Year: 1861

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and blind fury-is not tolerated in tHe dominions
of jeff. Davis. To be severed from the Free
States-rd Of the North, thoroughly and for
ever-such is the burtben OF every utterance al
lowed 10 reach us from the revOlted States.
And there can be no reason to doubt that, so
far as the dominant faction 10 those States is
concerned, this aspiration is perfectly sincere.
And as to the crusbed-out ragged battered
Union men of the South, their opinions and
wishes are for the present OF no more conse-
quence than those of so many animals. Practi-
cally, then the revolted States are unit in de-
manding-not concessions, not compromise,
but the full and final dissolution Of the Union.


They who among us talk Of Compronie in full
view Of the existing attitude of the revolt mean
acquescence in disuuion, or they are sWindling
themselves and Others. They mean at least that
the South American system Of revising aud test.
ing every Presidential Election by revolt Of the
def ated party shall here be inauguratcd as one
of our institutions. For if one election is to be
followed by revolt. and that revolt shall impose
terms on the Government, it were absurd 20
suppose that the success Of the revolters would
not inspire others to follow their example. Con-
cession to the rebels as the price Of their return
to loyalty would sanctfy their revolt, admit its


justice, and exalt it into precedent for defeated
politicians through hll coming time Even to re-


store the semblance Of Union by such trucking
would be to admit and establish the right Of each
defeated faction in turn to defy and destroy it.
No-there can be no compromise, for there ia
no ground on which to make one. The rebels
must either be beaten and forced to sue for
mercy, or they must beat the Government, and
carry off a third Of the Republic permanently, as
Satan is said to have drawn after him in bis
rebellion third of the host of Heaven. If they


succeed, the Nation is humbled, dismembered,


and cast down from its place among the Great
Powers of Christendom. If they are defeated,


the right Of the Nation to exist is yindcated, it's
foreign and domestic enemies confounded. and it's
place among the powers Of the earth will be
higher and more assured than ever. The success
of the rebellion will supplant one great nation BY
two relatively insignificant; it will degrade lhe
South even more than the North, which would
still retain vast prepOndeTanco in populati@,


wealth, industry aud power. There is scarcely
an acre, there is never slave, in all Secessia,
that would not be diminished in value by he
success of the Slavehold, rs Rebellion. And more


than this--Savery itself, through the advancement


Of the line of absolute refuge for the hunted fugitive
/ from the Lakes to the Ohio, will thereafter have


but precariOus and transient existence. II tie


shareholders could but see--if their vision bad MT


been sealed against truth obvious TO everybody
! else-they would make haste TO abandon their


rebeous attitude for ono Of loyalty and peace


if for no other end than the conservation Of their


peculiar institution" While they remain Loyalty
! in the Union, they will always have guarantees
10 the Constitution and u powerful mercantile
and partisan support in the North. IL they
succeed in cutting adrift from the Union. they
evidently mean to trade with u. 10 the least pos.
sible extent and to import directly frem Europe.
Who docs not see that this will naturally deprive
them Of any party in the free-States.


Whatever the issue of this contest may be-, il
must impose heavy public burdens on North and
South alike; and those burdens Slayery-whetber
in or out Of the Union-must help to bear.
Whether IT take the form Of export duties on
slave produce any other, it is scarcely possible
that slaves will ever again command the prices
for which they were eagerly bought last year.
Tie early defeat or surrender OF the rebels may
secure to Slavery a further hie-lease of gen.
Grafton or two; Disunion will work its rum in
the course Of few years. But be this o. it
may, there remains no alternative but the defeat
Of the rebels or their absolute Triumph; and they
who at this day talk Of u Compromise as posi-.
bic in the premises either use words without
definite meaning or, under the term Compromise,
disguise On intent to commend and acquiesce 10
dissolution of the Union. And if they do mean
this, is not their ambiguity a plain confession
that they know what they propose to be too
odious to bear explicit avowal'