The New York herald., 1862-10-24
Tremendous HevoiutiOa Approach-
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A Tremendous Revoiution Approach
ing.
Every State which has held an election this
fall has gone decidedly .nservative. Conneo-
ticut has elected majority Of democratic can
didates at its town meetings Pennsylvania.
Ohio and Indiana have already been reported as
conservative This morning the returns from
Iowa show that this hitherto strongly republican
State has given greatly decreased republ-
can majority. These facts bode tremendous
revolution here at the North. They indicate
that New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois,
Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and even Massa-
chusetts, will join the conservative ranks at
the November elections. They promise the
speedy annihilation of the abolition party and
Of the war; They are to be hailed, therefore,
as omens Of hope for the country and Of de-
struction for It's foes.
The philosophy Of these conservative tri-
umphs is very simple. They are del eats at once
Of the disunion secession sympathzers and Of
the dsunion abolition radicals They are vic
tories of the people, Of the constitution, of the
Union. If the otler Middle and Northwestern
States follow up these triumphs in November,
the war will be over in six months If
they falter and give abolition majorities,
there is no prospect that the war will
be over in less than fifteen or twenty
years--untl every negro in the South is freed
and every white man kined-until the Union
framed by our fathers is lost beyond recovery
until this glorious country, the pride OF every
free man, shall be degraded beyond the level
OF the smallest and meanest nation on the face
Of the earth. This Is the Issue before the
people in the coming elections. The conserva-
tive triumphs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Iowa, and the immense conservative mass
meetings in this city and vicinity, are protests
against the abolition party. But those republi-
cans who assert that the conservatives there
fore oppose the war and favor JEFF. Davis plain
ly and emphatcally lie. The men who com
pose the conservative party have pledged their
own lives the lives of their relatives and friends
and their property to the last dollar and the
last cent, to the perpetuity of the Union. 1t is
for this very reason that they oppose the abo-
litionists. who would destroy the Union. They
are too loyal to our soldiers to send them off to
the wars and then betray them at the polls by
voting for that damnable party of abolitonists,
who have caused. who now prolong, and who
will never end this war.
An abolition minority at the North, playing
into the hands of secession minority at the
South, involved us in this terrible conflict The
abolitionists desired to destroy the Union in
order to destroy slavery. The secession lead
ers desired to destroy the Union in order to
take perpetual lease Of Office. The vast ma
jority Of the people, North and South, were
loyal to the Union. Practically, therefore, the
abolitionists and the secession leaders have al
ways been, and are now, in league with each
other. Horace Greeley is the best friend JEFF
Davis ever had. Whatever helps the abolition
lists assists the rebel leaders. A vote for an
aboltionist is a vote for the rebellion. Every
abolition measure has tended to justify JEFF
Davis in the eyes of the people over whom he
tyrannizes Every success OF the abolition
party fulfls one of the prophecies by which
Jeff Davis tempted the Southern people to their
ruin. The ragged, wretched, starving, robbed,
oppressed, desperate masses Of the rebels sub
init to JEFF. Davis infamous cruelties and ex
actions because he excuses his despotism by the
plea that he is trying to save the people from
the worse cruelties and exactions Of the North
The abolitionists always kindly furnish the
Southern tyrant with some brutal article, bloody
speech or exasperating measure Just in time to
apparently justify this lying plea. An aboli-
ton triumph now will thus aid the rebellion.
A conservative triumph, on the other hand, will
give JEFF. Davis the lie direct; will dsenfran
chise the minds Of the Southern people; will
prove that the North is not abol4ionized: will
show that the South may yet return to the
Union and enjoy all her constitutional rights,
and will thus weaken and ultimately destroy
the power of the Internal military olgarchy
that now traInples upon the citizens Of the Sc
ceded States. II Is this truth of which JEFF.
Davis is afraid. 1t Is this truth which aboli-
tionists would conceal and remove.
Revolutionize the North ut these elections,
and the South will revolutionize herself. Dis
enfranchise the minds Of the deluded rebels from
the spell of sbolitionism, and they will soon
dsenfranchiss themselves from the spell Of
JEFF. Davis Does any one suppose that the
Southern masses submit without some apparent
cause for submitting 10 O monstrous tyranny
SO grinding as to appal the world? Convince
them that this tyranny is without shadow of
justification: that their leaders ore liars; that
the North, from which JEFF. Davis Processes to
save them. II not bent upon their destruction;
that we offer them their just rights il they will
lay down their arms and submit TO government
which has been most grossly misrspresented by
their leaders and by the abolitionists, and with
in six months, unless they are more or less than
mon, they will hang JEFF. Davis higher than
Haman. and gladly return to the Union. They
would have done so long ago had not the aboli-
tionists stood like wall Of fire between us and
them. Break down that wall at the coming