Year: 1861

Dictator. He does not inherit from a long line of royal ancestors, like most of the soverigns of Europe; neither has he made throne for himself, like Napleon l or Victor Emanuel. He is no more than the chief magistrate Of republic, the administrator, not the fountain of law; and no one owes him greater loyalty or allegiance than we in this country owe to lord mayor or alder man elected by the people, or to justice of the peace duly appointed by the sovereign. The people made him what he is. Any fealty they owe him is solely due to the position they gave him; and if one secton-sav for instance that of the North-chooses to invest him. in fit of passion or even from cooler considerations of business another section may, without mpu- tation ofdisloyaty refuse to acquiesce. There is no treason or diSloyaty in the case The South has as many inherited lights as the North and the North as many as the South. Itis not king and sub feet who hayes eguarreled, but brother and brother. They oug ght not to have gone to war; they would have done much better if they had held firmly together, and continued to show themselves, by their amty and concord and their unsurpassed resources, a great nation; but the South had certainlyif 1t felt itself aggreved, and if it sui fered, or imagined that it suffered, in its feelings, interests and comforts by the preexistiug com pact-as much right to put an end to 1t as the United States had originally to put an end to the connection existing between themselves and Great Brtian. The North may continue to talk of the "rebelon,' but it is not rebellion. The word is assumption of a prior as well as greater right which ceased to exist if 1t ever existed at all, at the very moment when the South found itself strong enough to deny and re- pudiate it. In fact, the state of affairs Is what the South truly calls it-a secession. And how. ever much the North may regret the consumma- t;on and To to avert thqra uil ho honoo forward two considerations, instead of the once great republic of the United States. Indeed the signs are not few that, if the war continues for a twelvemonth, third confederation will arise out of the turmoil The North cannot see these l things because its leaders and people are blind ed by passion; but they arc seen distinctly enough in the South and West, and are obvious and palpable in Europe to the meanest capaci- ty. The North Is in fair way of losing far more than the unwing-and did it know its own interest, than proftable-partnership of the South. We do not speak of the battle at Manassas which was bad en0ngh or of is sec. ond repulSe, near Sfipgheld, in Missouri. which has inflicted almost as great blow upon it's military character, for these are reverses which 1t Is in its power to retrieve. But worse than the loss of battles, than the loss of millions of money per day, is the loss of liberty, that the most inestimabio privilege Of a people, and which, up to the outbreak Ct this unhappy dis pute, every citizen of the United States has fan. cied his inalienabe birth-rght. Liberty no long, CT exists in the northern half of the republic.- Military law, by d stern and invincibe necessity, rides roughshod over the civil law whenever the two come into collision. C0ngress-in . panic which 1t mistakes for vigor-Yotes away, with. cut comment, the dearest rights of the peoples overthrown by vote that is almost unanimous and that would be entirely so were there not few secesSOnst: stiii left among Is members securities that formerly guarded the purse and the person Of tire citizen; squanders money with a reckleSSneSS that has never been eGualed in the worst wars of the Qld World and, in all it's doings, galIops at such a pace as to suggest to Americans, as well as to Europeans, that the day of a dictator Is at hand-ofa a dictator who will make permanent that deprivation of liberty which is now alleged to be temporary,

 The very press of America-tAat unoharter, ed ljbertine whose lherty suggested license rather than iaw-has actually, under the fatal spell of this unhappy contest, suggested to the Generals in command that it's own wings should be clipped and that it should not throw the full light and glare of fpuhiciy upon the events of the war and tho condilion of the country.- Such is the blghting influence of the contest

 

 perfectly willing to enslaye themselves if they can but easJace Meir southern brethera. They throw diScredit upon the democracy, and are doing their utmost 10 root out republcanism from the New World as efectually as it has been rooted out of the old.

 RepubGcanism in America may be destined to last, but no if this fratricidal war be lot speedily brought to close, Military despot, lSms inevitably grow out of such seeds as are now sOWn broadcast over the land. The North, whether conquering CT conquered, will feel the grip of the oppressor around its neck, and aloake, foo l0tc to HeSorrocfH oonuic- lion that t once possessed thc 8aj5stance 0f Tree- dOm aud Iet t s!.p cut 0t its grasp aohen catch- nag Gt c shadotc-that shadow being the subu. gation of their friends and brothers, separated from them by necessities growing out of climate, character, and material interests, and not out of ambition or desire of dominion.

 And if these two noble brothers could but be induced to shake hands and paH aS friends; if the George III, (without his fright divine to govern wrong,'' of the White House, could but be allowed by his people to recognise tte Wash- mgton of tbe S0ut@ be}0re loo much Humiliation and deteat shaU hqre been accumulated upon Me northern cause, the North would gain very memorable victory. It would lose nothing by the detection of the South, with which 1t might easily conclude treaty, by which the two might be separate in their internal relations, but one and indivisible as against the rest of the world, while they would have nobler part of 8 conti nent on which to thrive. Better than all, it would recover and establish on a solid basis its fast vanishing liberties; and would be able to prove to a now incredulous world that a militia ry despotism is not the necessary end of a de- mocracy founded upon universal suffrage. The two must separate sooner or later; and better to- day than tomorrow.

 Ihe longer the result is procrastinated the greater the burden that must be fixed upon the present and all future generations Of Americans, and the greater the danger that freedom itself will perish in the struggle. We know that the words of counsel will fall unheeded upon the northern people, who have not yet suffered enough to learn wisdom; but We feel certain that the day will come when every American now liv. ing in the northern States, and aiding and abet- ting in the suicidal and fratricidal war will rue the day when secession was not recognized and accepted as the best thing for both, and ncom parably the best for the North. When a hun dred millions sterling shall have been added to the public debt, and the interest of that sum has to be defrayed by an income and property tax. how long will California and the rising States on the Pacific seabord consent to remain in the Union? Not day longer than they see a req. sonable chance for effecting their secession.

 The South can act on the defensive without a rouinous money cost the North cannot act on the offensive without incurrng liabilities that