Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-01

Their whole course as question OF telllng
to say nothing of patriotism, is false one
To oppose the war is to prolong it. A vgo-
rous war is the short and the only road to
speedy peace. Instead of sapping the ener-
gies of the nation by a mistaken or insidions
opposition, rather let us (asMr. Douglas urg
ed in his latest appeal to the nation,) unite in
"the most unanimous and stupendous prepa-
rations" for the war, that we may the sooner
arrive at settlement of our difficulties,
satisfactory to both sides if possible, and not
humilating to either.
That there must be much debt and taxation
is inevitable. 1t is the price which great
nations have to pay for their power, their
position and their rights. The people that
submits to dismemberment, loss of place and
nationality, until after n tremendous and ex-
hausting 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 a war tax. Out of our abundance shall
we grudge this mite to sustain the best go
vernment on earth, to which we owe it all
Our brethren in the other States pour out
their money and their blood in the cause.
Shall California, to whom the Union is more
than oil the rest, be heard to complain of
taxi Let the Union fall, and she will re-
psnt in sack cloth and ashes she had not Civ
on her all to preserve it.
Peace and the Southern Confederacy are
demanded, also because (say they) this is
an abolition war" By this undeystand that
the war is, or is to be, waged for the aboli-
ton 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. 1t is war begun and waged
to uphold the Union and the Constitution
and not to destroy them 1t has not been
perverted from that sacred purpose and can
not be. The irresponsible fanatics, here and
there, who seek to give it different charac
ter will fail in their efforts. 1t must be that
the accus' tion is intended only for politica
ect Who can credit it that reflects tn. t
the war is earnestly sustained 10y Crttenden
and johnson (of Tennessee) and Dickinson,
and Cass, and Dix and Walker, and many
such men? That it was approved by Doug
las with his dying breath? That it is firmly
| upheld by Maryland and Kentucky in the
popular branch of Congress That it had
the solemn sanction Of the pous and venera-
bic heads of the Christian churches, who for
the first time in all their lives made public
their views on political question Are all
those great and good men and those South
ern and slaveholding States guilty of hound
ing on an abolition war2"
The statement is cruel calumny an out.
rage equally upon all propriety and senae.
The truth is, the demand for peace at any
price is simply the prevent version of the
old cry of " no coercion in any event" Both
| are the ralying cries of movements made in
this State in the interest, not of the Union,
but of the States in arms TO destroy it. That
our fellow citizens who are bound by birth,
| blood or friendship to the hostile Staes
should have their sympathies deeply excited
for them is not at all surprising. | can the
better appreciate because | have felt an d
still feel in my own person-the power OF
those strong and kindly Influences. Yet,
who can doubt that the very strength OF
those feelings is most apt to overcome the
patriotism and the judgment of those In
whom it is greatest; and to render them
most unsafe guides in questions between the
| country and those States, and which reach
beyond our time into futurity? That they
should love a part of the country better than
the whole, may be natural. That they should
therefore in this contest side with that part
against the whole is also not very unatura,
however erroneous. But, | put it to those
men themselves and to their candcr, is it Just
to the whole to seek to force upon it policy
which is fatal to it, for the qualification Of
their feelings and the advantage of part
SiNL war ls teiIiOle' leb IL 10 tHO oiuSHi
in which all the nations are tried Some
/ survive the trial and come out the stronger
for it. Those are the great nations Of the
earth, like France and Esgland. Have we
less national life, vigor and courage than
they? Or are We to perish in the fires, like
some inferior rece3
If the country is now to surrender at dis
erection, we may as well give up entirely, for
| everything is gone There is neither Union
nor Constitution for the States that go out
or those that remain. Secession and revolu-
tion will be the new order of things. Free
institutions, government by the will of the
majority consttutionally expressed, are no
| more. No election will stand where the de-
feated 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 conse-
| queuce nearer and even more momentous, of
which her people should think very deeply.
The evils of the times have been to her a
material advantage. From the misfortunes
of the country she has reaped nothing but
benefit. Wealth and population, and the
expectations of many in all the States, have
begun to set towards her like a tide, and
! long course of boundless prosperity was OPP
ening before her. She was known to be a
loyal State, and she was remote from the
civil strife Men knew that within her bor-
ders wculd be found peace, concord and Sc
curity.
if the ticket headed by Mr.. Mcconnell
shall receive any considerable vote, all this
bright prospect will disappear Though
large proportion of that vote should have
been cast for him by men entirely loyal to
the Union and on grounds distinct from the
question of peace or war. yet the result will
most assuredly be claimed as triumph Of
those who sympathize with the hostile states
more than they do with the country, and
who are for an unconditional degrading and
fatal surrender by the Government In the
camps of Secession it will be hailed Rs tri-
umFh, 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
enee here of an element of danger; and it
will blast all her bright prospects at stroke,
destroy her credit, arrest the flow of wealth
and population, and paralyze all the elements
of her prosperity and power. Her sister
States will look on her with grief and dis-
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 tick
ct, do not trust myself TO speak. both be-
cause believe that impossible. and because
| D efer not TO increase the excitement, AL