Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-05

WHAr Dozs IT MEANr-We are beset on all
sides verbally for an explanation Of the meaning
Of the recent overwhelming defeat Of disunion
Psr Sc In Virginia. 1t has significant meaning,
Indeed Ii tells Of her abiding devotion to the
Union as made by our fathers-to its princi Piles
ana the result Of their supremacy In Its govern
ment, Just as her equany-une1pected rebuke Of the
revolutionary madness Of Known othingism told
the same tale few years since. II tells Of her
abiding confidence in the patriotism Of the-at
the south-so universally abused and misrepre-
scented North
sue Has declared by a majority VI from thirty to
Nifty thousand votes, in the face Of the most per.
sistent and truculent efforts TO work her loose
from her traditional Unon-loving moorinys that
she has an abiding confidence that the North does
NOT intend TO revolutionize the Government so
That IL shall hereafter be abolition Government
welded palpably against southern interests and
southern rights under The Constitution.
She has proclaimed her belief that the great
controversy Of the age may not only be settled
honorably and fairly in the Union, bat that the
(for the most Par) experienced, patriotic and
able retired American statesmen now assembled
here as Commissioners Of the several States. ,riH
settle 1t upon terms that will not only keep her
people and the people Of all the border slavehold
ing States In the attitude Of staunch defenders of
the Union, but will enable them speedily to bring
the six seeded States back without firing gun;
victory TO be won for the cause of the abiding
character of free principles, thousand fold more
glorious than any that history tells of among all
the thousands of bloody victories by which civil
lied governments have been strengthened, from
the days Of Athens's greatest power, pride and
strength, to this 5th Of February, 1851.
II proclsims that she does not believe that
" coercion will either be needed, or be justifa-
BILE.
1t proclaims her guarantee that II the North
meets her and the rest Of the border slave holding
States In the Washington Convention in the spirit
IN which she met the North Yesterday in three
months from this day revolution against the revo
lztonary authorities in all the seeded States will
make Aaron Burrs Of them In the estimation of
their people.
IL Proclaims, further, her abiding confidence In
the fairness and Propriety, under existing cir
eunstances, Of the proposition Of settlement upon
which her Unionists all went into the contest-tbe
Cr!ttenden propcstion-as a basis of a settlement
Of the whole trouble.
she has resisted the torrent Of disunion, that nm
TO yesterday had swept all before Il like tornado
that she may have the right to demand In such
voice OF thunder as that in which she YESTERDAY
sPoke, that the North, sinking all party consid-
eranons, shall unite with her to secure another
century OF internal peace, prosperity, progress
sno universal happiness under the government of
me Cni'ed States by at once coming up to the
settlement Of the dangerous question. on terms
MAJ VIII instantly sweep from under their feet
toe ground upon which the disunion conspirator.
OF tne South have stood In their so long and des.
Psssiely fought, and nearly won, battle ags,ns,
tne continuance Of the best government that man
was ever blessed with.