Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-02-16
THE TERMS OF PEACE.
Br WILLIAM II. ALLEN, LID.

No. a--Tho Independence of the South
the Auin OF the North
TuRRE are men among us who demand peace
at any price and they ask "Why not accept
dsuniOn aa revolutionary fact, aud acknowl-
edge the independence Of the Iey0ltel States
under protest against the right Of secession =
| because dsunion Is not fact and every day
1t is less likely to become fact aud If it we're
q TACT, u protest against the right Of secession,
after secession was accomplished would be very
harmless thunder. But havo those who would
sacrifice tho Union for peace, ever sounded the
dismal abyss into which such concession would
plunge US No political foresight has yet mea
sured half the consequences Of an act OF such
ama1iug folly but we can SOC enough to stiifsn
up our sinews, and make us resolve TO fight the
battle thoroughly out for our oountry's and our
ohildren's sake. We should hail with delight
the white. winged harbiuger Of peace, if he bore
Il message Of fraternity and union but il he
came tapping his baleful wings over the gulf Of
disunion, bis voice would sound like the ravens
crOak Of doom.
One OF tho highest preroRatives of government
is the right, and one Of its strongest obligations
is the dvty to protect ita own life, and preserve
the integrity OF it's territory. Let any govern
ment submit without a struggle to the opeu and
defiant violation OF its laws within it's own limits.
and from that noment il becomes contemplate
ut home and abroad. And if our government,
opinion, should thus fail to assert lis dignity aud
power, 1t would be no longer sustained, because
1t would have declared itself not worth sustain
ing. Section after section and State after Stats
would yiel to the centrifugal force, and like
planets without central SUI,
"Fiume wlefs through the void
Dsstroylai olhers iy themselves destroyed
T Agaiu, Il duty ol the government TO its loyal
citizens in the revolted States will not permit
/ Wtn nf what hnq
called the Switzerland OF America, including
Western virgiuin and North Carolina, Northern
Georgia al / Aiabama, and Eastern Tennessee,
have stood firm in their loyalty, when loyalty
cost the price Of mariyrdOm While they i'm
pl0rc the protection OF the old tag, aud demand
the rights of American citiseus, shall we Gban
don them t. tho fury Of enemies who bate them
with fere - hatred than they bear 10 US We
read that tho exclamation, 81 dAl q Roman eli.
SEM waF Il protection umong the most remote
aud barbarous people, aud can we, without dis
honor, permit the cry, ~ an an Ameriedn cid
zen" to b. answered. with shouts Of malignant
soorn aud tie assassins bullet
The Interests OF peace will not tolerate dis
union Tho rebels began the war to consolidate
a form Of society which will TO dangerous to the
peace Of the world The ruling class at the
South is All arstOoracy founded on slavery. The
poor whites now almost cyphefs ia public af-
airs, and dependent ON the shareholders for EN-
ployment and patronage, will seek respectabiliiy
and infuelce as well as livelihood IN the pro-
iession OF aFma. The army and navy will be
their sole resource against condition more pre-
carious, an nearly as depressed, as that Of the
negroes. They will become great military
class and the Coniederacy an aggressive, de-
fant, miitHTy nation Their occupation will be
war, and their hands will be against every MAJ.
Their government, resting oil slavery as its
cornerstone, will be protest against liberty
I Il a
with the rest Of mankind. This attitude IL must
maintain by force The rebel leaders have fore.
seen and admitted this By the necessities Of
their social organism-a nation of tyrants and
slaves, with a middle class which despises labor
they will be arrant peace-breakers, and an
! incubus upon the nations. The flibustering ex
petitions against Texas, Cuba, and Nicaragua
were hut premOnitions OF what may bo expected
OF restless aud inscriptions people, when the
restraints Of just and peaceful government shall
be removed, aud the license of government
founded OH The prinolple that Might makes Right
snail be eubstituied for IL. a nation conceived
in wrong ami born in violence, will live, like
Esau, by iis sword
Civilization protests against disunion. The
rebels p oppose $50 substitute slavery, subordi-
nation, aud government, for liberty, equality,
aud fraternity" They ignore the fact that
Christianity, commerce, science, inventive arts,
all conspre for liberty, equality, and fraternity.
TheGe are Jewellers; but they level upward; they
elevate the masses; they fuse the undercrusl,
aud lift it up through Thousand assures in the
OVERLAPPING strata, as trap rocks are upheaved by
volcanic 6res Gunpowder, printing, public
Schools, rAilTays, locomotives, even the street
cars aad the lilto humming iron needle women
. are all Jewellers. Yet these people think 10 re-
sist the5C mighty agents, aud establish pOlti-
cal and social State which puts down brake VI
the progress Of the age. They mean TO estor,
tho pood old times Of Patrons an Clients, Noble.
aud Resuers, Barous and Viileins, aud it mus,
- he admitted that in the production Of Vtiain'
O they nave been remarkably successful lu ul
other respects they are doomed to disappoint
II meut The voice OF few hundred thousands o
oil slaveholders is not potent enough to call fortt
an eiIete and buried civilization from its grave
n nor TO olothe the 1.-THE limbs OF the nineteeutt
oOptury in the cumbrous armor of the ninth.
70 "Let the dad Past bury lts dead"
Finally, the geography o. tho country forbid
disunion The great rivers and mountain range
in'ersect every possible boundary between tul
North and South, When the divine Arohitec
made the country be meant it should be one
therefore he built up no barrier along Mason ant
Dixon's line. "Wnat God haiti joined together
lot not mau put asunder." The tides Of mgrA
iion in tins country toW from east to west il
zones bounded by parallels of latitude but th
.o tides OF internal commerce flow north aud sout
Sr on merdans of longitude. AZ the rivers an,
30 valleys whioh arc the highways Of trade ru
ntarly IN tho same direction, transportation O
s The products VI ole climate TO another is easy
. IL luct the commercial interests Of the two sec
y y tons as iusepsrable their Biographies
position. Will you, then, establish Gordon
N military posts and custom houses on a aigza
liue across the continent to check this Daturi
= tloW Of commerce aud mutual profit, and produe
ceaseless irritation, border feuds, lawless raids
i reprisals, aud wars Shall Virginia thrust be
BY foot, like wedge, between Pennsylvania au
- Ohio, half way up to Lake Erie, aud leave whn
shall remain of the United States in the shape
great struggling insect, the TWO parts Of il
body joined by flament Of land which an il
| vading army might sever at blOWr Shall Mis-
souri, stand as al enormous boulder to block you
way to Kansas aud the Paoi6oi Will you CIV
up ths gate Of Chesapeake Bay, and tortres
Monroe, which is It's key, and put It IN the poWe
Of a foreign nation to bar your access from th
ssa TO your own sapital Shall Arlingto