Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1861-04-25
THE DUTY OF THE B0RBER SLAVE
STATES,
From the Louisville Journal, 18th.


We are in the midst Of q crisis Of dark
snd terrible import. Every dispa,sionaie
intelligent and reflective man knows how
i, wa, brought upon US. A fana,ical par
ty in the North. after having. in violation
of the spirit Of the Constitution, waged for
yearss relentless though vain warfare a.
gainst slavery and Shareholders, nominated
sectional candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency Of the United States last
spring. The ultra politicians Of the South,
impelled BY long hatred Of the Union,
and not doubling that the election Of the
Northern candidates could be used as the
most certain means Of its dissolution, pro.
ceeded 10 render the success OF those can
didates inevitable BY adopting measures
for the division Of the Democratic party
into Douglas party and Breckenridge
party. This policy succeeded. the North
ern candidates were elected elected through
the influence OF the Southern conspiracy
and then the conspirators, svailing them
selves Of the odious and atrocious results
of their own machinatious and lators. pro.
ceedsd to prsciprtaie State after State out
Of the Union, seizibg violently and lawless.
ly all the United States money end other
United States property within their reach.
We need not here repeat the expression
Of our views in regard to Fort Sumter
We regard the late assault upon that fort
as an act Of unjustiiabls aggression, an act
of war, deserving the severest reprehen-
sion and the sererest punishment, and we
anticipate the speedy commission, BY the
South, Of other acts Of the same character.
Certainly there is much, in what has re.
Gently been done and in the prospect sl
what is likely TO be done, 10 provoke the
United States Government 10 enuntervail
ing movements Of the utmost vigor. Bu
here arises the question, the momeniou'
question, whether such movements would
not, far from accomplishing any good, bring
about evil and only evil-evil terrible ir
character and fearful IN extent, involving
The guilty and tho innocent alike oi bott
sections Of the country in the most awful
desolation and ruin.
II is the official duty o: The President ol
the United States 10 execute the laws, but
when he sees that he cannot possibly de-
this at all, or at any rate that he cannot DE-
it without tho Inauguration and cnnsumma.
ton Of evils and cnamilies hundred time.
greater than any already existing. he may
well acknowledge the stern and inexorab's
necessity Of staying his hand. Assuredly
the whole power OF the nation outside o
the Southern Confederacy could not perma.
nently execute the United States laws with
in that Confederacy. The territory NIGH
b. ovsrrun, every square rood Of its sol
might be moislened with blood, oil resist
sncs might possibly for q time dlssppea,
before the march Of victorious army, bul
resistance would spring up seain as speed
lily as trodden blade Of gras. springs back
TO its position. Only by the utter snnihi-
la.ion Of the whole population Of the seced.
ing States, only by the tr,n,fosms'ion q
the entire South into red and reekine
desert. could the laws Of the United States
be enforced there; and they could not BE-
enforced even then, for there would b
nens upen whom they could operate
Mr.. Lincoln and his Secretary Of State
Il appears, have issued Proclamation, call
ing upon the loyal States Tor an army o
70, 900 men for the reiakins Of oil the uni
ted States forts. srsena's. armories. ans
s,hsr United Sss.es properly seized by ths