Washington telegraph., 1863-04-22

NEW JRRsEY.-One Northern State has spo-
ken at last some words of common sense. II
is not the voice Of the stump orator, which
comes to us now from out the Bedlam rawlings
of that -forsaken land, but the words OF
what, in old times, was, and still claims and
of right ought to be, a sovereign State. A
still, small voice. certainly, and faters wofully
in Its conclusion reaching no practical end.
But the speech of all humans, who have been
stunned and crushed, is incoherent at the first.
and If there be some words of sense in 1T at
all, the anxious watchers hail it with JOY as
the harbinger of the full restoration of reason
in time
| Those who have read this, and former num-
bers Of our paper, are well enough aware that
for ourselves, we hope nothing from the evi-
dences of a returning sense of justice, and the
earnest clamor for peace which the Democratic
politicians of the North have of late afforded
At least nothing beyond the incidental benefit
| TO ourselves to arise from the confusion of the
councils of our enemies. As long as the ere
storation of the Union is their watchword,
peace to us is the most treacherous of benefits.
The war must be renewed again. Wo unto US,
if we allow our fresh and unfelt wounds to
become sore, and the chill to supervene upon
the heat of our blood before the battle be ended
and the goal be won. The independence now
almost within our grasp, may not seem worth
the repetition of the struggle. The Sampson
whom the Philistines fed before in battle, may
be bound hand and foot whilst sleeping in the
lap of Delilah, and awake to be led blind and
captive for the sport of the enemy Our ears
should be open to no talk of peace, until the
sesame of recognition" precede.
The voice of New Jersey falls short of this
crazed by the weight of a duty demanded of
him by God and humanity, but which he was
too weak to accomplish, she, too, is
''stll harping on my daughter"
and dare rot meet the issue as it must be-re-
co gnition with peace. or efforts for the Union
with war. 1t is Still peace. peace, '.for the
sake of the Union," a sort of harping that is
after all that has happened, the crazest of all
sentimentalities, and except as matter of curl
osity and food for speculation unworthy of
Southern ears.
Still we cannot but think kindly of New
Jersey for her own sake, and take some notice
IF the voice of sovereign State, long after the
speeches of politicians, and the grand demon
STATIONS of mass meetings have been decided
upon rubbish to be cast behind US, and Fl t
to be Immediately and in the quickest possible
manner forgotten. She seems misplaced-that
little State of New Jersey. She, of all the
North, refused to declare, by casting her vo e
for Lincoln, that hostility to slavery was to be
henceforth her policy, and she is now the first
to utter her protest against the settled policy
of emancipation, as revealed upon the part f
the existing government of the United States.
Her resolutions are not before Us as we write
and are too lengthy for publication. Let it
suffice our readers to know that she solemnly
declares that the war is now being conducted
in subversion of the constitution, and for an
object entirely at variance with that at first
proposed, and that she protests most solemnly
against the unconstitutional acts Of Lincoln's
administration, most especially the emancipa
ton proclamation and the admission of Western
Virginia into the Union, and that she calls
| with all her earnest strength for cessation
of hostilities, because (alas. poor prince, the
''sweet bells tangled" still sadly out of tune)
they are destructive of all hopes Of reunion.
She ''thunders in the preface" but the con-
cluson is s'most lame and impotent." Yet a
title longer, and she may have the scales,
already started, to fall entirely from her eyes,
and accept the revelation that the Union is
already diss0lred beyond all hope of cement,
Tor even dove-tail by help of Western Virginia,
could she consent to that aud that peace on
those terms is best for herself and all the
world
This much notice we take of her action, but
the significance of it to US for any practical
result is small indeed. She cannot make head
against Lincoln's military despotism. Her
whole legislature and her Judiciary are at the
feet of his minions. She will not attempt to
| resist it. How can she with that poor old
restoration of the Union" basis of hers-the
object which gives to Lncoln's adminstrat on
all its prestige, and forms the apology for all
his outrages upon the constitution and the
liberties of the citizen? While she encourages
her sister States in that hope, she will not be
tolerated in any efforts to thwart it by object
ing to the established means and offering them
resistance.
We turn again to the sword--to the rapid
and efficient organization of our armies-to
the maintenance and clothing of our soldiers
| to the increase of our ordnance-to our trust
| in the God of battles. In these all hopes lie
| as yet.
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