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high toned Administration 1t ia only in
tended 10 nislsad the people from the real is
sue 1t should be remembered that General
Beauregard offered to ieoue Major Anderson
unDaoisstsd II he seouLd do the same to him -
But he refused. Thus it is seen that Mr.
Lincoln was the aggressor, and it is now open
iy confessed that all the recent preparations
were to the very end now staring us in the
faee-civil war and fratricidal strife
The Baltimore American, ailuding to the
duty of Maryland In the present exigency,
says:
What are we to do '? What are the duties
growing out OF the unhappy circumstances
that surround us The roar of cannon in the
harbor of Charles ton has not changed the ma
ture of the questions that separate the belli-
ger ents; nor will the success defeat OF
either party in this battle necessarily after the
position OF Maryland, or affect the principles
upon which she has acted in standing aloof
from the strife Aside from the strict inter-
position OF God, to whom both sides appeal
with equal teryor, the result of one battle or
any number of battles is just likely TO be
IN favor of one as the other-iust rs likely to
secure the success of wrong us the main ten
ance of right The worst designs of bad
men are freq uently concealed under the best
pretences, and nothing is easier than to per
suade ourselves of the peculiar holiness of
any cause we may espouse. We can there
lOre gam nothing by review of the causes
OF the present war. Our plain duty is TO
plead for peace; TO appeal 10 ali within the
sphere of our influence, by every considera-
Alltt CtH dHeCL humanity, TO alu IN the
suppression of a strife that is at once unholy,
unnatural, and utterly impotent.
Inc Baltimore Exchange deduces the fol-
lowing from recent events:
The insane and brutal policy initiated by
the Government at Washing ton under the
goading of the party and press of which it is
the puppet, has wantonly wrecked all possi-
blllty OF compromise or reconstruction -
W nat, then, Is left us but to choose between
Ihe TWO fragments of the discovered Union
IL IS no longer-lt has forever ceased to be
4 chctce, IN which the Union itself is in
VOWED. 1t is simply a choice between the
NORTH and the South-between the brethren
VINO nave been driven from us and the cor
rupt ana fanatical domination which has
separated us. If we remain where we are
we go with the North, against the South
we choose between the two, and cast our
weight and our resources and hopes in
I Ine one scale, and against the other
LII Is 10 this, and nothing but this, that the
cry or Union Union now leads us II car
RES US over, not 10 the Union but to the sec
tionai and ratricidal faction which has rup-
tureu the Union, and now calls to war uuon
ITS ruins Every honest and patriotic citizen
VINO Is deceived by the cry of Uaion into the
support OF the powers that he, becomes in
spite OF him, an enlisted soldier under the
banner of sectionalsm. His patriotic i'm
pulses are played upon and tampered with
he Is seduced by his reverence for what is
good, INTO the worship of the powers of evil
he Is, to all practical intents and purposes a
LlncoInlte, and becomes part and parcel of
RepnbiicaniSm and its dynasty
The Philadelphia American hints at treachery
in Fort Sumter:
-, Ii we may believe the tale borne to us by
the telegraph, two of the guns at Fort Sumter
were sllenced, while, strange to say, the firing
from that fort did no damage to its assaiI
ants How this could be- without utter in
elhciency in the working of the guns, or
ueacnery IN the fort, we find it difficult to
perceive. 1t IS true, that the garrison was
mlscrably deficient in numbers being only
ABOUT enough to work the guns of one side of
the fort. Still the fertilization was under
stood 10 be very strong and secure, and only
Il leW OF the numerous batteries of the South
Carolnlans were engaged in the attack