Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-05-15
THE NEWS HERE.

TIE BALTIMORE Sun redoubles the earnestness
Of its labors In the cause Of d!sunion. Recover
ing from Its recent fright at the contemplation Of
what IL 90 nearly brought upon Baltimore not
long since, e,-that city's entire destruction in the
maintenance Of the authority Of the Government
and the discharge Of Its duty to preserve and hold
Warrington at all hazards-it (the Sua) 10 already
again iaooring with might and main to secure
ultimate success for the conspiracy Of the oil
garchy. Vide its issues Of Monday and Tuesday,
reader, for full proof of the fact.
IL 10 able to perceive wrong whatever in the
conduct Of the disunion conspirators; coolly at
tributing the impending war only to Northern
aggression upon the South-denouncing the Gov
eminent virtually for an atrocious despotsm, and
all those who maintain and sustain its constitu-
nonal and lawful authority, as co-conspirators
with IL (the Government,) In seeking to destroy
American liberties to the end of enslavng the
South. Such, in few words, is the gist Of its
arguments Of the times. In view Of the fact that
It's large circulation throughout Maryland renders
It's promulgaton Of such views under existing
circumstances likely to stir up the discontented to
act In accordance with the ten dency of It's teach
ings, II becomes doubly necessary that the Gov
eminent shall be prepared at all points throug hout
the state to maintain at the point Of the bayonet
the authority of the United states thus threatened
through the SUMS editorial columns Thus the
people OF Maryland opposed to having the war
Initiated upon their OwR soil, may thank the Sun
Tor the existing danger that such catastrophe to
them has been and continues impending.
How disingenuous the Sun really is, Is evident
In its unblus6ing Justification of the well known
truths Of very recent history, in its work of just
lying the attempt Of the oligarchy to destroy the
liberties Of those whose government they have
usurped. Surely 1t cannot forget that all know
mat the conspiracy for the Governments over
throw, was not as IL represents the result of Lin
coins election-but the consummation of a SC heme
OF treason hatched thirty years ago, las avowed in
the South Carolina convention,) J and carried out
by the secret disposition Of arms and munitions
of the Government day by day, week by week
and month by month, for years and years before
Lincoln was elected and now avowed to have been
to the end of preparation to for the
conspiracy whenever the oligarchy might be pre-
pared to spring the mine.
Realizing the weakness of this branch of Its az
gument, 1t takes occasion ere concluding to aban-
don IL for allegation that the North is makint.
the war to continue the South In commercial sub,
Jecten to Its interests charge as false as that
the United States and not their aggressors In a
thousand ways, are the authors Of the mischief.
Up TO this time the South has been the Govern
ment. IL has controlled the Governments policy
and filed with its own men more than half the
administrative places Of profit, and three-fourths
OF all those Of honor and high trust. The Gov
ernments policy has thus been that practically
of the South-resorted to In opposition to the cry
OF southern demagogues in many cases, because
IL was found on experience TO be the policy under
which the whole country, north and south, pros
pered most.
We have no space in which to argue with the
SEH the justice or injustice to the South Of the
governments commercial policy up to this time
but we may confidently assert, that until the DE-
novsn1sHt Of the oligarchys thirty-years' con-
splracy, no community ever prospered SO much
under Governments policy, in all things mate
rial TO the liberty, happiness, and the increase OF
the wealth Of people, as the South prospered
under that Of the Government Of the United States
This Is fact plain and undeniable as il in na-
tera TO an honest estimate of the secession plea of
the Baltimore Sun. Though negroes escaped
under the repugDance Of the North to duly ac-
minister the fugitive-slave law, and though the
drawbacks of soil, climate and sectional preiu-
dices have certainly defeated the disposition of
the politicians Of the South to settle up United
states Territories with slave labor that were bet,
ter suited to thrive II settled up with white la bor
the South prospered under the Government of the
United States as no community ever before throve,
we repeat.
On the d>noIen1snt Of the oligarchy's conspi,-
acy, taking the discontented at their word-th4 4t
the revolution was attempted to secure the South a
rights in connection with slavery-the North in
Congress promptly settled the slavery question
virtually on the terms Of the revolutionists; bv
dividing up the remaining territory of the l. nted
States under territorial governments embracing
provisions that rendered the bred Scott decision
an0soIuteIy and unquali1edly their supreme law
They also adopted, as far as Congress could do
so, new article Of the Constitution guarantee
ing slavery in all the States forever and fulIv
against any possible interference on the part cf
the National Legislature. They further COM
menced 2nd had made great progfess in the work
OF curing the fugitive slave law disability the
existence Of which the oIIgarchy at first pro-
cIaimed 10 De one OF the reasons why they had
made the revolution.
But t has taken only few brief weeks to rem
der 1t apparent to all who will now consent 10
realize the truth, that the alleged grievances re.
Tered TO above really had no further connection
as causes, with the origin Of the conspiracy than
TO play their part as the tub thrown to the southern
popular whale: that they were merely the straws
with which the masses Of the South were tic kIed,
70 make them open their jaws readily to gulph
down the naked military despOtism which the
oligarchy have substituted for the autboritv Of
the American Union, as the Government under
N tua
IL the United States follow the Sun,s advice
and consent to the dismem berment of the Il nion
they betray their high trust most shamefully
Thus they consign to the tender mercies OF the
oligarchy, the lives Liberties and property Of the
people Of the South. How grievously they will
afict the latter In doing, is evident In the demt
mac Ieign OF terrorism existing throughout every
to prospect Of anarchy and general ruin of all
their Interests Of every description such as the
mind shrinks from contemplating. They further
but parody Of the past Of Mexico; and In fine
they become parties to the greatest national crime
conceivable-to the destruction Of all the rights
lnefess ana liberties OF the freest haPpiest, most
enlightened and prosperous people the sun ever
shOne on.
II may require a war TO prevent such catas-
rophei but the temporary evils Of that war cannot
be 1.-THE as disastrous upon the general pubIIc
Interest az consent on the part Of the Government
to submit TO its own destruction, under existing
circumstances
These are plain truths concerning the sH,y,. -,
the times, realized by all the North and fast
coming to be realized by the South as we'll. as
dangerous as the existing reign Of terror in tbat
quarter makes 1t for those there REALIZING them -
proclaim the fact. -
An INTERESTING TABLE We have obtained
nom the Census Bureau the following Interest
ing table, giving the number Of white males,
between the ages Of Is and As inclusive. in tbs
States and Territories, as shown by the census Of
1850: -
FREE STATES. BORDER SLAVE STATES
California ....... 20, COO N. Carolina .I3a Onl
Connecticut ..... 81 600 Tennessee I67 OO0