Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-12-27
DIVISIONS OF OUR ENEMIES.

Confusion continues to reign in the councils
Of the North. and to-day LINCOLN and bis par
tisans find themselves at the head Of a divided
people, Of whom, al the late elections demon
strate, the supporters Of his long cherished one
idea policy constitute only a minority. From Is
dominant and naughty power, Overbearing from
confidence, they have suddenly found them
selves 81 The mercy OF their political opponents.
From a majority deemed ~unceCquerable they
have fallen to q hopeless minot,v by the re-
corded verdict Of the people. They have been
weighed in the balance and found wanting, -
and, as q consequence, politically disgracaa as
well ss discarded. Neither the people of itIer
section, nor the cabinets of Europe, will looS
longer to the Washington cabal for the Develop
men. of the future policy Of the North, for the
sceptre has departed from It forever, and If is
now humbled before the world, cast off by lis
own people, and dssPi5ed by the people of the
South.
Tue difficulty at Washington, it is now set
tied, is not alone confined to partisan differ
ences. It is net alone a strife between Democrats
and A5olitionists, or a peace party and a war
party. The trouble has reached farther than all
this, and is of more grave import to the cause
Of the North than could arise from such causes.
The people of the North have divided upon i'm
portant issues, 1t is true, but a second split has
occurred in the administration ranks, and the
result is, and viii continue TO be, 3 strife be-
tween the subdivisions as bitter as any that
ever occurred between than, when united, and
their old political opponents.
We see much Of promise to the South in the
distraction Of the Abolition party, as well as in
its defeat BY the Democratic party. For the
next twelve months LINCOLN aud his advisers
will have full contrn, of the war, unless be
should call the new Congress together after the
4th Of March next. This be will do only in the
event Of one Of two things o~ccurring-he viii
either have determined to change his policy so
that he cen secure the support Of the conserya-
tives, Or the present Congress viii have failed
to give him the siaews of war, money, to cary
or the contest. OF the fgss there are DO indi-
cations, nor is the second likely to occur, for the
present Congress is So intensely abolition that
it viii omit nothing to secure its cad. Hence,
although aware Of the troubles among the lead
ers, the money viii be forthcoming, and LIN
CoLE will be enabled to prosecute tho war in his
own way and for his own purposes. It may
continue to be an Abolition war, but abolition
ism will be divided as to who shall conduct it.
Hithertoth the men of the South have had to battle
with a united North. Their people rallied, as
did those of the South. The councils of their
States were unauimous-their Congress voted as
a unit, and their statesmen supported the ad-
ministration heartily. But this united senti-
ment is no longer opposed tOus. The people of
the North have divided upon issues as to how
and for what purpose the war should be con-
Quoted, but what is CT more importance to us,
the authorities, in whose hands the conduct of
af4irs must remain, have also split. Politi