The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-02-28


action, yielded to the counsels of those who
we're in6deI to Truths omnipoteucy; and
the result has been, the worse than waste of
an incompatible amount of treasure, and the
fruitless sacrifice of many precious lives.
This policy, or rather the want of policy,
on the part of the Administration, has not
only engendered doubt and fear throughout
a large portion of the most loyal men in the
country, but has inspired the enemies of
Freedom with fresh hope and confidence,
and, under one pretext or another, they are
seeking to obtain control ofthe Government,
IN order to preserve Slavery, the source of
their past success-eyen if it should be at
the expense of the final destruction of our
Federal Union. However reluctant we may
be to admit the fact, the country was never
in more danger than at the present moment.
Imminent and immediate ruin threatens us
on every side. A gulf of woe and anguish,
at the contemplation of which the etoutest
heart may quail, is yawning before US.
Our salvation depends, not only in over
coming our enemies in arms at the South,
but in prompt and successful efforts against
midnight plotters of treason at home.
The Democratic party of the North has
for many years been satellite of the slave
power, and, true to its instincts, it is now
exsrting all its expiring energies to preserve
an institution from whence it has so long
derived all its sustenance; hence it is driven,
by the logic OF events, to an attitude of dis
loyalty.
We never feel so forcibly the impotency
of language, as when we attempt to express
our utter loathing of the hypocrisy of the
Democratic party of the North as it now ex-
hibits itself. The Republicans of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois threw aside their party
organization, and proposed to unite with all
true, loyal men, to preserve the Union. If
the Democracy of those States were loyal,
why, in the name Of all that is consistent,
did they refuse to cooperate with them :?
Was it because they did aot approve of the
principles upon which the war was being
conducted ? Out upon such hypocrisy !!
Their opposition to the Administration was
no less virulent when our armies were lead
by Democratic generals, and the war con-
Quoted upon the very plan they now oppose.
They object to the abolition of Slavery,
whilst it has been demonstrated that Slav-
cry has not only been the cause of the re-
bellion, but at present constitutes its very
life-blood. They object to negroes being
enlisted into the service, whilst they have
done all they could to prevent white men
from taking their place. They propose
making concessions to the rebels, in order
to get them back into the Union = while
these traitors spurn their overtures with
contempt, and say they will sPend the last
dollar and sacrifice the last man before they
will accede to any terms. They propose to
hold meeting to change the Constitution,
in order to preserve it as, it is And finally.
when driven from every subterfuge, they
boldly throw off the mask, and propose to
cast New England off and annex the North
west to the Southern Confederacy. And
yet, with all this, they profess, with I'M
blushiug impudence, to be loyal men ! !
We do not charge that every Democrat
is traitor-far from it. Yet we do charge,
and verify believe, that the Democratic or
ganization is, as such, disloyal one; aud
should any one of its leading measures be
carried out, the result would necessarily be
dissolution of the Union.
That the Interior designs of the leaders
of this party are traitorous, we have not a
shadow Of doubt; and we greatly fear they
are rapidly accommodating power for mis-
chief
May God in his mercy enablethe Admin
istration to perceive the dangers which en-
viron it, and may it be moved to act with
promptitude and frmness. Hesitation is
ruin. This demon of Discord must be
crushed, and that Immediately. Should the
! Administration falter now, it will be re-
sponsible for a scene of blood and carnage
which we shudder to think of. We wish
what we say, marked and remembered: Il
the Government takes backward step noU,
1t seals ats doom. The loyal men of this
country will never consent to final and
perpetual ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the American
Union. The sun of our glory may go down
for a season-blood and carnage and anar.
chy may reign for time; but out of The
ashes of nation dead, God will finally rais'
up people who will rule in righteousness