Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-06
A. III. Stephens Threatens the National
Capital.

phuIsheu AT lhat place, reported lhe speech
in its issue Of May 81. From that report c
make the following extract:
1--WE have now Maryland and Virginia,
and all the Border States with Us. We have
ten millions Of people with us, heart and
hand, to defend US 10 the death. We can caH
ont million of peopie if"eed be-; aHd ~hc"
then are cW dotra zoe can call 06 djtother, and
SttH aaoiher until the last man of the south
finds "A bloody grave. rather than submit TO
their foul diciation. Buta triumphant ycto-
~ and Independence, with an unparalleled
career Of glory, property, and progress,
awaits us in the future God Is on o"r S'de'
and wbo ShoH be ogaiHstHc - None but his
Omuipoteut hand can defeat us in this siruS
gle.
"a general opinion prevails that Washing
ton City is soon TO be attacked. On this sub
icct can only say. our o ject is peace. We
wish no aggressions on any one rights, ana
will make none But # WargiaRd Sc
cc,AeS the District Of Columbia will fail to her
bv reyer-iouary right-the same as sumter
to South Caro- ina, Pllaski to Georgia, and
pickcns TO Alabama. When we have the
right we will demand the surrender Of Wash
ington, Just as we did in the other case, and
will enforce our demands at every hazard,
and at Whatever cost. And here let me say,
that our policy and conduct from the first
has Been right, and shall be TO the last
glory IN this consciousness of our rectjtude
1T may be that ~ honl the gods would de-
siroy they first make mad" But for Liucoln's
wicked and foolish war proclamation, the
Border Stites-somc Of them at lea-t-wOuId
sill have fingered in the hope that the Ad-
mini-tration and its designs were not 80 has
ly treacherous rs that document has shown
them to be. Tennessee and other States
would have fingered for some time. Now, all
the slave States are casting in their lot with Us
and linking their de-tiuies with ours. We
might afford to thank Lincoln little for
showing his hand II may be that soon the
Confederate flag, with fifteen stars, will be
hostcd upon the dome of the ancient Capitol
If SO, Gods will be done is my prayer
The refusal of Maryland to secede viii
LaAe the revoluiioui,ts for "A time. We
have no doubt, however, that, when all other
means fail, an informal Conrcntion ~W be
heid in Ka1ylaad by the Sece.sionists, and
she win be declared by that body to le no
longer in the Union. Then We shall see
whether The rebels dare to attempt the "sub
iu u5a.ion' of Washington City Stephens
says that if Maryland secedcs, the District of
Columbia will belong to her as Sumter does |
to South Carolina. Sumter was taken. The |
taking Of Washington will be a more diff |
cult task The Seccssioni,ts have thus far
paid no regard whatever to regularity
What they desired to accomplish 10y secession
has been declared accomplished, whether the
people would or not Virginia voted on the
Secession Ordinance recently. The ruflian
eollicry from the Cotton States were sent
into that State to vote for Secession, and to
prevent Nirginans from voting against it.
The Secessionists managed to control the
Virginia Convention. Had they failed in
that, they would nevertheless have met by
themselves and passed Secession Ordinance,
and the southern Confederacy leaders would
have endorsed their acts and declared her
one Of the Confederate States The carrying
out Of a similar programme in Maryland is a
mere question of time. The course hereto
| fore pursued by the anarchists plainly points
to a secret informal Convention in Maryland,
and the passage, by selfsclectcd delegate, ,ofa
Secession Ordinance. The rebels care no
thing about the voice Of the people Ihoy
,rW aooo c}aim Ndrylaad as one Of tile CON-
f lratc States, 10y virtue OF the acts of trail
tors within her borders, and will then con-
tend that the District of Columbia is no
more within the jurisdiction of the United
States than they say South Carolina is. The
rebels must advance or recede. Their leader,
SIC the gallows behind them and Fate com
| pels them push on. With them,
Returning were as tedious as 60 o'cr."
They may as well fight north of the Potomac
river for Washington City as south of it for
Fortress Monroe (Since writing this article
we have news that The fighting will be south
of the Potomac, for the presently
STEPHENS, in the speech before us boldly
procloims that the intentions of the rebels in
Maryland are to resort to reeolHtjon ogai,tst
tie State authorities, if they can 10y no other
means cast themselves into the Negro Con-
federacv. The Sccessionsts of Maryland
cannot hope to resist the Government of the
State and the Nation, uuaidcd. They can,
however, hold a mock Convention pass Sc
cession Ordinance, send delegates to the Mont
gomery Congress, and then ask our Govern
ment to remove the only remaining "cause
| irritation within the State, to-wit: the
Capitol and public buildings at Washington
A refusal TO comply would be, of course,
coercion and war" To show that we do
not overdraw, we give another extract from
stephens Atlanta speech lie said
But the best Of all is, that Maryland-gnl-
liant little Mary ight under the guns Of
! Lincoln, and the threats of Blair to make it
a free State, if the blood of the last white
man has to be shed in accomplishing it--has
reSolgcd, Ia q man, 10 stand by the S0Hh She
will be nrrayed against Abolitiondom, and
cling to the South; and if she has no dee
gates with Us now she is in open defiance Of
| Lincoln and his Government, and uW soon
be @iM as, cgen By rccoiatioa,
The above quotations, then, show that the
rebels contemplate nothing less than an at
tacl, upon Washington. Their accomplices
in this state say the whole thing is "Black
Republican fabrication" If they are right
the Black Republican labricator is Alexander
II Stephens, the Vice President of the South
ern Conlederncy concern. The speech of
Stephens distinctly lays down the following
propositions:
1st That if Maryland does not 90 through
the ordinary Secession forms, a portion of
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