The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-07-19
From the New Hampshire Patriot
What the President Means.

lamation, says:
lie finds no fault with the intention Of
Hunters order he utters no rebuke of its
terms; he merely says that subordinate
has assumed functions reserved to the
Commandcr-in-C Chief, and undertaken that
which the latter does not as vet deem ex.
pedient. The President has his own plan
for the removal of slavery he does not
wish to extinguish it by force if he can
avoid it he asks the people of the States
to initiate and manage gradual abolition;
| he offers them the entire cooperation of
the general government in the work, and
he urges IT upon them, not only in elo-
quent words, but ia Stg0JfHa~t-a1enaees
The Washington correspondent of the
same paper, WeHsAS upon the same sub
ject, says: 'i'' -
If worst comes to worst, there can be
no SOYbt that the President will drop all
attempt at conciliation, and give the South
her choice between utter desolation and a
return to the Union. The time for this
has not yet come, is Mr. kincoirfs posi-
tion. The people Of the loyal States must
first be fully convinced that the rebellion
cannot be crushed by ordinary means
then the hour will have arrived for the
overthrow of every institution in the
South that makes Union impossible
Such, ! understand, are the views of the
President, as expressed to his friends.
J We should not be quite sincere if we
we're to say that these enunciatiOns take
us by surprise. They would have done
81, 0sS0ths%g7a But dc TSas purposes of
the Administration have been unfolding,
cautiously but only too significantly, in
the progress of the changing scenes be-
tween May, 1861, and May, 1862. On the
22d day of July, 1861, Congress, by near
ly q unanimous vote, passed the following
resolution as declarative Of the purposes
of the Government in relation to the Oh
jects and prosecution of the War:
HtSolrcd by tie House Of Representa,
/ tires Cf the Congres, !J tie United States,
That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dis
unionists of the Southern States now in
revolt against the constitutional govern
ment and in arms around the capital that
in this national emergency Congress, ban
iShihg all feelings Of mere passion or re-
sentiment, will recollect only its duty to
the whole country that this war is net
waged upon our part in any spirit of op-
preston, nor for any purpose of conquest
or subjusation, nor for the purpose OF
Overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of those
StateS-but 10 defend and maintain the
supremacy Of the Constitution and to pre-
serve the Union with all the dignity,
equality and rights Of the several States
/ nnimpalrcd; and that as soon as these
objects are accomplished the war ought TO
cease.
The President sustained these views,
and upon them appealed to the country
for troops and supplies. Weconfess that
We were not without lniSgivings and doubt
with regard TO the sincerity and manineSS
Of these declarations. We were hardly
able TO reconcile what the President did
with what the President said We could
not understand how, protesting that the
war was waged to restore the Union un.
der the old Constitution, and not for sub
jugalion, devastation and robbery by arms,
the President could appoint to places of
honor and trust such men as the notorious
Helper, GiddingS, Carl Schurz and their
coadjutors, who had been engaged for
years in the schemes OF the extreme Abo.
lilionstS, and whose paramount business
it had been to denounce the Constitution
under which we had lived peaceably and
i'prosperousiy-free from debt, secure at
home and honored and respected through
out the world, as the most enterprising,
the most progressive and absolutely the
most free among the nations of Christen-
dom. How, We say, the President could
have signalized these unscrupulous and
law-defying agtators as the chosen objects
Of his confidence, it was hard for us to see
Still we longed for a restoration of the
Union, and in our longing We were deter
mined TO believe in the man to whose
hands, under Providence, was committed,
more than to any Others, the destiny of
our beloved country. We were dctermin.
ed to take courage and encouragement
from the least indication of sound views
and patriotic purposes. We would not
be thyowN Of ,even bv the anprehensions
which the strange, meaningless speeches.
the stories and thoughtless joking that
marked the journey from Springfield to
Washington, were so well calculated to
excite. Besides, it was not safe for any
paper to utter sentiments or opinions at
all like those which we have quoted at the
head Of this article. II would have been
declared SANDER upon the President,
wiful Misrepresentation Of the purposes
Of the Administration and the manifesto
tion Of desire to create division at the
North and on these grounds the paper
would have been excluded from the mails.
But now every paper is expected to say
what every paper was then forbidden to
utter. What a change has been wrought
out in ten months. and what pusillanimity
on the part of many journals which then
asserted that they would never sanction
what they row applaud, the overthrow of
the Constitution, the bold denial of its
authority, the abolition of slavery by arms,
under the shameless and infamous pre-
tence Of preserving the Union! We have
seen Fremont's emancipation proclamation
mildly modified by the Executive we
have seen the report of committee ap-
pointed to investigate that officers con-
duct, which was so fatal to his reputation
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