New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-04
The WAR For The UNION.
FROM WARRINGTON.
-, our Own Correspondent

4, tbetnselyes a leisure hour, from conducting
government without money, and carrying Oh
samnaien with lack of food, let them soiace
nenseyes by reading English history They VIII
fapd there much that is profitable for doctrine
;,.truction. reproof and correction. 1t has !
mach 10 admonish and great deal to warn.
Bst thew are occupied, just now, with the cap !
t.re of Washington, and Mr.. TOmbs, Secre-
tary of very small State, having taken his
morning pint of Peach COgnac, being In the OIL
apr of Mobile with q row of Federal carronades
srinning rather fercely at the craft and cargo
n new reading the dispatches from the PlenpOs,
whe have bought arms, borrowed money and
Sooe several other things in the way of getting
m organized banditt into the good society OF
Rmperors and Kings. l have neither Hume nor
Linsard, and cannot give volume and page, nor
woah trace, with any minuteness, the MINOR
events Of crowded centuries all cumulative to one
sseat truth running through its pages
wherever British blood has gone, the British
yo,Ver has been planted. From the period
sf The Norman cenqueror, Selling with usurping
hands the crown and its appanages, to the
G,rimean campaign, war to them has brought
conquest, possession, and occupation. Hardly
xestpp place for the sole Of the foot on chart
he merest insulation on the map-swept BY the
srges of the broad ocean on the west and
hsbed by the tempestuous and turbulent pillows
Of an inland sen on the east-strength and do
uuinion have gone cut from her, to the ends OF
he earth Sovereignty, sprineing from her faith
fsl loins has measured its gradations of advance,
ii e bar binds
tocether the circumference Of the globe. The
ocean that has not seen her canvas is the one
that DO keel has trsyersed-the earth that has
not done homage, in courtesy or conquest, to
her Gag, waits yet to be surveyed by the daring
sdyentarer of her lineage, to whom no secrets OF
sea or shore can be held sacred. Parallels of latitude
and meridians of longitude are but the milestones
Of progress and acquisition, which are TO pause
only with the possession Of the whole earth.
Not to the Cross Of st. George only, but to
fbe red white and blue of our heraldry-not to
The Lion only, but to the Eagle, are the king
aoms of this world to be given. 1t is the En-
shsh tongue, spoken alike in Yorkshire vernacu-
lar and Yankee nasal that is to be the common
voice Of ChristendOm. The Eastern Continent is
theirs, from Indus to tee Pole, for Europe AID
Asia are but the feudstions of her paramount
supremacy. TIE Western is to be ours, and
bring to the focus of our command the treasures
and the tribute Of wealth and submission, and
the stores of sOi production and climate, ex-
tending through the varied capacities Of aluvials
attitudes, and zones And mark, you who would
wage war against the laws Of man aud the laws
Of Cod that with the livery of seizin, to what
abe has taken she has transmitted her own
laws and her own living. With absorption has
come also infusion Of population and character.
The aboriginal race passes away, and on the
foundations upon which the slender and short
hsed institutions were built, rises the stately aud
COMPACT fabric of durable society. The Saxon
uibed in bis pride and sighed out bis Life under
: the violent donluaton of the Norman, and from
~ the mingled pOsterty came the vivdcity, endur-
ance and enterprise which have made them the
pioneers of civilization and the apostles Of
Christianity to the nations.
Study its lessons, you who have drawn the
unrighteouS and parricidsl sword, to slay the
rulers of your law, and the priests of your rei-
Rion, and know low what shall be made clear
to you in the stern tuition which you have in
vOkeO. Inc shIu uOtc Vi TIC OuBiO-Shsiso
invites US not only to retribusion but to resi-
deDce The armed men who are to draw the
blade Of chastisement at a new Cowpens, and
pull trigger at a second Kings Mountain, are
not all to return to the land of Their fathers,
living or dead. Your inheritance is to be theirs.
The cotton-6elds Of Mississippi are to bloom to
other tllage-the cane plantations of that most
lovely delta of river and bayou, are to yield
sweetness to other hands-the cane tassels Of Al
sbama are TO nod to more watchful labor.
Cavalier of South Carolina Curled darkey of
Georgia. Creole of louisiana The sturdy
Roundhead Of sterile clmes 10 upon his war
path. The man who fears God and keeps bis
powder dry 10 seeming your tracks, bear
ing with him not the wooden time
piece or the wooden nutmeg of shrewd
aud friendly commerce, bat swinging in
his hand the smiling mace, and wearing on
his thigh the sword Of the Lord and Of Gideon
to do Justice on the revilers Of his religion and
his Government. Stand aside if you would es-
cape his wrath-seek shelter if you would BIO
spared his ayensing hand. With Sharps rifle in
his clutch, the Bible in one pocket and Brother
Beecber's Plymouth Collection in the other, he
enters upon his work as his grim ancestor said
his morning prayer, kissed his wife and shoul-
dered his pike for the sharp struggle OF Dunbar,
or set his teeth for the sangunary slaughter Of
Drogheda. The upland forests shall be stirred in
their foliage by the voice Of worship. and ancient
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