The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-07-26

defenss; and il. while they had the Const
tuition and the laws, the Executive. Con
gress, aud tho Courts, all controlled b.
themselves. the South, dissatisfied Wit
legal projections and constitutional RENE
dies. has grasped the sword. can the Mort
snd South hope 10 live in peace. when tn
bonds Of Union are broken, and amicabl
means Of adjustment are repudiated? Peac
is the very last thing which secession,
recognized will give US; i, will give u
nothing but a hollow truee--time to prepar
the means of new outrages. 1t is in it
very nature a perpetual cause Of hostility
an eternal, never cancelled letter of marQu.
and reprisal: an everlasting proclamation
of Border war. How can peace exist, wher
all the causes OF dissensiOn are indefinitely
multiplied; when unequal revenue laws
shall have led TO a gigantic system of SNUG
Cling: when general stampede of slaves
shall take place along the border, with nc
thought Of rendition, aud all the the thou
sand causes of mutual irritation shall be
called into action. frontier of 1.5OO
miles. not marked by natural boundaries.
and not subject to q common jurisdiction
a mediating power We dii believe in
peace; fondy, credulcusly. believed. that.
cemented by the mild umplrage of the
Federal Union. 1t m ,ht dwell forever be-
meath the fold of Il e Siar Spangled ban
ner. and tbs sacred shield of common
nation aitv Tina; was the great drcdauns
Of policy; that was the State mystery into
which men and angels desired to look
hidden fro a res Out revealed 10 US:
Wha Sings Il praph.t .ited for.
Aud sought nut nsver found.
\ faoily of States ind-pe lent for local
concerns united ulier one government for
The m anagement IF common interests and
the prevention of Internal feuis. There
8 30 limi! to the possible extension of
such system. It had already compre-
henied half of North America, aud it mi yht.
in the lapse of ages, have folded the CONT
nent in It's peaceful benaficient embrace
We fondly dreamed that. in the lapse of
ages. IL would have been ex.e .ded till half
the Western Hemisphere had realized the
vision of universal, perpetual peace
From that dream we have been rudaly
startled by the array of ten thousand armed
men In Charleston harbor, and the roar of
eleven batteries raining storm OF ir0n hail
on one poor siege worn company because
in obedience 10 lawful authority, in the per-
OF sworn duty. the gallant Ander- /
son resolved to keep his oath That brave
md faithful band. by remaining a, their
post. did not hurt a hair of the head of
bond or Free The United
States proposed not to re-cnforce. but to
iced them. But the Confederate leaders
" ould not allow them even the poor boon
Of being starved into surrender; and because
soms laws had been passed someUhere. by
which it was alleged tha. the return OF some
slaves, (not one from Carolinal had been OF
might be obstructed, South Carolina dis
,laiming the protection of courts and of
Congress, which had never been withheld
rom her. has inaugurased ruthless civil
war. II. for the frivolous reasons assigned,
he seeding States have chosen to plunge
nto this gulf. while all the peaceful tenn
oeraments and constitutional remedies Of the !
Union were within their reach, and offers |!
of further compromise and additional guar
lntee we're daily rendered them, what hope, !
what possibility of peace can there be,
when the Union is broken up. when in ad
iit,on TO all other sources of deadly quarrel,
= general exodus of the slave population
begins. (as beyond all question it willy and
nothing but war remains for the settlement
of controversies? The Vice Presi .ent of
the new Confederacy states that it rests on
S avery; but from its very nature it must
rest equally on war; eternal war, first be-
tween North and South, and then between
the smaller fragments into which the disin
tegrated parts may crumble. The work of
demons has already begun. Besides tie
hosts mustered for the capture or destruc-
lion OF Washington, Eastern Virginia has
let loose the dogs of war on the loyal citi-
zens OF Western Virginia; they are strainng
at the leash in MARYLAND and Kentucky:
tennessee threatens to set price on the
lIahd o her nobls. johnson and his friend
a civil war RACES in Missouri Why, in the !
name OF Heaven has not Western Virginia,
Sc eparsted from Eastern Virginia by moan
lain ridges, by climate, by the course o. her
rivers, by the character Of her population,
and the nature oi her indusi.y. why has she
not right to say in the Union which sue
from her Washington, as Eastern
Virginia has to abandon il for the mu broom
forced upon her from Mout
90 nefya Are no rights sacred but those Of
no oaihs binding but those taken
BY men, already ioresw"rn: are liberty of
thought. and speech. and action nowhere to
be tolerated except where laws are trampled
under foot. arsenais and mints plundered,
govet tuments warred against. and their
patriotic defenders aesailed by ferocious sn1
murdeTous mobsl