Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-07-26

A VIRGINIA SHEET on COERCION, - ne /
Banner. published at Fredericksburg Va, has
the following plain and sensible views on the
above mooted subject:
When the Secessionists commenced their wild
career of madness, they most solemnly protested
aoajast the principles or coercion. They affected
10 aee,sly deplore the breaktng up OF the country
and the downfall Of the Government, but 'hey
most earnestly and constantly deprecated coer-
ciop. When twas ascerained, however, that 10
counties in Western Virginia had determined TO
remain in the Union, secessionists Ignored their
own doctrine and resolved to coerce these coun-
ties out of the Union into the Southern ConIed'
eraev. Gems Lee. Wis, Floyd and others were
scpt to coeree them into submission TO the
Confederate Government, with what success,
however is we'll known to all the American peo-
pie.
IF South Carolina, or seven States had the
lepiiimate right to secede themselves from the
Federal Government, contrary to the Wlsh aud
interest of all the other States in the Union, by
the same parity of reasoning. had not the coun' I
ties of Western Virginia the legitimate right to
seeede from the remaining portion OF the terri
tory of Virginia? The Federal Government Is
/ comDosed of all the States and Territories IN the
/ Union. and Virginia is composed OF all the
counties embraced in her geographical bounda'
ries hence If one or seven states had the Cou-,
stitutional right uuconditionally to secede irohT
| The Federal Government. any county, or any
number of counties in any State had the Constl
tntionalright, ,unconditioually to secede from any
one of the States, The example being set' and'
the precedent approved and established, the
whole country at once becomes disintegrated' aud
the Southern Conlederacy has not the shadow OF
| soourity for her permanency and duration even
/ sbonld she cain her Independence. The only
homorenious institution existing between NW-
pinia and the Gulf States, calculated TO BIND
and keep them together IS the institution OF
Mot Y NirUnia n later
will become free State, cannot certainly be
questioned by any one capable ot observation
and reasoning upon the plainest, common sense
princfples. Facts now constantly being de-
/ veloped. which must convince TIE most ootuse
and preiudiced mind that Virginia Will certainly
become a free State. Secession was the AGATE 6loc
to slavery in Virginia, and men may bite their
Inns and make their threats, and abuse Union
men as much as they may, they can never make
the world believe but what they themselves have
brough4 the ruin upon their own heads. they
have done il! Every cause must produce lts
Legitimate effect. Secession produced revolution,
aud revolution viii produce abolition of African
Slavery, at least in Virginia, and we confidently
believe, that it Will finally produce il throughout
The whole South. 1t may exist aonsHaliY III the
Gulf States for number Of years, but the END
mnst aud viii come This hy the way
Did not secessionists ignore their own prnci-
nes when they tried to force their army into the
State of Mary land for the avowcd purpose of
coercing her out Of the UniOnY Did they uOt
ignore their principles, when they tried TO lorce
Kentucky and Missouri ont of the Union 2
Strange consistency A party OF leaders seize
the public arms. and arm themselves to the very
teeth, and thus armed, force the unarmed masses
of the people to submit to their lordly behess,
and when the proper authorities Of the country
attempt to carry out the laws of the Constitution
according to their sworn obligations, these lead
ers raise the hue and cry, there must be no CO.
ercion, when to force. or COerce all others IS the
constant systematic labor Of their lives Secess-
ion leaders are the men who inaugurated the
system of coercion, and they are determined to
keep it up until they force out and Kill out every
moor man in the Southern Confcderacy, to save
themselves from iniamy and death.
THE AMERICAN NAyY-On the 4th Of March,
1851 when President Lincoln was inaugurated,
the C Government vessels available for service were
only four in number, carrying 2j guns Our ma
Wy now consists Of 2Gl vessels of all sizes, carry
rying O. ,O57 guns, with an aggregate tunnago of
3l80lG tuns. aud manned by $4,000, Comment
ing upon the above the Hartford Post says
IS The American Army is every man that votes the
American Navy is every plank that doat5'
This was the spontaneous expression Of young
American from this city, at a hotel on the Strand
in London, in the spring OF 1916, on hearing the
as u nation. The occurrence took place soon
after the arrival, in London, OF Mexican CommIs-
sioners, whose object was said to be the institu-
ton OF an extensive system of privateering by
English capitalists on our commerce, and that
subject was the theme Of conversation. The
present crisis most fully establishes the correct
ness of the words quoted American armies are
raised and equipped at the tap Of the drum our
whole commercial marine is at the service OF the
Government if need be, and iron clad steamers,
rams, and gunboats are produced as it were by
magic. We have astonished the world with our
strength and resources and forced all foreign
powers to acknowledge us the mighty nation that
we are.
TUE STATISTICS OF HUMAN LTFE.--The total
number Of human beings on the earth is now
, computed at one thousand millions. They speak
1864 now known tongues, in which upwards oil
LOO religious creeds preached The average
age of life is 335. Out Of one thousand million
living people 80, 900 die annually 9l0OC
daily GO every minute. The loss is, however
balanced by the gain in new births. Tall men
are supposed to live longer than short ones,--
Marriages are in proportion to single life as lOC
to 20. Both births and deaths are more frequent
in the night than in the day, The more civilized
a country is the more fun Of yigor, life and
2 health are the people. The notion that cduca
: ton enfeebles aud degenerates tue human frame
, is not borne out by fact.
HEAVY IMsuGRArIoN.--The BNiiam's ST. Louis
correspondent writes that not less than 900 wag.
a ous, bearing on an average the traps of foul
persons each, have entered upon the Plains this
season on the Laramie route alone, large ma
jorty of which are from Missouri aud the neigh
boring Northwestern States
"WHAr abominable lies We are told ~ ex-
claimed an uncomed, ancomely Newburn damsel
or forty.hve summers, Burnsde's gallant buys
s we're fling past. why they said the Yankees
/ were after beauty and booty, but they haven
touched me yetp And she lifted mp her voice
and went tha. she had been SO deceived,
! T. s. MARsnAL.-C W. Rand has been ap-
-, n A-..th,,, i.tri,t of C,I.