Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-04-15

DOkDkk SIA1kS.-Inc news from NORM
and South, as well as that originating here, print
ed to-day In the Star, should prove sufficient 10
teach the border States both sides of Mason and
Dixon's line, that not a moment Is to be lost In
the discharge Of THEIR PLAIN DUTY OF command
ing settlement Of the sectional difficulties Of the
times. TAsy hare but to IN concert TO that end
n the called session of Congress to assemble the
Fourth Of July. In the meantime, their authorities
and all their really patriotic citizens must exert
themselves to make 1t certain that, by the day
Congress meets their respective States shall have
taken no position which will make the threatened
war simply a sectional one.
IL the Virginia Convention, Influenced by the
attack on Sumter, designed avowedly to induce
Virginia to join her fortunes with those of the
seeded States,) pass an ordinance Of secession,
Pennsylvania, having her "heart ired' too, by
the course Of Virginia, will In a week be-as
Virginia will be--one vast camp: ready to pre-
cipitate herself with FIRE and sword over the line
TO defend the Governments right to its property
within her (yirginia's) limits. No man capable
Of drawing rational conclusions from self-evdent
premises, can doubt these facts.
At this moment the popular mind Of Pennsyl-
vania 10 in intense sympathy with Virginia, and
1t depends wholly upon the action of the Rich
mond Convention whether that sympathy shall
difficulties without the desolation Of every Viz
ginia hearth by civil war; or whether 1t shall be
resolved into whirlwind Of mad passion, as dire
an that which at this moment actuates the thou
sands serving In arms under the Oligarchy's
authority and be directed, Of course, TO the de-
tense Of what Pennsylvania regards the plain
right Of the Government Of the United States
upon the soil Of Virginia, where the sectional war
will inevitably be fought out for the most part,
at least for months 10 come
Clearly for:seeing this plain result Of the seces
sion OF Virginia, we have labored In season and
cut Of season to prevent her from being thus vic
timzed bnly to render permanent the Oil garchy's
usurpation Of the liberties Of the people of the
South. No man living is personally more deeply
interested In Virgnia's future than oursen If
her soil be made the hatch block on which this
war, created by the oligarchy to drag her out of
the Union, Is TO be fought out, her every interest
worth preserving will be Instantly DESTROYED.
tremains to be seen whether her Convention
viii have the nerve to resist the efforts o. the dis
unioniss TO make her THAT hatch block
The CALL FROM THE WAR DsPAR-MENr-Th
following 10 the call for troops issued in accord
snoe with the proclamation Of the President by
Secretary Cameron, and giving the quotas allotted
each State to furnish:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Washington, April Is, 1861
To Has Ezeeliency ths GorerHoy Of:
Sir-Under the act Of Cong ress for calling fo,
the "Milita to execute the laws Of the Union,
suppress instructions, rspeI invasions, &c ap.
proved February -, IT'S, have the honor TO re-
guest your E1csLeDcy to cause TO be Immediately
detached from the militia Of your State the quota
Designated In the table below, TO serve as lnfan-
Try or RifemeH for the period Of three months
unless sooner discharged
Your Excellencv viii please communicate. 70
me the time at or about which your quota will be
expected at its rendezvous as II will be met ,s
soon - practicable by an officer or officers 70 mus
kf Into the service and pay Of the United States