Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-01-29
Spirit Of IN. Morning Press

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The IatsllIgsResr says the doctrine Of an ire
pressible conhlcr, between The two social systems
Of the North and OF the South, after having been
cited for time - one of the most signal evil
dences Of I" northern fanaticism," has now come
to be most accepted criterion Of loyalty to the
South and Its Institutions" but that very many
among even the secessionists Of the border slave
holding States are too unequivocally pledged In
opposition to this doctsine to offer any very fat
tering prospect Of unity in the maintenance of
such proposition thesis Of southern political
science.
The COnstitEtioa vents tn spleen upon General
Scott In the usual style.
The Republican, In reply To the Baltimore Sxn's
article relative TO this city becoming the capital
Of southern confederacy, says II there 10 any one
thing which the free States have made perfectly
manifest Il Is their determination to hold this
capital against all corners. They will hold Il at
all costs Of men and money, and not only this city
Itself, but the approaches to 1t, and everything
essential to the perfect security Of Its occupaton
"REcoNsrRucTIoN."- THE revolutionary au-
thorities Of South Carolina deserve thanks for the
promPtness with which, on the appearance Of
Judge Robinson, the Virginia Commissioner to
their Republic" they fatty notified her (vir-
ginia) that the Reconstruction plea is simply q
miserable dodge with which her disunionists
would cheat her people into the abandonment OF
the Union. They notify Virginia formally that
South Carolina does not entertain the least idea
OF ever again entering the Union, under any cir
cumssances whatever. Or, rather, that those who
atPresent compose her government, entertain no
such idea
Their manifesto upon the subject is a fortunate
one, because II completely explodes the only plea
on which disunion is dared to be urged upon the
great mass Of the people Of Yirginia-as the sures,
means Of restoring the seeded States 10 their
late federal relations
We have for some time past known well that 1,
Is not the purpose of a single disunion leader In
either Of the seeding States except Jefferson Davis
70 permit the $50 called) reconstruction of the
Union, II matters not what guarantees the North
may prefer, II they can prevent 1t; and we also
know well that If the border slaveholding States
follow the example Of South Carolina they will
be simply placing themselves under the absolute
control Of the disunion per Sc leaders, from which
they cannot escape long the latter hold their
present power in the extreme South And that thus
instead Of being themselves powers to strengthen
The cause OF reconstruction, they will be mere in
sruments to prevent it In our day and generation;
a. the greater the influences (strength) swept into
their vortex, the longer will the affairs Of the &c
ceding states remain In the hands Of their presen
usurping dictators.
Ii the border slaveholding States decline firmly
70 have lot or part with the seeding States, in
TWO months after 1t becomes apparent to the world
mat The incoming Administration is a conserva.
i've one upon the slavery question, the power OF
those dictators viii vanish, and the people of the
extreme South, recovering their senses, will very
soon hold them to just responsibility not only for
the immense mischief they have already worked
but for the much greater injury to the public in.
tefest, everywhere, they certainly aim to work
south CaroliDas explosion OF the reconstruc.
ZION" plea will do more to keep the border slave.
holding States from falling into the tolls of Dill,
union, than aught that has occurred since the 9Th
Of November last.