Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1861-03-19
Is pisnnion war ar pence !

|, They told US last fall that the secession
i OF the Southern States would be civil and
serviie war, accompanied by horrors
compared with which those OF ST. Do.
mingo were c,,ild's play.
The friends of the South insisted that
universal secession of the South was
| Peace, aud that the remainder Of the
| Union would have neither the inclination
MOI the power to attack that which had
departed
What do we see now? The inaugural
Of President Lincoln. Notwithstanding
all its threats of coercion, is pronounced
q pacific document. and it is declared
that he does not believe what he saws
when he threatens coercion. and that lie
has not the means 10 enforce it,
Senator Douglas rises in his place in
Ithe Senate. and declaring the message
em'nently peaceful, says he is informed,
by military men, that an army of len
thousand soldiers, and the whole navy Of
the United States, would not be sufficient
to reinforce Maj. Anderson
Bravo, South Carolina All hail. gall
liant and glorious people! But if the
government of the United States. with
lis whole Navy and ten thousand men,
cannot even take the single town of
Charleston, what becomes Of the ridicu-
lous prediction that if the whole S,,ntb
instead Of one little S:@..e. hal c,ne ort
IN November :. wou,,,5,. nave been over
eo'i'' ~ the slack Republicans II it
taxes ten thousand men and the whole
United States NAVY to capture one little
city, how many men and how large
Navy would ii require TO conquer all the
Southern States. with the preparation
which each Of them would have had time
to make between November and March ,
No! 1t is clear as daylight that the
course of universal secession was the
course Of peace. and that our halfway
hesi;atiag measures have put us in dan
ger of war. If we still have peace.
thanks. eternal thanks. to the Southern
Coniederacy It's intrepid and unyield-
ing attitude will have saved US all. If in
deed this madness Of fanalicism can We.
take counsel Of wisdom and discretion.
The path of indepena.!rn was the path
of freedom: and safety. They, in any
event are safe. If menaced with war,
the whole South will fly TO their rescue.
and, even il it does not, the North, which
is unable to take Charleston with a small
er force than the whole American navy
and ten thousand men, will never be able
to overcome the Southern Confcderacy,
| defended by a hundred thousand such
warriors rs those who followed Jefferson
Davis at Buena Vista. and who waved
the Palmetto flag i'll immortal glory nj
Chepultepcc. Even in the more trying
ordc:.! OF peace, they will still be safe !;
for England. France, and ali Europe,
will link TO their hearts and environ with
their friendly diplomacy that garden
spot OF earth. which clothes and feeds
the telling millions OF the world. The
only danger it has to fear is from the
immense immigration Of New England
Abolitionis,s. who will flock like vultures
10 The new feast Of trade and commerce,
and stealthily endeavsr TO vote down
their institutions at the polls. Let The
Southern Constitutions make provisions
Tor such a contingency. and al! will be-
secure.-Richmond DaSp0tch.