Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-12

All 1uo WOTlu FuSlunu womb decide such
an issue without hesitation. So would
France. Come what might, they would
sustain themselves to the last drop of
blood, and the last farthing in the treasury.
The dead point of danger is now full
under Onr lee and the momentOus question
Is, have We Government OF. aot? -
- A-pAEohlfE line OF argument adopted by
G1V Virginia Sece45ionsts lt6I sbthbifSh their
I'll theory, is,l that secsssiUh is ,ieace, nad
.'Su5mis5iot" is war. They claim that IL
is no way to keep the peace to stay quietly
bsteI1At home and attend to ones own business,
In other words, Virginia cannot preserve
Pcacable relations with the Government
by respecting its laws and behaving her..
az self rs n atlutiful member of the Union
- onghttO! She CANDID IL only by rebeiIing
against the authority which. she helped 10
establish, by declaring the laws of the
FsdeFni Government npllity, pdsdefying
their execution by means of standing
TIL aIgRleaS by SetI1g aud huldi5 r. feilGral pro-
perry by force OF arms, If need be; BY with
drawing her representation In Congress;
by, IN short, every ctwhich would declare
e that she was determined to repudiate all
as her obligations entered into wleu9she be.
came one Of the compact and was equally
.Fesulved to maintain the declaration Mt
whatever hazard. Suchaa course as this
they nfe pleased to denOmiuste a peace
policy and these pretty gentlemen are
deplOting the inaction of the States Con-
"a ventton as driving the country into civil
war. BeeanSe, they are wont to say, If
49, Virginia had just showed a bold. front in
the begtnning-that is, if she had seeded
G6Ei6hsSOdthS Carolina aid or ithbnSdiatelv
thereafter AZ her bidding, ALI this, question
.st OF ssceHsiOn would have been settled long
ago, for then the revolution would have
saiitA become 90 'tormidable that no attempts to
Qusl II .wOuid have been made and the
a'isuew coufederacy acknowledged This ia
ssa very neat little calculation, but the very
. desperation of it shows how utterly des.-
Perate are the men who made 1t. and kkS-
~ causeith that needs tobs Forwarded 6y s,tsA
~ revolutionary means. WLst6er tl,h seIcl-
sion of Virginia would have enabled III.
-tF rebels successfully to defy the Government
aud would for thai reason have prevented
3 collision, not, We are nee to say that
war and not only war but pestleuce ard,
famine, would bs preferable, in our estl
nation, to playing second fiddle 70 South
oerOliqe 10 Southern FConGeaeracy.
But We make It upon ourselves 10 saw
a., that lg secession does not mean. peaee, the
GO EblRea eetFs Sion otafhFs 70 hid eSntr5Tl,I
H'si Notwithstanding ndoss not mean peace
- because PER &c tits var, and nothing else.
5 There is in reality no such thing as seces-
sion. 1t is revolution, neither more nor
less, and revolution is war An ordinance
ofFesSessio1 issiuply SilsrhatiOu ofhss!l
t,,ulty towards the government, and the
tact that h Is so regarded in the States that
,8a9hI6b1Ssded Is RrAv665bS ibSJ seizure AZ,
government property ::apd The armament
5s5, 9fths military, Aud more; secession was
iatsSdsd TO be revolution by its uuserupu.
l,l ious god, iathers. who chose to cloak III
s.si.,'in a.speeions name TO deceive the aawary,
9sslra Desperate eharaSlera, who knew that a
revolution could NOT Do iaaaEaratO4.
without tangible show of justifyine
eAuse5s ana VIDE 6taS tiliahle to make such
isa Z display, sought to initiate IL alua.s The
Plausible pretext Of pegesabis ltees.loa.
d9nVPto very recent period the disunionl
istS hare Maintained With 4 dorr,d ,rerti-
aaeiiS their peculiar. illogical dci-
.ft9R, that revOlution Is peace, that anarchy
ts quiet that FhNs Is order, In shortthat
blPsk. hites bpt i,tSeIy, fOF,sou,S re5sOn.
assn they svaEe varying the PhvaseoldGy, aud,
~ least here in Virginia. seem. 10 be
about to introduce change oFttaStissse.
Thus the Richmond Esgsjres cane out,
on Ihs FsSePtiOp q the Inaugural. with a
most I blood.lhifs,y nasiIsst6s, declaring
war iPeyilablss aud Glylpg,ia voice for Il.
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