Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-03-22
WAR POLICY.

rhere seems to be a very general disposition
among the secession newspapers aud traitors Of
me North to force war policy upon the Presi-
aFnt Even MI. Breckinridge has been unnanly
enough to hint that way in the Senate of the
United States few days ago.
In view Of the strong desire manifested
throughout the Inaugural address of President
Lincoln for peace, there is an evident want Of
honesty in the course thus pursued by the DEM
oeratic secessicnisis of the country. They Inor
III they know anything at all-that the Presi-
dent is for peace. They witness in his Address
the very best evidences of that fact; and yet
with holiness that knows no parallel outside of
locoiocoism they persist in pervertiug the posi-
ton OF Mr. Lincoln by falsifying his declarations
as they stand upon the record
Now, in all this, there appears to be but one
object steadily kept in view by these traitors,
and that is the final and perpetual severance Of
the Union 1t is impossible that men, claiming
to be impelled by patriotic motives or love Of
country could thus fan the lame Of discord, al.
ready kindled to fearful heat, without knowing
Wnat must be the ultimate result Of such a
course 1t is in vain they tell US that their dc.
sires are for the perpetuity, peace and prosperity
OF the country, while they continue to encourage,
aid and abet the South in its acts of lawlessness
and treason. They should give the country soy1e
better evidences of their sincerity and patriotism
than mere declarations, as an offset to their de.
liberate acts of disloyaty, and reasonable de.
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declarations of these disguised traitors Their
object is war, because they believe war will be
disunion and that is what they are aiming NJ.
few months ago one or two naval vessels in
the harbor of Charleston would have checked
eitectuqly the feeling Of rebellion then Just ris
ing in the midst of that discontinued people. An
honest aud steady hand at the helm of State
would have speedily quoted the spirit of insu-
bordinatien, and restored the country to peace
and happiness again. But AIR. Buchanan pre-.
ferred to lend himself to treason, and give into
the hands of outlaws and rebels nearly the whole
effective power of the army aud navy, while he
did actually permit the preparation of one of
the most Wholesale rObberics of the government
treasury, ever known in the history of nations.
And after having thus weakened the efficiency
OF the government, by Strengthening the hands
and extending the limits of Southern hostility to
the Union, the o. p. +. retreated to wheatland
leaving behind him a very sea of national desc
lation and ruin, the power and extent of which
has no parallel since the world began.
Democracy having evaded the performance of
its imperative duty then through its acknowledge
cd head-the President,-would now be quite
willing to thrust all the serious consequences of
that omission upon the shoulders Of the new
Administration but MIR. Lincoln, as a wise and
sagocOus statesman emphaticaly repudiates the
honor, and tells his dissatisfied countrymeu
that he means peace, aud will maintain peace
and that ii war shall come, it will be by the act
of the rebels and traitors who now stand in an
attitude of hostility to the Constitution and laws
OF the Republic, stimulated and strengthened by
the secession presses of the North.