Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-12-13

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sectional and social masses hallow these crimes? 10
whole communities sympathize with the outlaws, IN
stead of sympathizng with the outraged society Oh
sister sovereignty? lfso, then the sympatny Is as
elonious as the criminals and IS far more dangerous
| than was the INVASION The threat OF martyrdom ls
| threat against our peace and demands execution 10
def such sympathy and such saints OF marIyroom,L
The issne was forced upon US: Shall John Brown pc
pardoned lest he might be canonlzed by execution o.
felony for confessed murder, robbery ana season IN
melting serve insurrection in Virginia? Why mar
tyrg Because thousands applaud his acts ana oPin
lons and gorlfy his crimes? Was to hesitate aiter
this? sympathy was in insurrecton, ana naa 70 pe
subdued more forcibly than was John Brown. J0nu
Brown had surely to die according to law, and Vlr
gina has TO meet the issue. 1t Is made. we nave
fiends or we have not in the States whence these IN
vaders come They must now be not only conserpa-
tire but actips to prevent invaders coming we are
In arms. -,
Information from all quarters, with responsible
names, and anonymous, dated the same time, IRON
places tar distant from each other came OF
conspiraces and combinations to obstruct our laws
to rescue aud seize HOSTAGES to commit rapine anu
burning along our borders on Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, proceeding from these States ana
from New York, Massachusetts, and other States ana
Canada. These multiplied in every form for weeks; !;
and ut last on the 10th of November, cali was very
properly and timely made by COL Davis for en- addi-
tionsl force of 500 men.
These reports and rumors, from so many sources
of every character and form, so simultaneous, from
places so far apart. at the same tme from 30
unlike in evidences of education, could be from no
conspiracy to hoax but Ireed not 90 mach upon them
as upon tie earnest continued geneyaLappeaL OF e SYM
patkiSers a0ih the crimes. IL acas impossible for so
much of such sympathy to er'st ae,aous eTPssy 0a0
men to action of rescue rsvenle. On this acted
immediately put in motion the troops OF kicn.
mond Alexandria, Petersburg and Fauquier, who O.
beyed prompty-and in the time from IL o'clock Sat.
urday night to Tuesday morning, 66S men were ADDED
to the guards at Charlestown. again went in per-
son with the troops; assembled the commanding OH.
GERS organized the command issued general orders,
and returned to Harper's Ferry, where | met Gen;
Taaferro, and accepted his services. Since tnen
have ordered additional force OF $50 men from or
folk and Portmouth and Petersburg, and Orange, and
Albemarle, and Augusta, and Rockingham, and
Wheeling and have called out corps OF howltzers,
under Colonel Smith, of Virginia Military Institute
And have ordered Generals Rogers and Hunton 10
do whatever is necessary to guard the borders from
the Point of Rocks to Alexandria and the whole Dor.
der is guarded West to Piedmont have exhausted
this and next years quotas In issuing eclent arms
of the best improved models, and issued them and
coats and blankets to the troops. In word, have
been compelled by apprehension OF the most unparal-
leed border war; to place the State in as full pan
oply of military defence as II foreign enemy hao In
vaded u.s. Indeed, of the most irritating features
of this predatory war; that it has its seat In British
provinces, which furnish asylums for our fugitives
| from justices and from labor, and sends them and
their hired outlaws back upon US from depots and
rendezvous in bordering States. There is no danger
from our slaves or colored people. The slaves taken
refused to take arms and the hrst man killed was
respectable free negro who trusted with the bag
gage of the railroad aud who faithful to his duty was
shot running from the philanthropists who came 10
liberate the black race
But why do our slaves on the border not take up
arms against their masters2 We must look firmly at
this fact before we take it solace In the answer
to that question lies the root Of our danger Matters in
the border counties oD hold their 8Laues 6y suterdnce-
The slave could fly to John Brown much easier than
he could come and take him. The slaves at will can
hberate themselves by running away. Inc unoer.
ground railroad is at their very doors, and they may
take passage when they please They prefer TO re-
main. JOIN, BroDns inudsion startled usj out Ns
have been taneEy submitting to greaer danger, aoth-
cut conteSsinl it, The plan which silently corrupts
and steals our slaves which sends secret emissares
among us to stampede" our slaves which refuses to
execute fugitive slave laws, when forms secret socle
ties for mischief with the motto, alarm TO their
sleep, fire TO their dwellings, ana poison 70 tnelI Iooo
| and water" and which establishes underground rail
roads and depots and rendezvous for invasion, is
more dangerous than the INVASION by John Brown
Yet the latter US, and in the former we have
been sleeplly acquesclng 1t is solace to me- her
that our border slaves liberated already by this
exterior asylum and by this STILL SILENT stealing sys
tem that hey haze need to lake up arms for tei,
oDn 6eratioH Confederate States as well as indlvid
uals have denounced our laws snd set them at def
auce they have by their laws encouraged and fac
tated the escape OF slaves, and have made aboi
tion cancer eating into our very vitals.
We must, then, acknowledge and act on the fac
permitted longer te exist without aboshing slavery
throughout the United States, or compelling us to de
!. fend 1t by force OF arms.
On the 25th ult. addressed letters to the Govern
ors of Mary land Pennsylvania and Ohio, OF which the
accompany wing are copies. From the Governor OF Ma
ryland have received very satisfactory reply, here
with submitted. / have received reply, by tele
graph, from the Governor OF Pennsylvania also, who
am proud to say, has promptly performed his duty
in delivering up the fugtves from justice, and who
protests that his State will do her confederate duty
in all respects He lntimates that Virginia ought mo-
anticipate that Peunsy will ne glect to prevent
obstructons to violations of the laws in her limits
but watchful guardianship OF Virginia safety conl6
not neglect to apprze Pennsylvanias authorities o
crimes medated against either State of which wa:
informed, and they were, probably not informed by
way of intelligence and warning. John Brown, with
his associates and stores had just before aread
passed through Pennsylvania, and had remained a.
places her limits, and he had enlisted one man, al
least negro, one of her towns. had not, there
FORE anticipated the facts Dut appealed to them fol
steps of prevention and precaut0n, after what hac
already occurred. And the Governor of Pennsylva
nia presume, speaks more in the spirits of q just
State pride than from such evidences OF danger ano
cause of apprehension as the Executive here is in pos
session OF respecting combinations, depots and rem
devious In adjoining States tor invading the borders
of Virginia. From the Governor of OHIO have as
vet received no answer.
On the same day, the 25th ut., addressed letter
to the President OF the United States, OF which tht
u
the accompanying answer, to which have not re-
piled, but upon which must here comment. d.
He seems 10 think that the constitution and laws o.
the United Sta do not provide authority for the
President to nterpose to repet iHvaso, or keep the
peace between the States, in cases where the citizens
of one State invade another State, unless the Execu-
tive Legislature of the State invaded applies fol
protection. differ from this opinion. Neither the
trainers Of the constitution nor the Congress OF l79t
were guilty of SO gross omission in their provision
for the national safety.
By clause Sd of secton 9th of article 1s of the Con
sttution the States deprived OF the power with
out the consent OF Congress- to Keep troops ships
s0ar in time Of peace, or TO engage in unless actu
ally ingaded in such imminent danger as toiN MOI
y admit Of delay"
To compensate them for this prvation Of the power
of preparation for defence, it provided section
4th of article 4th that e United States shaN guaran
Tee TO eosry State in the Union Republican form Q,
g0ue,nne1t and shall protect eack of them against
sion and application of the Legislature, of the
Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened
Now aSs it is readily 9c Conceded "Unted Slater" here
is to be taken as synonymous with the words "the
Congress-" The clause is in uxtapositon with clau
ses defining the powers of 'the Congress" And il
they not, by the 18th clause OF section 9Th of
tlce lst, to the Congress Is given the power ito
make all laws which shall be necessary and proper
for carrgiag into erecutioR its powers, and all
other powers, vested in the government of the u
nted States, or in any department or officer there
! Of"
This duty and power then of guaranteeing protec-
tion to every State against INVASION belongs unques-
tlonaby to Congress. Has it exercised the power?-
| IL has. Thus:
To the Congress also is given the power "to raise
and support armies" and TO provide and maintain
navy" and these called specially, "the land and
naval forces of the United States"
presume that no one will gainsay the proposition
that the chief object OF these land aud naval forces is
| to suppress Instructions and to repel inyaslons.
But in addition to these powers another is specially
added To provide for calling rth the militia to
ecute the laws Of the Union, suppress instructions
and repel invaslons." And presume that no one
will insist that the regular army and navy OF the Uni