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NoRrnsRS CoSsERvATisx.--The last
Northern news rccites tho purport Of the
resolutions Of Convention Of "old
Wings" held at Rochester, New York.
Ex-president Fillmore and Washington
Hunt were the prominent figures in this
movement. The sentiments Of the
marty as there cxpounded arc favorable
to peace upon the basis of return OF the
States in rebellion under their State Con-
stitutions "as they existed at the time
they reyoltcd''-to leaving the rights OF
nroncrty in slaves and everything else to
the Jurisdiction of the States-and to
prosccuting the war only for the restora-
ton of the Union, by suppressing the in
surrection, &c.-6ut they are decadedty
far that! They proposca National Con-
vention.
The old Wing party, or, as it was call
ed. the ''old line Wing party" which is
understood to have composed this con-
vention, is the most respectable, as it is
the most uninfluential, broken down and
rejected, Of all Northern political organiza-
tons. II they proposed anything which
the South could for moment listen to,
there would be the smallest possible hope
that they could carry out anything That
they proposed. The Rochester conven-
ton was little more than convention of
dead men-dead in Yankeedom-appear
ing to the eye like the cadaverous figures
of the stereoscope, looking as though
their bodies were newsletter from the
charnel house, and dressed in fashiona-
BILE attire, yet preserving the hideousness
Of death in their pallid faces.
But what do they propose? Why,
that the Southern States shall submit to
the United States Government! That is
their indispensable condition ofpeace, 1t
is not to be thought Of The South could
not in honor or justice entertain the
proposition for moment The war,
with its horrors, its rivers of blood, and
the robberies, the fiendish brutalities OF
ikc enemy, has established an impossible
gulf between the North and the South.
It can be bridged never. In heart and
soul there never can be a reunion. The
South possibly might be conquered and
held as conquered province. There are
y base men doubtless who would be ready
to fill offices under the tyranny which
might then Cypress their country, who
would help to tie the hands Of their
countrymcn; for there are always such
"miscreants ready - betray and equally
ready 10 help to misgovern their native
land. But the people of the South will
never be willing to come again under the
same political roof with the nation which
has inflicted such wrongs upon them
wrongs which can never be atOned, never
be forgotten-nay, never be forgiven.
The fossil Convention of Syracuse
barely touched the subject. They opened
none Of its important points. Who pays
the debt Of the war? Who pays for the
property of the South, so many millions
Of which nave been destroyed or stolen
and carried away? Is the South simple
enough to enter again a league in which
her voice must be overwhelmed by the
power Of numbers, from which she was
driven by injustice and oppression p
What fairness or justice could she hope
from it No! it can never be. Could
the North restore our land to its condi-
ton before the war-our houses, our
groves, and our peaceful firesides,
with their shappy family circles-the
lives of those noble and generous
sons of the South who persisted in the
field contending with the riff-raF and
scum of society from all corners of the
civilized world, including our own slaves
put in arms against us: if'the North
could and would restore all these, and
add to it the property of which our peo-
pie have been robbed, and then propose
to incorporate in the Constitution protec-
ton against the selfish and unscrupu-
lous power of nu,nbers--of Yankee mum
bers-the South might begin to listen
might ''give ear" But nothing short of
that should give her preference before
that sure means of ultimate deliverance
from hated union with people who
have proved themselves capable of every
enormity in the catalogue of. human per-
fidies and cruelties, viz: fighting.
There are now besides these fossil re-
mains-these uncarthed dead Of the
Wing party at the North--two other par
ties, which call themselves Conservatives.
They are two wings Of the Democratic
party One is called War, and the other
anti-War Democrats. The former sus-
tains Lincoln's war, and the latter OPP
poses Lincoln's war for negroes but
swears itself ready to fight for the resto-
ration of the Union as it was! Pre-
cisely a political condition which the
South has no idea of ever being placed in
again j There is really nothing in the
efforts and power of these parties that
encourages the idea that they are going
to change the order Of things at the
North. Not one Of them enters for a
moment into the true idea Of State rights
and State sovereignty, for which the pre-
sent war was brought on. They ignore
tho constitutional principles by which
alone the South, in the Union, could hope
for protection against Northern domino
lion and oppression. In short, they are
ell sufficiently imbued with the Northern
idea Of the supreme centralized power Of
the Government of Washington to sus-
tain Lincoln in his usurpAtions. All their
efforts are but continuation Of the old
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