Delaware gazette. (Wilmington, Del.) 1837-1883, 1861-06-01

WHAT SHALL We Do For THE PuBL1c WELL
FARE.-There are very few people in Baltimore
who desire to see the two sections of our country
engaged in war. There is net a man, we believe,
In any OF the seeded States whs desires war. 1t
may be safely assumed and asserted therefore that
tho "war party" is alone to be found in force in
the Northern States. II is fact, zoe kno,p, that
there Is also in the Northern States a large mum.
Der Of the people who are for peace and who would
prefer peaoeable separation from the seeded
States, II separation there must be, to q war with
thom. Several of the most Substantial, vigorous,
and Intelligent papers of New York city, are cease
less in their efforts for the promotion Of peaceful
policy, and they are sustained by large subscrip
ton list comprising many worthy and oonHerva-
tive citizens. II is the sensation press and the hi
ministration party journals which are most obsti.
nately bent upon fomenting hatred, strife, and
war. There are exceptions, however, even here.
FOR the New York Independent. recently contained
the following remarkable passages:
"1he lightning the End The expedition for
the relief OF Fort Sumter has dnsioered ts z4oaf I'M
l9prtanf purpose. demonstration has been made
tahieh would have been entirely peaceful had NOT
sJas evolutionary leaders at Montgomery taken
bat opportunity for tho commencement Of active
11ostilities. The war which everybody has known
10 be inevitable, and which has virtually existed
ever since the seizure Of Fort Moultrie, has now
become fragrant, and Is recognized accordingly by
he government, and by all parties Of the people,
\ In the same article the editor says
"One question was finished by the bombardment
Of Fort Sumter. There is to be no recoHsftuetioT
BY the tricky compromises Of trading politicians.
The day Of compromises has gone by. Heneeforfh
the cotton States are out of the Union. Heneeforth
we must 'aequieace in tho necessity which denoup
COS our separation, and hold them as zoe held the
rest Of mankind, enemies IN par-in peace friends
Non is THERE TO he AMY REuoNsrIoN ny PoRcE-
Those seeded States, and as many more as the
providence Of God controlling the fortune OF war
llibsll annex TO them, to run their oion course
EHpari from as, and to fashion their oiCn destiny
lhparf from ours"- =
With respect to the future, the following para
graph occurs; III
"The principle is 10 be established for ever that
7arbitrary and armed secession 10 neither a oonsti
mtional proceeding nor peaceful one; that the
obligations ofthe Union, and Of the constitution BY
which il was compacted and defined, are not TO be
Thrown of at pleasure that the violent subyersion
NJ peaceful and righteous government is a game
to costly for ordinary demagogues to play at /;
hst thsiuxnry of treason must be dearly paid for;
nat the lawful property ofour government, where
liver situated, is as sacred as any other property
ltpd that the men who seize 1t, by stealth or by
hrce, under whatever pretense of authority from,
revolutionary committees or conventions, are moth
Ihg else than thieves and robbers, and are 10 be
psalt with accordingl.. A sgfs boundary 70 10 be
horked and established beftOeen as of the United
krtes and those ioho haze gone OUT from as because
Hty mere not Of These, and not the conquest
| and subjugation Of the now seeded States-these
aid not the extinction OF the new nationality now
oming into existence, are the legitimate objects of
he iear on our part" He
| We quote these passages from such a source as
significant. Without cavillng about style and ep-
ithets, we find here the most illusory, absurd and
n'nSensieal pretexts for war that can be imagined