Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-05-08
THE SENTIMENT OF THE NoRTH.


are In Ignorance of the feeling which has
been raised and pervades every section of
the North. The insult to our flag by the
attack upon Fort Sumpter, and the dis
honor brought upon it by the capture of
that Fortress, united the whole North and
buried party and party considerations so
) deep, that they will never be heard of
: again, until this Rebellion is put down.
And then followed the murder of the SOL
dlers Of Massachusetts in the streets of
Baltimore on the anniversary of the Bat,
tie of Lexington-brutally murdered while
quietly vending their way to the National
Capital to protect it from the assaults of
Traitors in Rebellion against the Govern
ment The effect of this outrage can only
be compared to setting fire to fax. We
have never seen, read, or heard of any,
/. thing like it; and every hour, throughout
the entire free North, the fire RACES and
extends, and burns with increased intensi-
ty. The cry of revenge mingles with the
prayers and aspirations of Patriotism; and
altogether, sentiment has grown up in
this city, responded to everywhere through
out the North. which would unhesitating-
/ ly vent itself upon ABRAHAM LINCOLN
himself, and every member of the Admin
istration, if they shall venture to compro-
mise the right-the absolute right of the
free North, to travel whenever it pleases,
ard without mOlestatiOn, through the City
of Baltimore, on their way to the relief Of
Washington. Attempt to compromise this
right by negotiation, or conf mprOmise or con-
cession, and one of two things is absolute
ly certain:-Either the patriotic fires now
everywhere burning, will be quenched and
smothered as with Il vet blanket, or the
people will march to, and sack the city of
Baltimore, without any permission from
the Government
This may or may not be an unfortunate
condition of things but such is precisely
the state of the case, and it is right and
proper, that the Administration should
understand it. No matter what number
of troops and what amount of money may
be required--the wants of the Government
will be supplied; but the people will insist
upon, and exercise their right Of marching
to Washington through Baltimore, just as /
they have marched through New York and
Philadelphia; and If resisted in the exercise
of that right, they will raze that City of
mobs, monuments and murderers to the (
ground and leave not one stone upon an /
other, to tell the traveller where It stood, j
or where the blood of Massachusetts, SOL
diers was brutally shed when peacefully
vending their way to protect the Govern
ment of the People and preserve the Con-
stifution and the UniOn-that Constitution I
and Union for which WASHINGTON and our 4
fathers fought, and which has gwen us the
very best Government ever enjoyed by man. |
This feeling so universal overpoEering, !
and irresistible, that he will be both fool |
aud madmsn who resists it. 1t cannot be /
controlled or tampered with; it rejects ev-
erything like cOnciliation or compromise; it /
breathcs spirit of revenge mixed up with
sentiments of the purest Patriotism; and it /
will crush into atoms whoever attempts to
thwart it in lis purpose That purpose is
to make BaLim5re surrender for punish
ment, its murderers and all the leaders of
the mob which shed the blood of our fel-
low citizens on the 18th April, 1861; and
failing in this, to soipe IL oea as an Obstruc-
ton in the way of Patriots marching to
their National Capital @ C
If this be SO, and the Administration
will soon wake up to the truth of what We
write, then let a call for one hundred and
fifty or two hundred thousand additional
troops, be issued at once The seventy-fye
being gathered together, will
take care of Baltimore, and remove perma-
nently, all distractions in the way of easy
access to Washington; but we must have
couple of hundred thousand more, to crush
out this Rebellion at once and forever.
There are two ways of putting down
the present Rebellion and saving the T.
MON. The one is, to call from seventy-fve
to hundred thousand troops into tie field,
and consume two or three years in scien- ,
tifcally terminating the war at a fearful {
loss of life, an enormous cost in money, /
besides destroying the business of the {
country pending the war; which, in itself, /
would amount to untold hundreds of mil ,
ions of dollars. The other and the wiser, :
and the cheaper mode, is, tocall out quar- !
.er of 4 million of voluntees, and double 4
The number if necessary, and bring the ;
whole matter to 4 close in few months l
The latter is the cheaper mode; and when :
business would at once re-
sumo its natural channels and should again, '
DC happy, united, and prosperous people t
"a Nation commanding the respect and a
admiration of the World And this latter {
course, is the one which the people will in a
list upon. We entreat of the President '
not to thwart them. va {
1t is said here, that the President is the
ife of the Administration; and that from {
lin has emanated all that denotes yigor. T
lie must be sustained. and promptly and f
nergetically, by all his Constitutional ad-
Users, or there is trouble at hand. f