Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-03-28

tn OrrsrIoS IN IssuE-Our talented and
inoenuous cotemp orary of the Alexandra Sea-
,i,,l. like all the rest Of the men Of the press
engaged In the work Of seeking to rob the people
Of Virginia Of the liberty of free speech, the
liberty of the press, and the right OF suffrage, ana
TO induce them to court ten-fold taxation upon
themselves only in order to fix the Ollgarchy ana
their army Of subordinate leaders In once 1or HE
at the peoples expense, seems incapable Of doing
a straig ht forward thing. Thus, II never quotes
the Star without garbling It's publications-never.
However in view of the persistence OF the game
Of Misrepresentation on which the disunionists
base their hopes Of success to protest against Its
application to Us, we know WELL will be In vain
We take pleasure In assuring the Sentinel that
the only Unionism which we regard as being OF
real value, is that which opposes disunionlsn
under whatever pretensei s may be urged; whether
an the means Of reconstruction as 1t was not long
since urged on Virginia; or as the means OF fully
and finally severing Virginia's connection with
the Government of our fathers, as tie Sentinel
and fts colaborers one and all are now urging II
We know well that Congress has passed the Pro
position to amend the Constitution Of the United
states (by the constitutional two-third vote,) SO
that the rights Of shareholders can never be In
fringed by the Government, In the States
We know well, also, that every State that has a
peal Il In the course Of few months, and thus OBJ
viate the fugitivs-slave law grievance Of the
South.
We know, further, that In establishing govern
ments for the three new Territories, Congress
granted to the South all her rights in connection
with slavery, which those of her citizens asked
who were not more anxious TO make the question
astak!ng- horse for political aud sectional agita-
tion than secure any practical right or benefit to
the South.
we know, still further, that the present Ad.
mlnistTetion is in no manner aggressing either
the border slaveholding or the seeded Ststc Stat.
'nd that, on the contrsfv, that .or, than snv IRE.
oefelul .ssee,5AHal Administration ever was.
And we know vet further, that whatever terms
Of guarantee for the future security of the real
slavery rights and interests of the South I'm the
Union the border slaveholding States Convtn-
ton may agree to ask Of the North, will be
granted by every non-slaveholding State In due
time; because all now know that those proposed
stpulatiuns will be drawn up In good faith to OBJ
tain guarantees rather than to the end Of getting
them rejected by the North, and thus eventually
working the border States out of the Union;
which will be the policy Of the disunionists from
the moment the Convention Is determined to be
held, until 1t finally consummates Its labors
We therefore propose to oppose to disunion per
So, Union per AS far as in our power lies the
people of the border States shall be made to COM
prehend fully that the disunionists aim TO rob
them Of all their distinctive American liberties
and franchises, only to the end Of confirming In
ONCE for life unquestioned, the Cobbs, Toombs.
Rhetts, Masons, Wigfalls, Garne.ts, ct al, who
have already injured southern rights nd interests
quite az much as the abolitionists
We trust the Sentinel will not understand US a.
intimating belief that any further s..-.n,oss
are necessary than the adoption by the North Of
the Corwin amendment to the Constitution and
the repeal Of all the Personal liberty bills Know
ing, however, that many patriotic and sincere
Union men In the border States think differently,
we shall labor to aid them 70 obtain what they
may ask, because they will ask nothing which
the North may not frankly, fully and properly
grant, under existing circumstances. We shall
advocate them, too, as the bes. possible means of
sweeping from under their feet all the semblance
Of grounds Of present future mplai Mt against
the Government of our fathers, on which our
country's domestic enemies now stand By the
time the border slaveholding States Convention
meets, every citizen Of those States will realize
that there is literally almost nothing whatever
left In issue IN connection with the slavery ONES
tion and that the question is gradually narrowing
down between the advantages Of becoming sub
jects Of the Government of the Oligarchy on the
one hand, and Of remaining citizens of the United
States on the other; which is just where we fper-
sonally) desire to see the question stand