Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-09-07
uyss white Feather Par,y.o

Such i the appeAtion given BY the waracon at the
North TO those who advocate peace in that region 1t
sppe,rs from the " T. TribusS copy Of which, every
now and then BY some mysterious means, reaches our
efFee that this =" Waite Feather Party" is rapidly on
the increase in the Northern States In the number now
before Us there are notices of six or seven meet
irgs of this party in dfe en parts Of New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut and two elaborate editorials Dc
voted to the illustration OF their daboical designs We
are told the peace newspapers are masked BATTERIES,
and that their aiers and sbsttorsthe Waite Feather
traitors Of the deepest dye and should be-
b. the most summary process, eNeFminAied from the
face Of The earth Ia Connecticut it is stated, "puden
ts committees are berg formed throughout the State to
detect and punish the traitors and similar expedien
"a recommended for al the other States This implies
that the traitors are everywhere throughout the North
and il affords US an idea OF the difficulty Of the task
which Lincoln has undertaken in attempting to suppress
freedom and establish despos. His lsbors in subduipg
tee Rs6s of the South would have been quite much
as man Of his abilities equal to but when TO these
Is superaddsd the necessity Of crushing Gu: traitors Ia
every neighborhood in the North bis enterprise is truly
Eerculcan.
Ia our calculations Of future results have placed 10
rel. nee wbs.evsr upoa any ass ance fOm the North
We have cons drred the whole population Of that region
as submissive to The rod OF the tyrAnt and looked only
10 Ourselves foG supplying tue of our own deliver
aree We had DO fears the result for Ives and
our Oay aporeSeusioas we're for friends and sympa
thEers in tie border States Of Maryland Kentucky and
Missouri There, from the unfortunate discor n ch
existed among thyir own people, vas danger 4 the
u1roes might temporarily establish their s~ay and bring
wsr, pcstileuCe ind famine upon them. But We n d;
bleved that in any slveboiii community on this con
tuent is was ibls that the ireemsn could be perm
n,nly &c lueea % serviluie Tncy might be worried
and harassed crimped for the time by military fcrc,;
bar they were proud aud enlightened and TOO deyo
sd 70 edom ever be sub iued, in the way Of
termination fabric OF Gsspo,ism which requires spy
aud soldier for every of the population, is I'M
possibility, mus; tumble about the heads Of its build
ess. This inevitable result, to be fastened or delayed
according the graa less ygour of our own move
meats and greater les union il the border States
is oul assured bat venture 10 hope greatly adj
7enc=d nv the dev, opmens of the wbitees,ter Party
at the North With traitors and masked batteries in
cry Northern township LucOln and bis mer"ensries will
have full oecupiou, witlou. being able to ply much
tsnou to tee outraged people OF Maryland, Kentu,k
and Missouri. Seward has gone North to organize a
system Of ssDi0aagsthe chances that in less than
SIX months be will be flying and hiding from his own
detectives.
The circumstance, which sppssrs 10 have gwen
such sudden ard rapid growth TO this new White
Fsa,h,r Party" a. the North, IS the sfIrt Of the Ia
T'rg Dvnasty suppress the freedom Of the press
Tas $4,000 fugtycs from Manassas may have been
very f materials for The basis Of such party; but The
s:te1p: 10 crush the expression of opinion power
ill engine to its development Il principle founded
10 human nature, tia, will endure far more goy,ro-
mental abuses if permitted freely to Critiese and Gen.
those abuses than II cond mined to submit to them
ia silence. The tongue performs the functions Of an
cape pipe and relieves The system Of It's redundant
lOrie. Barking dogs 6ca't bite, aud quarrelIome men
and ssol5ng women rarely fight. Lincoln ami Seward
might baye proceeded wthou. interruption in organizing
tloir work Of despom while they left to the grea,
uawosbed the precious privilege of vyng their opera
loas; but when they elise al the safetyvalves, they
prccp.nte an explosion a collapse The machine
Won't run; but very probably both Of them will, holly
pursued by their OWE detectives.