, 1861-01-09
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l1tis q compliment which the seceding
States do, not deserve, to dignity their re
sistance to tho constituted authorities with
the narils Of ciril~war: By properenetgy
and determination On thf part Of the Ad-
1ninistratton, and by the maintenance Of
their*astitude On the part Of the earnest
friends Of the Union, the difhcqlues:whlsh
arc 70 be overcome in the prompt and COM
plcts enforcement Of the laws, will not
amount TO those encountered IN putting.
down IN ordinary 1lremnn's riot in Phila-
dclphia, OK Plug-Ugly muss in Baltimore.
The prominence in the politics of the coun-
uyraf the men who are at tho head Of the
secession movement, and their SUCCESS III
dragging the oGgarchy in two or three
statEs into the crime which they have de-
ternined to commit, have giren moments
r. Importance to events which in them
selves contain nothing that seriously
threateas tho supremacy Of the Constitu-
ton or the pcrpctuity Of the Union; and
when the offensive and defensive resources
or: the nlready Impoverished and starving
communities which seem 10 impcril tho
public peace arc counted up, it would be
misuse Of language to make it convey the
idea that War, as we ordinarily use the
word, can grow out Of the troubles of the
day: The task Of putting once more into
harmonious operation the machinery of
the Federal Government, in the States upon
which the rebels have seized, may possibly,
nay, probably will, cost the ctfusion of
blood, and not unlikely the hanging Of
score or two OF the fools who have plotted
their own certain destruction. But war is
not waged by grown men upon children
and women-by powerful States upon petty
provinces, by just governments upon duti-
full aud peaceful subjects. Its a contest
between forces, which, il not equal, are not
so wholly disproportioncd that resistance
Of ono to the other is not possible. Let
us then hear no more complaints from The
eem;-seccss;onists Of the Nort., that Civil
War is about to be inaugurated in the land,
and that tho scenes which occurred in
South Carolina, during the Revolutionary
struggle, when the patriots had more to
foar from the halters of native Tories, than
from the bullets and bayoncts of the British,
are to bc rc-enactcd. The Wrestling Of the
fsw coast Notifications from the hands Of
the misguided me5l who have seized them,
the assertion Of the right of the govern
ment Of the United States to buy and COL
lect the revenues at the Southern ports,
and the arrest with warrant in the Mar
shals hands, and tho punishment Of tic
rioters who have usurped the authority Of
tbs officers Of the Inv, can have no such
consequences, Tho cry Of war then is,
like the gabblc abou. "coercing a State"
misstatement of tho existing and prospec-
tive facts Of Tho difficulty, made for the pur-
pose Of ereating sympathy for the rebels of
the South, and perhaps terrifying the pco-
pie Of thr North. The enforcement of the
laws is what the people Of this country in
tend, and the consequences, be they bloody
or otherwise, must be upon the heads Of
those who resist Their outcry that war is
made upon them is L subterfuge which will
decaive nobody; because nobody is SO ig-
norant as not to know that this ''war'' may
be tc11ninated- in day, without bloodshed,
without treaty. simply by obedience to
the Constitution as it il. When, then, our
friends SO pervert language and misinter-
prct existing facts, as to recognize in words
the existence Of the war about which VIC
just now hear so much, they fall into the
trap set for them, because war is termina-
ted by treaty, and treaty is just what the
d;sordcrly States are striving to sccurc-
just what it is the obvious duty of the
Union men, if they would prcs.rrc the
government to it's bencicent uses, must
avoid. Obedience to the laws is what must
he required Of the sccedcrs; redress of
their real or supposed grievances, seithin
fhs Unfon, if any such exist, is all that they
ll.yc right to demand. There is no war
in the case