The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-04-27

National Convention can regulate and re-
adjust the relations that such war must
leave to be fixed and ascertained BY the nego-
tiations that ensue on every cessation Of hos
tilities which does not result in the subjuga-
tlon or determination of one Of the contend
ing parties. Why not propose such Con
yention before the war as well as after it ?
Can there not still be an armistice with this
understanding And it is with such views,
and still cherishing such hopes, that we par
ticularly commend to our readers in the Bor-
der Slaveholdihg States the subjoined advice
Of the Louisville Journal, which while ques-
tioning the wisdom of the policy now fore
shadowed BY the Administration, advises on
that account no surrender Of rights and priv
ileees under the Constitution and Govern
ment Of the United States We quote from
the journal Of the 10th instant
! An attempt is nowa made by the Sc
\ proclamation. and hurry our people away up
on the rushing tide Of excitement We ad-
wise them to be calm It is time for deep,
stern thought, not for loud yeils, and shouts
\ and huzzas Men can better make up their
minds III the silence Of solemn reflection than
/ in noise, and tumut, and confusion IT any
man. who was not 1 sccesslonlst, has been
made a secessionist by lir. Lincoln procla-
/ cility that he should blush to acknowledge to
the world or even to himself Wewoull soon
CT acknowledge kinship with insects and rep
tiles than permit ourselves to be driven or
4 influenced ~ Mr. Lincoln 81 any other man,
occupying the Presidency u any other office.
into d violation Of our allegiance or into an
attitude Of hostility TO the government that
has held its broad ;cgis over Us from our in
fancy
Friends Of the Union! We earnestly invoke
each and all ofyou ~ stand 70 your integrity
falter not III the cause OF your country 1t
temptation beset you: think Of Washington,
and Jackson, and Clay and al the other
mighty patriots whose awful dust has mingled
with the common dust Of earth, and spuFn
the temptcrs behind YOU as You would spurn
the spirits Of prclition. Be true to your
country true to yourselves. true to your faith
crs, true to your posterity, and true to God
and all will he we'll \ Fl
It is the official duty If the President Of
the [ nted States to execute the laws. but
when he -ee5 that lie cannot possibly 10 this
1T all Of III any rate that he cannot do it
without the Inauguration and consunniation
er than any already existing, he may well ac-
I knowledge the stern and inexorable necessity
Of staying his hand Assuredly the whole
power Of the nation outside Of the Southern
Confcdcracy could not permanently execute
the United States laws within that Conteder-
acy. The territory might be overrun, every
square rood Of its soil might be moistened
with blood all resistance might possibly for a
time disappear before the march Of a victor-
4 Gus army, but resistance would spring Up
again as speedily as trodden blade Of grass
/ springs back to its position. Only by the ut
ter annhilation Of the whole population Of
\ the Seeded States, only ~ the transforms
ton of the entire South into i red and reck-
ing desert, could the laws of the United
States hc enforced there and they could not
he enforced even them for there would be
none upon whom they could operate.
Mr.. Lincoln and his Secretary Of State. it
appears. have issued proclamation calling
upon the loyal States for an army Of $1,000
men for the retaking Of all the United States
property seized by the Southern forces with
ia the last few months We acknowledge
as we have said, the Administration legal
authority to recover if it can. its property
grasped by the Southern spoilers, but is
practical attempt to exercise that right, IN the
mode it proposes. would, if there should be
no effective interposition between the bellg-
crent Powers bring upon our whole country
calamites as awful as any recorded in modern
or IN ancient history Such calamities must
be ayerted if it is IN the power Of wise and
good and patriotic men to avert them. And
here comes. according to our solemn conyic-
tions. the great mission Of the Border Slave
States We believe that the duty Of these
important States is rendered plain and palpa-
bic in the urd and baleful light Of passing
events If we We're to 80 with the South
or five were to go with the North the strug-
Gle between the two sections into which the
whole country would then be divided could
not fail 10 bring GA, throughout the conti-
nent. a reign of blood and famine and terror
that would il all probability extend beyond
the years Of our lives and the lives Of our
children
In this dreadful exigency the Border
Slave States, if they are wise, will take their
position, firm and steadfast. between the