Year: 1861

cession that II can make. will suffice to re-
strain the utter lawlessness Of a portion OF
the country. States falling back on their sov


ereignty, and defying the central authority


combined States forming Confederacy and


declaring their independence of the Federal


Union-organized mobs firing into Govern


ment vessels. siezing forts and public proper
ty-all this has been submitted to for the sake


of peace, and in the hope of adjustment, with
q forbearance which is astonishing. For the
sake Of peace and in the vague hope that
somehow or other the country could be re-
lieved of its difficulties, two Administrations,
Buchanan's and Lincoln's, have adopted a


policy unexampled in history, and that is,
that Rebellion ehall tire itself out, and Revo-


lntion progress unquestioned, while the coun


try at large is endeavoring to concoct plan


for harmonizing conflicting elements. Re-


bellion and Revolution are permitted TO grow
and to fortify themselves with such means
and resources as enable them to dictate their
own terms, and the Government, rather than
have trouble, stands idly by, hoping by in
action to induce revolving sections to retrace
their steps. Some persons in the innocency
of their souls have thought that surely this
forbearance on the part Of the Government
would produce conirition in the minds of the
Secessionists and induce them to suspend hos
tilities Not 80, they went on, the same as
ever, siezing vessels siezing forts and siezing
mints. II was still thought by good hearted
peace-loVing men that there would yet be a
right disposition shown, and that. having
taken sufficiency of forts to make good their
original programme of having possession Of
the Notifications within their limits, they


would suspend hoslilties and ask the Gov
ernment if it could not accede to their de-
mands But, no such result has been mani
tested The standard of Secession has been
raised in the Territories The last straw has
been laid lupon the cames back. The same
men who SO vehemently denied the sover-
eighty Of the Territories, are the very ones
who now assume that the Territories like
States can secede on the score of their separ-
ate sovereignty, and step out of the American
Union. Accordingly Fort Harvey in New
Mexico is siezed, and Arizona declares her in
dependence Will any intelligent man un-
lertake to tell us that Ned McGowan and
Phil Herbert are the originators Of this
movement? They are but the ready tools of
IA; ;nror mon hahind apd thn dot or
these men is to have Disunion and nothing
else. While the conservative classes all over |
the Union are crying peace, and praying a
of hostilties, thanking tie Federal
Government for its forbearance, Revolution
is marching forward TO success-making all
its points good-taking everything it can get
losing no trick-planting rebellion where
ever there is a congenial soil-insulting and
defying not only the Federal Government
but outraging the sense of justice of the
American People and the public opinion of
the civilized world. Since they cannot bring
the Government to "coerce' State, in order
that they may have an excuse for q wal.
which war would bring the border States to
their aid, why, then, they drive the Govern
ment completely to the wall and past al
chance Of an excuse for non-acton, by assert
ing the independence of a mere Territory, and
from that point Haunting the banner Of seces-
sion in the teeth of the Administration


Does not this look like cold-blooded de-
liberate purpose to have no peace, but, on
the contrary, to drive the Government into a
hostile demonstration What right Terri
tory has to secede it would be hard to tell.
Rebellion in Kansas was promptly pnt down
by the Federal arm, and that arm was con-
trolled by these very men now instigating
rebellion in the Territories of New Mexico
and Arizona. Nobody ever thought before of
any sovereignty, in Territory, like that of
! State sovereignty. Nobody ever contended
or such a thing, not even the leaders of the
secession movement with jeff Davis at their
lead ; and therefore, the impudence of the
ate acts in New Mexico and Arizona, and the |
audacity of the assumptions there made are
perfectly stupendous. They shock all de-
cency.


Now, what is the Government to do? 1t
retreats from one position to another for
peace-mlkes concession after concession
begs for moderation on the part of the insur-
gents-does nothing with all its might, in the
hope that the dictators will condescend to re-
frain, till an adjustment can be made, but it
has no other effect than to encourage renewed
outrage and accumulated insult.


The matter is now reduced to this point
either n peaceable separation of the country
into two Confederacies must be agreed TO. or
a fight commenced at once. The Revolution
lists are determined to drive the Government
to extremity, and this dilly dallying on the
part Of the Administration cannot last much
longer. Outrage upon outrage is so heaped up
against the Government and so little forbear-
nnce shown by those who should exhibit it,
after the many inducements held out to them,
that we confess, we feel serious apprehen-
sions, that with or without war, an eternal
separation of the North and the South is soon
to take place.





MAY PARTY AT RED BLUFF.-Last Saturday
afternoon the girls of the Red Bluff Schoo
assembled in mass at the school house, for the
purpose of electing Queen and her retnue
1t is said that the scene at the polls was an
exciting one and that party spirit ran high
The election terminated in the returning of
Miss Georgene Olendorf as Queen. by small
and the following vonnr Indies as