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culcating the belief that the ascendency of their
party would put an end to the present civil
war. Thus The Albany Argus emblazoned, for
some days before our recent election, that
Democratic triumph in that contest would
more conduce to peace than the most decided
victory of the National arms. Now If IT were
distinctly proclaimed that the Democrats, II
restored TO power, would make peace with the
rebels on their own terms, the assertion would
be by no means incredible. But the impression
,ought TO bo made that the PrO-Slayery rebels
would lay down their arms ard return to 10y
atty if their old friends the Democrats were IN
power at Washington, ia utterly unwarranted
hy facts. The SecessiOnist master-spirits are
thorough believers in what Gov. Seward once
felicitously termed the irrepreSsible conflict"
They hold, with Mr.. Lincoln in 1855, that the
country cannot permanently remain half slave
and half free. And, despairiDg OF their ability
to master and rule it persistcntly and thor
onghly, they have fully resolved to segregate
aud tear away what they esteem their halt OF
il completely and forever. Holding Themselves
gentlemen aud cavaliers by birth and breeding,
they revolt sgainst democracy not less than
against Ant.slaycry. They repudiate the pres
ent Administration a. a Government Of snjbs
rather than of fanatics. They never feared
that President Lincoln would meddle with
their slaves, but they cannot bear the thought
of being governed by ilat-boatman aud rail-
splitter. 1t is that inevitable tendency Of
Northern ideas aud institutions 10 raise the
sons of clodhoppers and cobblen TO the high
places of the land that has plunged the Chig-
airy of the Rice-swamp and the COtton-fed
into the gulf of rebellion. They mean to make
an end of the rule of "mud-sills " whether Of one
or the other party and will no longer be pla-
Gated by the utmost servilIty to the peculiar
institution. Hence, oil attempts TO coax them
back into the Union by re,toration of Demo
cratic rule and prospect of lie continuance
are certain to prove ilusory.
But present peace on the basis of Dis
union is equally impossible. Even If the People
of the loyal States were prepared so far to
succumb to the rebels as TO eoncede their in
dependence, we should still be very far from
peace-lOr these reasons:
/. Maryland, though preponderantly loyal, is
the home of masy of the bitterest and most
malignant traitors, who have contributed largely
in men, money and munitions, 10 the resources
of the rebellion. They have done this on the
clear understanding that their State is to be
embraced within the now CoDfederacy-thnt no
peace is to be made which does not secure
that contamination. Sympathy, ambition, good
faith, all dictate to the rebel chiefs persist
ence in the struggle until Mary land shall have
been won, carrying with it the Federal Me
tropoli., with its prestige its command OF the
Potomac, and rs mauy millions worth of Public
Edifces and other National property Not
until they ,hall have been thoroughly van
duished in a great battle viii the Confedcrates
relinquish their hopes Of acquiring Maryland,
ard with il the Federal District.
II. SO with regard to Kentucky. Though
they have been repeatedly and emPhaticaly
voted down by the People of Kentucky, they
affect still to believe that a majority Of that
people incline TO their cause. They know that
her Governor is heartily in their interest, sna
that their late candidate for President, with
other Of her eminent politicians, has recently
fed from her soil to their metropolis, bearing
assurances of her latent sympathy with their
treason. Their General A. $. Johnston, who
has recently been placed in chief command ON
the Mississippi, justifes the Confederate nva-
sion and partial military occupation of Ken
tucky by two assumptions: J. The Union
troops did so first (Which is not irue) 2. The
Kentuckians will be free to declare for the
Confederacy when their State shall have passed
into its Military occupStion Their two elee-
tion, last Summer were held while no Federal
soldier regular or volunteer, stood armed on their
soils but these, according TO Gen. j., afforded
no true indication of their preferences. Those
can only be developed under tho protection of
Rebel cannon. 1t is clear from abundant
declarations, official and journalistic, that the
Southern Confederacy deems itself incomplete
without Kentucky, and that il is prepared to
stake its existence on struggle for her acqui-
sition.
III. So, 10 lesser degree, with regard to
Missouri. 1t is plain that she will never be
relinquished by the Confederates without at least
grand battle. They might possibly give her
up to secure their independence, but not till
they had proved unable to clutch aud hold her.
Iv. Western Virginia is even more pslpably
an obstacle to the negotiation Of DisunOnist
peace. That portion of Virginia which is un-
mistakably loyal TO the Union is as large and
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