Year: 1861

sixty or seventy thousand men OF all arms.
Yet cannon without cartridges can hardly
be termed artillery while horsemen hali
armed and depending on chance for forage
may be tolerable scouts, but are only by
courtesy'to be diguifed as cavalry.


Every day swells the opposing hosts ~
Virginia, aud thus aggrnvates the.d'thcul'
ties Of the rebel leaders. They will hardly
be able to supply one hundred thousand
men with meat month longer ; and dry
bread, even il abundant, does not afford
diet inspiring to heroic deeds. In short
they must advance, conquer, rob, orretreat'
scatter, and disappear.


In this dilemma, they have just one hope
full resource 1t is that known as COmPrO-
mise, and their friends in the patriot states
are desperately intriguing to secure them
immunity through this loophole.


What as q compromise What is there
here TO compromise


They do not deny that Mr.. LineoIn's
election as President was fair, legal consti
tutional The consequent authority TO exc
cute the laws on the one hand, with the
correlative obligation to obey them onthe-
otheI, is entirely beyond .cavil. They eau
not expect any compromise respecting Ell
ther.


The essential right Of secession exists or
does not exist. If it be maintained, Mr..
Lincoln's assumption of authority over the
states which claim to have seeded is usur-
patton il it be disclaimed, the Davis gov
ernment is a wicked and frUthy imposture.
Between these two radical oppositcs, CON-
promise is an impOSSibiity. And any eont-
promise t0hich mag nOao be patched mp ,OiU be
a virtuaL aBTrmanoe and establishment of The
alleged right Of secession.


This is a point which cannot be blinked
The right ot secession now established by
any sort of bargain between the govern
ment and it's as>aants doOms US to genera.
tions of anarchy and convuIsion Every
defeated party in heated Presid, ntal con.
test will be tempted TO try the chance Of
rebellion. we may perhaps succeed in
overthrowing the government if not, we
can compromise. The majority will be glad
enough to bribe us into peace What no.
ton could afford or endure this


If the rebels lay down their arms all
Christians, all the humane, will unite in in
sisting that government shall evince the ut
most lenity that is consistent with justice
and the public safety. The needless effu-
sion of one drop Of human blood would re.
volt every generous nature. If the attor-
neys of rebellion in Congress shall see fit
to urge the prOtfer of a general amnesty,
let that suggestion be fairly and kindly
considered But to give the traitors any
chance to boast that they wres;ed by re.
bellion concessions that they could not Sc
cure by appeals to reason and the ballot
box, is TO inaugurate an intermnable reign
Of force and yioence--is to make Captain
Dahlgren Chief Justice and Col Minnie our
most authoritative expouuder Of the consti.
tuition. Far better than this, disaster in
the field aud forcible disruption Of the
Republic.


Champions Of law-gunrdcd liberty ! the
air is dark with the porteuIs of imminent
peril Iutriguers are steaChily mining to
lay the dignity and safety of the nation on
the altar of stOckjobbing-to bind the
brows of discounted treason with the lau-
rel of victory and place in his hand the
Scepter of power The country is to be
debauched and degraded on the prelense Of
harmonzing it, and the government divcst.
ed Of all moral force under the gdise of re.
establishing its authority, Woe to that
man who shall dare to concede to bafilnd
treason aught that he refused to peaceful
argument and friendly entreaty Woe to
the man who shall in any manner consent
to make the sword the arbiter in our politi,
cal contests by granting to armed and tren-
chant rebellion the honors of a civic tri.
umph or investing it with the insignia of
constitutionally acquired power