Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-02-15
Will the People of the North
Permit Coercion!

" L III 0uoy .aoo, 'idt VIC iUtUIC pIeuutCi
under Mr.. Lincoln, has calculated civil wal
as among the probabilities Of the future,
aud as an inevitable consed uepoe IF persis,
tence on the part of the South in its resist
ance of Northern aggression. The argu-
ments of the tyrant- force, compulsion and
power, as a last resort-were employed by
Him without stint, and he declared his read
mess to ''stand or perish" With arms in bic
hands, If upon that condition alone the u
MON may be preserved. Everybody" he
said, "who shall resist, oppose or stand in
the way of the presentation Of this Union,
will appear as moths upon summers eve. .
when the whitlvind arises which shall sweep
them away. Vaunting that the issues be-
tween North and South were founded upon
a mere abstraction, in behalf Of .'twenty-
fonr African slaves, one slave for each for
t. four thousand sduar5 niles of territory
acknowledging that slavery has ceased tc
be practical question:" he could yet de-
clare that "battle was the measure to be
resorted to last, for the salvation of the con-
federacy." Mr.. Mason, in reply. depreca-
ted s'measuring swords" to settle such a
controversy. II trust" he exclaimed
that we may avoid the ultima ratio of the
Senator from New York. I trust the good
sense, the wisdom, the civilization, the hui
mainly OF the age, will rescue the country
from the effect Of any such counsels. trust
that in the free States there is a body Of
good setise, an enlightened basis of patriot
ism, sufficiently free from the shackles OF
party obligations, to see the folly of such
advice. What war to restore this Union
or preserve it And that men Of sense
shall be deluded into war under the pretence
of only enforcing the laws of tie nation ?
| appeal to the free States to repudiate the
counsels Of the Senator from New York
and disowD them and if in the Providence
of God, it is to result that we are to sepa-
rate ii two eenfederacies, then let the coun.
sells Of peace prevail, and not the counsels
Of the Senator from New York. Let the
counsels of peace prevail, as the only coun-
sells which can avert that greatest Of all ca.
families war between brother and brother
"a war between races, which could con-
quer peace only through oceans of blood
and countless millions of treasure"
Nine out of ten Of the people Of the North
ern States are prepared to re-echo the pa
triotic sentiments, of Mr.. Mason. The citi
zens Of the free States are nos prepared 70,
civil war, nor will they consent to imbrt:e
their hands in tie blood Of their brethren
at the South. The views promulgated By
Mr. Seward Have ezcited the deepest feel
ing Of distrust and alarm, and it is the COM
mon uttetanoe Of meu's mouths, that an
attempt on the part Of the incoming admin
istration to carry out his coercion theory
will meet with no less resistance in the non
slaveholdlng than in the slavcholding States
i is true that Che bitter end so long fore
seen is approaching, and that the period ha
arrived for the country to pay for the trea
of elevating anti>slavery republicanis1n &
power; yet the catastrophe has rot come
upon US SO suddenly, Or without such pre-
monitory signs, that citizens of the States
North Of Mason aid Dixons fine, can b.
hurried into course so suicidal, atrocious
end wicked IS g portion of our republfcsr
leaders would mark out for them. We have
drifted to point where the problem has
ceased to be, whether tie Union can be saw
ed F; and, in answer to the still more impor-
tant question, shall the South be permitted
to 60 out peaeeably? every conservative
right minded man at the North has already
given, in his heart, all affirmative response
s'Irrepressible conflict" has succeeded in
developing the outlines of fearful shadow
over the land but sober minded, patriotic
citizens will never permit it to acquire a
bloody substance. In the annals Of history
there would bs no parallel Of nation, from
similar height Of prosperity surrounded
by every external and rejoicing in every in
ternal essential Of happiness; having pldng-
ed its future destiny, its wealth, fair fame
and the hopes resting upon it, into such an
abyss of ruin. desolation and recoverable
hopelessness Of misery, as would be the con-
sequence, if successful, of Mr.. Stewards ap-
peal to "battle.' Far better that the Union
should be dismembered forever. than that
fraternal hands should be turned against
one another to. deluge the land in blood.
j, The masses Of our population, in all of
the States, are unquestionably peace loving
and conservative. Five sixths of those who
are entitled to vote, in the North, deplore
the agitation which is kept alive by the
temagoneism Of theft representatives. They
see the g gantic footsteps with which anar.
chy has been lately progressing; but they
have found it impossible, as yet, to make
their voices heard. They have witnessed
the culpable inactivity Of Congress, and
have seen discretion, judgment and patriot
ism sacrificed before ambition and venality
without having it in their power to remedy
the evil. But if in addition to wkst is past,
they see civil discord about to be Inaugural
ted, they will arise as one man and cry otlt-
No! They loathe tie thought of internec.
lne strife upon a paltry. issue, created by
despotism and fanaticisp, and they have al
ready issued the fat that, if the States Of
the Union must separate they shall do so in
amity,' and they will hold Mr.. Seward and
the administration of which he is to form a
part responsible, If he exerts his influence
to force them into it. -Ctncinnati Enqui-
,rer.
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its readers quite exultingly that old Aoe
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He has been growing his whiskers, curling
his hair, and waxing his moustache to sucf
an extent daily, that he is now described
as looking very Handsome. His whiskers
are considered as particularly becoming
filing bis gaunt Cheeks and hiding hi
long lank jaw bones, SO that the improve.
ement is remarkable.
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