Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-03

to say nothing of patriotism, Is a false one
To oppose the war is to prolong it. vigo-
ruus war is the short and the only road to n
speedy peace Instead Of sapping the euer-
gies OF the nation by a misiHken or insidious
opposition, rather let us (U5 Mr.. Douglas uig
ed in his latest appeal to the uation,) unite in
"the most unanimous and stupeudous prrpa-
r. lions" for the war, that may the sooner
arrive at a settlement of our difficulties,
satisfactory to both sides if possible, and not
huniliuting to either
That there must be much debt and taxation
il inevitable. 1t is the price which great
nations have to pay for their power, their
position and their rights The people that
submits 10 dismemhcrment, loss Of place and
nationality, until after a tremendous and eX-
hausjiug struggle. is doomed on the earth. Its
history is written and the volume closed. Its
"sun has gone down, while yet it was day -
For fifty years we have not been called on
for war tax Out Of oar ahundance shall
We grudge this mite to sustain the best gp
vtrnlaeut on ear h, to which we owe it all ?
1 Oar brethren in the other states pour out
their money and their blood in the cause
Shall California to whom the Union Is more
than all the rest. he heard to complain of II
tax? Let the Union fll and size viii re-
psut in sack cloth and ashes she had not Civ
on her all to preserve It.
Peace aud The Southern Confedericy are
demanded, also hrcause (~ay thry) this is
an "Abotion war" By This understand that
The war Is or is to lie, wagcd for the ahoH-
tion Of slavery in the hostile states. There
is no Just ground for this charge, either in the
Original purpose Of the war or IN the conduct
of it, thus far. Il isa war begun and waged
to uphold the Union and the Constitution
J. G L., MT l,4..,
! perverted from TINT sacred purpose and can
( NOT be. The irresponsible tnuatics, here and
there, who SEEK to give it, different char3e
/ ter will fail in their efforts IT uiu,t he that
/ the eccua tion IA intended only fer politiea
/ lect. Who can credit i, that reflects tha
! the war is earnestly lstnincd 10y Crittenden
and johnson lof Vsnarssec) aud liekiusou
and Cass, and Dis aud Walker, and many
such men That it Nas approved by Doug
las with bis dying breath? Ihnt it Is firmly
upheld hy Maryland and Kentucky in the
popular branch of Congress- 1hnt it had
the solemn sanction Of the pous and ycnrra-
hle heads of the Christian church's, Who f :
the frI time in all their lives made public
their 'iews on political question Are nlI
/ those great and good men and ,hose south
ern and slayeholIing States guilty Of hound
. ing on an "Aholiion war;
1hp .tatcuent is cruel calumny an out.
rage equally upon all lropriety aud sense.
Theiruth Is, the deaaul for "peace at any
price" is simply the prevent version of the
old cry of " no coercion in any event Both
are the rtlIying ciiea Of movements mad u
this state Ia The interest, not fthc uiion,
/ but Of the states in arms 90 destroy it.. That
our fellow citizcns who are bound hy birth,
! hlood or friendship to the hostile Staits
-hoHl have their sympa'hics deeply excited
tor them Is not mt all surprising. can the
better dpfrse.alc- --hecause have felt and
still feel in my own person tile o"cr O.
those strong and kindly jllu.uces Yet
who oaa doutt that the very strtu-tb @
hose fe .Iiugs ia most apt to overcome The
patriotism and the Judgment OF those il
whom it is greatest hmd 20 Tondor them
most unsafa guides ia questions hetwecn the
country and those States, and which reach
| neyuuI our time into luturi'y? That they
should love pant Of the country letter than
| the whole, may /. natural hat they shou j
I therefore in this contest side with chat part
-Hiust the whole i, also not very unatual,
/ however erroneous. But. | pat il to those
men themselves and to their eauacr is 1t Just
/ to the whole 10 seek to force upon Il Il policy
! which is fatal TO it, 70? the qualification Of
their feelings and The advantage Of partf
Civil war is terrible yet it is the ordeal
/ in which all the nations are tried. Some
+ survive the trial and come out the stronger
1 for it. These are the great nations of the
earth, like France and England. Have we
less national life, viGor and courage than
they2 Or are We 10 perish in the fires, Ike
some infcrjo: race?
Ifthe country is now to surrender at dis
cretlon we may as well give up entirely, for
everything is gone. There is neither Union
nor Constitution for the States that so cut
or those that remain Secession and r1yolu-
tion will be the new order of things Free
institutions, government by the will of the
majority consiitutionally expressed, are no
more No election viii stand where the de-
fentc1 party has the force to overthrow it
We are sunk to the MeXican level The power
and the glory and The very name Of America
among the nations are departed forever.
To California this election has a conse-
Qucucc ueurcr and e2cn more m3mentous, of
Which her people should think very deeply.
The evils Of the times have been to her a
material advantage. From the misfurtunes
of the country ehe has reaucd nothing but
benefit Wealth and population ard the
expectations Of many in all the Statee have
hrgun 10 set toward, her like a tide, and a
long course of boundlcss prosperity was OPP
euing hef,~e her She wC3 known to be a
loyal State, and she was remote from the
civil strife Men knew that within her Lor
ders would be found peace, concord and St.
curly.
# tie ticket headed hy Mr.. Mcconnell
shall receive any considerable vote all this
bright prospect will disappear. Though a
large proportion OF that vote should have
been cast for him 10y men entirely loyal to
the Union and on grounds distinct from The
question Of peace or war yet the result will
most as-urediy lie cljfned as triUni b of
those who sympathize with the hostile ~ tates
more than they do with the country, and
who are for an unconditional degrading aud
fatal surrender 10y the Government In the
camps of Secession it will he hailed as a t!i-
umph, and will do more to encourage the
foe and protract the war at the added cost
of thousands of lives and millions Of money,
than another Manassas But to the friends
of the Union and Of California it will bring
sorrow and gloom 1t will show the exist
cnce here Of an cement Of danger and it
will blast all her bright prospects at stroke
de-troy her credit, arrest the flow OF wealth
and population, and parslyze all the elements
OF her prosperity and power Her sister
States will look on her with grief and di-
trust and the nation will turn with averted
brow from the ungrateful child to whom she
has always given, and lately more than ever
from the fulness Of her means and Of her
bounty.
OF such thing as the success Of this ticI
ct, do not trust myself to speak, both be-
| causa | bplipvp II hat in,nn-siIle and because