Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-10-08
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break oat IN almost every oue VI WV D'N
have named.
Then the new Confederacy would take sides
to compel submission in Tennessee. in Virginia,
in Maryland. And what could the United States
Government dol II must take sides, also. And 7
so We have l0ar again. 10 some towns OF New
England where the lecture system is chronic, the
season for lectures, one week, lasts till the
Fourth of July and the new season begins on
the evening Of the Fifth. So, as affairs stand
now, we could have peace till the ink had be-
come almost dry on the parchment Of the treaty:
The cannon to celebrate it would bo loaded
with ball
The city of Washington, too the capital of
he legitimate United States-what woald be-
come Of that in q peace that should acknowledge
the right Of every State to follow the mad whim
of one season Suppose that Maryland, or half
Of it, should go off with Eastern Virginia TO |
the new Confederaoy, Washington would be in
hostile territory. Shall it be defended there, |
or moved Do you say defended, fortified,
packed with troops, grim with batteries? With
your new Contederacy, flushed with success,
more insolent in temper then than nature made
them, permit such citadel within their Dor |
dersY Should we insist on it? There is iear
again Should we removed What do you think
the temper Of the noblest part Of the nation
would be in seeing the city that Washington laid
out, and all it's treasures and memorials Of ma
tional power and progress vacated or packed of
at the dictaton of a conspiracy successful after
a struggle Of six months 7
And the tomb Of Washington, saved from ruin
and disgrace, saved for the nation by Massa.
ohusetts mnn-s that 10 he left behind within the |
dominion of the secession sentiment which he
hated with the whole heat of his passion. aud
which he Glove down in the Whisky Rebellion
near Pittsburgh Is he to sleep in bastard re-
public, doomed to perpetual slavery which he
wanted to see aboshed-a republic-nay, per-
haps a monarchy, that has no Boston ia il from
which he drove the British, no Trenton, no
Princeton, no Valley Forge, no Philadelphia
where he signed the first copy of the Constitution,
no New York where he took the first oath to ad-
minister it, no flag with thirteen stripes. which
be first unfurled in Massachusetts, no stars
which he fixed in the azure of history?
VIII the nation give this up to the firm of
Floyd, TOombs Wigfall & Co. Or will not five
hundred thousand bayonets rush to encircle it,
and save it, as Holy Sepulchre, from the apos-
tates Of the nineteenth century.
Peace, IN the present status Of the controversy
and the rebellion, is impossible If two thirds Of
the loyal population really desired it, let them
be brought up face to face with the inevitable
conditions and sequences Of peace now, and they
would draw back with dismay and with sacred
rage, and cry would go up from millions Of
men, able aud ready to bear arms: "There is
no peace possible. unless the nation is ready for
suicide; forward to Richmond; no more work
by driblets; trample the batteries of Manassas
sweep the valley Of Virginia to Tennessee; a
thousand ships, If need be, to New Orleans; n
deluge of soldiers down the Mississippi; pirdle
the rebellion with an anaconda that can knot his
folds and up with the old Flag, from the Poto-
mac to the Rio Grande !"
Thluk, too, Of the loss the country would sus.
tam Dy hurried peace now, in giping up its noble
proportions! One Of the great privileges Of an
American has been his right Of citizenship in a
continental Republic, across three
ranges OF mountains, from the borders of one
ocean to another, and from Tropic to almost
Arcuc climates, by one supreme eaualizinp poli.
cy' steadily, as pioneers have moved westward
ana States have sprung from the wilderness. and
elvinsahon has advanced and deepened, this
privilege has been growing more substantial and
precocious Now that the Atlantic and Paoific
Will soon be welded by the telegraph, to be an
American, loyal to Constitution that plants its
compass at ST. Louis, and sweeps thence over the
'op oil Lake Superior to the Bay of Fundy.
around the North Atlantic, far below the mouths
oil the Mississippi, into the Gulf, and beyond the
springs of the Missouri, and over another range
oack OF the Rocky Mountains to the outlet Of
great river systems into the Pacific Sea.-and to
De conscious that all those expanses and those
coasts are ruled by one law, and protected by
the quiet energy of one difiusive spirit,-tbis i.
a distinction which which may we'll Justify much
OF the boasting, and not little Of the expecto-
rauon, with which the average American assert
himself IN Europe. II makes a man feel il
presence OF citizen Of some seven by nine Ger
man State, or Swiss Canton, very much as az in
habi:ant OF lordly Jupiter would feel on one o
the Asteroids, in talking with its inhabitants,-
No wonder the Hoosier from Illinois, on visiting
England, felt afraid to shake himself on that
Island, for fear of falling off on one side or the
other, into the sea. The proportions of America
were seized by his imagination aud wrought into
his consciousness.
God intended the Saxon race here. believa
for this scale of groundwork or pedestal for their
spirit But he tries every race once to see II they
are worthy of their great trusts. And now he
eRis on us to earn our geography. We paid Ma
poleon some millions of hard cash for half the
mississippi and the whole of the Missouri but
now Providence tells us to gain the nobler title
Oy our Character. He tries US to see if we are
worthy TO secure the perpetual warantee by our
Valor. The rebels are degenerate They care
nothing for the Upper Mississippi, for the Sierra,
Tor the Lakes, for the Hudson, They are wilinp
10 let them oil go. Their hearts have no passion
that reaches into cold weather, or beyond where
q negro can hoe. and dance, and thrive. He
ASKS as II we can send our passion southavafd. oil
II we are willing to pay our geography and th,
heritage and pride Of our children at the frs
pressure on our purses and our larder, for Q
peace tnat Skaters the American domain. 1t il
our crisls-hour Of trial Shall We not be sterI
and patient, ambitious to retain the priyilee,
ana trust, and TO save for ourselves and posterii,
and the descendants of the short.sighted. nm.
patriotic, maddened rebels, the majestic bene.
faction which only patience and vaior ca
retain
But let ,us turn from the cost of immedat
peace in shame, in principles, in national domain
majesty, and promise to the cost in monev, On
quetst brethren in this State, with revolver
Peering from under their Quaker uniforms. ar
powerfully exercised in meditation on the bill
which Will soon be presented for the war at Cali
iornia doors In the first place, they tell Us tha
our share OF the direct tax, this year 10 be M
less than 100000. Very well. The State
ought 10 nave voted gTdtaity to the Government
OF one million, the first week after the news cam,
10 US That Sumter had fallen. We couldn't do i
because these peace-enemies Of the American
Flag were too strong in the Legislature II ou
share Of the direct tax shall be only S4OO OOO
ws have made clean saving of 5000, 900 in on
year, which ought 10 burn our pockets. Tbi
four hundred thousand is about dollar on eael
man, woman and child in the State. If there i
any hardship in being obliged to meet il, tn
whole OF II ought to be levied on the peace party
Tor the necessity Of il is imposed by traitors an
the peace party are their friends and abetto..
Friends Of the Union in the South a-c driyp,
from their homes, see their prope.,,v con6sca,st
and are fortunate to escape ,viiho,y hona;n,,
to % bams,r;en ,uv enemies % OF Government can lab,
oIanor nsm1Is LUZ .ne Lice of the nation, and ca
Presient 'Heeis' ior Aie nssus9ina"on Vi u
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-nen, the sugar tax excites the sympathy
our peace patriots Stop the war, they say
our farmers and miners, for your brown sugG
will cost you two cents more on the pound, an
the best white sugar four cents more; you
coffee, also, four cents more on the pound, an
your tea fifteen cents. The old saying OF patr
otism was, al is sweet to die for our country.
We win say now. il is sMeet donhlY sRent I