Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-11-16

| The country is in dangeY-it is to be rescuet
ny me Goss rnment You will succeed, be
% sustain the Administration. Your oppo
nents CON mit the fatal el ror OF supposing tina
| tney can divide the Administration from tn
| .overn nent, and support the one and discart
| ihe other No man can serve two masters
onsider this point for q moment. Il is onl1
Er'uRn the Administration that the country
| can put foIsh the effort necessary for its res
cue II you discard this Administration o.
na. ns Seveinment S oy your votes. You bring nc
new or better one to it, place You then have
practically An interregnum from this time q
lhe attn OF March, 1865. An interregnum OF
sixteen moaihs in the very CT. sis of REBEL on
ION you'd repeat even in a more dangerous
| Way the great though then unavoidable, mis-.
10 tune OF the interregnum which was pro.
duosd by the election Of Abraham Lincoln in
100. leaving James Buchanan in the Presi.
dtncy until the 4th of March. Is5l. During all
| mat period the ship of State necessarily and
| u aToidably drifted and dashed itself against
ths rocks OF q lee shore. The American peo-
| new.
Our opponents do not see this. They do not
see It because they have surrendered them
selves up to faction. But will show them
| how they can see 1t. There are 100000 Ameri-
can citizens in arms In the Southern Sta'es
| *gai1st their country. They look to the elec-
lion of Tomorrow with more solicitude than
they do to the defence Ct Charleston or the siege
OF Chatianooea. II you could pass the ballot
would vote for the Adminis trafion of this Gov.
eminent by Horatio Seymour or VaIlandisham
and against the Administration Of Abraham
Lincoln. You have enemies in certain classes
| Of society all over Europe. They are lifting
out navy and privateers for the American
| iEsurt ents. If the ballot boxes could be
opehtd at Lard's thip.yar in Liverpool, or
| in John Slidell's house in Paris. there would
be unanimous vote tor Seymour and Vallan-
| q1Pham, and new iron. clads would escape
! from I'll der the broad arrow, in armor impreg-
marie, IN array innumerabls, and you would
nave supeJ Jadsd TO this terrible struggle upon
lano, moie tr' mendous contest than the world
has ever seen ulon the high seas The instin ~
OF enemies Is infaIlibIe.
You have friends in arms at home defending
Lne u oven mtht ano the country. Every ma.l
w. "no ss, es,s IN. enemy in battle, knows what
try. Pass the ballot box through tle Union
camps or give the soldier a pas, 10 reach the
ballot, box at his home, and he votes as he
neh1s, 1or ms country and for the Admins ira
tlon, which lie sees is identified with his coun.
u!. lou have friends in Europe. The great
mass ass OF society on the Continent, from the
:" h1te Sea to tie Mediterranean, from the At
!antic 10 the Black Sea, are the friends OF the
United States The great mass of society in
Amerita a, from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn,
are the friends of the United States SEND the
ballot. box through all those regions and the
votes would be counted ten thousand 10 one for
Aara AsT,r am Lincoln and against Seymour and
Valiand1eham The instinct Of dis ispassionaJ
DIS nterestt d friends is infallble.
But must lot forget that our opponents OBJ
Jest TO allowing soldiers to go home to vote
Inc objection is disloyal as well as migrate.
f1i, and is therefore a crime. IT the soldier
ought L OF to be allowed q furou gh to res sh the
ballot. tox, why did Gov Seymour refuse to
alioW Inc ballot box 20 60 into the camp! He
ana e1s hat IL is unconstitutional Why then
OBJECT 10 Inc soldiers song home to votel That
is rot unconstitutional. They do not mean to
quarrel with th- manner of the soldiers voting.
they sc. to deprive him OF his vote altogether
Ihey allow the soldier to fight for his country,
pecan they cannot help it, but they seek 10
a. prlVe MIN OF the privilege of voting for it.
because by clamor they think they can prevent
II. Who are these soldiers mat hava
involuntary soloIer or conscrlpt among Them.
They are your sons and brothers and mine, as
intelligent, az well trained as we or their op-
ponents, better entitled 10 vote than you or l,
tor they have gone forward to the battle, VIII lie
We have teen content with staying at home
and making contributions, meritorous in them
selves, but nevertheless contributions in money
instead OF blood. Not allow the soldier to vote
for the q Government You saw what came of
1t by rel using to allow him his vote last year
You voted the Government down in his ab-
sence, and then were obliged to call the soldier
from the front, in face OF the enemy. back 10
the State, to restore peace, order and safety at
home. Not allow the soldier to vote! Has the
soldier only the right to languish in the hos
pital, to die on the battle. field, and to be carried
into captivity! Is this the sum Of the soldiers
rights! tell you no. l tell you that the SOL
diers OF this war will vote, some thousands OF
them Tomorrow many more thousands every
year hereafter-and they will sit in judgment
upon parties in this country throughout two
generations. and determine the verdict of pos
terity in regard to them.
have another ground for knowing that you
will succeed to. morrow. You have tho right
side upon aplain, practical, simple issue. Our
opponents do not see this; they have suffered
faction to blind them. They say that they are
incompetent and ought never to have been
elected. They say, again, that they are voting
to decide the presidential question Of 1864. They
was elected in 1860 to be President of the United
States for four years, viz: from the 4th OF
March, 1861, to the 4th Of March, 1865, fairly,
question is not whether he ought to have been
elected in 1s60 that was settled in the election
OF 1e6v, and is irreversibie. The question is not
whether he or any person connected with his
Administration shall be elected in 1861. That
will be settled in the election Of 1861. Abraham
Lincoln was elected in 1860 to be President, not
but he has been forcibly kept out Of a part OF
the United States-Louisiana, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and other
jure, but not Jaeto The object Of this election
is the object OF the war. II is to make Abra-
ham Lincoln Presidet de facto from 1869 to 1864
IN 6eerg1a, south Carolina and other Gulf
sets, New York and Ohio.
know that the war waged for that object
will succeed, and know elections held for
the came object will succeed. They will sue
ceed because the objec. is just, and justice in
politics is necessary. 1t is injustice and down.
! msiori,y OF citizens who elected him, to refn.e
him the full enjoyment OF the authority con.
ferred upon him in that election. There
can be NO peace and quiet until Abraham Lin-
coin is President, under that election of the
whole United States.
Now, justice is an instinct of the whole
human family II q man has a house. Z horse,
or boat, and 1t Is taken from him, all society
combines to restore it to his possession, and it
awards severe punishment to those who at
tempt TO rob him Of his rights. You saw this
lesson written In the earliest school book that
was put into your hands:
steal not this book my honest friend
For fear the gallows will be your end !"
The American people will repeat this simple
moral instruction to- morrow by saying to every
insnrgent and every Confederate in the Free
States, as we'll as in the Slave States,
" Steal not the Presidency. my honest friend.
For fear the gailows will be your end y
The resultto be attained is as important to
our opponents as it is to us. What il, through
battle and suffrage, the President who was
elected in 1860 should by his opponents be kept
ont Of the Presidency OF the United States until
another election? What IL they should then
succeed in electing President in 1864 against
the majority who elected Abraham Lincoln in
1860? Can that majority be expected to acqui-