Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-10-15

lively equal independent Repuh les, existing sid
BY side Not ut NIL. Spread out the map
the United States before you, and see which H.
public would have The advantage in tcrritor,
spil climate, productions, aud all the sources ,
- national wealth, strength, and material great
ness You would give to the Southern Repub i
full threeiourtha of the whole territory Of IN
I unioni for the South would consent to no dyl
sion now, that did not include the States of Del
aware, Mnryland, Kentucky, Missouri, aud nj
tho territory south of the line running due Yves
from the north west angle of Missouri to the Pa
ciiie. You would give up to the South, to WIN
would then be foreign power, the whole Uul
coast and the whole Atlantic const, except tn
narrow strip from the Penobscot 10 the Delaware
You would leave the north majority of til
present population of the country, and nominal
ly the superiority in wealth, il is true; but as tn
present superior numbers and wealth of tn
North depend chiefly GU our superiority in com
meiee and manufactures, their superiority cOul,
; h0t be long maintained. The Southern Republic
producing raw materials consumed chiefly in
Europe, would be q great exporting republic
aud would naturally in its policy favor exports
to European markets. From ihose markets
were it dsposes of its raw materials, it could,
by means OF q lower tariff on imports than the
Northern Republic could afford to adopt, moi
easily and cheaply supply its own demand for
| Imports than it could from our Northera mar.
kets. 1t would thus drive our manufacturers
from its markets, and, by importing from abroad
| iOr itself, greatly diminish our manufactures
and ut The same time both our foreign and do
nestle trade. Iu addition, we should not only
lose our Southern market for our imports and
manufactures but should hardly he able to keep
our own. Imports would steR hOuthtin ports
and, in spite Of any po sihla cordoa ui Custom
houses and cusom-house officers, would fud
their way into all the border States of the North
ern Republic and up the Mississippi and ONO
into the great States of the West and North West,
IN the most serious detfiment of our own trade
und manufactures, and consequently 10 the re
tenton of our relative superiority in wealth md
population. In spite OF our industry and our
enterprise, We should soon tiud ourselves State
fur inferior in wealth aud numbers to our South
ern neighbor.
Moreover, the great agricultural States of the
Mississippi Valley, finding the natural outlets for
thelr productions held by foreign power, and
themselves unable to wrest Them from ii, would
be compelled by their own interests to secede
from tho Northern Republic and to ioin the
Southern Oontederacy. The secession Of these,
winch would be followed by that of all the
States west Of the Rocky Mountains, would ne
eessarily compel the secession of New Ycrh,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and their an
nexation to the game Confederacy This would
reduce the Northern Republic to the New Eng
land States two of which Connecticut aud
Rhode lsland) would most likely fellow New
York, and there would remain for the Northern
Republic only the States Of Massachusetts,, Yer
mont, New Hampshire, aud Maine. which could
escape absorption in the Coniederacy only hy it's
refusal TO accept them, or by joining with the
Canadas and the other British Provinces, and
coming again under the British Crown. Such
would be the inevitable result of the proposed
peaceful division of the United States and the
formation Of two separate and independent Re
publics out Of their territory, if the Southern
Confederacy held together; and such is sub
stantially the plan of reconstruction contem-
plated by the Southern Statesmen, as is evident
from their leaving their Confedcracy open to the
accession of new States. as was avowel in this
city last December by Mr.. Senator BENJAMIN,
now the Attorney. General of the Confederate
states, and MS asserted openly by Southern sym.
paihi1els everywhere at the North All this
is notorious, and is enly what any man accus
toned to reason on such subjects, and familiar
with the geography, soil and productions OF the
Union, sees must and would inevitably result |
from the policy ommeuded by our peace men,
towards, mud traitors.
But peace, even on as favorable terms as we
have supposed, cannot now be made Six months
ago, perhaps il might have been but now |
flushed with their recent successes, in possession
Of the principal stragetic lines, and able to pro-
secue the war with more vigor than we have
yet shown the rebels will entertain no question |
Of peace short of our subjugatiou, or whnt is
the same thing, dsbnndment of our armies and |
quiet submission TO the principles and theory on
which their Confederacy is founded. Look at
the question as We will, we have now no nlterna.
tive but TO snbdue the rebels or be subjugated by
them. We must either depose that Confederacv, |
and enforce the authority of the Federal Govern
ment over all the rebelliOus States, or it will |
enforce its authority over the Free States and
impose upon them its system of slave labor. If |
1t eniorces its authority over us, there may STILL |
perhaps, be liberty for class or caste, but our
a6oring classes will no longer be freemen they
will be placed on level with the negro slave OH
u Southern plantation. For the Christian Com
mOnwealih founded by our fathers, tuied for and |
bled for, we shall have reesiablished n Pagan |
Republic more hostile to the rights of man and
the rights OF nations, than was ever pagan Greece
or pagan Rome. We put it to our Christian |
countrymen, if such is the Commonwealth their |
fathers fought and suffered through the long
Seven-Ye Years War Of the Revolution to establish
and if they can be contented to let the hope of
liberty in the New World set in a night of black
ness aud despair?
We know very we'll that we have fallen far be-
low the virtues that founded this Republic, and
gained this New World to civilization; we know
that long career of uninterrupted prosperity
and unbounded luxury has done much 10 corrupt
us we know that the labor in one half of the
Republic being performed by slaves, and the
greater part in the other half performed by emil
grants from foreign countries, has caused !,
Nmentablc iorgetfulness of those principles of
liberty 50 dear to our fathers, and produced
among 1s u lax ity of principle, an indifference
to law, disregard for personal rights and per |
sOnal Independence, without which no republic |
cen long subsst and prosper; but we are not
yet willing to believe that we have fallen 80 low,
become so corrupt, so Indifferent to liberty, or 80
dead to all moral considerations, as to he IRE
pared to submit, for the sake of gain or Of pre-
serving our manufactures, without n struggle, to
the lnlignitles the Southern Confe lcrncy would
heap upon us, or TO the adoption of the base and
principle on whch that ConIeurracy il
avowedly founded. Ii we retain anything Of our
or amy memory Of the Christian vir-
tues of oue ancestors, we can never submit to he
slaves ourselves, or take part in reducing any
portion or class of our fellow-meu to Slavery.
II there is any virtue left in US, we must resolve
that we will be free ourselves, and do all in our
power to secure freedom to all other men,
whether white or black, yellow or cOpper-COlored
If we do not, we are indeed "degenerate sons Of
noble sires," and deserve, as we shall receive
the scorn aud dersion of the whole world. Po-
itical and party leaders, greedy for the ''pick-
iugs aud stealngs" of office, who are innocent of
having entertained stAtesmanlike idea or
moral conception, may cry, like the false pro-
phes whom the Lord, in Holy Scripture, re-
Dukes, "Pcace, peace" and seek to emLarrass
the Government and give aid and comfort to its
enemies but we hope there is still virtue enough
left in the people of the loyal States TO estimate
them at their true value, aud to treat with in.
dgnatiOn and scorn their counsels Whatever
the result OF the contest, the vocation of these
leaders is gone; and the best use to which YOU
can Put man who now cries out for .'peacc," |
for compromise" for 'submission,' and |
eharGcs the Government with having provoked |
m ''unholy and unnecessary" war, is to treat
him rs loyal Union men in the South are treated
by the COnfcderates. Such men, whatever their
pretensions, arc really traitors, and deserve a