The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-08-28

Had war, not peace, been his obiect--had
he desired to raise throughout the mighty
North feeling Of indignation. which ID
ninety days would have emancipated every
slave on the continent and driven their mas
tiers into the sea, il needs be--he had only
to have said: {" Let the garrison Of Fort
Sumter do their duty and perish beneath its
walls, and ON the heads OF the traitors and
rebels Of the slavery propagrandist be the
consequences. Such decision would have
carried joy 10 the bosoms Of Phillips and
Garrison and their tanatical associates, who
so Justly consider abolitionism and dsunion
synonymous; but il would have brought up
on The country such scenes Of horror as the
mind shrinks from contemplating. Verify,
the blood Of the martyrs would have been
the seed Of" negro emancipation. For ey
cry patriot soldier thus sacrificed to the re-
yiyal Of the African slave trade and the es-
adjustment Of hideous slayeocracy al the
South, ten thousand negro slaves would have
been emancipated, and as many Of their mas
tiers beea driven into the ocean 10 explate
! their crimes on earth.
But Mr.. Lincoln desired to rouse no such
feeling OF revenge among the people Of the
Free States. He knew--no man knew bet
ter--that he had but to hold on to Fort Sum-
ter sgreeably TO the plainly expressed will
OF the people, and leave its gallant garrison
to the fate prepared for them BY rebels and
traitors, to insure an uprising which would
at once have wiped out slavery from the face
Of the country and with it all engaged in
this atrocious rebellion against the Govern
ment. But his purpose is Peace, not War,
His object Is to restore. to rebuild and Ia
preserve the Government, and the Constitu-
ton which enacted it; and his great aim Is.
while maintaining the Constitution and en-
forcing the laws, TO bring back good men 10
their allegiance, and leave the thieves and
rognes, and braggarts who compose the great
mass OF the rebels. Under the cagnomen OF
Southern Chyalry," 10 the uninterrupted
enjoyment Of their own precious society and
the reflection which time must awake even
IN them. He Is mindful Of his oath regis.
tered 10 Heaven" 10 preserve the Consatu-
tlnn and enforce the laws and lie eels that
his mission is 10 reclaim and MT extingu.h
Or must assuredly lie could have lett Fort
Sumter 10 its fate and that fate wDuld have
been speedy, certain. and absolute snnihila.
tlon q The traitors now in rebellion against
the Government. aud 10 the VERY existence
OF the institution 81 slavery on tie Amerlcan
continent. But be has been faithful III his
oath Of Office aud 10 the Constitution and
by yielding 10 the necessity Of the case and
listening % the cry Of humanity, slavery has
had accorded 10 Il Its last victory over Tree
dom anu tie Constitution ol The United
States
The deed has been accomplished he sac.
riilce nas been made traitors aud rebels are
again triumphant; and the Stars and stripes
are again 10 be dishonored III the SIGHT ii
the natlon aud It astnnl,hei Europe. The
ilag q The unInn ! 70 be pulled down, ami
the bloody banner VI pirates. ireebuotrrs,
rebels, aud traitors, i 10 be run Up 10 wave
trlumphantly over sumter, and be saluted
irom hundreds u guns IL the rebel camp !
mid the cheers Of thousands whose srnsele.s
gasconade and bragsaLocio yauntings have
long since dlsgusted brave men aud honest
ciiizras. And YET. We approve Tie act. A
traitor President rrn.rellt necessity, and
humanity demanded that Abraham L.nculu
snousd sacrifice all personal feelings, and
gracefully weld 10 that necessity and the
deliberately PLANNED treason upon which il
!, based. Has eountrymcn will sustain him
70 tins discharge 81 an huniliatlns but an
Imperative duty but Nifh hln they feel tia.
the account = now clUsed with treason.
There = nothing nov % yield 70 traitors
nothing murc !" sacrifice IL order % give 10
slavery aud TIE slave trade the ndnr of ia
ttonalily. nlniure. the President % the U !.
nited States has only law. to enforce and i
Constitution 10 sustain and woe be 10 them
WIN Ih~arI him 10 the performance II III.
duty. aid e himself, il he dare 10 shrink
IRON the performance u lis whpie duty.
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