The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-04-30
WILL THEY PERSIST IN THIS WAR P
From the Richmond Dispatch.

lie learned from the few leading Ab"litionists. and
not from the large, Loose, masses OF population.
I hey cannut be learned from the ephemeral de-
nIoIIstration of popular temper. announced to US
from day to dav by the telegraph. 1 hat uniortun-
ate people are wonderfully liable to epidemic feel
ing. which nreciIate them into great aud drUll
| extravayaEces Of conduct. They CONSTITUTE
ed, that it is ph, siI"gical necessity for them to
be carried away periodically by some rage or 9th
or to burn at intervals with ID Consuming fever OF
some snrt-whether it be over kossuth and Hun
gary, the Juraneese. the Prince of Wales and his
suite, or John G. IIeenan, or Lincoln aud his Bob
/ o. Lincoln of son. Their present. rage is over
the Union and Yankee Doodle, aud takes militia
~ turn They gning to overdo the business
OF soldering az shockingly they overdo every
thing else tEcy take up with furorc; and the dose
of tcmioolery they arc about to nhct upon :he
world will be the most disgusting the world has
vet had to bolt at their hands with wry face
| The hour is tempting for 1.-The summer soldier
aud the sunshine patriot to exhibit his piumes
and his enthusiasm, and we shall have such a
marching Of troops, aud such a hourlshlng OF
rumpets for a few days weeks. would strike
terror 10 the dnuned adversary, if that adversary
had learned perfectly well the real nature and
significance Of these spasmndic demonstrations.
The Yankee people have lost their Yankee ma
lures if they in TACT have any stonlachs for the
war they have inauyurated. They are the
! last people in the world to persist in course of
conduct that won't pay" Or all people III the
world they the ones least addicted to the folly OF
uuarre.ing with their bread and butter his war
not only won't pay pulley, but exposes them
10 the most stupend"us losses What people Iii
the world have more property or larger interests
ahoat upon the ocean than they? And President
| Davis has hit them between wind and water
with his prompt aud pertinent proclamation call
my for Trivatcers. That Proclamation speaks to
ren lie OF all nations and tongues, anG invites the
daring enerPrlsing from every quarter OF the c"m-
| pass he richest prize ever offered to a beger-
cnt power is offered to the South 10y the floating
commerce Of the Yankees. The iairest oppurtun-
ty offered tlcetle>s nation for inIprovising
"a complete navy is now offered the South by the
f"atng plumber of Yankees. ) privateer ship is
in naval. what volunteer regiment is in military
! organization, hut it is much mure promptly lmprn
vistd, from tho fact that its and officers have
the incentive of booty to lure them into service
while the volunteer soldier has only the boon of
canSe he loves urge Him into enl stment. Tae
W Il III If the M, is in Is seabDard cities an
ships that Of the South in the interior Country
un their plantations. The Yankees property, that
| which he holds dcarer than all things else, is III
xIosed situations where il is liable at every
ent To be pnunced upon 10y Southern privateers
Southern navicS or Southern armies, Whereas it
will c,>t him than it is worth to reach the
best values III the South His enthusiastic de-
m"n>tratiuns. which we are witnessing at present.
in New York ard elsewhere and his prou>e and
ma9nIEct ut prefers of men and money to Lin
colin iir aggressive war upon the South. from
he first impulse OF passion and the dictates
u: that sober, second thought which rules him in
his conlrr moments. and inclines him always to
decide for the profitable side of measure 10
watch his various phases of conduct while passing
from his present raw head and bloody bones di>pu-
~iti'm towards the South, to those profitable and
amicable conclusions at which he will arrive in
few days or weeks hence, will be as entertaining
instructive to the political entomoosist.
1t is not, repeat, from the spaSmodic demon
STATIONS of the Northern popuace that We are to
learn the policy which that section intends to pur
sue in tie new relations that have arisen between
the North and the South 1t is rather from the
aboliti"niSts proper, who h"rc purpose, will aud
re1>istency, that are to derive this Important
information. And il must be recollCcted that this
class of Northern politicians humanitarians and
lcace men. lie most c"n>pIcuouS exemplhcat!"n
ut their consistency advocates Of peace the
conduct of Sumner, whose bloody shirt and crack
ed skull were carrird over the ocean for public ex-
hibitIon at Exeter Hall, mute but eloquent
witnesses of his cumbatancy.
he abolition party proper have never advocated
sectional war upon the South. They have de-
uounccd the | mon and reIudiated the Constitu.
ton they have cried aloud for dissolution but
they have never advocated a war OF Conquest and
>utugatun against The South. Accordingly We
inI Wendell Phillips, the Noses OF the abolition
movement, the writer Of the book of Genesis in
abolition literature setting his face against
In recent speech at Boston, he is reported us de-
livering himself Of the following sentiments
decidedly the most catholic aud judiciuuS have
ever known him to utter:
"Tu-morruw : breeze, when it sweeps from the
North, will bring to the echo of the first Lex
lugtom battle ut the revolution. We'll, what
shall say o.! such AN hour My OWN feeling is
double one. 1t is like the triumph of sadness
late you enuu;: III the sublime spectacle of twenty
mill ous OF pe"l L. clue; ted in tw elvemonvh up
to being willing that their Idolzed Union should
risk battle, should risk dissolution. in order at
any risk put down this rebellion of slave States
But | am sorry that gun should be freu at
Font Sumter, OF Tat gun should be Fl, ed from
II Tor this The administration at Washing
ton does not know its time. Here IA series of
States @irding the Cult, who think that their pc
cuiiar Institutions require that they should have
separate Government They have hit TO de-
eide that question without appealing to you or me-
\ large body of people sufficient 10 make Il nation
have come to the conclusion that they will have
Government of Il certain form. Who denies them
the right Standing with the principles of 76
Lrhind us. who can dcny them the right? " hat
is matter of few millions of dollars or u few
f,,rfS IL L. lr,r, III.