The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-09-15

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blue. We conclude that they are alqas ~
feated; but had they cut loose FROM Seymour,
of Connecticut, and said nothing about 6ey-
mour, Of New York, while adopting the con-
sentative, anti-copperhead and anti-niggerhead
war platform upon which he was elected, the
result might have been another great conserva-
tive democratic triumph, We shall have some
thing more to say upon this subject tomorrow.
Tho Conservative Sentiment or the
Observation-Disclosures and Anti
Copperhcad.
1t is both amusing and instructive TO observe
the complete change Of tactics on the part Of
the republican party in regard to the ap-
preaching election in this State. Last year the
radical journals and orators frothed with in
sane abuse They called the conservative
party disloyal. They stigmatized the conser-
vative candidates as traitors. They proposed
to hang the conservative nominees and the con-
sentative voters. Now, on the contrary, the
radicals appear to recognize the truth that such
curses only injure those who utter them.
They speak of the conservative ticket with
reluctant but remarkable fairness. They a.
even sometimes moved to praise the very
ticians whom they 80 ferociously attacke@
short time ago. They reserve such erl Ia
as 'traitor" almost exclusively for JEFF. Davl VI
How thorough this reformation II and how
long it will continue are matters Of doubt; but
the fact Is evident, and its causes are equally
obvious.
The people of this country have been grow
ing more and more conservative ever since this
war began. The rebellion has taught them, as
nothing else could have done, the inestimable
value of the Union, the constitution and our
republican form Of government. II is trits
saying that blessings brighten as they take
their flight but the saying is not less true than
trite, and it is applicable to the present crisis
Of the country. When the Union was appa-
rently destroyed the masses began to realize
had given them peace Disunion brought them
war; The Union had protected their lives and
property Disunion imperilled both. The Union
had secured to them prosperity and plenty.
Disunion involved immense. taxation and inter
fered with our commerce. trade and manu-
features The Union had guarded us from
foreign Powers. Disunion revealed to US the
latent hostility Of France and England, and
subjected us to insult annoyance and direct
injury from those who had hitherto hypocriti-
cally pretended to be our friends The Union
had preserved the just balance between the
government and the people. Disunion doomed
the people Of the South to the tyranny
Of JEFF. Davis, and the people Of the North
to the tyranny Of set of radical fanat-
les who sought to Cypress them by all kinds Of
odious and intolerable measures In word,
the Union was peace, power and happiness;
while disunion is war weakness and despotism
1t is not wonderful. therefore, that the Union
sentiment Of the American people has been
gradually growing stronger and stronger under
the terrible teachings Of this rebellion. All
parties acknowledge this to be true Of the
North, and we have no doubt that it will be
| found equally true Of the South when the re-
| turn Of peace clears up all mysteries and re-
moves all DISCUSSES. We know il to be true in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland Missouri, North
slavery question ia not Of such vital importance
as in the cotton States and we know that II
would have been so even ip the cotton ststes
bad not the administration attempted to middle
together slavery and the Union, and to confound
! antipathy to the one with loyalty TO the other
X the administration had pursued strictly con-
stitutionsl course in regard to slavery, and AT
the same time had prosecuted the war vigor-
ously and effoiently, the South would have
been Disguised with disunon In year. As 1t
was, by first threatening and then adopting the
emancipation and confiscation schemes Of the
radicals, the administration united the South,
diminished the value OF the Union In the o.
timatiop Of the Southern people, and practically
strengthened the rebel cause and assisted the
rebel leaders To this transcendant folly the
administration also added the CONSUMPTION and
Indemnity acts, which dispirited and discour-
aged the North In the same proportion that the
Emancipation and Conhscation acts inspirited
and encouraged the conspirators at the South.
But, as persecution makes prosslytes to
good cause, 90 the odious measures OF the RI.
ideals have resulted in more fervent devotion
Of the masses 70 that old Union and that old
constitution under which such outrages would
have been impossible. Thus came that steady
increase In the conservative sentiment Of the
people which has been distinctly marked
at every election during tho past year.
Tho HxRALp has constantly fostered and
directed this sentiment, and We now have
our reward 10 che assurance Of speedy termi.
nation Of our nstionsl troubles. The rebellion
has discovered TO the people not only the
idcssngs Of the Union snd the dangers Of dis
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