The national Republican., 1861-09-19
Thursday, September 10, 1851.
THE BALTIMORE sUN.

THE BALVIMOhk Sum
In It's issue of Tuesday, the innocent Bslti-
lore Sun declares that "neper a toord has
in advocacy # secession, as repaed.
" The grievances of the South" And 1t migl |
ave added that no such "uord is ,hargeabl
0 Senator Kennedy and other secessionists In |
to Gov. Magofiu and his co-wJrkers |
n Kentucky or to the great body Of the me,
now in rebellion in Virginia. As a general
rule, they have not only not endorsed, bu'
deprecated. in words at least, the violent &C
ton of the cotton States. But the difficulty
has been, that they have steadily maintained
that common interests aud common destiny
the slave States to keep together,
and that If the cotton States, having actually
left the Union, could not be brought back, the
border slave States had no option but to GO
out with them. It Is in this sense, that whil.
the San, and those acting with It, may truly
affirm that they have not advocated secession
as remedy for the grievances Of the South"
they have yet been in favor Of seeding with
the cotton States. Senator Kennedy, who
last winter, in which he insisted that Maryland
must leave the Union If Virginia did, may not
have been in favor Of the secession of the lat
ter State. But whether favoring the secession
of Virginia, or not, it is certain that he has
done his utmost to induce Mary land to secede,
the contingency of the secession of Virginia
having actually happened. If Maryland re-
mains in the Union, 1t is against his advice,
wishes, and most strenuous exertions.
Having stated what it has not done, tn in
nocent Sun proceeds to state what it has done,
in the following paragraph:
"The whole groundwork Of our editorial
course has been the maintenance OF the Union,
with the security Of Southern rights, upon any
basis acceptable to the contending sections
This is being for the Union upon the two
contingencies. first of "the security Of Southern
rights" and second, that some basis" can be
contrived acceptable to the contending sections
Il is not enough, according to this programme
that Southern rights are secured, even to tht
satisfaction Of the Sun, and according 10 it
own ideas as to the nature of those rights snt
of the guarantees which they require. Some
thing more will yet be wanting, and that is ar
arrangement "dcceptdble TO the contending sec
TONS" or, in other words, an arrangement
acceptable to the South. Upon thesi term:
the Sun, doubtless, has been and is for the
Union. But it is as little doubtful, that it has
been and is for disunion, nothing having been
proposed, or being likely to be proposed, dc
ceptable" to the South.
This lie practical world, and the question is
what men favor and what they oppose in th'
actual predicament of things. The question il
Maryland, since the present rebellion assumed
its Anal form 10 the middle Of April by tn
stampede of Vrginia, has been precisely tn
question, whether, with the whole seaboar
South, including Virginia, in actual revolt,
was the interest and duty of Maryland to re
main in the Union, or go out of it, 80 far az sh
could control her own destinies in that particr
lar. There have been but two parties in Mary
land since April-the one in favor OF UnioI
and the other in favor OF secession-in the cor
dition in which things have really been an
still remain. Those who have urged secessio
as the only policy in the actual posture of 'h
case, are not the less cessionists because the
may be opposed to secession under other ci
cumstances, still less because they find 1t CO
venient to say that they would oppose secessit
under other circumstances