The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-05-01

this war, gigantic though i. be, is but ,
quarrel Of school-boys.
By sheer necessity we began to fight; by
the same we must fight it out Compro.
mise is, in the nature of the case, i'm possible.
1t can mean only surrende-. Had there
been an inch more of ground for Us to Weld
without total submission. the var would
have been. for the present. STAYED off, We
tnrued to bay only when driven back to the
, vital principle of our polity, and the vital
. facts of our socialization
Politically, wha, was the immediate
+ Grievance of the South Simply tha.
: Northern freemen went to the polls as free.
men simply that they there expressed,
under constitutional forms. their lawful
prsference. How can we compromi.e here,
even to the breadth of hair? How COM
promise without stipulasing that all North
ern electors shall henceforth go to the polls
in charge of an armed police, and there de-
posit such ballot as the slave masters of the
Secession States shall direct =?
j Aoain. in our social state what is it that
gives umbrage to our antagonists They
/ have answe cred the question for us; they
have stated it repeatedly in the PLANES.
Eaelish 1t is simply the fact that we are
! free States that we have. and honor. free
labor that we have schools for the people;
that we teach the duty Of each to all and
of all TO each that we respect the human
principle, the spiritual possibility. in man
in fine. that ours is a human socializaton,
whose fundamental principles are the veI-
erableness Of mans nature and the superior
ity of reason and right to any individual
will. So far as we are base bargainers aud
unbelievers, they can tolerate us, even
though they despise just where our praise
begins, begin their detestation aud ami
mostly.
1t is, BY the pointed confession of South.
ern spokesmen, what we are, rather than
what we have done, which makes them
Secessionists and any man of sense might.
indeed must, zee this fact, were the con-
fession withheld. In action we have con-
formed to Southern wishes. as il conformity
could not be in excess. We have conform
ed to an ex 'ent that-to mention nothing
Of more Importance had nearly ruined US
in the estimation of mankind. One chief
reason, indeed, why the sympathy of Europe
did not Immediately go with us was that a
disgust toward US had been created By the
football passivity, as j. seemed abroad, with
We had submitted to be kicked to
and fro. The rebellion was deemed to be
vitors and underlngs, it was thought had
forgotten our proper places. hal pre-
sumed to strike back. when our masters
chastised u.s. OF course, we should soon
b. whipped to our knees again And when
we were again submissive and abject, Eu-
rope must so have demeaned Itself as still /
10 be on good terms with the conquerors
As for us. our final opinion Of their demean-
Or, SO they deemed, mattered very iittle.--
The i'll opinion of the servants can be borne;
but one must needs be on friendly terms
With the master of the house. The conduct I
IF Europe toward us at the outbreak cfthis !
war is 10 be thus explained. more than in |
my other way. According to European |
we had before written our !
selves down meuisls therefore, rising T
o the attitude of men, We were scorned as
lpstarts.
The world has now disc ,vered that there
vas less cowardce and more comfy in this !
fielding than had been supposed. Yet 10 /
.andor one must confess that j, was barely !,
,ot carried to fatal extent. One step I
more in that direction, and we had gone /
,ver the brink and into the abyss. On!y !.
" hen the last test arrived, and We must de- !,
ii ie once and forever whether we would bs (
ne champions or the apostates Of civIl:za-
ion. did We show to the foe not the bastard
pack, but the daun,less front. And the !
to compromise" is simply and .
exactly proposal to US to reverse that de- !,
cision.
Again, we can propose no compromise, 1
uch as would stay the war. without con.
essing that there was no occasion for begin
ling it, And il. indeed, we began it with
,ut occasion. without an occasion absolutely /,
Imperative. then does the whole mountain-
weight Of its guilt lie on our hearts. Then /
n every man that has fallen on either side
Sc are assassns. The proposal to bring !
Jack the seeded States by submission to
heir demands is neither more nor less than
proposal to write :. Murderer" on the brow
# every soldier in our armies. aud "'rwi.e
Murderer" over the grave of every ore of !
,ur slain. If such submission be due now,
,ot less was IL due before the war began.
70 say tha, it vas then due, and then
withheld. is. | repeat. merely to brand
With the blackness of assassination the whole
,strotic service of the United States. both {
ivil and military, for the last two years
Il. now, such be. in very deed. our guilt,
ct US lose no moment in coufessing the :
act,-nor afterwards lose a moment il :
Keeping to the gallows, that must, in that i
aSe, De nuNUcTtug DIL II no S1gh =
,uil. be ours, then why should not our !
courage be as good IS our cause? :? II not
MY by the warrant. bat by the imperative
,idding of Heaven. we have taken up arms, !.
hen why should We not, as under the ban 4
Ter Of Heaven, bear them to the end i,
In this course. no real failure can await {,
Is Obeying the neeessitv which is laid |
,pon us, and simply conducting ourselves
IS men of humanity, courage. and honor. Il
re shall surely vindica,e the principle. of /,
'iviliz ,,:on and orderly society, within our !,
'wn States. whether we Immediately sue. I,
eed in impressing them on South Carolina +,
md her evil sisterhood or net. Let US but
-indica,e their existence on any part of thi,
ointment. and that alone will insure their +
inal prevalence on the continent as a whole /,
-et Us now but make them inexpurnable. |.
md they will mske themselves universal
This law of necessary prevalence, in 4
ocialization whose vital principle is rever. !,
nee for the nature of man. WAS clearly seen |