Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-08-21
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. 10, 1868.
NEW YORK STATES RIGHTS.

sequence Of the lntamou crusade HaSeo py
the Yankee States against the Confederate
States, for standing upon their lnallenaDi'
sovereignty and acting upon 1t, ii those LII
kee States themselves should now ma ina
they also have no other resource against INT
tyranny Of the centralized despotism they
hive established, save IN that very principle
of States Rights which they have sought t.
,rush in the case of others. 1t would be alst
another striking illustration of, the uttel
bl;ntncss and ignorance in which those com
muni,ies rushed into the present war. They
literally knew not what they did they have
found cut, almost at every step Of their pro
gre,s, that they had been unaware OF the ma
ture Of the task they had undertaken, OF the
spirit and the resources that would DO opposed
to them; aud now ut last it is time they
should ind out that in arming themselves II
crush Out the sovereign right of o State, they
were assiduousIy saving of the very limb
which. sustained them from falling down to
perlitipn.
w i, lipb bSSu thSoiA
ate good resulting TO US and our cause trrm any
movement whatsoever in the Northern cOun.
try nor is there now any. better reason thar
before to hope that our peaceful independence
will speedily result from the threatened COLI.
sion between New York State and the Wash
ington war-ministry. And the reason is, that
all parties in the Federal States understand,
and have long under stood, that their only bond
of cohesion the only thing which saves them
from instant dissolution, bankruptcy, anarchy
and general ruin, is precisely this nresent war;
nothing but the war, and the vast interests
which have grown up under it and around IT,
wards Of their evil day of retribution. In
New York State, at this moment, it is nothing
bu, the war itself and it's continuance and in
creased development, which stayeso Of theruin Of
the thousands Of contractors, manufacturers,
railroad companies, bankers and stock bro
kers, with which that state is more infested
than any others. They all know-"peace
Democrats" and all-that if peace were made
now on the basis Of recognizing Confederate
independence, 1.-THE only peace they will ever
see in this world their ocean of"greenbsck"
paper would run d~ry-would vanish like fairy
money. Every body would be bankrupt; the
Northwestern State. would refuse to bear the
burdens imposed on them by the Eastern, and
for the profit of the East. There is now a
very large and Influential class in New York
State 70 which the war is meat and drink,
W., shing and lodging and this is the very
influence which forms the sole difficulty
Of Governor Seymour. In their mad, blind
aeal TO coerce our country back into the con-
di:ion of g tributary to New York, they have
suffered q war power to grow up around them
and over them which they are now afraid or
unable to shake of. They hate the war, but
they hate bankruptcy and anarchy worse
therefore, to evade or delay the last, they
cleave unto the first.
Governor Seymour's issue with the war
power and the centralized tyranny is either
too soon or too late too late, because the great
interests have been suffered to grow up which
live by the war, and in the war move and have
their being-too soon, because the great mas
of the people have not yet boon goaded by
misery and privation into that utter reckless
ness, wherein bloody revolt becomes easy, see.
ing that anything is better than remaining as
they are. His appeal to the Sovereign Right
Of the State of New York, is, We fear, little
more than empty phra,eology; and so it is
understood by the Washington conspiratsrs.-
They coolly listen to his bold words of resist.
ancc, and send orders to enforce the draft and
troops to see the operation put through. Will
the Governor take his stand as Executive and
Commander.iu-chicf Of his State, and summon
his people IN meet the Federal army in battle?
Or will he lead the men of New York in
another street insurrcction and endeavor to-
nj Ike it a revolution? No; he is too late, and toe
soon for these proceedings. Not the arbitra-
ment Of arms, but sNme cunning monetary
arrangements, to divide the falcontents by
buying the exemption of apart of them-not
revolution, but compromise-not States rights,
but corruption and cash payment, will be the
paltry and mean exhibition we are shortly to
witness in that country. All will be smoothed
over between the conflicting Jurisdictions
the treasury will be rrplenished by the $500
exemption money the poorer classes and ne
proes will be forced into the ranks and the
war will go on, if not for conquest of the
S,uth, at least to enrich the contractors, and
keep a sort of g%alvauic life in the finances
1t will delay the evil day; it will make many
fortunes in the meantime it will respite some
malefactors due to the gallows-
which II not victory, Is yet reprisUs
Hereafter, inIeei,-impossible now 10 say
how .oon-the elements Of the situation will
change. A point must be reached when the
people will bear no more draft-when the
Dutch and Irish elements being pretty we'll
exhausted, and the negroes (poor souls ! kill
ed off, the preteuce ofwar can only be carried
on by drafting from those classes which are
nou able to redeem themselves by money
Then the fountains of the great deep shall be
opened, indeed and Mr.. Seymour, if he still
live at that day, can then hope to stir up his
State to desperate resistance but it will not
be- under the banner of States Rights, nor
with the cry of Constitution forever-it will
be under the banner of Famine, and with the
cry. Goldfish Aristocrats to the lamp post!
We can probably hasten this gracious and
fructifying season, five get up our conscripts,
our strasglers. our convalescents, for the Fall
campaign. Up to the front, Confederate' !
An honorable post awaits each man, under
the banner of Lee, and a noble and inspiring
ta.k-namely, to hasten the revolution and