Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-12-11
WAR AND POLITICS.

EDITOR INrEIIIGENcER We are in
the midst Of the crisis. Politics and
war arc in close conflict and dark
doubts linger around, as to who shall
gain the triumph in ultimate success
The frccst, happiest, most enlightened
and most glorious, of all nations the
world ever behcld, stands quivering
upon the very verge of irretricvable
ruin. A grains weight will fix her
destiny beyond all possible recovery,
if only thrown into the adverse scale I!
If the horse only knew his strength,
what destruction could he effect TO hui
man life and human interests. So, if
Jefferson and John Bull only knew it.
how easily might they blot out this
Governmental Fabric of Democratic
mould, and make it only as one of the
things that were. Let jeff. but make
proclamation of universal freedom
to all the cnslaved within his usurped
domain and offer lands and bounty
TO all the free blacks that will join his
standard and let johnny Bull stimuli
taneously place in Jef's hands cigh,
or ten formidable iron-clad rams Of
huge dimensions, with which to attack
our sca.board cities, and munitions of
war sufficient to equip a million of
niggers in addition to the present
rebel force-then let tire Knights of
the Golden Circle, interspersed so ex-
tensively throughout our northern
communities, bestir themselves, with
the sham Democracy as their jackals,
at hand, and we are gone!
We have schism and traitors,
enough in our midst, to foil any effort
we might make 10y way of holding
our organization together, and of
maintaining, successfully our free
institutions, if the game were only
skiIlfully played by our attacking
foes. Now the force Of this truth
cooily calculating and far seeing men
cannot fail to feel. They know all
these facts, and they cannot mistake
their significance if Incorporated into
a we'll devised scheme, and put into
skillful operation.
These things being clearly appar-
ent to the cool, wise heads of the ma
ton, what folly is it to delay for one
moment to intercept such course of
procedure, and that by any means
within our grasp. The mass of the
English people have a strong passion
for freedom--that is, the freedom of
American slaves. This is almost uni
versal. But then, OF the other hand,
the English Aristocracy, the govern
ing element in the nation, possess an
equally strong aversion to Democrat
ic Government. If, then, they could
only see their way clear, how readily
would they strike, in view of killing
two birds with one stone,"-blot out a
Democratic Government, and effect
the universal emancipation of the
slaves at the same timel
Perhaps ! am putting my finger in
my own eye" in thus publicly ad-
vcrtising JEFF. Davis and JOHNNY Bull
of the feasibility with which such a
grand desideratum may be attained
But while expose our weakness and
distraction thus. upon the one hand, I,
our foes, by the same act Ihope l shall
as surely, "whet up the pluck o
Uucle Sans boys to head off any lik'
attempt ere it shall mature into sue
cess.
But more gravely Let me say, Mr.
Editor,-there is truth, thrilling truth
most fearful truth, in the suggestion
nay, in the prediction,-that rathc
than succomb, the Davis Government
will themselves free every slave tina
they cannot dispose of for money o
means This to the British natiol
would be q sweet morsel indeed. AN
, how much would they care who di
. that work, or how it was done, if un
vcrsal emancipation was only in real
ty effected? And now, Sir, what ou
army does, must be done at once. Fe