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London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

may secure in his favour the suffrage of the multi-
tude, and be borne on the shields of his followers
to the seat successively occupied by the Jacksons
and Taylors, heroes of former wars, that the
squabbles of these Cabinet schemes would seem
to be, to say the least, strangely premature.
Their divisions, however, have their own uses,
inasmuch as they draw more distinctly the
lines between the political parties, among which
they seek their support, and may eventually enable
°need them so to fix the principles of the Govern-
ment as to place it on an intelligible and consistent
line of policy. The Blair party, the Conservatives,
the Union peace men, are strong in numbers at the
present time, and would be farther strengthened a
few months hence if the snowy curtain of winter
were to fall upon the bloody drama of the war be-
fore any great episode came to relieve its dreary
sameness ; or if, in the event of a failure of the pre-
sent Enlistment Act, the desperate measure of the
draught were again to be resorted to. National
union is at the top of the thoughts of nine Ameri-
cans out of ten, but speedy peace would also be
popular with the worn out multitude. If those two
blessings were to be combined together there cer-
tainly would be immense rejoicing about the re-
covery of the strayed Southern sheep and the negro
would be the fatted calf immolated to supply the
reconciliation feast. Only " how do the Democrats
propose to bring about so happy a consummation ?"
people inquire. "How do they intend to go to
work . There is something vague, utopian in their
plans ; they do not tell us how they could negotiate
for union with the South, so stubbornly bent on
separation ; they do not acquaint us with the ad-
vances to be made, or the terms which might prove
acceptable, to an enemy who gives no sign of laying
down his arms ; and they do not reassure us as to
their power of guaranteeing us against the reproduc-
tion of effects of which they do not propose to re-
move the causes. To save both Union and slavery
is a very arduous task for the present, and it entails
endless difficulties, complications, and new perils
for the future."
On the other hand the programme of the Repub-
licans, and of the arrant Radicals among them, is
extremely simple and easy. They purpose to carry
on the war till they have emancipated the last black
by the annihilation of the last white. There is
something monstrous and atrocious in their views;
but the scheme is not only feasible—it is what is
already half done, what is being done day by
day. General Butler, the man who goes in
New Orleans by the name of "Beast Butler,"
made himself the mouthpiece of this per-
fectly consistent and intelligible, though ruthless,
set of politicians. At a meeting of the Union State
League of Massachusetts, held in Boston on Tues-
day, the General " took ground with those who be-
lieve the seceded States have annihilated themselves
as States, while the power of the general Govern-
ment still remains intact over their territory. He
combated the position of a member of the Cabinet
(Postmaster Blair), that `the rebel commonwealths,
by throwing down their arms, should be received
into the Union with unimpaired rights, and with
their old local institutions.' . . If the Confede-
rate States were readmitted, and their representa-
tives took their seats in Congress, before some radi-
cal change were effected, what guarantee would
there be that the Federal National Debt would not
be repudiated, or made to stand upon the alternative
that the Confederate debt must likewise be paid ?
The rebel States must be regarded as de-
stroyed, or it would be almost impossible to choose
another President, for the reason that no candidate
likely to be selected would receive such a support in
the North as to give him a majority of the whole
electoral college, constituted of all the States, both
loyal and rebel."
You may perceive by this that the ruin of the
South is decreed upon principles of mere reason of
State, with which the everlasting negro has but
little to do. The North has, by Mr. Lincoln's elec-
tion, reconquerel a supremacy in the Union which
had slipped from its hands for nearly a quarter of a
century. It is necessary that the South should
cease to be, or Northern ascendancy would be im-
perilled by the tacitly acknowledged fact that the
unanimous South would always have it in its power
to turn the scales in favour of any of the parties
into which the North is hopelessly divided, and
with which the South might choose to ally itself.
While one orator in Boston appeals to the selfish
interests of a coldblooded policy, another in New
York strives to stir up the passions of a blind multi-
tude. Governor Yates, of Illinois, at a large assem-
blage in the Cooper Institute last evening, indulged
in that strong style of invective which has become
so common in this country. "If," he said, "in
setting aside your Constitution, if in rebelling against
your Government, your pet institution, slavery, dies,
I say let it die and be damned for ever." And again
—" The traitor has only two rights. He has a right
to be hung in this world, and a Divine right to ne
damned for ever in the next.', Mr. Yates is a pro-
found admirer of the President, but was "inclined
to find fault with him because he was " slow," did
not call out a million of men, and did not put forth
his edicts of confiscetioa, emancipation, conscription,
&c. He found out, however, after all, that Mr.
Lincoln " could not move faster than Providence
and God," And when he sent his flaming despatches
to the President—" Issue your proclamation of con-
fiscation, and call out a million of men"—" old Abe"
telegraphed back to him, "Dick, hold still, and see
the salvation of God." (Tremendous cheering.)
Another orator, the Hon. Lewis Barker, said,
" We have a missionary spirit in New England. We
send Bibles and money and tracts and men for the
conversion of the heathen abroad, and we have a
home missionary spirit sometimes, and when we
fail to convert with the Word, we send bombshells
and bullets and bayonets, and we prove our prin-
ciples orthodox by Apostolic blows. (Laughter.)
We propose to convert and bring back our mis-
guided brethren into the Union, if we have to do it
in the way the Methodist missionary made a convert
of the blacksmith on the Blue Ridge—he pulled off
his coat, and mauled the grace of God into his unbe-
lieving soul,"
It is to this odd mixture of unreason, profanity,
and utter blasphemy that this church-going, Bible.
reading people are becoming accustomed, as they
frequent the school of their rabid stump orators.
The multitude follows these rhapsodies but too
eagerly. The notion that the Union is to be re-
established by the utter ruin, disfranchisement, and
degradation of the "rebel" States gains ground
daily, and the only plausible solution of the great
national question seems to be that which extreme
Radicals recommend. No one can have lived any
time in this country without being aware of the
immense ground lately gained among all classes
of men by the views of the out-and-out Abolitionists.
They have no faith in the practicability, and less in
the durability, of peace on other terms ; and were
itpoiwsibttlietlo stem the mighty tide, and bring the
People back to milder views, any compromise
would
come
rate. nthe too late to undo the work of destruc-
tion,
as I said, is going on at so tremendous

. The news fro October 31.
intelligible by tulhiee hattanooga has been made more
27t4
utenorning's despatches. It seems
that on the
art:eral Smith succeeded in open-
ing by force of
d and water communica-
tion between Chattatiaolan
°n
uogtha and Bridgeport, a place
below Chattanoogu
Tennessee River. By
this movement the position
eenathe Contedere.tes on
the Look-out Mountain was
2,erthals without any
28th it was abandoned to the peaangered, and on the
midnight,
attempt at resistance. On the
betwSeen General Hooker was attacked by the
at Brown's Ferry, on the river, bat??
hriidgeport
and Chattanooga, and, it is said," repulsed
,
ants in grand style." m3lightalssastth
The fight by
till 4 o'clock in the morning. The conduct
of the
d
Northern troops is reported as " splendid.,, Thel
result is the opening of an easy communication for
the Federals both by railway and waggon roads
and by the river, relieving- them from the worst
4nxieties of their somewhat distressing position. It
is remarkable, indeed, that the Secessionists should
have given up Look-out .10-antain without firing a
shot in its defence; but it is presumable that Bragg
had been compelled to weaken himself on this side
in order to have it in his power to detach a large
division of his forces against Burnside. The Posi-
tion of the latter Generll between a part of Lee's
-, corps and a portion of Bragg's troops, is welt c4l-