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Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Times J
From Washington.
The Initial Increment Of a Revolution in Aprrican
PoHtics--7He Country Lookiag to Tie Democrat
,c Party--THat Party alone can Saue tie Union
and hc Constitution.
WASHINGTON, March 27, 1862.
The recent meetings of the Democratic
members Of Congress are initial move.
ments OF what will eventually be n COM
plete revolution in the aspect of national
politics. Every one here is now convin-
ced that the mask which the Aboitionists
have worn until recently has beer thrown
off at last. In spite of all the pledges
made by the radical Republicans when
they were begging for votes in 1860 it is
now seen that they intended, even then,
to abolish the fugitive slavs law, to abol-
ish slavery in the District of Columbia
and to abolish slavery in the Southern
States as soon as they had the power to
do SO. They think they have the power
to do SO now, and they are trying to do it.
They are determined, furthermore, that
the Union shall never be restored as long
as slavery exists in the Southern States.
In other words, they set themselves di-
rectly in array against the Constitution,
and would gladly sweep that away this
moment if they had the power.
1t was time, therefore, that the Demo.
cratic party should come to the rescue OF
the Constitution and the Union, both of
which are in imminent peril. No other
party in the country has rallied so unan
imousIy in defense Of the country. 1t
has furnished three fourths of the soldiers
now in arms under the stars and stripes,
and all the best Generals and other off
GERS are Democrats, with Mcclellan at
their head. But the Democratic party
will never stand idly by and see one pro-
vision after another in the Constitution
stricken down, and the war for the Union
converted into n mad crusade against sa-
very ana Shareholders. The Democratic
masses at home, whose sons and brothers
are fighting for the Union and who are
.depriving themselves Of all their wanlon
luXuries in order to pay the necessary
taxation for the support Of the Govern
mcnt will never consent that fanatiral
ma jority in Congress shall tax them still
more in order to buy up hundreds of
thousands Of slaves, to be thrown among
them as paupers, CT to compete with white
labor. 1t was time, then, that this
movement of the Democratic members in
Congress was made. Their plans of ac-
tion are not yet developed, and of course
not yet made public. But they will be
such as will be hailed with Joy by the
Democratic party all over the country,
and indeed by conservative men of all
parties. When they are developed and
made public, they will constitute a plat
form on which the conservative men of
all parties will strnd, and on which they
will roll back the tide of fanatcism that is
now seeking to bury the country in the
black waves of sectional intolerance. 1t
will gladden. the hearts Of the readers Of
the Times to know that even in this Con-
gress, SO given up to radical aboitionsm,
there are no less than rorty-eight mem
bcrs who are actively engaged in this new
movement, and who give to their undiyi-
dcd energies. Such men as Richardson,
of Illinois; Voorhees,, of Indiana; Wi
cliIle, Of Kentucky; Penllcton and Cox,
Of Ohio; and Corning, Of New York, are
the head Of the movement, and their
names are a guarantee of all that | have
said Of it.