Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-10-08

/ prey Of pirates hundreds OF thOuSanuS Nlth-
drawn from wealth. producing labor and trained
to deal slaughter: Yes, the battlefields that have
drunk blood from civil strife the noble men
that have been cut off in aa instant from vista
Of honorable years; the agonies of wounded
aud dying the woe ia which thousands of hearts
have been stepped ;-and when think that eve
ry river might now be sweeping only peaceful
burdens, and every port might have been open
to cheerful intercourse, and every latitude of
the sea been safe for proud barques under the
Stars and Stripes. and not q dollar of private
property or national treasure been wasted by
cOnfscatiOn or diyested from the channels that
widen blessings I'll can say, with Joseph Holt,
of Kentucky that we realise-what think
the popular heart in its forbearance, has never
completely comprehended-the uaspeakaJle and
heiiish drocity Of this rebellion. 1t is perfect
saturnalia OF demoniao passion From the red
dened waters "t Bull Run, aud from the CORY
field of Manassas, there is now going up an ap-
peal to God and to millions Of exasperated men
against those fends in human shape, who, drunk
with the orgies Of an Internal ambition, are I'LL
ing to its brm the cup of n nations sorrow
Woe, woe, to these traitors when this appeal
shall ba answered."
Do you, apologsts for these madmen, sympa-
| thlacrs with their guilt, applauders OF their
success, accomplioes in their crime,--do you
dare to talk to of peace, dare take that bless
ed word on your foul lips, remembering what
| guu nave uunt III 9uu Nuto adAh VI leNSu
before the guilt Of breaking peace is punished? ?
Dare talk of peace SIMPLY that the ruEian desc
lalors may enjoy an unahadOwed victory The
etlrontery of this camor is as great as it would
have been for tories in the Revolution to have
denounced Washington and the Congress for des-
Olating the land with blood, Appealed for instant
terms with Great Britain, and begged to be en-
trusted by the loyal men with power
But let us look more closely at the question
of peace aud the obstacles 10 it. To an honord-
Die peace there are no obstacles. Put the coun-
try back where it was politically in December
last, aud there will be peace at once Let the
insurgents recall and disband their armies;
restore the forts they did not build, but have
stolen return the money they have fched
renew the oaths they have broken; run up the
flag they have insuled how to the Constitution
under which much Of their soil was bought and
given to them; and the war is oper. Not SOL
der nor a cannon muzzle will cross one of their
frontiers, except to protect them. The blockade
| will melt from their ports. Transit and traffic
will be as free on the Mississippi as the down
ward flow of its yellow stream. Commerce will
at once renew its benefoent interplay. No ship
of war will cross the bar of q Southern harbor,
except as the sign of the common sovereign
power, Of which the South, as heretofore, will
be part.
And this will be no subjugation. If it is, it
is such as New York, and Massachusetts,, and
/ Kentucky suffer fsom. 1t is sabjugation in
| which they have the same voice in the laws, the
same share in the gories, the same participation
in the benefits Of the empire-the same, nay,
greder ratio of representation in its trusts. For
the rebelhous States eau come back in au instant
to have more power in proportion than loyal
Ohio and cnivalrous Rhode Island They eau
come back to claim representation in Congress,
not only for their citizens but for u portion Of
their property, which is sternly denied by the
Constitution to every State which stands for its
defence in arms. They can come to enjoy an
amount Of political liberty and prosperity which
+ would bo enyied by ninety-nine hundredths OF
the human race, as near approach to civil
millennium
Who ever heard of war before in which the
q guilty insurgents could command peace full Of
blessings, On equal terms with the injured party
in all respects but one, and that one insuring
superior beneftg Let gentlemen who live in the
North, uuder the protection Of the Constitution
and the Flag, and who have sympathies for the
South, aud influence with the rebel leaders, if
they burn with a desire for peace, aud are af-
feeted with horror at invasion, subjugaton and
boodshed, turn their energies towards the aW-
M0ys Of the war, and hasten the return Of peace
the most honorable, beneheent, economical, that
can possibly be realized. 1t is field inviting
their noblest ambition.
But the peace-clamorers are careful TO make
The recognition Of Tic rebel Increment the founda-
ton Of the pence which they would seduce the
people to urge upon the Government. They
want the Southern Confederacy acknowledged
at once, that we may get quiet again, and the
good old days Of light taxes and general pros
perity
Suppose that this could be done forthwith,
as easily as it can be counselled, ehdt lVould il
cost as us u nation Not only the retiring
States not only the burning insult to the
Government not only square miles of territory
, by the tens of thousands, which have been paid
for to insure general good but tho animatiag
principle Of tie national prosperity itseJ; some
/ thing which can not be expressed by hundreds
of millions
r The vigorous pen Of Joseph Holt, of Kentucky,
has not written more weighty sentence than
that in which he recently said the system of
i arithmetic has yet to be invented which could
: estimate in dollars and cents the worth Of our
: institutions" This is literally true. Our ma
teridy prosperity has grown out of the sovereignty
of the Constitution through all our States, aud
over all our domain. Under the Confederation
A that preceded the Constitution, which was based
Q on the doctrine of separate State supremacy, we
: were a poor, despised, contemptibie, bankrupt,
j. disntegrating people. In spite Of our rich re-
q sources and noble domain, we had only life
= enough to be conscious of dying.
b It was the yivifying Constitution, with its
! claim of allegiance and its direction of public
energy into one broad channel, that created our
opnlence and power. This was more to us than
! the leflliiNy Ol our sui, tuc hEdnuiNs VI DuE
mountains the highways of the lakes, the bor-
e derug bounty Of the "great, wide sea-" For
this made the resources and opportunities avail
: able.
Washington said, under the old Confederation,
that our resources wero ample and increasing,
sufficient to make us one Of che most respectable
nations upon earth-but the system of govern
ment, he said, was such as to give vital stab to
nublic faith, and nothing bat one sovereign
| he insistad cOul save us from bniuo
} moor in sp' ''s Of our riches.
Acknotylsdre 'he rebellion in so few months
after it eomnscts itse,. Acknowledge it without
gathering ali possible powe, TO put it down, and
we acknowledge the principle that .s,'s.
the idea of State supremacy, the leglt. ~'y y
q secession. Aud then the nation has ncknon
edged it for Illinois, for Pennsylvania, for
Brigham Young, for Minnesota for California,
1t has acknowledged that Michigan owns Lake
Superior and Lake Huron that Connecticut
holds clean title at pleasure to Long Island
sound that New Jersey may close Delaware
, Bay by Armstrong gurs on Cape May that New
York may steal the Hudson aud seal its mouth
with tariff; that Nevada has sovereign title
> to its silver lodges. 1t las taken one long step
towards its grave. 1t has not only lost proyn-
, cesi it has lost principle that gave them, and
, the States that remain, the most Of their value
II has not only lost stream, but has consent ed
to see the fountain ohoked out of which all its
streams have flowed. As matter of Du5li,
+ economy the nation could better afford 10 pa1
, hundreds Of millions than 10 hurry into IA peace
, which would acknowledge the principle Of Stat,
sovereignty, and thus introduce the disease O.
civil scurvy into the tissues OF the body 1olitie
{ The peace would cost too much.
t But, all this while, we are talking as thouuI
= we could have peace by acknowledging the re,
= bellon and its Confederacy Two minutes re
Election will show that il is impossible gunnos