Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-07-18
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B6- The debates in Congress- even under the
operation of the Infamous gag law by which all
opposition to the measures of the ruling section
is summarily crushed out, will nevertheless be
productive Of one good effect. They will prove
to the country that the men now in power are
the real conspirators against the peace, prosper-
ty, and unity of the republic that they seek to
subordinate to passion, and prejudice, and in
tense sectional selfshness, the supreme law of
reverenced or spat upon as it happens to COIN
eide with, to be in opposition to their policy.
They have already openly avowed by their
speeches and their acts, that they are prepared
to go any lengths to achieve the ends they have
in view. The man who-to quote his own
coarse language-"runs the machine" has called
for four hundred thousand men and four hun
dred millions of dollars, and a subservent Sen
ate responds by authorizing levy of five hum
dred thousand men and an appropriation of five
hundred millions of dollars, and Senator Baker
urges forward the prosecution of the war upon
the seeded States in the following remarkable
language, which we quote from his speech OF
Wednesday last:
"He was" he said, Gin favor of sharp, bold.
forward, decisive movement until the war should
cease. Bayonets are sharp arguments and zee
must use them. He was not quite certain that
they would be able to override the South it
contains a great and determined people, ,cho
are Of the belief that they are right and will fight
to the last but ,ce may haze to reduce her to the
condition Of territoyie3sand hare to place over
them Gouernors Of Massachusetts, and Illinois
to control Mene" 1t has, heretofore, been vehe-
mently denied that the North had the remotest
intention of subjugating the South. The war,
it was alleged was not gotten up for any such
purpose. 1t was to vindicate the Constitution,
to maintain the laws, to preserve the Union.-
These were the ostensible objects for which three
hundred thousand men were summoned to arms;
not conquest not subjugation, but to put down
illegal mbnations and to give free voice to the
overwhelming, yet overawed-we leave others
to reconcile the paradox-Union sentiment in
the seeded States. Now, however, the time
has come when the mask may be safely thrown
off. A Republican Senator gets up in his place
and boldly avows that great and determined
people, who be acknowledges "believe that they
are right" are to be forced to swallow their con-
vlctiOns under the 'ssharp arguments" of bayo-
nets and if they herocally determine to resist
Northern dictation, they arc to be ravaged with
fire and sword their plantations are to be laid
waste their homesteads are to be burned their
possessions con6scated-a law to this effect has
already been introduced into Congress-and after
they have been subjected to all the horrors of
rapine and pillage, and to those awful atrocities
which humanity shudders to record, and the sad
remnant of survivors are to be reduced to ter
ritorial condition, to be governed by Northern
pro-consus. Let it be remarked moreover,
that this exposition of the Republican program
me, as announced by Senator Baker, made
in the presence of his Republican colleagues, not
one OF whom ventured to deny that it expressed
the views of the Government, or of the section
which they claim to represent. They neither
denounced it on the score of bad policy, nor on
the higher ground of inhumanity. On the con-
trary, they emphatically endorsed the PROPOSE
tons which the Senator from Oregon had SO
hardly maintained by promptly passing the
bill that clothed Mr.. Lincoln with power to call
out half a million Of men, and which, at the
same time, appropriated and gave him unlimi-
ted control over five hundred millions of dollars
W no now will dare to say that the opposition
journals are not justified in declaring that the
war which the North is waging against the South
is a war of conquest ana sdbjugation? We have
repeatedly asserted that, whatever the pretext
might be, the political and commercial domina-
ton of the North was the ruling motive motive.
The question of slavery was undoubtedly the
entering wedge, and is as certainly involved in
the issue but hand-in-hand with that goes the
question of Northern monopolies in commerce
and manufactures. Nothing less than the dread
of the future independence of the South in both
these respects, could have stimulated the mer-
chants and capitalists of the Northern States to
so lavish an expenditure of money-though they
claim to be only solicitous for the preservation
of the Union and have successfully used this
rallying cry t, cloak the baser motive Thus
far-by the aid of Northern fanatics co-operat-
ing with them for the attainment of their own
ends-they have succeeded in exasperating the
Northern masses against the people Of the South,
and by unparalleled mendacity, and by resort
to the most degrading tricks and subterfuges,
have kept the war fever at its highest point !;
but that they will succeed as well in their ulti-
mate aim Of forcing, by the "sharp argument"
of the bayonet, the Southern States back into
the Union, or of reducing them 'to a territorial
condition." we no more believe than we believe
in the right of a Republican President to WELD
the powers of a dictator, or in the possibility of
reconstructing tree from its ashes.
THE MARKETS
BALTIMORE, July &c. 1861