Year: 1860

The political doctors at Washington who have
undertaken the restoration to life of Union which
is very dead, have, it appears, rather uphill
business Of it. The water-gruel remedy Of Dr.. Bu-
chanan, that ancient public functonary, who never
took an original or Independent position upon any
question in his life, having been rejected worth
less, the Union-sayers have now called Gen. Scott
into consultation. The old General is expected to
administer the medicine which :" back to the body"
of the late lamented Union will "cal the leeting
breath.n If anybody can do ii, General Scott can
But the simple truth is, nobody is equal to the
emergency Of doing an impossible thing. In
ancient times, malefactor was not considered
as effectually disposed of until he had been hung
several days, and his body then exposed upon the
highway with a stake driven through its center.
The Union has not one stake, but half dozen
driven through it, And there is nothing now to be
done but to remove TIE remains out of sight.


Besides the expected remedy Of General Scott,
and the report Of the Congressional Union-saying
committee, we are also warned of forthcoming
letter from Gen. Cass. We know what sort of
letter the old General viii write. He will be- like
Niobe, all tears. He will lament, as one who re-
fuseth to be comforted the downfall of this glo-
rious Republic" He will be more sentimental and
more lachrymose, but at the same time more
logical, than the Old Public Functionary. He will
excel the O. P. +. in the honesty and manliness of
his language; and his remedy will consist of an
appeal to the North to rerace its steps, and admit
that they were only joking when they made ar
rangements to take possession of the Federal Gov
ernmeut and administer it upon sectional and un-
constitutional principles. The time was when such
appeals were heard and respected by the Northern
people, But, in their present temper, an entreaty
of the sort will have about as much effect as q
prayer for mercy from a lamb, set upon by pack
Of hungry wolves.


Hale Of New Hampshire has already proclaimed
| war-proclaimed it openly in the Senate. Seward
| discountenances any concession, and says there
must be no retreat. He says this because any con-
| cession on their part, he well knows, would de-
| stroy his party in the New England States and in
the Northern States Of the West To surrender the
victory just as they have gained it, is no part of
| their policy.
| But the true sentiment of the South does not ask
them to surrender it. Those Southern statesmen
| who ask for concessions and compromises and
guarantees, do not represent Southern feeling. We
want no concessions from the North-we want no
| compromise-we want no guarantees. We want
| them not, because, if made, they would be made
from fear and not from patriotisnlron selfinter-
est and not from principle. Better settlement
at all than forced and unnatural settlement re.
luctantly entered into, and liable to be repudated
| at any moment The Constitution, and the laws
made in pursuance of it. as they now exist, we are
| willing to abide by. The North is not-and until
! we have some assurance that they will respect
any new settlement better than they have done the
old one, all these expedients for restoring peace
are worse than idle. Unless we can operate upon
other passions Of the North than that Of fear, we
had better depart in peace, and go our ways Sc
parately.


We do not reflect upon the motives, or impeaol
the patriotism of Gen. Scott or Cen Cass and othel
venerable citizens of the Republic, who feel nat


ural anxiety to preserve a Union which they have
fought for, and which, Justly held together is capa


bic of comforting So many benefits and blessings
upon the people. Their intentions are pure-their
motives honorable and patriotic. But their mistake
is in supposing that paper guarantees will be con
sdered satisfactory by the people of the South
| These old statesmen and warriors cannot change
the temper and the education of the extreme North


nor the inborn phsrisaieal soul of New England
fanatieisn. Nobody can do it. The root of this
evil must be pluclzed up, and that can only be
done by educating the people over again. More
and more every year, it becomes apparent that
there is no assimilation between the sections in
their IDEAS of government, of religion, and oflaw-
their social habits and customs, and their duty as
citizens, the one to Che other. When the people


of nation are not homogeneous, it is an unnatura


and an almost impossible thing for them to live to-


gether peace under the same government. Wher


our statesmen lock at the question in this light


they will then discover the fatity of all temporary


expedients, patches, and compromises.