The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-30
Rrhmunh pispatth.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JAN. 80. lse,


WEpN ESDAY MOkNIN9.. JAN. 30, 1861.
Let 10 not be Deceived.
Nothing could ee more fatal than for yir-
sinia 70 rely upon prosaises from Washington
far an adjus,unxht Of the sectional issues
pccialiy upon promises which are dissemina-
ted about the time of the important election
so near at hand. Adjustment is not a thing
that can be effecte in a day, a week, or n
year. by three men, or thirty, or three thou
sand, The disease of the country is section
alisna. 1t RACES among the masses. Ii is a
cankcr 10 the hearts Of the people. 1t Is past
the remedy Of politicians II defies the nos
trums Of Washington quacks
The Union is not u political continuance, but
ii condition of American society, the growth
OF MANY wears and il cannot be saved by
mere expedients How mistaken are those
who consider the Federal Government the
foundation OF the Union' Tits but an emblem
and result-a convenience and ms trument in
the hands of Union TO effect her purposes
The Union of these States is the natural con-
dtt;on of society on this continent, which ex-
listed before and independently of, the Fede-
raj Government. When il ceases, the Federal
Government falls but the government may
erumble 10 pieces a thousand times and yet
the Union remain. They are two things, and
II is the Union which is diseased and not the
government.
The author of The Crisis, ths trumpet of
the war of independence, wrote wisely when
thus disting uishing between society and gov
eminent:
Some have so eOntounded society with govern
uent as TO leave little or no distinction between
them; whereas. they are not only different, but
have different objects. Society is produced by our
wants, and governments by our wickedness-the
one encourages intercourse; the other creates
distinctions. Society, in every state, Is bless
ing; but government, even in its best state, is but
necessary evil-iu its worst state an intoierable
ore. Government, like dress, is the badge OF lost
innocence; the palaces of Kings are built on the
ruins of the bowers Of PARADISE
The Union began with the wars of the colo
nists with the savage, and had its origin in
the necessity for common measures of defence.
There was association without common gov
eminent II was continued during the strug
gle with the mother country, when all united
for self preservation. 1t went on after the
achievement of independence, the whole gain
ing more respect in the eyes of the world than
each divided into fragments. Thus com
mon history produced similar institutions,
and from both together resulted common inter
ests kindred feelings, and natural assoclatloh
Afterwards, free emigration TO ana iro, ana
interchange of citizenship: free trade, with
its millions CT business transactions and mu-
tusI interests countless intermarriages, with
their silken ties and the innumerab!e liga-
ments which grow out Of intimate social, ana
geographical relations, conspired to make
union the natural normal, and cherished con-
dition of American society. 1t was union into
a community Independently of government !;
il was social condition, and not political
contrivance.
If sectonalism has entered the minds and
hearts of the people, if sentiments of antaSo-
nism actuate the masses, and a barrier OF ice
and alienation divides what was one people
into two, then Union has ceased as condition
Of society, and must, per necessity, cease also
as contriyance of government To attempt
10 restore union by tinkering at the govern
ment, is like physicking a dog to cure the dis
ease of its master. To look to Washington
for peace offerings, which can only come from
millions of people oversPreading half the
continent, is to become Milerites in politics,
and expect n millennium from the preaching OF
deluded self-constituted prophets.
The two great Churches of the Bapists and
Methodists, which represent the masses OF
the two sections, have divided apart, and
proved the inter alienation OF the TWO wings
OF their flocks Ii the sundered segments of
these Christian association should come to-
gethcr by mutual ton, and be cemented
into II whole by reciprocal affection, this
would be such glad tidings of great JOY as the
telegraph might flash with ecstasy over the
land as newspapers might herald with ex-
h.lerating tiourishes of type; as patriots
might hail with unalloyed gladness, and
sleep upon with repose unrelieyed by anxiety.
But it is only evidences OF a character like
these which can insure the return of friend
ship between the sections and convalescence
10 the Union. But when it is announced that
Mr.. SEWARD, Mr.. DOUGLAS and Mr.. CRITrEy
DEN have put their heads together and de-
vised scheme of compromise, we recognize
only piece of head work, without heart
work; we turn from their scheme as the mere
continuance of an ingenious and interested few
the truce of politicians, the ruse of an enemy,
and not the spontaneous Offering of the null
titude, returning to sense OF justice and pa
triotism.