, 1862-06-23
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AAC ANGH 1u4h 0oh71*4t y COHEHzSFCe
threatens President Lincoln with the Ger
tain displeasure, and probable desertion, Of
the misnamed conservative element"
He did not pardon the pirate, Gordon. He
did not veto the District emancipation bill
He did recommend freedom to the border
slave States. He dld overrule the barbar-
Gus order Of Gov. 6tanly. He has not
stood up against the ideas Of the age. He
signed the bill prohibiting slavery forever
in all the Territories. The public domain
is eonsecrated to free homes The Pacific
Railroad is authorized. Rebels will be
compelled to pay for the luxury Of rebel
ling. Union soldiers cannot now be used
to run down fugihyes not" owing seryice'
to Wretches who hate their country. White
traitors will not much longer be permitted
to hold black 1oyalists as slaves. And be-
cause President Lincoln does not oppose
this restoration Of the Republic to health
and reason, he is threatened with the deser~
ton Of snail-paced crew, who never
stood up manfully for any cause at all, and
never will
The conservative element it was that
deprecated the passage Of Union troops
through Maryland; advocated the armed
neutrality of Kentucky; charged the
cause Of the war on New England; and
never heaitated to call upon the Govern
ment to turn aside from the great task Of
saving the Republic, in order to catch the
runaway slave Of rebel. The "conserya-
tive element" it was that deceived the Ad-
minist1ation in regard to Eastern Tennes-
see, and postponed action till it was too
late to save the Unionists from destruc-
ton. Let the conservative clement by
BY all means cast loose from the President,
HencetorWard no man deserves the name
Of Statesman who would consent to the
restoration Of slavery to its lost power.
Deficient in faith, foresight, and courage,
the conservative, as we find him, is utterly
helpless in time Of revolution. He con
forms backwards and forwards with every
change in the fortune Of the contendine
parties Having no fixed principles of his
OWL, ne cannot conceive how any princi-
pie should be worth fighting for. In try
ing to make himself acceptable to both
aides, he gains the confidence of neither.
He insists that the rebel shareholders are
altogether in the right, but entirely in the
wrong; that they should be conquered,
but must be conciliated; that their revolt
was criminal, but yet justifable, for they
were forced into it by Abolition aggres-
sions, and therefore had no possible ground
fer complaint. A coward aud runaway
when defending the right, an apologist Of
"roug, mercenary who serves without
love and opposes without hatred,-thi
canning go-between, who never sees COM
ing event till it is right upon him, solemn
y assures us that, whereas the country was
once happy and is now miserable, the only
way to be happy once more is to do moth
ing. And such stuff as this he tries to
pass off as political.
fress him to name the period of pros
perliy which he would restore, and be will
point with sigh to the time when the
lllustrlous buchanan was President-Yhcn
Douglas was ostracised because he would
not 90" before slavery in the prescribed
manner-when navy-yards were filed
with Workmen in order to outTote the
friends Of candidates obnoxious to the Ad-
mlnistradon-when Floyd stripped North
ern arsena1s, and Cobb robbed the Treasu-
ry-when traitors in Baltimore plotted the
assassination Of Mr. Lincoln, and traitors
III Richmond plotted the cspture of Wash
ington-when perjured scoundrcls tele-
graphed from their seats in the Senate that
the time had come for striking fatal blow
at the Union-to this miserable period he
will point, and he will shudder at the bare
suggestion that we must press forward
With the march Of events IN order to Sc
cure q permanent and honorable peace
and because the President has not kent
pace with the associates of this good-for-
nothing laggggard, he is threatened with the
detection Of the conservative element: -
as it the hindmost camp.followe1s Of a
great and victorious army, too lazy to keep
up with the conquering columns, should
threaten to turn back unless the command
er ordered halt! The attachment Of such
men is misfortune while it lasts.