Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-04-10
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INVASION OF THE SOUTH-INAUGURATI0N OF

BY order Of the federal government on Saturday ships
of aud Transports with troops, provisions, stores,
ammunition and arms, large aud small; tools, sandbags,
spades and other siege tools stalls for horses boats boat
howzers for landing and AL the circumstance OF war
cleared from this port with sealed orders for parts un-
known. The city vas like camp and the excitement
was iaeuse Some of the officers OF the army knowing
the bloody mission which the Powhatan and Atlantic
are sent resigned rather than mnge IN the iraricidal
conflict The ships which have sailed are but the van;
others are preparing follow them not ony from this
port bu; from the Navy Yard Of Chareslown &asachu-
SITS where there the warke activity as at Brook
iyn and New York.
Il is thus evident that a bloody civil war ia resolved
upon by Sir. Lincoln and his Cabinet After long hest
taon the President has screwed his courage the fight
ing point At what precise spot be intends to commence
bosies o. to provoke ticn-whc,her at Charleston,
Pensacola the mouths Of the Mississippi or in Texas,
where there is an ey1cn design 10 excite domestic H.
surrecou at all oil these places together-does not
vet appear but a !ev days will unfold the mystery.
To Ar Lincoln hs Cabinet and TIE leaders OF the Re-
publican party three openr7t, to yield TO
the Confederates and to all the saychodiog communities
their Just rights coeqla partners in the Union which
would have had the effect of healing the breach and
unng the sections; second to pcrn; pcaceablc and
bloodess separation either in the hope of reunion at
future day or at least OF friendly alliance for mutual de-
fence against forsgh foes and Tor the establishment Of
commercial relations, which II not specially ayor'g the
North would az least not discriminate aCsius. hcT; and
third to wage OF subug4iOn 80 iust seven sove-
reiga aes which viii be ultimately extended 10 hteen,
to compel them to submit TO the authority o! the gov
ernment Washington, aud to pay tribute to IT, wLeh-
e they are represented in it, Congress or not IN contra
venliOn to the great principle for which the Colonies
fought and conquered the mother country in tue Revolt
ton OF 776-thc pruc,e that "wthOut representation
| there can be no tayatOn."
The first OF three was the best AID would have
been that of The second is the next best
course because the successful could only lead
AT
and calamity upon the country which the uaginauoe
* APPALLED, As for orng the reyoed states TO the
Union by war that is hc widest chimera that
tered the brain of nan. But II ia probable that even 1t
the Northern section should succeed IN subdung the
South (or that il the naked aspect OF the war when
stripped of all ia dsguise) the same favorable terms
would be obtained certainly not the same entente
cmddie necessary 10 the future peace aud prosperity
Of both sections could be secured oy the peaceful arts
of Diplomacy and craftsmanship, which seem TO have been
omIatev IGNORED at Washington The third course la =
been adopted and that is uDquestionaby the worst OF
If il ais and that il very possible II II be destructive
TO the pesgs and to the interests OF the sorth 10 say
nothing of the overwhelming expense ana debt "hich u
will entail upon the country the many hearths II WI
leave desoatc aud the feelings OF bitter eternal enmty
which it will! have engendcred between two geographical
sections separated by an impercephbie line.
The preence of carrying out the laws OF this Union
in the Confederate States enforcing the federal &uthor
ty and collecting the revenue Is too transparent 10 Ge
|
il is impossiba 10 accomplish these obecs without civil
war of the most ferocious kind. To make the attempt
therefore is deliberately commence war whose end
the present generate may not live 10 see, and who
disastrous eects will be ucn as TO annhiato the accu
mulated wealth Of the country at blow, and throw
back It's progress half century The real object OF the
war not to collect revenue nor to assert the anthor
ty of the federal government nor to protect It's proper
IT, 1t is war Of propagandisma war against the So
cia institutions of fifteen Sates-a war to cxrPate ne
gro slavery il not to exerminate slavehodrs IL the
irrepressble conflict predicted by Mr. Seward aud Mr.
Lincoln, ard for which Garrison, Giddings and the
bood-thirs,y abolitioniss Of their ianaucal party
have been laboring for the last thirty yesrs-
From our accounts the military talents OF the army has
espoused the side of the Southern Confederacy The
South moreover, is united to a man when 1t comes to
blows while the North divided, and will be rent asu
der by still greater divisions as the war proceeds II
even instructions and revolutions do not take place IN
several Northern States Soon the government will lind
itself in the position Of the British government in the
war OF cur first Revolution only in still greater de-
gree There will be such of opposition, together
with positive refusal to furnish the snews OF war, that
the Lincoln administration will be compelled to suecuno
in disgrace amidst the excavations OF the people and he
curses OF mankind And that will be the end OF the Pu-
| ritanicAl faction in North America.