Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-03-26

slider the stern and solemn actualitles OF the con-
test in which the country is engaged.
| Under such Impressions we might expect to wit
ness decline Of that political intolerance which at
one time sought to stgmatize as hardly less than
trC asonabe the least ntmation of dissent from the
efficiency of the policy recommended by amiable,
and, we doubt not sincere enthusiasts, who sup
posed themselves to reason wisely about slavery
and its relations to the war than others Of their
countrymen who spoke from some knowledge of the
subject But now that their accusations have spent
their force, and that he groundlessness of their
partisan invective has been made apparent even to
their own eyes, there is disposition to adopt some
other standard of loyalty than that which is found
in adhesion to theoretical dcgmas, even when these
| iogmas have concreted into administrative mea-
| sures. 1t is now seen that false theory Of con-
duct does not become sound because it is adopted
by the Government, and enforced in the borrowed
name of "loyalty."
few months ago no journal exceeded the New
York Times in casting suspicion on the loyalty of
such of our countrymen continue in the party
divisions of the day to call themselves Democrats
few days ago it held the following language:
Nothing certain than that the great body of the
Democratic party we'll of the Republican, is thorough
loyai to the Government IT has affinity wit tte
belon any degree Every instinct and every principle
binds it to ths nationality There greater
political mistake than the assuming that because the DEM
ocrsc party generally felt constrained to condemn the
management Of the war, they therefore opposed to
the tsef and ready for peace any terms with the
rebes'
That typical antislavery organ, the New York
Independent, having frankly confessed its disap-
pontment at the demonstrated ineficacy of the
Proclamation, from which it had hoped and pro-
missed SO much, now bates its breath to speak as
follows
We will work for the Union and Constitute, as the
Fathers ordained them wi all men of all parties who be-
eve this sacred end to be gained only by ustsnng the
Government in this indispensable and righteous We
scorn aud pudate the sanderous mputaton that
fuse to give cordial aid unless the carried accord
ing !, views OF right and expedency We have claim
ed and do claim and shall boldly exercise the right to
upon Government and upon the public the highest
motives o humsn acton-ths motives of Justice and Ii
berty. But do not refuse TO work heartily with
who choose motives far lower. Each that
the great endan undivided natonsha be free to work
in his way. We shall do the We tolerate them.
They must tolerate Let all of every side what
his theory philosophy join in combining the total
strength of the great Loyal States for the last and
tlous onset upon rebellion -
| On the other side, the New York World, jour
nal which it was lately common for few Repubh-
can sheets TO stgmatize as dsloyal," because it
adhered TO its political opinions with hardly less
tenacity than they adhered to theirs,) in its num-
bar Of the 10Th instant gives utterance to the fol
lowing language in reference to the position of Mr..
Thomas Ii. Seymour, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Connecticut
What our judgment has been upon the peace move
msns at the West in New Jersey and elsewhere, our
| readers know We have not agreed with Mr. Seymour,
aud Go not Thus far since the peace party sprang into
life, events have seemed to confirm judgment rather
than his Upon issue which did not divide the oppos-
tion, Democratic Governor might have been elected in
New Hampshire, and another member in Congress- Hun
drecs # votes lost among that class OF having
every desire to record election their utter dappro
baton of the conduct and policy Of the yet
unable to see that peace men are not dsoyal men.
that Governor elected peace platform really do
nothing efectual to prevent prosecution OF the
Gov Seymour is right in saying that the war might have
been avoided had there been less fanaca North had
there been a Administration He is right too, in
denouncng the crime o son But when he proposes
at this stage Of the 10 stop fighting at because
the Administration has done it's best to make this sbo
ton became The whole Republican party Of the North
do not want The Union If slavery preserved because
not the way to restore the Union he forges that
statesmen Of the opposition mt deal with events
hey not they ought to have been He orgets that
IN selecting policy am the rushing Of events the
choice is often confined TO the least of several evils and
hat the wisct policy must be forrRone for time,
becaue for time, only less vice policy is fea ibe. We
go further and say that there s alternative honorable
nston, at present, vigorous prosecution
of the war, though TO hope for yigor from Mr. Lin
ln's administrator be to search for grapes among
thses, though the Administration do it's utmost to
peryert it to war for abolition only"
1t would thus seem that there is practical con-
cord between Democratic and Republican journals
to both the necessity of prosecuting the with
vigor and as TO the shortcomings of the Admins
tr4ton in this respect. For, if the "Word rails at
the Commanderin-Chief on this score, it cannot
vie with the acerbity of criticism brought by the
New York Tribune to its approximations Of the same
topic. 1t is but day two ago that the latter
journal, in its peculiar style, spoke Of the war
as having been, under the conduct of the Admin
istration, " lame, slouchy, and nerveess."
As the Administration has pretty constantly done
what the Tribune has wanted to have done, from
the early day when, in response to the "On to
Richmond cry, the irst~battle Of Bull Run was
fought down to tho later day, when, in answer to
''the payerof twenty millions, signed by Mr. Gree
ley, the I" Proclamation of Freedom was issued by
the President, there would seem to be something un-
grateful ia this condemnation by the Tribune Of its
own policy as taken up and attempted to be carried
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