Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-08

South, We look with aching eyes Tor the hour
of deiverance and to augment all the diff
ficulties which are to be overcome before
peace is restored to the country.
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The Ciamor Tor Peace and Where it
Comes From.
We hear much SAID at the present day by
these same equivocal peacemakers" in dep
recation of " INVASION" but it is instl ucLive to
remark that by this term they mean only the
south ward march of the national army in
support of the national authority. The hun
dred fold invasions of the National Govern
ment, as witnessed (ong before that Govern
ment had raised its inger) in the seizure of
the United States forts, the riding of United
States nints the firing on the United states
flag, the capture of United States soldiers.
the pilIage Of United States arsenals, and the
appropriation of United States ships aud
revenue cutters all pass for no account with
these sturdy and vehement denouncers of ma
tional " Invasion" And, reduced to its mere
aspect of territorial relations, and apart from
all considerations of relative rightfulness, on
which side has the " invasion been the more
RUTHLESS since the war began by the act
of the Confederate Government? The events
passing before our eyes afford an easy anz
swer.
O0 tne one mana we nave the National
Government INVADING Virginia only for the
sake of defending the National Capital agains
/ menaced attack and of dispensing hostile
force congregated in its neighborhood. On the
other we have seen the loyal States of Mary
land invaded by an insurrectionarv body
Of men, and her property "wantonly" dvs-
troyed. W have seen kentuckv ";nvaded >
and an arsenal wthiu her borders stripped of
its cannon and muskets; and while we write,
Missouri is Invaded for the purpose of
forcing upon her people a deposed and self
exiled Governor and of driving out of the
Union State which prefers to maintain un-
| impaired her National relations
And has il come to this, that a revolUtion-
airy Government possesses. in defense of its
existence, rights of war superior 10 those at
tachng to the Constitutional Government es.
tablished by our fathers and cem+nted by
their blood? How is it tnat "invasiun
justiiable and holy when prosecuted against
the honor and existence of the loyal States,
! becomes Infamous" and ''atrocous" the in
slant 1t is waged in defense of rights and i'm
munities secured by the Constitution and la VS.
of the whole land.
When, therefore, we listen to fervent adiu-
rations in favor of peace. we are constrained
to inquire what sort Of peace it is meant to
! u
in behalf of that "peaceable secession" which
yindicates its claim to recognition by rash
appeal to arns, We can have nothing to say
in behalf of any such political solecism
ALong the last to abandon the hope or to
remit unceasing abors for the preservation Of
peace, we shall be among the first to welcome
its return, provided il he such peace as
consists with the safety, honor and integrity
of the loyal States and the Union. But for a
peace which eonsults only the interests, con,
venlences and caprices of a revolutionary
| Government, and which leaves to that e~tab-
Ilshed by Washington in the field aud Madi
son in the council, only the poor privilege of
accepting the terms created by insurrection-
airy schisn, we have no such preference as
leads us to espouse with forwnrdness the
cause cf political violence against the cause
OF political right, as we understand thril re
lations. From all the havoc and blood, ,hed
incident to this most unnatural and unueces>
sary conflict, we turn as sorrowfully away as
any among the most zcalor8 advocates of
peace" can possibly do, aud we have the sad
consolation of knowing that, if our hlmble
counsels had been needed hy the patrons of
secession, should not have been called to
mourn overa divided land, or over States
discordant and therefore beligerent But it
pnsses our comprehension to discern the
grounds on which the friends of secession and
peac6 can claim right to be heard before the
friends of the Union and peace, for "pencea.
bic secession has from the first been little
more than nominal pretext under which to
claim impunity for fragrant acts of war
against the peace and dignity of the National
Government.-NaGoaaI Iatelkgcneer
SPIRIT OF TUE REBELs.-The rebel papers
growl audibly because Northern prisoners
are treated with hl manity. Blood for blood
is the cry of the Charleston Mercury, which
says, referring to the imprisonment Of the
pirates Of the Savannah aad the Petrel
We do not understand here by what right
decency, good feeling or ehivalry citizens of
South Carolina are allowed by our author-
ties to be brutalized and outraged in every
for while prisoners of the enemy in our
hands are to receive every consideration
Our fellow citizens-geutemen and respecta,
bic men, not common rutfans-are now suf'
tering as they have for long months suffered
the vile treatment of fe!ons. Yet these men
relied upon the cou, missions Of the President
OF the Confederate States Is, then, the au-
thority of President Davis so weak, or the
power of the Government so emasculnte
that these things should so long continue
And is this not enough, but, burning under
sense of outrage ourselves, we must be wit
nesses to the false sentimentality exhibited
toward Yankee prisoners by contemplate
and misplaced demonstrations of tenderness
and care for their comfort? Comfort. for
sooth! while our men are groaning in chains
and loathsome dungeons six feet square
Let the muster rod of the Savannah be OBJ
tnined, and let tho prisoners. at least, for our
one be forwarded from Richmond to the
Charleston Jail. We have no yellow fever,
and the extra Humanitarian need not shud
der We say let these gentlemen be forth
coming. and MIR. Ely be among them. We
ask only for justice, not of Lincoln, but from
the Southern CQntederacy AMI when Baker
and Harleston, with their comrades, are
again paraded through New York, hand
cueed and for derision. let these gentlemen
of the North take fresh air on the Battery
under similar circumstances If it brings
about the slaughtering of our friends and of
our children, SO be it; they will know how
to die. and we will know how to revenge
their unholy and unnatural murderi But
let us move in this matter at all hazards.
TIE Temperance pledge has been intro
duced into one of the volunteer companies at
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