The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-09-04


and unreal expectations Of foreign iD4eE.
ventiou, and has thus protracted the war
to the present time.
Certainly this Government and The A..
merican people are even more confident
of the preservation Of the Union now han
they were year ago, and arc, therefore,
even less likely now than they were then
to accept peace, with the inconceivable
pains and perils Of dissolution. Can it be
presumptuous, then for us to ask Europ.
can statesmen 10 review, in the light of
the events Of the war, the opinion which
they formed at so early stage Of it, that
the opinion itself might. perhaps, proper.
Ily BE- deemed prejudice?
OF couree, in such areview.the observ-
er would not oyerlook.ihe contrast be.
tween the position which the Federal
Government held year ago and its pres.
eDt situation. Then it had been placti,
cally expelled, with all its authorities,
civil, military, and naval, from every
State South of the Potomac, Ohio and
Missouri rivers, while it was held in close
siege ia this Capital, cut Of from commu-
nication with even the States which had
remained loyal.
Now it has virtually retaken all the po
sitions it SO early lost on the seaboard; /;
it possesses tho Mississippi and all the
great natural highways, and has forced
the insurgents TO battle in the most mac
cessible part Of the iDsurrectionary dis
trict. The forces and resources Of the
Government are unexhausied and increas-
ing. Those of the insurgents are dimin.
ished and becoming nearly exhausted.
No one, either here or in Europe, now
coutests these simple facts. The only ar
gument opposed to them, is that the in
surgcnts have determined not to acknowl.
edge the authority of tho Union. The
evidence Of this is a certain resoute aud
defiant tone maintained by their organ.
Certainly. SO long as the insurgents
have any hope of ultimate success. they
could not be expected to discourse other.
wise than in just such tone, nor will
they fail 10 cherish such hope. SO long
as they End willingness to meet it with
sympathy in Europe, The very last ad-
vices which came from that quarter pre-
vious to the arrival there tof the news of
the fall OF New Orleans and Norfolk. were
full OF speoulations about some newly
conceived form of intervention.
But it must be remembered that the in
surgents are men, and that they may
reasonably be expected 10 speak and act
like other belligerent factions under sim.
liar conditions So, also, being men and
subject to the laws which determine the
economy Of society, they mus. In all cases
conform themselves, however unwilingly,
to the circumstances by whish they are
surrounded. They cannot, more than
other masses of men, determine for them,
selves under one state OF circumstances
what they will do IN different one. A
writer upon war advises brave men never
TO nail their colors to the staff, remarking
that if they shall be able, and find it de-
sirabIs, they can maintain it there with
out mailing, while it will be more con.
venient to lower it if they shall fiod
themselves unable or no longer desirous
to keep it flying. But, speaking practi-
!; cally, what has teen the result thus far
in the present case? Has disloyalty been
found an indomiiable sentiment in this
war? 1t pervaded even this Capital and
= this District at the beginning of this
strife. It no longer exists here. 1t di'
: vided Maryland, and provoked conflict
there. The Union is now as strong in
that State as in any ons of the always
loyal States. 1t committed Missouri tC
the pretended new Confederacy, Missouri
is now active and earnest among the 10y
al States. 1t placed Kentucky in an at
: titude Of, neutrality, but Kentucky is 10
day firm, resolute, and even self devoted
: to the Union. In other regions where
disloyalty was more general, such as
: Eastern Virginia, Tennessee and Louis
s lana and North Carolina, acquiesceuc,
: under the Federal authorities has prompt
ly followed their appearance there, ant
the preliminary steps are taken for thu
restoration Of the laws of the Union. l
IS is simple fact that loyalty appears eve
!. ~ where just so fast as the successes o
IT the Government are deemed sufficient t,
u afford guarantee for reliance Upon it
* protection. The Disunionists. even il
o their strongest holds. are not people
f. but only faction, surprising the loyal il
" numbers. and silincug them BY terror
il and severities in many places; but. new
st eriheess, too few and feeble to preven
is the return of any district or any State t.
6 the Union, in the presence and under tn
Is protection Of the Federal authorities.
ID The President asks foreign nations t
Rs consider that we are only at the end ofon
J. year now, and yet the whole etfectiv
l. mass of the insurreclionary region ha
'e been brought into the field by conscrip
is ton. The credit of the revolution is dea
q: before the FIRST dollar has been raised b
IN taxation to support it,. and the territor
as which must bear taxation is at once II
h. duced to The narrowest limits, and is ex
A haustsd of its wealth and supplies.
r. The power of losing faction unde
10 any circumstances, must contin nually gro'
n less. But that Of the Disunonists
o. abating under the operation of a caus
is peculiar to themselves. which it is no'
s my duty 10 bring forward-I mean th
at practice of African Slavery.
9 lam aware that in regard to this poiu
IN I am opening subject which was earl
st inteidicted in this correspondence, Th
O. reason for the interdictiop, and 1.-The reaso
at for departure from il are, however