Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-09-01
SENTIMENTS OF A NEW JERSEY SENATOR

SENIlAENTo VI n NEW JhnchA cnNAASAN'
Hon. W. Wall, member OF the United States Sen
ate from New Jersey, has written letter 70 commit
lee CT New York pOliticans 10 which ne gives express
sion to very manly aud sensibls We've. Responding
70 some opinion uttered in their letter to him, he says
az must confess that am not animated oy the same
bope that sppears to glow your bosOms upon the cub
leo, of a restored Uaion." Hs then proceeds:
t,lv snnreoiate tbs spirit that Induced the PAIroto
r..Lson 40 atter the famous Watch.Wore, The Union
mus, and shall be preserved you have placed 90 pre-
em,peutly a. the head Of your card al Invitation eu
!, h LIAR 70 the mcst ordinary comprehe sion that ne
80, or,v In the constitutional way, and not through
he ,erciys military agencies of the Government De
5;s,,l, declares in his Farewell Adde'S; at such
trnvCIe Ia once begun and the citizens OF one sec Ion
Of he ,ount7y ase Assyed again those oil ie
line battle 90 as it may, there will Do al eno OIL inc
Union" ,, o.L n,
Es believed With Washington, and so sssered--"that
h fo1ndaous of the Union mutt be laid In the alec.
,iops Of the people" and therefore could never nave
acquired the Illogical deS, that toe strength o. the Su
peIslructuse could be Increased, or It's re
rnrad hv means tending directly TO undermine these
REV upon it. the only hops now, II indeed there is any
hona e IA in immediate Cessation Of tins heilsh slaugn
GER and sosedy peace, and even then the res
of the old Union viii have 70 DO the WORK OF the neal
r hnd OF time that must obli1erse the heroe wage
saas that this fraternsl strife will have evoked
Fbe man ho looks for the old MON TO arise beautiful
add eori6ed from the yet warm ashes OF dssoAted
southern homes from the blood OF KIN fred SHED 10 CAV
.tra from tbe 6eIce ate that the dying sha o!eathe
nsgnes vain & ing Que Of the graVest delnsions in
a. sss aboundng with them, is that which urges the
En 80 sacrifice the last dlllsr and The last man IN
Mind Idolstry for what is called the Union. have as
tropg love for the old Union, es high an appreciation
Of its benefits It's glorious origin, and Us Industrious
han | 3 IA
,orin 10 We iT when those modern patriots who
ara po1 80 mu.h in love With it we're Wlng TO let 1t
lido ave denounced il ga league with bell aud
covenant With deah." ! an mo- however, ianaiioal
enough permit mere sentiment 10 b me 70 'AetS
and Sesden NV seusbty the existence OF higher and
uo,a pomentous Issues. ! will always put Liberty be.
lore nou Toe preservation OF e sovereignty Of the
SAFES 10 of Infinitely more importance to me than mere
bread o. territory, which must De occupied oy SoIe
slayes-more important than Federal poser, II that
power ia 10 be welded by psuIper snd tyrant-
SeTty ue must and will hAv its possession is essen
al 20 the life Of every free born American; the Unlon
"a not nece say unless associated vi b the hrst.
n that value is Union to the citizen who finds al
his guaranteed rights in The Amendmsn s 10 the Goa
;Jion entirely genet His right 10 free thought free
secb and a Tree press gore, or swallowed up in The
m.alstrom of grand oonscld Ited military dssposm
~ ion e very good thing 10 have and 10 hold; but
IN order 10 secure that Union must be content TO
see that constitution overthrow, the reserved rights
tha States and the people Nnlt htteu the war power
one o the attributes OF the Executive, and myself gar
inc AZ il through 'the barred and bolsed windows Of
TJSc,In's basties; then l would trade eff thousand
-u,b Lions for enc Il tie San MAino among barren
ocks where the rights secured by Magma OhaEta were
,ssnseted. and where oppression aud usurpationa
unknown But supposiDg the Union could be restored
now long surrounded by the memorials of the pas
-,rusgs here at the North, would endured certainly
avsFy thoughtful maa must admit that tho statesman
.bip which suggested inseribng on the rsgiments
oolora symbols Commemorative Of their having been
borne triumphant il our bloody fraternA conflicts or
of erecting monuments a. memorial Of cur blOcdJ
srugsle could never have contemplated permanently
restored Union.
II me settlement Of this question reduces itself to
separaon or Southern subjugatou, then am for sepa
"a ion thousand tin es because the democrat eng in.
suepces and usurpsd powers tina. must be evoked 10
execute such Gendish judgment would establish at the
North dsspotic power worse than Ghenghis Khan or
Tsmerl4ps ever controlled Snch results as subjugaon
and apnihilation have been accomplished where the
iii of the despot the supreme law in such devas.
,atpv vars a. the Tnours and Attllas of the ~orld
nave waged, where the grass never grows where the
eoo Of their chargers pressed and the smtks of the
country vent up behind item like the smoke of fur
oace-neyer, surely, by Repuslic whose chief cor
mar stone is the consent Of the erned and the
avoved objects of whose Constitution was to establish
in.tios and insure domestic tranquility"