Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-10
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THE NEXT YANKEE PRESIDENT

An Ohio newspaper, the Statesman" spec.
ulates upon the next Presidential campaign.
The result Of tho late elections is believed to
have thrown the country entirely into the
hands of the mcst radical Abolitionists. They
count confidently upon another lease Of four
years of the plumber of the country; and the
only contest is to be 1chat Abolitionist is radi-
cal enough, Abolitionist enough, faithful
enough follower of the soul of Jehn Brown,
O succeed before the people.
The Statesman" says that Mr.. Lincoln,
Mr.. Chase and Mr.. Seward are Understood to
be rival candidates for the next Presidency ::
thinks Mr.. Lincoln is determined that he will
be re elected, or, at a events that he will retain
his Office for another term, and is of the opin-
+ ion that the chief rivalry is between him and
Chase. In order to checkmate his adversary,
Lincoln will 20 az far, in G radical direction
as q due solcitude for success will permit him,
and the Statesman" thinks his platform has
been foreshadowed'in in the recent letter of Mr..
Solicitor Whiting, which we have published,
and in an article from Mr.. Sumner in the
atlantic Monthly" which received the sane.
ton and approval Of Mr.. Lincoln before pub,
lication.
This Ohio newspaper very clearly ezpounds
the policy developed in Mr.. Writings letter
which is, indeed, the only reasonable theory
Of the war, and ought to be accepted as such
both by the Federal States and the Confedc
rates: namely, that the States which have SC
ccded are to be treated (if conqueredl rs pro.
vinces or territories; and all the people O.
; those States rs conquered yassnls, having lite
rally no rights at all but subject to the abso
lutte discretion of the Yankee nation, which
can. in course of time, and ON condition of good
submissive behavior, confer, but gradually
! and cautiously, certain quasi rights and liber'
! ties-as the power of voting for tho right Alb
/ oltionist candidate and the like.
We know it, and fully appreciate it, and
! readily accept the issue. Such is too surely
, to be our doom if we fail to win our independl
ence. W hat is to be the doom of our enc
mics, in case they are defeated, need not at
present be decided. We do not carry chains
along with US, as Xerxes did, to fetter his en-
| emies-nor handouts, rs Mcdowell is said tc
have done on his first advance into Virginia
There is time enough for oil that. In the
meantime it is good and wholesome for oil
Confederatcs to know and ponder on the fact
| that neither tho end Of Lincoln's term, nor
| any other conceivable change in the internal
| politics of our enemies. can have any effect
whatever except to Increase the arimosity and
rage, and inAame the cupidity Of the whole
Yankee nation. Nobody will now be listened
to there for moment vino hints either al
making peace or at limiting the spoils of war
to anything short of entire possession of the
! whole Confederate States, with all their lands
and buildings, woods and waters, messuages
and tenemcnte. to have and to hold to the CON
| ouerors and their heirs forever. Perhaps, IL
that case, some Of our planters, if able bodied
might be hired to work on the fields which
" ere once their own.