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SEGEAklOE rs PEACE
No one who has a proper appreciation Of
the present crisis, probably now doubts
That tbe harmony of feeling and una
niPhy Of purpose manifested in the Con-
kasrats STATES, have done morei than any
= thing else to conserve the peace Of The com
try. Had disahsetiob, fsstiOus opposition
and bigOted intOlsrenes continued to rstard
their progress, and the rancor of partisanship
been allowed to sway their feelings, there are
scarcely two opinions as to what would have
been TIE course Of the administration which
has Just passed from power. Mr.. BUCHANAN
and bis advisers, we feel safe in asserting,
would not have serupled a moment to adopt a
eoereing policy. His negation Of the prinei-
pie OF States rights, ais federal theory Of our
Government and the outside pressure Of pub
lie sentiment throughout the North, would have
eonspired 10 render him a facile tool TO execute
the behests OF a party whose last spark Of Vi
tally perishes with the expiration Of Tie Re-
public. In fact there is much reason to sup
pose that, inspired with tsmerity BY the afro
elOus eOuusels of General soorT, he would
stnl have sssayed the dangerous project, had.
It not been fOrthe. bold stand taken BY the Dor
der slave States against the brutal programme
otthat ambitious military leader. It is hustle
saity Of fseliag in the South, in opposing the
maintenance Of the Government By force,
as 80 far svsrtsd a terrible conflict between
tie State and federal troops.
But the inception Of a new and more oaious
Administration, with the sequel Of its Official
declaration Of war upon the South, and tie
virtual defiance Of the snti-eoereion attitude
Of the non-sseeded slaveholding States, pre-
SCENTS the question Of resistance anew for our
consideration. Mr. LINCOLN, relying upon
the division and disafsction in these States,
and upon The strength Of the unconditional
Union partE, has issued a manifesto in which
be absolutely ignores the very existence Of the
Government OF the Confedsrats States, and
announces bis contingent determination to
wage war upon them should they not hasten
20 beat a retreat, cry Tor quarter and espitu-
late. TAis bold declaration is made in the
eonhden. BELIEF that the border States will ad-
here to the Federal Government, and play their
part in the bloody tragedy which be has dram
stissis 50 carefully for the political boards. In
case be should have calculated without bis
host, and bis plan should be baffea By resist
ancs from a united South, be leaves 3 loop
hole OF retreat in the following very Ingenious
" devised proviso to which We have once be-
fsrs referred: q The course here indicated,
viii be followed unless current eBenis and
eEperienos sbsnlshow a modification OF change
70 be proper"
It requires nc great deal Of ssgacity to
fathom its meaning. It indicates a probable
intention 10 abandon his war policy should
"eurent grents' superinduce union Of the
south, or should experience show the ssces-
sion moverlsnf too formidable for his proposed
remedy. But if a reaction should take place
in the gull States if the border slave States
conclude ioEunite their dsstiniss with the
North II aid and comfert are furnished 70
the enemy BY our own wrsngliRgs and dis
putss-we having nothing else to expect than
the eonsummstisn OF this nefarious scheme Of
depreciation and bloodsbsd. It can only be
svsrtsd BY aaiied resistasoe-and this resist
snes is only practicable after secession from
The FEDERAL UatoA. It is utterly visionary to
suppose that the President Of the Northern
1=AeNa hNAA a ~ EDa q TIE GDu-A 70
enforce sllsgianee 70 foreign laws in the event
Of being opposed by q united people. He
most certainly would attempt their threatened
execution did the southern movement only as
pre- TO the pretsusions Of a mere Instruction
or a local rebellion. But when, confning
itself to no one State or community, it has
nred the hearts Of one half Of a whole na-
ton, and has swollen int a mighty revolution,
nothing short Of fsndish malignity could
counsel TIE adoption OF a policy which would
sitablY conduce to an iueeoncilable and fe-
ReSfof the ssctioas-a war, too, whose
ro barbsrites would End no justification
-'.hsr in the present judgment Of mankind, or
IN the future verdict Of their postsrity. It is
an issue for - to solve, thsrefors-not as par
dssns, but ss patriots, not as casuisis but
humanitarians-shsT the solution Of our trou-
bles be psacsable OF forclbls? ShslIh be ae-
comp.isbed through the instrumentality OF the
sword and the bsyonet, OF BY diplomacy and
negotiation? OF all e|'curreut events' that can
stay the tide Of b!oodshed, secession is most
sHsctual-0f all '-eKperiencss that win render
a change Of policy "Proper, ? resistance is most
certain. Peace. harmony and future prosper
itv are to be found only in THE UNION OF TIE
South.