Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-03-10

be enforced and obeyed. ii all parts ofsthe
United States: and to that end we oppose
any ar1nistice, or Intervention, or media
5tion, or proposition for peace, from any
quarter, so long as there shall be rebel
in arms against the Government; and we
ignore all party names, lines and issues,
and recognise but two parties in this war
and traitors st4 a~s0. r.
The motive Of such strange conduct, is
obvious. the Republican party was foun-
ded to destroy slavery and the equality Of
the States, and Lincoln was selected as the
instrument to accomplish this object. The
Union was barrier to the consummatlon
Of this policy, because the Constitution,
which was its bond, recognized and pro-
tected slavery and the sovereignty of the
States. The Union must, therefore, be
sacrificed, and to ensure its destruction,
war was determined on. s. ID. sea
The mass of the Northern people were
not privy to, and sympathized in no such
design. They loved the Union and wish
ed to preserve it. To rally the people to
the support of the war, its object was pro-
claimed to be ga restoration of the Union,"
as if that which implied voluntary assent,
OF which agreement was an indispensable
element and condition, could be preserved
by coercion. It is absurd to pretend that
a Government, really desirous of restoring
the Union, would adopt such measures as
the confscation of private property, the
emancipation of slaves, systematic efforts
to invite them to insurrection, forcible alb
duction from their homes and compulsory
enlistment in the army, the division OF
sovereign State without It's consent, and
proclamation that one tenth OF the popu-
- Il Il. II, n sSosl
itary rule, should control the will of the
remaining nine tenths. The only relation
possible between the two sections, under
such policy, is that ct conqueror and
conquered, superior and dependent. Rest
assured, fellow citizens, that although re-
storation may still be war cry by the
lude and betray Fanaticism has summon
ed to It's aid cupidity and vengeance and
nothing short of your utter SUBJ bjugation,
the destruction OF your State Governments,
the overtb TOW of your social and political
fabric, your personal and public degrade
ton and ruin, will satisfy the demands of
the North. Can there be 4 man SO vile,
so debased, so unworthysof liberty as to
accept peace on such humiliating terms 2
1t would hardly be fair to assert that all
the Northern people participate in, these
designs. On the contrary there exists a
powerful political party which openly
condemns them. The Administration has,
however, been able thus far, by its enor~
mons patronage and its lavish expendi-
lures. to sednce, by its legions OF "Hessiar
mercenaries,. to oyerawe the masses, to
control the elections, and to establish an
arbitrary .despotisfn. It cannot be posi-
BILE that this state of things can continue.
The people of the United States, accnstom-
ed to freedom, cannot consent to be ruined
and enslaved, in order to ruin and enslave
u.s.. Moral, like physical epidemics, have
their allotted periods, and smust, soonersor
later. be exhausted and disappear When
reason returns, our enemies will probably
reflect, that a people, like ours, who have
exhibited such capabilities, and extempo-
rized such resources, can never beasnb-
-daed - that a vast expanse of territory,
with such population, cannot be govern
ed as an obedient colony. Victory would
not be conquest. The inextingl gllishable
quarrel would be transmitted 'sfroIn bleed
ing sire to son. and the struggle would
be renewed between generations yet I'M
born: To impo oyerish us would only beto
dry up some Of, thessprings of Northern.
prosperity destroy Southern wealth is
to reduce northern profits, while the resfo-
ration Of peace would necessarily re-estab-
lish some comm: ercial interco conrse. Itnaay
not BE amiss In. this connexson, to sag, that
atone time it was the wish and expscta-
ton .ofsniany at the South, to form treaty