Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-06-17
THE NEWS HERE.


UNION pS. DIsUNIoN That secession; is but
another term for general devastation and destruc-
ton, 10 being as fOrcibly exempiifed. the fact
that ''Union" is reconstruction and reparation
From the moment the work of thrusting forth
Union men from Virginia, and taking possession
OF private property to be used in making war on
the United states began, wherever secession has
held temporary power In Maryland and Virginia,
It's strength and presence has been marked by the
utter desolation IL has wrought. IL has eaten up
all eatable that every man had; 1t has seized with
out compensation every thing Of every mans In
the shape OF property that might prove useful in
warning on the United States. 1t has burned fac
tories blown up bridges, torn up rail tracks, and
impressed citizens into the ranks right and left
Never In tn course Of modern times has any
other cause worked so much palpable and prac-
teal injury to the public interest in short time
rs secession has done already in Maryland and
Virginia, where, among its many similar achieve
ments, 1t has literally utterly bankrupted every
man In business sYmpathzing with It,
It's approach In strength sufficient TO work It's
Will Is az surely marked by the instant destruc-
tion OF all civil rights its retreat By the appl-
cation OF the mine and tie torch How true all
this Is, 10 proved by the recent his DRY Of Har-
per's Ferry, which but ? month or two since /:
took TO It's embraces surrsp;itiouslv- Il seized
narper's Ferry to secure it for Virginia, and de-
siroYed IL utterly. So, too, II held Alexandria
destroying the business Of that town as complete
ly as though II had been devastated by fire and
sword. Again, ii "coltoaCd to' Norfolk, Gig
naIiring ils determination to protect that city
against the United States, by utterly running its
harbor, ard BY the immolation CT the CONN cree
on hicb 1t lived.
On the other hand, the progress OF the arms Ct
the United states contrasts most remarkably with
tue career Of the arms OF diSunion. NO sooner is
point rescued from the dominion or the latter,
tEan the wOTk Gf reconstruction and repdfaiion
commences. Vide, the work Of Buffers men
upon the Annapolis railroad; that Of Patterson's
command On the Baltimore and Philadelphia
and the Pennsylvania Northern Central rail- Dads;
that Of McClellan's on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, and the work CT McDOwel!s command
In reconstructing the Orange and Alexandria and
Loudoun and Hampshire railroads. We might
multiply examples Of the singular difference be-
tween the policy Of ''disanion" on the one hand
and "UniOn" on the other in this inn ortant con-
nection, adj minimum. SO, too, has it been al
ready made clear the light Of the noon day
sun, tina. while "Un!on" takes nothing without
paying Its fail value in gold and silver,
takes az, without paying a single dime.
Ex-SEcRETAT FLoYD's PROCLAMATION, pub
lisaed In Saturdays Star proves the great impor-
lance Of General McClellan's expected movement,
with four or five regiments Of his command, upon
the Kanawha region Of Virginia, which tue Scr
foreshsdow.d on the day after return from the
West. Floyd recognized 1t instantly as involving
the probable speedy destruction Of the power Of
disunion throughout Southwestern Virginia, In
Guiding that Of the means Of military communi-
cation between Virginia and the western Southern
States-the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad-by
which all the disunion troops that have entered
Virginia from states other than North and South
Carolina, were transported Floyd's proclamation
demonstrates that the disunionists in Southwest
ern Virginia are entirely unprepared to Withstand
the force General Mcclellan is to send among
them, being armed only after the fashion advised
by W ise-with home made bowie knives pitch
forks, pixies, fnt-lOck antedeluvlan muskets
double baTreied shot guns, &c. The destruction
OF half j dozen bridges on the Tennessee and Viz
ginia Railroad will preclude assistance from
reaching the Southwestern Virginia disunionists
except from the east, where there is neither gun,
man, nor wagon to spare, In view of the rapid
Progressing concentration Of the columns COM
manded by Generals Patterson and Mcdowell,
and the hourly-increasing army OF General Butler
destined to operate towards Richmond on the line
Of York river
On the whole, FlOyd's manifesto or proclama-
ton exhibits in glar!ng colcrs the utter madness
OF the adoption by Virginia of her Conventions
ordinance Of secession; for il shows, beyond pre-.
tense Of denial, that she and is wholly unpre-
pared to meet the military consequences of that
act.
SLAVERY ~ MARYLAND-A Among the most
potent en'i-Cnion arguments being urged I'm
Eastern Virginia to keep down the Union spirit
there is that the Government proposes to free the
slaves Of the South.
How utterly untrue the charge is is m nifest In