The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-07
President LincOln's UniOn1sm
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who dates his communication Roxbury
Mass, has been at the pains to analyze tn
Illinois letter, and is delighted to conc ude
from it that Mr.. LINCOLN is an unconditior.
al Union man. 1t sheds little doubt over
this testimony, that at this time we have nc
better evidence than the declarations of tn
President, even though they should be mos,
explicit. But even this proof has not been
obtained without a dligent application o
the talents and learning, the grammar ano
the logic, of an easy-believing correspond
ent, to deduce it from the last riddle, or Sc
ries of riddles, which Mr.. LINCOLN has sub
mitted to the American people. Is it moi
strange, if the Administration desires the
Union Of that people, in the only way il
can ever take place, that not one of its acts
can be appealed to in evidence that such
have been or are its wishes? The only way
in which the Union can be restored is by
the mutual wish of its discovered parts fol-
re- union. If anything has been omitted by
the Cabinet at Washington to prevent that
wish from arising at the South, ltpasses our
ipgenuity to conceive what it il. 1t may
be patriotic for gentlemen thus to work
themselves up to belief in that which Ii
not. We are entirely sensible that there art
cases in which the sacrifice of reason would
not be great. And in view of the shame
and miseries of their country, if they can
thus obtain that happy insensibility which
seems wholly unconscious that ythingun
common is going on, just under their owl
eyes, We can only wonder that they CAL
thus shut themselves out from plain objects
of vision.
Mr.. LINCOLN has approved of at least
half dozen acts of Congress, having nc
connection with the war, nor the slightest
tendency to end it, whose passage would, al
any tune since it came into existence, have
instantly dissolved the Union. To one Of
them be made feeble resistance, and to
one only. He has kept about him the men
the most obnoxious to the South that the
nation afforded. At periods Of growing
discomfort at the North, there have repeat
eddy been sent abroad rumors of dissen,
tons and impending changes in the Cabinet,
to be denied by the telegraph as soon as the
pressure which gave occasion to invel.t The
re. OF had passed away. There is no man
needs to be told that President LINCOLN by
u change in his advisers could do more to-
wards peace, aud towards that peace which
alone can be followed BY union, than can
be done by the addition of half million
Of soldiers to the army. 1t is the leaders
on both sides that make and pro'ong the
war. The people Of the country have their
true representatives in the rank and file OF
the troops On picket, in the intervals Of
battle even, and when they meet as prison
els, there are no displays of animosity. On
the contrary, officers have interfered On such
occasions to prevent the growing kindness
and familiarity. In the same manner per
sons in both sections of the country keep
the people estrauged and hostile. No man
more than Mr.. LINCOLN himself has helped
the miserable Cry about sympathy with the
South. None more than he has insisted Oh
hatred to that section, as the proof of re-
gard for our own.
But tue severest criticism, the keene,!
invcctive upon his course is found in the
conduct of his friend in Roxbury, who hav
ing been able to interpret out of his letter
some proof that he is an unconditiona!
Union man, forthwith communicates his
discovery to leading newspaper of the
country, five hundred miles off, that every
body may have the benefit Of it. This at
the end Of two and half years of his ad
ministration If at this period the friend
ship of Mr.. LINCOLN TO the Union il mat
ter to be proved, when may the decision be
exeected2 Of course evidence is not
offered to prove fact about which there
is doubt. What no one can reasonably
deny, no man will reasonably undertake to
prove The offer Of proof admits that there
is no doubt of the contrary. 1t admits
that the opposite may be affirmed. There
has not been day since Mr.. LINCOLN came
into .etticc. when it has not been in his
power to settle this point incontestably.-I
He need not drive his friends to the hard
necessity Of study to establish it. The
and restoration of the Union
have been, if not bis whole, his first duty;
AM when his term is more than half ex-
pred, the best proof of his disposition to
perform them is to be found only by a
analysis and scholastic search
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