Daily national Republican., 1862-11-13
Communicated.
Few Plain Words 60 Northern Com

/ Few Plain Words TO Northern Con-
servatives.
GENTLEMEN: You have won the late import
ant elections at the North as against tho Admin
tration party, which party is the dctiye, aek,aow-
lodged ,cdr party Of the Northern States. The
responsibility of power will soon compel you
to decide what shall he your future party policy
with regard to this war. Can you carry the
rotten, reasonable element which has united
itself to your party, for "more vigorous
prosecution Of the warp you cannot carry
this "dead weight" and still sustain the Ad-
ministration as heartily and effectively as the
Republicans, 1t is plain enough that greater
weakness, not greater strength, must result to
| the Administration, as a consequence of your
advent to power. With less support, how can
the Government evince greater yigori
All the peace men, all the compromise men,
every bgoted partisan Democrat, the cowardly
who feared the draft, the Shylocks who trembled
for their gold, disappointed politicians, NAL
contents of every grade and character, every
secession sympathizer, members of the order of
the " Knights of the Golden Circle'-all these
classes of men united with the really patriotic
men who compose the mass of the conservative
party and, what is worse, these rotten elements
have succeeded in electing their fair, numerical
share of representatives as rotten as them
selves. This rotten, reasonable representation
will make itself both heard and felt.
Will the Democratic party acknowledge fel-
lowshp with these traitors, or will 1t repudiate
theml If the former, most disgraceful peace,
upon the basis of separation, is before us; If
the latter, all will yet be well. Gentlemen, do
not fatter yourselves that compromise with
the rebels, for the purpose of restoring the
Union, is possible. Doubtless, some of the
shrewd Southern politicians would be glad to
compromise upon the basis of new and salts
factory guarantees for slavery, a restoration of
the Democratic party TO power, &C., &C.; but
the South is far beyond the control of politi-
clans; 1t is governed by an all-pervading mill
tary power, backed up by the brutal passions
and blind but determined preudices Of class
of men who have been the trained blood-hounds
Of the aristocratic slave-owners. With this
bloody-minded, vindictive mob, or with the
proud, fierce and confident military leaders Of
the rebel army, you cannot compromise.
Aside from these two governing classes, II is
doubtful II YOU could obtain the consent of q
majority Of the Southern people to compromise
upon any terms which restored them TO the
, Union as II was.
The Southern mind has been educated for
: generation to prepare 1t for the present work.
Hatred and distrust of the people of the North,
, and everything Northern, has been instied into
the Southern mind from infancy to man or
womanhood The husting, the courts of JUS
tice(D the schoolroom, the domestic circle,
and even the pulpit, have all taught the same
unvarying lesson-a lesson of hate and con-
tempt for Northern people. They were told
that the Northern people had injured them !;
therefore, they must hate them that the
Northerners were inferior TO them therefore,
yankees" were legitimate objects of Southern
7 scorn and contempt.
I inquired, some years since, of frank, outs
, spoken Virginian, "Why the Southern people
felt so much hostility toward Northern people ~
IIa hnlif tod "a nn nd hon Va
are taught, from infancy, to look upon the
Northerner as our enemies" That there would
be war with the North, has heen foregone
conclusion at the South for years. 1t has been
) talked off freely and unreservedly any poll
teal question of the day; and there has been a
general tendency at the South to prepare for the
struggle. In the fall OF 1854, | heard Extra
Billy Smith make n speech at Fairfax Court
I house, Virginia. In the course Of his speech,
/ he declared that "war with the North was i'm
, pending, and, sooner or later. il would come
lie warned the people TO prepare for the conflict,
and told them that If II were needed, undoubt-
edly foreign assistance could he obtained.''
For years southern orators have been prophecy
ing "war with the North;" they have under
, mined and removed the last yestige Of fraternal
, affection. Fiends incarnate could not have bet
ter prepared the foundation for this damnable
rebellion than have the disciples Of John C.
: Calhoun.
q Turk never hated Christian as these accursed
', vipers have taught Southern people TO hate
y Northern people. The Roman patrician felt
!, more sympathy and respect for his plebian de.
u pendent than the self-styed /" chivalry" enter.
: tanned for the native-born citizens of Northern
. State.
: II was this condition of the Southern mind
that made war between the North and South
. ? inevitable. 1t might possibly have been delay.
y y ed few years-and but few years, at the
Il longest.
G Precisely this point had been reached prior to
. the election Of Mr.. Lincoln: either the North
!, must concede its inferiorty, and hand over the
!, control of this continent to Southern men, oi
q go to war to maintain even its equality.
The Southern cry, q" let us alone" was g
: transparent humbug, a mere sham. The South
!. meant tCdr when 1t attacked Fort Sumter. II
u had determined upon war, first, to crafty theil
y passionate hate toward Northern people; second
= ly, to humiliate the North by military defeat
= and thereby secure the ascendancy ON the North
y American continent.
u The North, Unexpectedly to the South, ac
. cepted at once the challenge of the " "chivalry.'
= The character of the contest necessarily becam,
i that of iifs and death Struggie. The Southern
;, rebels have repeatedly declared, by word ant
. . deed, that they so consider It, The success Of
, either of the combatants Is the utter politica
: , ruin of the other.
y To consent to separation, is to inaugurate az
~ endless war along our entire border.
Any sanction of separation, by the North
i would be construed, by the Southerners, into
y an Acknowledgements of defeat; and the self
! conceited and aggressive shareholders woult
y not fail to make an honorable peace impossibl,
. to the North.
y The temper, habits, intentions, and the socia
, structure of Southern society, compel a posi-
} tiye, not negative, decision of this quarrel.
!, Either the North, with its progressive ideai
y and its enlarged freedom, or the South, with it
. feudal, retrogressiye tendencies and Its system
: of compulsory servitude, MUST GOVERN THU
CONTINENT.
: "To this complexion it must come at last
u Any compromise" or arrangement" tha
:. shall a cessation Of hostlities before tn
u question is decided "which section Is master p
: simply suspends, but cannot end the war.
" To the bitter end, it must be fought out soone
. or later the South have deliberately determined
i upon this, and the North cannot, If II would
:, avoid the conflict.
= Northern conservatives, such Is the condition
% % of the Southern mind. You must fight the reb
u els into submission, no matter what the cost
, or you will be compelled to most dsgracefu
u peace, which the South will speedily rende
more intolerable to you than war. The few
loyalists, in the South, have been almost dis
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