Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-05-03
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We print, in another column, an article
rom the Baltimore Sun, apparently addressed
20 the administration, and advocating . sur.
render Of the city Of Washington. It calls
the occupancy OF that city by the federal gov.
ernment the great obstacle to peace. Il as
sumes that we are to have two confederacies,.
and AYERS that, with the fifteen slave states
forming one Of them, no sane man can expect.
that Washington will be the capitol Of thas
other: Even il Maryland should belong "a.
the northern coufederacy. the national capi--
tol cOuld not be eoutinaed on the frontier aG
a foreign territory, within gan shot Of bat
teries on the Virginia side Of the Potomac.
1T would be frowned upon and commanded" !"
says the Sun, by fortifcations upon the Viz.
ginia soil" "If Washington should be cap
tured and fall into the hands of the Sout6,'s
adds the Sun, "it would not be worth ain-.
gle dollar, single life, or a moments war 70
endeavor TO repossess It," Il concludes.
therefore, that If there is 10 be fight about
Washington it will be "about an impracticu-
bic thing
1t is impossible to read such q proposal a.
this without an indignant quick Of the pulse,
Either the city of Baltimore has lost its wits.
or it GAncies that the people Of the N9rth
have lost theirs. For men not demented, il,
is q base proposal to make, and q proposal
which it would be to the last degree Disgrace
Eul and ignominiOus TO listen to or entertain:
Its amazing impudence is only surpassed by
its astounding folly. A firm assertion Of na-
tionnl rights and quick sensibility TO. pation-r
al honor are not only the surest guarantee Of
national stability, but the fundamental pOstu-
late of independent national existence. Il 10
quite possible that the government may be
driven ott Of Washington but if it should
retreat before defending the place to the last.
extremity, the Whole world would pour
out scorn upon it. If being driven.
it should fail to. go back with overpOwerina,
uGmbers and retake it. it would prove that,
the blood of the President, the cabinet and
the whole northern people bud ereat through
the veins Of towards eyer since the food.
There are matters on which the ,instipctive
sense Of honor Is sd intuitively right that il is
q baseness to treason on them. A Aation's
hsnor is like a wOman's chastity-a sacred
thing, never for moment to be delibernted,
on. If the women who hesitates is Lost, the
nuftitH that deiibetates whether il win main
tain its honor is also lost. Thank 9ed, the
heart Of the free North is souLd to the cOres'
and the spontaneous uprising Of the whole
people for the defense Of the national capital,
the moment it is seen to be in jeopardy, is the
appropriate answer tOthe Border State soph-
'istry. In the piping times of peace we, are .
reasoning, calculating. people, dividing into,
parties and not averse to dispute. But va no
more stqpt to deliberate now than we would if
ain aged father were in the hands OF Indian .
savages who were on the point of tearing on
his scalp and roasting him eliYe. The: tens.
of thousands of brave men who are fastening
to the defense Of the capital are inpelled, to q
man, by sense of duty as imperative as waS
felt by the famous ligh; brigade in the charge
at I3alakla7a.