The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1863-03-19

the fellow citizen OF Lovejoy, and Chase
and Sumner, of Lincoln, and Seward aud
Butler Surely the men who make such
proposition are mad Surely they haze
a strange conception Of peace, aud of what
peace implies Let US for moment sup
/ pose such thing possible AZ the rccop.
struction they propose. What might be
reasonably expected Ut it Could we cx.
pect peace in q Congress where a Southern
Senator might see before bin dxiiy as his
fellow in the Chamber the man who had
burned his dwelling and tusued his hclp-
less wife and children out into the bleak
midnight, hou.clssa wanderers? Could we
expect aught but hostile meetings, aad
blood-slicdding, when the men who pro.
voked, initiated and bounded on this nc.
cursed war should sit side By side with
those whose fathen, sons and bspthersha
teen murdered by their keas.ly tools p
Massachusetts might hsnor the coSardy
Butler, who never fought battle, and
whose courage lay in insulting helpless wo-
men (and who should more ftly represent
New' England chivalry p with n seat in
Congress, while from New Orleans might
be sent the avenger Of Mrmfords blood
Woulo there be peace there 1t may
be that in the North few dwellings save
those of the outcast poor, whose poverty
| compelled them to take the price Of blood.
have felt the horrors of this war, and been
! robbed of their pride. and hope and glory.
They may not yet have drunk Of that
dread cup which makes The timid brave,
and stirs the heart to deeds of fearful ven
geance; but what homo in the South is ths,
which has not felt tho fury Of this war
A peace Upon the basis Of Reconstruction
would be foul Hypocrisy. For, already
"thc mountains which divide us are the
dark mountains of death, and tie streams
which flow between, like the waters of
Egypt, have been turned into blood" The
sir Ct his pcople which Ezra confessed and
for which he acknowledged their afll,ctious
and captivity to be but Q just dnd moder
ate punishment, was that they had joined
IN affinity with other nations contrary TO
the Divine purpose and command. Strik :
iugly like theirs has been the sin of the
South in originally forming Union be-
tween races 30 uncongenial. The history
of the first American Revolution should
have demonstrated the fact that separate
and Independent States could unite for
thei' common defence without the neces-
sity OF u formal Union. As distinct and
separate Colonies they had fought the bat
ties which secured their independence.
and with the blessings OF gracious Provi.
dence they might have continued to live
and prosper as independent States in peace
without the Intervention of Federal I'm.
ION. But tire desire of national greatness
! and The proud ambition 50 common to man.
led TO the formation of q Goverament in
which the most antagonistic elements were
expected TO coalesce into an harmoniou,
whole. The Cavilier, the Hugenot and
| the Puritan, men who, in the countries
whence they came could never agree, we're
expected to become one in n great Rcpub
lIc, in which, while the independent right.
OF each respective State were 10 be secu, ed
and acknowledged. great central Govern.
ment was to represent their courmon inter
ests. Such an Union, as might naturally
beexpeeted, would have direct tendency
to social GrGilsamation and national c,,n
solldstion. The lapse of years has shown
the iallacy OF the theory which hoped from
such incompatible elements to produce an
harmonious whole. The effort of man was
directly opposed to the order of God. Ma.
ture proclaimed mary from one, man sought
to reverse it, and proclaimed to the world
t"E p!uribms nnum" The South NAV be
| Vfiered the securities of Constitution and
laws, st ch as 1t desires, but if the expcri.
ence OF the last half century has taught
any lesson it is the iuadequacy of all such
Guarantees when unsupported by an iden.
tity Of interest. The races of men who
/ I.nl thn .I.l
disslmlar and uncongenial than their in
terests wete incompatible and antagonistic.
The Southern people have now paid the
ienalty ior not standing Iast in the liberty
wherewith God made them free-of seek
ing help from man rather than iron, God,
by encouraging foreign emigration to en-
able them to cope with the populous ma
tions OF the worid-of repeating the ex
pertinent which was made on the plains OF
Shinar, but which Heaven miraculously
defeated by the confusion of tongues.
There they sought 10 prevent the dsper-
sion of the races, here they have sought 10
conglomerate into one great mass again
the dspe's ID oi all nations The result OF
the first attempt is recorded in Genesis; the
result OF the last is prophetically foretold in
! Revelations
IL is not hard to discover in the history
OF our present struggle the special inlerpo-
sition Of Divine Providence, to prevent
reconstruction Of our former Union That
Union had been 50 long and deeply caer
ished aud venerated in the hearts OF our
people tha; when the work Of its disruption
began the strongest efforts of many good
aud patriotic men were directed to heal
the breach. There were many no doubt
who entertained the hope, even after hos
nlities had commenced, that the tide of
human passion would soon sub.ide and re
conc iliAtion and re-adiustment Night be
brought about And if lie North, after
the first battle Of Manassas, had spoken in