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m mi?) 18 VOL. X. NO 22, WINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27,1866; - "$2.00 PER ANNUS Li Ail I-1 1 --I.TV. IJJ I'l ri -"f -". i .... ma iT VI 1 M 111 I I I. I A : A 1AM THE WESTERS" SENTINEL. - Terms of Subscription. "The Western Sentinel" is published every Friday morning, arc" niailcd to f ubscribers at Two Dollars a year,.!, advance ; two dollars and a half after six months, 0r thbeb dollars after the close of the subscrip tion year. To any one procuring six subscribers, aad paying the cash in advance, the ' paper will be jarnisbed one year, gratis. Terms of Advertising in the Sentinel. Our regular rates of advertising are as follows: s ennorp H4- lines or less "i first insertion, $1 00 UMC ' Each subsequent, insertion, .- - - 25 For one square three months, - - 3 50 For six months, - - - 5 50 For twelve months, - - 8 o0 Liberal deductions in favor f regular ad vertisers. 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The victors who were well supplied, gave to the vanquished whatever was necessary, to their comfort ; and -..both, with a just appreciation of the noble courage and . sense of patriotism which, hud animated each army through the four years' struggle were justly proud that they were a kindred .rate and ...the off spring of the free institutions which had made them heroes. They. knew, what all tiie world now knows that it wns a dark, long brooded over conspiracy, through which wi eked, ambitious politicians had secured, contol .of the powers of Govern ment in two remote sections of tbe coun try ,North and South, madly excited by the slave -question that, producing collision, had brought the men on each part to the jescue of the homes and the Governments that were -dearest and nearest to them. OuHit not such a close of war, under such leaders -as Grant and Sherman tendering friendship, peace, and honorable terms to their rivals of the same school, Lee and Johmt-ctn, for themselves, tlieir armies and the cvnntry, confirmed by pledges that the result was accepted by the vanquished as deciding forever against them the is sued on which the battle was joinedbe considered conclusive that nothing should he demanded but irvhat had been staked on the event and hassihee been fully sur rendered t "V ' ' ' ''" Has nothe right of secession been re pudiated ? lias not! the institution of sla vey been renounced, and 'the freedom 6f the slaves confirmed by the constitutional aineadmentj State and National? Has Dot the 'Confederate debt been annulled, wad the obligations of both' sections to pav J lue national ueui nau uuuu auumicu g Have not the newly acquired' rights of the freed men been provided for by State legis lations as promptly- as possible in the sec tion1 lately in ' war and 'anarchy ?''' Have not the whole' peoplej'with the; excepfidn of a few outcasts; robbers, 'andcu&thrbats -the shirks. thrown off by the' embodied fipsis tnaLTepresenieu tuo principio oi, ujp caitest on either. side,' as . unworthy ot the cause-ifollowed. the example otV their. leaders, and consented that all aims of the. 'war, as 'proclainieU''rjby the National Xegislature fantf.xeViftIve, during its'con tinuancei slioulrJ V6vaWcpli8Mi';5Xncl liow: what Tiinders tlie" couQnm.niatipa-qf iae xnain OPieci-rint cemmuiuuiv uijiie There is a fragment ot a party in the Northeast, which like the junto .created by Calhounj the . Cataline of the, Soutbj were never contented with the Constitu tion ' of the United States.. The! "essex junto of Boston .dominated ; iu lyew Eng land, as the Calhoun junto of Charleston dominated over the Blave oligarchy of the Sonth. Both these factions were imbued with theiJBritish principle at war-with the spirit of Democracy inherent iu our CoDstitution- and how invariable the instinct oi aristocracy works to the same end will be seen by a glance at the conduct of these Juntos of Boston and Charleston in producing the severe ordeals to .which they have "subjected the constitution ot our country. The war ,of 1812 was the war brought on by . the Essex juntos the Henry Hartford convention conspira cy, brought to a head by the Charleston secession ordinance. The British Govern ment made the difficulties with our Gov ernment in symprthy with the i malcontents of Kew England whom the triumphs of the Democracy under Jefferson and Madison had banished from power. They became a British faction bent on severing the Union with the United States uniting with Canada and '.prosecuting their, un embartroed free trads under the British British having compelled courts decisions that submission to a Pow er that could not be resisted rendered treasonable act justifiable. . fit now, the tables are turned, and there is jk such allowance for the .people of the South, who are under duress while the conspirators were establishing an absolute usurpation over them by military force, the leadiDg men in the administration gcng out and that coming in, at Washing ton, were both united rn a r.e that usnrDati aiid amity' civil rights Bill is denounced as an agrarian law toy plant the black: race; and supplant: the white, .and liiake a new governments with an army to enfoice'it, over the proa- trate States of the South. J ; The following are the .concluding'-para- graphs of the address. - It is obvious trora: the course of Cohg ress, as already manifested,- that it means to maintain its Dowera now held over-'thft- iirotiation with (-Nat ional Government, and1 tvrflnnv r.vr' "I - 1 t ., T .. ... . ----j J r uu o aciwnowjeage "peaceftne feontb, by the pew use to which that wiui it, as the result of Atnban popul flag, the the embargo restriction on our u-overnment to prod uce the state of feeling in New 1 Eng land to enable the conspirators to drive the peop!e'toi separation. The Hartford Convention was the de velopment of tlTis scheme. Maine was taken por-seesion of by a British force. Its ))ower was recognized throughout New England. The Government of tlio United States was interdicted from levying forces in "New England to meet the enemy. The British soldiers in Canada, and all along oar frontiers to the far West, .were sup plied with everything Irom New England, while the American soldiers were perish ing: for want of food and clothing amid the storms alouir the Canada line-. At snow storms alouxr the ILanada line such moment the commissioners of the Hartford Convention appeared at Wash ington to proclaim their purple of secession-to President Madison, to use the phrase of one of thorn j "peaceably if we can, forcibly, if .we must 1" Mr. Forsyth e and hia brother-commissioners from the South followed this precedent when they came to Washington, spent a month in negotiation with Messrs. Seward, Holt and Stanton ; asking ''audience to adjust (to use their own words) in a spirit of am ity and peace-the new relations springing from a manifest and accomplished revolu tion in the Government of the Union," and as an earnest, acknowledging the fact, the surrender of Fort Sumter was deman ded, and it was acceded tc by Mr. Seward, who gave Jndge Campbell assurances au thorizing him to say to the commission ers, "I feel entire confidence that Fort Sumter will beVacuated in the next five days." Fortunately, in the days of tlie: Hartford CoBvehiion there was a General Jackson,' as there is now a General Grant; The British had felt his power throughout the war in the Southwest, as well as .the vigor ot the navy "on the seas, and when the Essex1 junto commissioners arrived in Washington to renonnce the viovarnment, the victory oi'J New OHeans met thein.- They lost thevoice which they came: to iitterifwhen they tonna the- roar ot the British iron 'husband on the ocean and on the plains of : New - Orleans,' They went home ; but they -were not; proscribed. The 1 Governqients ot New England had syto'o'athized with the foreign enemy,. ;but the mass ox tne peopie nauuot as yet oeen fofced into the ranks of the enemy. t;Their niearia diad been " largely contributed, .to 'snnviorttheBritish power under the awe it's, presence inspired arid; the influence the t rai tors , amon gu m em exe rt eg, .j & u t , u one of .these menf were punished. Mainerwhich was in fact -mider . the paw. of its.ensigm .as a conquerexii-cQuniry , j was: not coiisiu.erjeQ; out of the Union. Its officials, ? although, nheyobeyd theorder.emanatm Eritishauthpri service ihty-miPAMM: I facVi11? asonUthe,pdt manifest and accomplished revolution in the Government of the Union." and this ( confirmed by the promise of the Premier that the strongholds of the United States in the harbor of Charleston should be sur rendered tp that usurping government. The men who stood by the Union in' the South until "the whole region was given over by the Government bound to protect I them,' but which, instead of interfering in their behalf, was capitulating for their surrender, ; had no alternative when thus permitted to be environed within the mili tary lines of the loe, which expelled every thing Union beyond their border, but sub mission. What right has the National Government now to hold these men" sub ject to penalties "for acquiescing in their enforced condition, ' and yielding to the will of the State governments and the mil itary power thus established, vand going 1 into the war, more than the United States1 had.toJiold the men of Maine liable to punishment for giving aid and comfort to the British army there in the war of 1812. The districts there found no difficulty, af ter the war was over, in getting a repre sentation in Congress. There .were no test oaths -imposed . to . exclude them. Why should the conspiracy ot the Calhoun jun to bring greater punishment on its inuo cent victims than did that of the Eeex junto and its Hartford Convention? The scheme ot each was equally criminal a dissolution of the Union but, the means of the latter were much more in vidimus, tor a foreign force was introduced into-the heart ot the country hostile, to all the es sential, principles of our Republican sys tem. ; . And 13 there no atonement in the calam ities with which the unfortunate masses of the South have been visited from.the des pofism of the usurpation which would nev er have been put over them had .ot the treachery, and the collusion of our Nation al Goyeernment assisted ? nothing, in the utter ruin which succeeded from the inva sion of our army, which necessity made destroyers, to plead for justice and gene rosity to the. victims of a war giiltles3 of its provocation ? The whole South has been a held ot battle all its agriculture has been, to a great extent, prostrate, for four years. Towns and homesteads innrw merable have been swept away in flames.1 Halt a' million of its niosl- vigorous youth have perished in battle cqnntlessi tnil H'ons pf moriey, '"invested m" the means of productiori? have' been lost,'. andjtsproud est cities are ruins' Charleston reiiiaiuay like' the rihs" of Cart hage of old,' an ap propriate monument' of the ' perfidy which lias sunk the siinny South ih darkness and desolaf ionV Meantime the N or tli ' lias ris en ' ill increasi ng grarideu r and wealth throughout the progreBs'oi' the warv Wliat hearts those men "must have who, standing al o6T from 'the war an d. eri j oy ing ' th e glory arid' blessings of the victories wonj by buy gallant aruiies - Withont sharing their toils and perils, ''now; instead of ; Ihajtatingt the sbldiers',niaghariimit; in lifdti'g:U'p;ataljett lessT anld whd demand spoil, confiscation; more blood;' arid Would have it shed Oh a 6cafioid,fbere'they corild enjoy the1 trag My at?easeia;-athemre.tJ . f"' .fHereTdltows an 'hisforicar account of th Tebfenion' and the efiwtsi of y the Gov erhmerit suppress it; ' shb wing from -the population is to be eonverted. . Mr. Seward made thiseviden when he as serts in' his speech thsit' giving them the' franchise would defeat the weight' of thr South in the' Government. 1 It is clearlv the design of the measures already broach--ed to subordinate the South to the JSTorth, as Ireland is subordinate to Englar.d; by the distractions and hostilities that inevita bly arise between two distinct nations,', brought to confront each 'other in the satno; state and government; asserting an associ ation on terms of an equality which tho-nature,- ha?bit3,' prejudices,, the very forms,' complexion; as well as the education and : status of the' races in the Government,, from its origin to this hour; render incom patible. England has her Orangemen and. Irishmen in eternal strife4, and arbitrates between them' with the sword. It is the policy of our rump Parliament to produce the same reactions between the two sec tions ot our country, instead of the happy Union which. Lincoln and Johnson have labored to renew. The Congress is now a revolutionary convention, lhe President's comment on the scheme it proposes is as just as that irt which be rebuked Davis and his followers when they abandoned the Senate to broach the extinct rebellion. He raised his warn ing voice then against their designs in the speech which he made in the presence of the conspirators. He characterized . their, crime by the name with which the whole i world now brands it The Johnson Glubr now inaugurated, predicated it3 political action on the principles and policy avow ed in his messages, and oh his views of the schemes of enemies of the Government disclosed in his speech of the 22d of Feb- ruary, from which we quote the .passages which may be considered prophecy, lie says : , fThe rebellien is pt down by the strong arm ot the (jrovernment, but we are hard ly out of the rebellion before we are al- most in the midst of another rebellion. There is an attempt to concentrate the power ot the Government in the hands-' of a tew. and thereby bring about a ceiK solidation which is equally dangerous and objectionable with a separation.- We find . that in effect, by an irresponsible central?, director r, nearly all powers of Govern ment are assumed, without ever consulting the legislative, or. executive , departments of the Go vernnent,by . resolutions reported : by the committee: upon whom, all tbe legislative power of. the- Goverrnentr' baa-r been, conferred,- ,t That,, principle i tho-; Constitution which authorizes- and em-s powers each branch :.-of the. JegisIativo department to be ijndged of ! the ,electiouv and qualification of-its own ? manners. (has been virtually taken s away.-from :thosQ departuEients and conferred, upon a com mittee, whomust report , before they can act, .under the t Constitntion and - allow . members, duly elected, to take their seats. By this rule they assume that there must y be laws, passed,; thaf there must be recog-Jt hition in, respect to the State in the Union r with ;alU.t8j practical relations .restored, be , fore, its-'representatiyeA are admitted.; -j 1 stand to day prepared, so far as I can, to, resist these iencroaebments upon: tko Constitution and Go.vernmenti,:: MONTGOMERY BLAIR,- -: ; ;i -present; in the ifewf prclafttatidhs of Presideht IncOlrithat neitter'th Conresv86f the, United States riot thatof the- ushrbing Confederacy, could alter the 6tatus of the several States of nhe Uhion;' or 'aflect tfioir. reserved rifehtsmnder tbeConStitutipnii Tb address kwAWI AJrirAr.Attta lKlfitterhT)t of Gon Diljrul T 'vivk i r If Tr i 'pHAs. 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