Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-04-11
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SATURDAY mORNING, APRIL IL, 1888.
Tha Connecticut ElectiOn.


sueeess-Obtaned by bribery no dOubt-and the hopes
which rested on the triumph of Seymour have fallen to
the ground The importance of this defeat of the De-
mOeraey eOnnOt well be exaggerated, for if he result
had been otherwise, the Northwest would have risen,
the peace party would have been organized on Perma-
nent basis the next meeting Of Congress would have
been followed by summary abrOgaIOn Of the imperial
powers bestowed upon Lincoln by the Abolition Con-
gress Just ended, and cessation of hOstiites might
have been confidently looked for at before the close
Of the present year.
No wonder Lincoln threw the whole weight of his
immense patronage in favor of Buckingham. We may
be sure that greenbacks scattered broadcast
throughout the State; that the enormous engtnery OF
corruption in the hands Of the Dictator and his muioEs
was brought to bear Sth irresistible force against the
"Copperheadsn Lincoln has succeeded; Ccnn' e'eut
is lost aud with goes the hope OF early peace based
upOn party action at the North which many enter
timed.
So be it Whatever is is best, in the long run The
Yankees may nov run the full length Of their tether,
and that s all that is necessary to ensure fearful re-
tribution Of the manifold wrongs inflicted on the
South Had the peace party, Of which Seymour and
y.llsndigham are the chiefs succeeded at this
fiTnn
Cd. and the hand Of the ayeuger of blood would
have been stayed. But justice would have been de-
frauded; they who dres the sword would never have
felt its edge in al its keenness and the nation which,
in its pride and hate heaped Outrsges so countless,
and crimes 50 heinous upon the heads OF its innocent
brethren would have returned to the blessings OF peace
without conception of the honOrs of in its own
land and by its every fresde 1t not philanthropy
alone or hrge-hearted sympathy for the South that
brought from YAlandgham and Seymour those earnest
aspraton those fervent enreates, those eloquent APP
meals for peace which the Southern press have lately
repubhshed Il was common sense-the 6r-seeiHg per-
ceptiOn Of n,eect5 not dued by fAnAtcism-a certain
looking forward to the wrath cOme-When the measure
of Liucous enormes shall be fell bis power eonsOdat
ed bis satraps and soldiers sarming every stronghold
civ village and hamlet in the land his unbrided will
INJECTING daily eruelGes greater and still greater upon
All Who dare TO oppose hm-when, in word the bitter
f.uits of despOusm, being folly ripe the hour shall
strike for people oppressed by ntolerabe tyranny,
but remembering the freedom so lately lost to rise in
their in their might unarmed, and unoquipped, yet
burning with veugeul fury TO contend against the
ed organized pertecsy drilled and skilfuly differed
legons of the oppressOr Then will come back the poi
.oned chaee which the seornful and vangorOus North
commended to the lips Of the SOuh-then revolution
hercer than that which desolaed France viii begin to
end no man knows where or hoW-then the blood Of
their slaughtered Southern brethren, which has been
long CRYING Um the ground for vengeance, vii be ap
peased by the sights and sounds Of terror, the cOnaa
ratious massacres riots battles great and small which
will sweep the North from end to the other. Then
The AboitlOnsts 50 eager TO provoke war, slow TO
eresge in IT, will know What is. Hitherto, it has
been pretty pastime to them; they have resped riches,
bouors Offices from IL then will it be to them what
they have made It to Of the SOuth-nay woEse far
worse. And when that irightul time comes come it
surely will the innocent aud the guilty must suffer alike
This is what Yallandigham and Seymour wished to
avert when they pleaded so anxionsy for peace
But the divine purpose cannot be thWarted the pen
.lty of blood outlines must be paid The election Of
Bucking ham destroys all chance Of speedy peace-a
prospects OF a party which might Overturn the Adolf
ton tyranny through the mild and lawful instrumental
t.es Of the baet-box The Usurper is firmly seat
ed on his throne and he will hold it with iron hand
His armies and navies may be defeated but that viii but
mike hs grasp upon his subjects more tenacious. He
has the power to create armies and to build new
nayiss as fast as they are destroyed and who doubts
people of the North have made AbrAhsm Lincoln their
Despol and hey must abide the consequences. With
the Connecticut election passed the best opportunity
they will ever have Of depOsing the Tyrsnt or oil re
sraning his power by peaceful means Nothing is left
but the sad resource OF fierce and bloody revolution.
There is literally escape from the most sSngunary
civil war that ever dsgraeed the annals Of human his
tory, except a universal acquisseeuee in absOutism
This would be by far the best solution of the troubles
in which the North already involved and those still
greater which rapidly approaching But the people
viii rot accept such solution. They know too much
about liberty and have enjoyed too much license to sc-
qaiesee at once and finally in the total surrender Of he
freedom. Besides, anarchy is ever the fundlmSnta
condition precedent to the establishment of despotism
ae revolution az the North cannot be ayerted It L
doomed in the inevitable order of things. 1t may b,
delayed but it will surely come as suffering follow
crime.
The North being now, and for sometime to come,
consolidated despOdsm Of the South should PrePar
TO resist that most dangerous form in which the ene
ges of hostile people be combined for the Purpo
ses Of Our danger is no greater than i was be-
FORE but the duration Of that danger is certain
Full ranks the old courage fresh determination unre
liked energy, firm purpose to make all future vcto
res deeisive-this is all need win the day be tha
day long or short. We viii win it. All things ar
working together for our good. II we have most Il
fear from an established dssPOtsHb We have most t
hope from a temporary Oae, for that IS all that wa
needed 10 ensure that ultimate uPheaVa at the North
which alone our wrongs would be fully requited LIE
Us bide time.
Hoods Division.
IL n natural that soldiers who have fought so we