Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-04-06
From the Lonl,n Times March 10.

So rapid and impeuous is the march of events in the
United States quickly does scene succeed another
in the great poll c drama that becomes of second
ary interest amos. beGor, its is known Every has
been locking forward With brraihess u,orys, for the
Presidents inaugural speech. The electric telegraph
furnished atriGgmeEt Off Yesterday morning. TO-
day enabled 10 give at full length but accom-
panied with intelligence which is quite important
itself. The Speech takes up grounds strictly consitu
tiona In t the President confines and iurencnes him
sell beyond the express powers which the Constitution
has given hl! Gn reuses to recognize any other He
is capable OF considerable flights iaHGy, Dut Gan-ot
emancipate himself from the shackles OF merely legal
mind lie looks into his bond and he finds there that
he is bound to execute the law in all paris Of the Unon
and preserve the federal property and he intends TO
execute the Law and preserve the Federal property ac-
cordngly. What the consequences OF performing these
be Is not for him TO slider; bis business IL
TO execute the law let those who made the law
for the resi-,
NJ blcdaaln took much the same view OF his tunc-
ton but he extracted from that view the inference that
he was bound 10 DO nothing while Mr. Lincoln considers
that he is bound to do exactly the thing which i 10
produce the war which he couceves be beyond his
power 10 declare Nor is il his discretion alone which
the President believes to he crcumsCribed by the Con-
sLitatan. hot 0ny does H. W csn-elye himse!t
prevented from doing anything beyond It's strict Erecep
he does feel thai he is allowed to know Of anything
unconstitutional He knows that his lellow.cOuntrymen
dissatisfied but he is forbidden to know that
States arc lIgrant rebellion. There is Presideu
tial as well as Jud cia knoSiedg5 anu es Courts
OF Law are not allowed to know many things
which are perfectly notorious 70 the rest Of the
world so il Is with Presidents part OF whose duty
il i to have purer ewes than TO behold anything
that savours of rebellion. We see that this OF
looking at the question finds favour in the oi the
purely .epuDucau journals, While the south appears 10
consider It. as lar we can Judge from their organs in
New York, the hingng down the glove which it will
not hesitate moment 10 take mp. Had Mr.. Lincoln
been President at the time the secession first threat
ened a e say on the Constitution aud few words of
friendly persuasion might have been appropriate way
of dealing with the subject. But it childish well
as dangerous thus sudiousy TO ignore the real state OF
shc S,se I'D a ses by csusu;ouai reasOnnss TO in
uence who have placed thenselve. out of the pale
Of the Constitution altogether. There safer maxim in
human airE than carefully to examine ones own pos!oa
and that oil ones GutagGut ueiOre announcing any eso-
luton aud to base That resolution on actual aud real not
on imaginary conventional considerations. With the
real state of America the Federal Constitution has most
unfortunately very little TO do The President might al
most as well 90 back TO the social contracts OF nOseea
The question is not judicial, but poiitica-not one oil
laws aud powers but OF reason aud expediency We be-
ieve that instead OF ignoring the secession OF the South
and determining to treat IL as sgs"s the President
ought to recognize il reality We do not say that he
ought to recognize the right to secede which clearly does
exist any more than the right 10 rebel against the
English Crown claimed by the American colonies existed
a part Of the English Constitution. We do not say that
the President bound to treat legal the COncderGCy
which has risen up ia opposition TO his own but what we
maintain is, that wise man, patriotic magistrate
and good citizen, he is rendering evil service to hs
his country ii he doe5 nat deal t thugs thrY are,
instead of they ought TO BE- When civil var as i'm
mnent appears be at this moment in America,
il well admit the only possible alternative, that Of
hear ng what the South is prepared propose in
order TO avert So drean paailY fhe last alterna'
tive always remains and the iitrcdal sword will not
have lost its edge by remaining the sheath few weeks
long Rnt lhe adODte1 A. /
leaves hope possibility Of reconciliation. The South
cannot be heard because it must not be recognged and
which must lead 70 civil var are 70 be done rather
than admit that Things which render civil possible
have actually occurred.
Such course of proceeding must he received by the
South as direct challenge to give eject IN action to It's
menacss and bolSngs, and glad indeed shall we be 10
Gnd that the challenge has not been eagerly accepted.
IL understood TO be the wish of the leaders Of South
Carolina, and probably of several olhe; Speeding States
to bring matters az speedily possible to warlike s-
The leads have gone too far TO retreat aud nstu
rally wish to commit others deeply as themseves-
The Border States are understood u TO wdverng and
lt is thought aud probably with much justice that
bold and decisive policy will decide them. The effect
may indeed be precisely the contrary OF what is ,xpect
ed and the violence of the South may disgust the Dor
der Si9tes Aut Iu tbs nVmeRt that blood has begun
to How there will be little for emporlzng or hesi
taton. Everything will be set single cast, and
the dice are loaded against the Federal Government
by CONSIDERATIONS growing out of the unwilling
ness OF the Border States to sacrifice the inter
nal slave trade Under such circmstancesit woad
to be the wisest policy to desyby any legitimate
the imEinent calamity OF civil war; and the only means
tha; present themselves are negotiation. How futile all
attempts at reconciliation have been is APPARENT
The Peace Conference instituted by Virginia has ended,
as We anticipated would end, in ridiculous failure,
pudted by all parties The Committee OF Thirty three
has ended in the adoption by Congress Of an amendment
of the Constitution in favor of ataiaing all inter
teFenps which evidently has not the slightest Effect
ANY The great questions in dispute relating to the
Territories are left without any attempt at settlement
The TanI has been decided in manner to render the
return Of the seeding States almost impossible ard the
retention of the Border States exceedingly difficult The
South seceded from Unon where native manufactures
we're sGppo ted By moderate Protection Win return 70
AN Union in which native manufactures are by advan
tage taken of the absence of the Southern representa-
ives defended by something like prohibition, the whole
weight Of which must fall upon the planting and agrcul.