Year: 1861




1t is clear that at present nothing can be done
in the way of friendly adjustment of the dispute.
To ell human Appearance the cure of the present
Unhappy state of things must be left to time aud
a firm and prudent course on the part of the gen
eral government. If the result should De a final
separation of the slave states from the free, there
are advantages in the separation which We ought
not to overlook. Let it be understood that d:sso-
luton Of the Union is not what we desire, but il
must not be forgotten that if the free states form
cd a republic by themselves it would be rid of an
iiHaQence which hes demoralizod and corrupted
our politics, BY Shaping them to promote the in
terests of q powerful oligarchy thai we shall
have freed ourselves from the dishonor Of tolera-
ting slavery within any part OF our Jurisdiction !;
that the slave states, longer crjoying that re-
speot which the free communities Of the NORTH
have acquired for them will be LEFT to feel he et-
fest which the natural abhorrence of the civilized
world for slavery viii have upon The standing Of
those countries in Theh it is tolerated that we Of
the free states, freed from clog our action
and clear of that DARK blot. shall proceed on ca
reer of glory and prosperity to which TIE world
will offer no pa ael; while the slave states will
be left to the Of civilized maukind to the
feebleness which their faVorie institution certain
~ entails upon them, aud to the barbarism in
whiuh those communities where it is not in process
of exlirpation are to plunge deeper and deep
er If we might, in this enumeration, refer TO
matters of less Importance we should mention the
greater economy with which the government might
be carried on were the slaveholdng states no long
er to form part Of our conIederacy.


IT. H. III H.
ornment take 2 1t seems to us that the question
is easily answered 1t should insist on the return
of the property Of which it has been robbed. Ii
cannot expect that the insurgents will respect the
government as long rs it allows itself to be triaed
with Those forts which it is of any consequence
to the United States to hold should he retaken; the
others might be left as they are. The federal
government should again enter upon the posses
sion of the Pensacola Navy Yard. 1t should fully
reinforce Fort Sumter, 1t should require the res
toration of tho revenue cutter stolen from it at
Charleston. 1; should declare the harbors of the
seeding states ports of entry no longer and pre-
vent smuggling in their waters.


The seeding states have put out the lamps of
our lighthouses, removed cur beacons and taken
nway the buoys which marked the access to their





The law requires six months notice to be given of
the erection of lighthouse or beacon, and six
months notice of its removal What the seeding
states have done may strew our shores with wrecks
and corpses. The lamps in the lighthouses must
be relit, the beacons set up again, and the sea
marks restored. They are all ours; established
at our expense the sites bought for them by the
money of the free states, and full title given to
the federal governmennt.


The post routs in the seeding states must be
suppressed. They are not only used for purposes
of insurrectiOn at expense, but they in the
hands of those who pIy into all private cOrre-
spondence, open private letters, and keep back all
those which they do not think proper to forward.
This makes them a nuisance which should bo ill.,
stan,ly abated.


The Mississippi should be kept open for the pas
sage of our countrymen of the western states. If
obstructed by the revolutonists, their batteries,
built to command it, should be demolished. II the
federal government fail to do this, the West Will
do it for itself.


With these measures, our government can al
ford patiently to wait for the new aspects which
the secession movement may take. 1t is premature
to talk of yielding tot he demand for peaceable
separation. We must first le. public opinion at
tho South fully declare itself We must give time
for the conservative classes, encouraged by show
of strength and determination in the federal gov
ernment, to combine and make themselves heard
that we may determine how large portion OF the
population they rlrm.-N, y. Erening Post