Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-07
The Only Peaceful Solution.

one OF the most sanguinary wars the world
ever knew, ID drenching with blood the soil
Of the once loyal State Of Virginia. Her
people have been wiekedly betrayed into a
position Of hostility to the Nation Of which
she is n part, and with an unconquerablc
army the United States Government is put
ting down rebellion. Forbearance has MOI
only ceased to be a virtue, but it has become
"A crime The cause Of free government among
men demands the subugation, at whatever
cost, of those who seek to strike it down
Four months before the termination Of cX-
treme Southern rule at Washington, viz: in
/ November, 1850, South Carolina revolted
against Government which she had assisted
to form, and boldly declared her purpose TO
refuse all coD4promiSe. She was justified and Iol
lowed by six other erStates. formidable army
was organized, and armed with munitions ol
war stolen from the Government OF the United
States, by one Of the Cabinet officers, at Yarl-
Gus times during the year preceding tic I'rcsl-
dentiat eiecLton Conventions were called in
such of the other slave States as had secession
legislatures to call them. Traitors palmed
themselves off upon the people as Union men,
and were elected as Union delegates to those
Conventions Once elected they sought and
found flmsy prcteXts for gradually disclosing
their real sentiments, and after having, by
artGul falsehoods, inflamcd the public mind,
did what the most Of them intended to dc
from the commencement, but dared not
then do--votcd for ordinances of secession
| The civilized world knows with what i'm
becie acquiesccnce james Buchanan look ed
on--a gaping spectator-at these outragcs
until his disgraceful career was ended and
it also knows with what meekness and for
bearance the new Administration acted from
Sumter by the rebel traitors. The whole
world knows, too, that when actual civil wal
was thus made to follow revolt and robbery
not The Republican party, but every loyal
citizen, demanded that the war should be
ended only when the rebels should sue for
peace, upon fair terms to be dictated by the
National Government, supported by its peo-
pie. Troops were ordered into the field, in
time to prevent an invasion of the District
of Columbia upon the monstrous pretense
that it belonged to the sovereign State of
Maryland, and could only be occupied by the
Nation by suiferance of the State. When,
at the point of Cotton States bayonets, the
mockery of q ratification Of the Secession
Ordinance by a popular vote was accomp-
lished in Virginia, the armies of the Govern
ment took the line of march in the direction
of the rebel campsn that State. Ihcy drove
the traitors from Alexandria and were at
last accounts in possession of that approach
to the Capital. They will not turn back
wards. They will give quarter when they
are asked in the proper tone, and not until
then.
If Jefferson Davis can, with his men, sub
jugate G en- Scott with his, then the Southern
Congress will meet in Washington in July
If Davis cannot do this, he will either be q
prisoner of war or fugitive from Virginia
before the Goth Of July-the day appointed
for the reassembling of the Southern Con
grcss.
We are for peace, We hope the rebels will
retire from their present positions, and re-
store tranquility to the country. We believe
they will be destroyed from the earth if they
persist in carrying on this wicked war against
the Nation to which they owe allegiance. II
they have any reason left, they know that
they can never humiliate those against whom
they are arraycd. They have begun the war,
and they can end it. They have only to dis
perse, and all will be peace. There can be
no other peaceful solution. One side or the
! other must dictate the terms of peace. 1t
will not be the Davis Government. No for
cign power will be permitted to intervene
If the rebels are proud and brave, so are the
loyalists. If destruction is preferable 70 hu-
initiation, then let who can, destroy.
TIE CAusE-Civil war has been precipi-
tated upon the country because the Southern
frc-eaters were whipped in the last National