The weekly Butte record., 1861-08-17
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tributlonS OF worlds commerce was poured
into their lap by direct trade, and universal
expansion came over all the votaries of disun-
ion, as if BY magic The three-hooped pot
had ten hoops" and what was Goose creek
once. Tiber now" Mammon erected his court,
and they heard the clnking oil gold IN the
worlds exchequer, as it accumulated at the
counters of their exchange. Ambition klndled
her TORCH which, like the bush oil toreo,
burned and was not consumed, and rank, and
place, and station, and stars and garters, and
the gew gaw trappings OF nobility were shower
ed in promscuous profuson wreaths of laurel
adorned the brows OF the brave, and the devo-
tees of pleasure danced at the music of secession
sackbut aud psaltry harp, & and all went merry
as a marriage bell" Though sectional feel
ing had, after many years OF proftless conflict,
eliminated, and the wise and union loving were
engaged in restoring friendly relations under
circumstances more favorable to success than
thirty years of struggle had furnished, and
though Congress was organizing the Territories
without restriction upon domestic institutions,
yet the time for disuniou, so long invoked, had
come, and one State so far as 10 her power,
sundered the bonds that made her member Of
the Union before the result OF the Presidential
election had been declared by Congress. They
turned their backs up friends and sympath-
zers denounced laggards in the cause, declared
their reputation OF the Constitution and ap-
Piled the torch TO the temple of Free Govern
ment and the Union with as little solemnity as
they would have repealed an Act of Legislation.
The property of the United States, by sea and
by land, was seized and the Government was
defed and menaced by armed forces and avow-
ed preparation for war: other States followed,
-, b. tbo of
politicians if not people-some half willing,
others more than half iorced-those who should
have stood with sleepless zeal upon the ram
parts of the Constitution, ingoriously surren-
dered their posts and the reign OF anarchy
was thus inaugurated in our own happy land.
All this increased, and seriously too, the en-
barrassment which surrounded the question:
But still the spirit of the times, the voice of the
people in every section, South as well as \ orth
demanded pcace-that abstraction should be
laid aside, that every substantial cause of
grievance should be redressed, and that the
interests of great and prosperous nation
should not be disturbed, nor the moral sense of
the world shocked by conflict of arms among
brethren. There was yet hope that the cap of
intestine war might, in mercy be permitted, TO
pass The report of the first hostile gun which
was DISCHARGED, however, proclaimed to the
world that all cbaHces of peaceful adjustment
were over that " Heaven in anger for dread
full moment had suffered hell to take the reins"
that Pandora's box was opened again, and
the deadliest plague known to earth let loose
to curse it but like that repository of evils,
hope yet smiled at the bottom. Argument
and opinion were thrust aside for violence and
blood with deliberate preparation. Is it
strange that the natural elements sympathized
with the occasion, as the intelligence was
flashed through the land A sheet of cimeri-
an darkness, near midnight, hung like a death
pail ovel the earh-the winds moaned heavily
like the wall of spir IS lost-doors cresked and
windows clattered, driving currents and coun-
ter currents of sleet, and rain descended like
roaring cataracts but the hoarse and startling
shrek of the New Y ork newsbov rose above
all with the appalling cry, the bombardment
of Fort SUMTER and