Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-01
THE INTOLERANCE OF FACTION.

waged against the President in Missouri by the
Radical Emancipationists- party truly charac-
terized by the New York Times when it says that
the men who lead and control il "preach as much
contempt for national authority and encourage as
much hatred and opposition to the officers Of the
Administration as ever did the rebels themselves;
and they do not scruple to advise volunteer and
lawless organizations to defeat the regular work of
the Administration" While thus resisting the
constituted authorities Of the country, they in
duge, as we showed, in the personal abuse and po-
ltical Misrepresentation Of all who do not co-ope
rate with them in their revolutionary schemes
denouncing them copperheads," traitors"
"pro-savery rebels" &c. That our readers may
see what class Of men are embraced in this cate
CORY, we copy from the ST. Louis Union the follow
ing analysis of recent communication that ap-
peared in the st. Louis Democrat, the organ Of this
Administration party of Radical Emancipa-
tionists. Our contemporary says:
Some who does not write usually for the Demo
crat has written article for that paper the burden OF
which 10 to prove that President Lincoln, Montgomery
Blair Postmaster General and Edward Bates Attorney
years ago. not only emancpaed his siapes but previously
educated them, nevertheless pr0-slavery man. Mont
gomery Blair, who never in hs life was known to utter
prosavey sentiment and whose utterances have been as
thoroughly ant-slsvery language capable of also
'prosavery man not sound in the opinion OF our
Jacobns.
clamaon Of doubtful character pursues conserya-
tive, prosavery policy, running the country by his
temporizng course in regard to the slavery question
Frank Blair who has manuatted slaUes than there
of the least common sense in the whole Jacobn
party is of doubtful character the negro question He
too is suspected Of being Pro.slavery'
Lad hut, ly haar haah
the voluntary target for all the bullets in rebedom on
twenty bloody fields, is in the oppion of the Missouri
Democrat 'copperhead,' traitor
Aud it ID they misrepresent and caiumnate The
President end Cabinet to-day publishing against them the
most deliberate fasehoods, and find them
on their knees begging for ofice-ofhce-ofice."
We adduce this exhibition of the political mis-
representations habitualy circulated by the anti
slavery factionists- in Missouri against President
Lincoln and portion CT his Cabinet merely for
the purpose Of setting in clear light the point
lessncss of these political accusations, which con-
stitute with a certain class of men the chief re-
sources of their augmentation" Not to pro-
nounce their sbbboleth is to prove ones self a
traitor" and not to concur in all their projects
for the removal of slavery is to prove ones self
friend of that institution. Hence we see a man
like Mr.. Bates, the present honored Attorney
General of the Government, denounced as " a pro-
slavery man" though, rs our Missouri contempt
rary says, he, long years ago, not only enamel
pated his slaves, but previously educated them"
The present Postmaster General, too, the Hon.
Montgomery Blair, :" man who never ia his life
was known to utter a pro.slavery sentiment" is
now classed by these extremists with the allies
and friends of rebel shareholders"
1t is known to our readers that this journal has
not escaped similar style of vituperation and mis-
representation, because we have felt it duty
more occasions than one lift our voice in protest
against measures which, nonnally initiated in the
| name of humanity to the slave, under the pre-
text of military necessity, have seemed to US un-
warranted by the Constitution, or injurious alike
to the welfare of the country and of the dependant
class whose condition it is proposed to change
Instead of meeting our arguments under this head,
it has been held enough among a certain class of
politicians to attribute them to "pro-savery inspi
rations" or "pro slavery predictions" We have
so little respect for a style of discussion which
undertakes to dispose of arguments by attaching OPP
probrious epithets to those who urge them, and,
uoTeoFei, WIG couipo VI bhs PapcI, III its uaplbua
opposition to all the political operations and pro-
jects of the pro-slavery propagandists is SO we'll
known, that we have never bestowed any attention
ON these weak attempts to turn the points in con-
troversy between us and any who may differ from
US in regard to recent measures of public policy
supposed to concern the welfare of the slave.
A sufficient answer to such allegations is found
in the fact that since the origin Of the pro-savery
fanaticism on the one hand and of the anti-savery
fanaticism on the other, we have steadily set our
faces like flint against both the one and the other
| whenever each has eliminated in measures which
have seemed to us unauthorized or inexpedient
For many years the councils of the country were
swayed by political leaders who, in our judgment,
sought unduly to play on the sensibities of the
Slaveholding States, and who originated measures
of public policy avowedly in the interest of slave
ry, sometimes for its protection from apprehended
danger and sometimes for its perpetuation where
it exists and for It's extension to new territory 1t
was in pursuance of this policy that the annexa-
ton of Texas was carried, that war on Mexico was
waged, that the Congressional protection of slavery
in the Territories demanded, that the Missouri
compromise was repealed, and that similar mea-
sures of political agitation pressed upon the
public attention in the name Of doing Justice to the