The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-09-03

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A COMPROMISE WITH THE SOUTH ADvo-
GATED.
The Freeman's Journal and Catholic Reg
lister, Of New York, has the foIlwing edtori-
al on The necessity or" compromising" with
tlle Southern Gohledeacy
THE wy OF PEACE.
Is il sought 10 end tfis war by the North
crushing the SOUTH For such purpose no
adequate exertion las vet been made. If
that is the game, tie c4il for only three hum
dred thousand more soldiers is as incommen.
surate as was the call sixteen months ago
for seyenty-fye Thousand 10 whip the South
and retake the forts. We leave aside the
question whether any united and determln
ed people numbering twelve, or, as is the
fashion TO compute il, light millions, can be
crushed on their own soil. 1t was by Irish
aid that Ireland was subngated to England.
Belgium stands there with her five millions,
more populous and more independent than
ever betore-ih0ugh She has been the thea
ire Of the most famous battles Of Europe CEN
tury after century. Switzerland, with less
than three millions Of people, has successful
ly defied the legionary hosts of Austria, Of
Lorraine, Of Burgundy, and Of France. Por
tugal, with less than four millions, has al
ways succeeded in resisting the attempts of
Spain, in the proudest days Of the latter, to
absorb her, by her preponderating power.
Ii seems 10 be one OF the axi0ms Of Bona
parte, which time sanctions as profoundly
true, that, a people to be free Of another,
has but to will il" II the United States
are to prove this an uUsound axiom, it must
be by tar different spay Of power from
anything yet exhibited, Volunteering must
be abandoned, and drifting resorted to. Il
is no three hundred thousand men, but a
million, that the instant necessities of the
casa call Tar Hithaltn the nartiSanS that
originated this pestiterOus guarrel-irOm the
Wades, and Chases, aud Stewards, and Gid
dingses. and Summers, and Chambers, in
Congress, or the Beeehers aud Cheeyers,
and three thousand preachers" Of New
England, in the pulpit, down to the gawky
Quaker or Bloomer woman's husband, who
reads nothing but Greeley's Weekly Tri-
bune-haye, as a rule, left the war that has
resulted, TO be fought out BY the very men
At the North who have denounced aud de-
precated iheirwiekel conspiracies. But this
must end il the war is to be kept up. The
innocent have, thus lar, suffered for tie gull
ty, but the guilty will have to suffer in their
own persons, the horrors OF war, il the brute
force principle is 70 be carried out. II must
be a war in which enough substitutes cannot
be found.
4 year ago. those who pleaded for peace"
were called Secessionists, =" traitors" &c.
Then the plea was that the war was TO set free
the Union-losing people Of the South from
the gripe Of Secession faction. Then we
pleaded for peace on the very ground that
ment, and il only required peace TO develop
IL. We pleaded that war must destroy it,
tlnt only peace could give it opportunity.
That i all past. We say yet, that, nearer
or more remote, the only hope for reunion
on the old noble, grand idea of our forcfa-
Tiers, must date the beginning Of its work
for realization in the establishment of an
honorable peace. As the gallant Tom Sey-
mour, Ex-Governor &c Connecticut, said in
his letter quoted BY us last week, il is a
u munstrous iallacy" 10 "ignurc peaceful
and trust to subiugating the
south" by the sword as means of &c union.
The Union that secured our liberties as free.
men was a Union Of free consent between
the States. The violation Of that lnndamen.
al idea OF consent, and Of reserved rights.
not only rallies to the rebel standard thou.
sands attached 70 The old Government, but
has so invaded our liberties here in the 10y.
il States that We write sentences such IL
these--demanded BY our conscience-ihe |
mere reitcration Of the sentiments Of the |
men who formed The Constitution - not
but that, for publishing them, some
clerk in the Executive Department may or.
der subservient agents, BY the hands Of ,io.
lcnce, TO convey Us again to the dingy walls
Of Fort Lafayette.
The Union loving people Of the seeded
States !" Who are they 7 Read the CORES.
pondence Of the Herald. Times, and Fri.
organs Of the Black Republican
regime. The Tribune correspondence tells
ls, lying as usual, that they are the negro
slaves. The Herald and Times corrcspon.
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