The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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"Fighting for the Union."

The New York Day-Book remarks that, if the devil had invented a dictionary for the purpose of deluding and destroying the Northern people, by mere rhetorical subterfuges and tricks of language, he could not have hit upon a better phrase for his purposes than ‘"fighting to preserve the Union."’ Fighting is disunion, even if no disunion had occurred before. ‘"The union"’ has gone forever, even if the South could be conquered, which is impossible, for any Union that might exist after that would be only a Union of despots and slaves, not the Union formed by the founders of the old Republic. The phrase answered the purpose, however, of bringing on the war, and now that it has begun, even those who were deluded by it must begin to see that they are not fighting to preserve the Union, but to establish a military despotism over the Southern States. No doubt they are willing enough to accomplish that object, if they can, but the South has to run red with blood, and every living soul within her borders be exterminated, before it can be accomplished.