Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-17
The Day Of Violence.

No one should for a moment suppose that
submission TO a division Of the Union will
give the country peace. The reign of violence
has been established in the rebel States be-
cause It's time had fully come, and come in the
natural order of events. Those who now rule
the rebel States are untitled for continuance
under the old and peaceful order of things;
they are suited only to just such warfare as
now desolales Virginia. Tennessee, Kentucky
and Missouri Guerrilla raids and armed in-
cGrsions on the adjacent STATES are precisely
the scenes of violence in which they delight.
and the question we have to settle is, whether
they shall be put down under the strong hand
Of the Union, Or whether they shall, for half
century to come desoate wide border be-
tween two governments on the territory Of the
United States with ceasclrss civil war. Mary
land Pennsylvania will be the border fought
over on the east of the Aleghanies Kentucky
Ohio and Missouri will he fought over at the
west and beyond Missouri no man can say
now far the war will go among the savages of
the plains.
Let the citizen who thinks the sac rifice call
ed for in this war on his part too great look
forward to the future of this reign of violence
Will there be peaceful trade with Virginia
after dissolution? Never. Will there be in
| tercourse such as has hcret ofore existed and a
re establishment of social rel ations? Never;
/ the Union is destroyed constant wrlngIiag
i'would follow. Thousands of soldiers would
be established in permanent posts of offence
/ and dssence along the Potomac, while that
! should be the temporary line Maryland would
be fought for, and after MAJ yland. Delaware
! I'm; IL.
across the border by way of retaliation and
tie pleasures of the gucrrilla's hunt OF Union
men would be continued against the peaceful
residents Of counties this side Of the line at
any time existing.
This reign of violence exists because the
class of violent men long slrugg ling for power
in tie south have at last obtained exclusive
control, and it will not end until they are put
down. The TASK of fclrastising them after their
separate independence should be admitted
would simply be hopeless. They want war,
a4d they have long wanted war They will
have ii for fifty years to come unless subducd
now. Doubtless many of them believe they
are fighting for independence only, but the vii
ians who lead the movement know better
they know that :hey represent social state
, in which peace cannot exist. Raging as the
south for years past has been with thirst for
war and violence, the whole body of the peo-
f pie lean with pleasure to the support OF state
I Of war. They do not regard it as we do, with
horror, nor participate in IFS stern duties be-
cause they are duties, however painful. A Sc
cesh district naturally breaks out in ceaseess
fighting, DO matter whether there is the least
of reasonable probabilities that success can al
tend its fighting This fact is illustrated ev-
erywhere in Missouri and Virginia and in the
I secession localities of Kentucky, The true
secessionist fights nstinctively and cares little
= about any practical consequences.
Every citizen should look these facts in the
face and nerve himself to meet all the conse-
, qucnces they bring. There must be an end
1 put to this universal outbreak of violence by
r. an overwhelming array Of force, and by long
!. determined warfare. We, whose hearts sick
en- AT The great and terrible necessity, mus
+ fight This harbarism until it is crushed and un
:, til there can be substituted in its stead thC
- peaceful social state which has always existcl
in the loyal States. The secession States prop
t er cannot have peace again for years, nor car
). we predict peace early to those for the border
A portion OF the people have been long pre-
pairing for an outbreak and only now enter OF
d The scenes of blood for which they have ongeC
l. a full quarter af century. A poison 5,
n widely spread and deeply seated cannot be e
radicatcd in one year, nor in ten, nor can tn,
+; claim which has been broken there return BY
+; any compromise. The true secessionist woult
5 fight us for mere pastime for years alterward
if the war should give him ascendancy in tht
Y south. No Government they are likely t.
,, have there could or would ensure peace, and o
y this we already have intimatoEs from JEFF
Davis himself. Conquest would be their poll
2, cy at once, and according to the old order o
!. things among nations, conquest would be lhei
O. pursuit, their pleasure and pride. They ar
fitted for it by long practice in fighting, an,
i, they would delight to fight always.
y The question for us to settle is whether ther
shall be any peaceful uation on this continen
ie hereafter, or whether half barbarous slav
D holding power shall rule it with ceascless war
pt fare, after the fashion of Europe a thousan
n years ago.-Norih american.