under government which
was uncongcnial to them. Therefore when
they found themselves encroached upon by the
tyranny of Northern abolitiouism, and their run
away slaves withheld from them in defiance of
the Fugitive Slave law, and worse consequences
threatening them, they resolved to leave the
family roof and set up housekeeping for them
selves A rupture Of this kind in domestic life
Is always attended with unfortunate conse-
qucnces but with nation such as ours it is
great calamity, and its causes always to be de-
plored. Nevertheless, f those causes are rea-
sonable, as in the case of the South, who can say
that il is not better to part and more especially
when the parting may take place peacefully p
And would il not be the height, not only of fol-
", but Of crime, to endeavor to coerce the Sc
ceding States into remaining in the Uniong We
deplore the disruption of this glorious Union
most sincerely. But there are reasons for it,
and as long as those reasons remain, through
the absence of proper amendments to the con
stituton, the Southern States which have seced-
ed will be better under their own separate gov
crnment To Northern fanaticsm and negro
worship VIC owe the ruin which has overtaken
us. God grant that the train of disasters we
may yet be called upon to suffer may not be
capped by the horrors of civil war-the worst
fate that can befall nation, and the greatest
scourgc that wickedness and folly could inllict


~ T. Herald.