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it preserve its noble integrity under the Rgis of
the National Government? Admit the right of
| the seeding States to break up the Union at
pleasure, nay of each and every State to do SO,
and allow them to enforce that right by sue
cessful war deny the authority of the Central
Government to control its members. and how
long will it be before the new Confederacies ere
ated by the first disruption shall be resolved into
| still smaller fragments, and the continent be-
comes vast theater of civil war; military license,
anarchy, and despotism? Better at whatever
COST by whatever sacrifice, settle the question at
once, and settle it forever. For remember, my
| friends that in this desolating war, the Govern
ment and loyal people of the country are the
party assaied, and that they are clad in the trip
pie armor of a just cause. The pretence Is set
up by the rebels that they are contending for the
| right of selfgovernment the unfriendly Press
of Europe talks Of its being war of revenge
and subjugation. Consider what makes just
war even in the opinion of those who condemn
the North. England, a little more than twelve
month ago, thought it a just cause for war, that
I merchant packet was brought to at sea by bel
igerent cruiser, in the exercise of the undoubted
right of search, and that four persons were taken
/ from it, she considered, without warrant in
Vie law of nations, though she in the last gener-
al war has taken more than 1000 persons from our
neutral vessels equally without warrant in the
law OF nations .
Is this patriotic statemanship or is it ambitious
frenzy What an unprincipled rebellion like
| this to be compared with the work of our saint
| ed fathers, of Washington and FIanklin, and
Jefferson and Adams, the heroes and sages of the
Revolution. This gigantic treason to be pro-
fanely lauded as the august foundation of new
State to be fed with foreign gold and nursed
with foreign favor! Then let all pretence OF dis
tinction between right and wrong truth and
falsehoood be abandoned. Lift up your heads, ye
prison gates and let your wronged inmates go
| free Come home from the cannibal islands, ye
missionaries, and let the honest savage gorge
upon his .strange flesh! = Throw open your doors
| 0 just Bedlam, and send your abused philoso-
pliers, princes and statesmen to their homes
| Cease your dull prates, ye teachers OF morals
There is no crime there is no barbarism there is
no madness. Those who make constitutions,
not those who break them, shall hencetorward
be the traitors. Our legislators and judges shall
! be the culprits, not felons and thieves. Oaths
shall no longer be the link that binds the soul of
the creature to the footstool of the Creator, but
base trap baited by knaves to catch the easy
consciences of fools; and all this vaunted civiiz-
alton, founded on institutions, hallowed by re-
ligion, buttressed by tribunals, accepted by the
/ common sense of mankind, shall be proclaimed
in the face of the universe, paltry show, WICK
ed lie!
Well did Mr. Vice President Stephens observe
| on the l4th of November, l86O that 1.-THE disap-
| pointment of ambitious aspirants to office had
had much to do with bringing on the deplorable
| state of affairs"
of the second officer in the Contederacy is well
founded if this tremendous war has indeed in
no small degree been brought upon us by the
reasons stated by him if the country has been
called to stagger beneath this daily increasing
mountain load of debt; if our lawful commerce
has been surrendered to the royers of the sea, fit
ted out with shameless cupidity to prey upon it;
| if the influence of our country, which so lately
| held high its head in the front rank of the fam
lily of nations, has for the time being been an
nihllated. and foreign Powers are already treat
| ing us with GOODNESS and indifference, watching
and waiting to see the noble Ship OF State go to
pieces on the breakers ; If the bones OF hundreds
and thousands of our brethren are bleaching on
the battlefield if other hundreds and other
thousands are languishing with cruel wounds and
the diseases of the camp, mulitated, broken
prematurely old, creeping from the wards in the
hospital to their last beds in the churchyard; If
| the flower of our young men North and South
have been cut down If the bereaved and DESC
| late parent, the heart-broken widow, the mourn
ing sister, the orphan child, have been called to
swell this frightful sum of human calamity; II
all these numberess and nameless woes have
been brought upon the land because Mr. Jetler-
son Davis was not nominated nor Mr. John Z.
| Breckinridge CHOSEN President, then so sure as
Heaven is just, the tears Of the bereaved, the
| pangs of the wounded, the agonies of the dying
will be heavy the souls of the authors of these
| crimes and woes ; their memories will go down
|
their names stand recorded on the page of histo-
ry by the side of the Benedict Arnolds, the Cat
alines the Judas Iscariots of modern and ancient
times.
My friends, there is no alternative but to ac.
knowledge the independence of the Confedera-
cy, or to subdue the rebellion by the strong arm
| of military power. To suppose that there Is
hope of any other settlement is the grossest de-
usion.
lo.,o H., -
Confederacy? Remember that 1t carries with 1t
acknowledged defeat, in war of aggression, ar
rogantly provoked, by an enemy notoriously in
ferior in numbers, financial IN, ans and all the
resources of war that peace made on that
basis would be a standing invitation, not only
to foreign Powers, in all our disputes, but to an
insolent antagonist, flushed with triumph, to re.
sort, on every future occasion of controversy be-
tween the two Governments to menace, insult
and invasion.
We are expected to give up to foreign Pow
er, land a bitterly hostile foreign Power it will
be- and that under the coercion of barbarous
war waged upon wretched metaphysical bubble
half this fair territory Of the United States
seacoast of two thousand miles some of the best
harbors and military stations of the country
the fortresses that guard our coatwise commerce
some of the great lines of communication East
and West, North and South ; the control of the
navigation of the Gulf of Mexico, and of the out
gives its character to the central basin of the
Continent; to give it up too on a principle, in
virtue of which each and every one OF the Sc
ceeding States may fall into the arms of any
European Power that chooses to persuade or CO.
cree the surrender. To suppose such thing
possible on the part of the United States, ex-
cept at the last spasm of national strength, the
| last sigh of national honor, the last struggle of
national agony. would be to apply to the whole
country, Judge Petigrus conception Of the State
OF South Carolina. t 'Aiu'lHt
Can any man look at map Of the Union and
then seriously entertain the opinion that the
United States. brought to the very verge of
war with great Britain, after diplomatic strug-
gle Of sixty years for the possession Of a few
acres of unsettled land on the banks of the Aroos-
took are going to permit foreign power to in
trench itself at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay,
and thence TO stretch its boundary westwardly,
wherever IL chooses 10 draw the lines--over the
hills, through the central plains, across the
Rocky Mountains TO the setting SUM-