The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-16

at Washington, secretly hoping Tor repel VIC
torios that may widen its path to thepolls.
now WAR DEMOCRATS DECEIVE rHEmsEIvEs.
How can a. war Democrat allow the bondsof
party fealty thus to weigh upon till he abdi-
dates his own judgment and becomes the OK
or the ass of his leaders, to be bought, sold |
and delivered2 Some may honestly deceive
themselves with the thought that the Admin
istration has msmanaged the war for politi-
cal purposes, and that it could be prosecuted
with more energy if the Democracy were in
power. Arguments such as this we have
heard from men whose sincerity we would not
dare to doubt, yet how this object is to be ac-
complshed by supporting those whose pro-
granme is Z" to put down the Government
we have never been able to learn. 1t can
hardly be asserted that the war would be car
ried on more vigorously by a revolutionary
attempt to eject Mr.. Lincoln from power, and
short of this his administration and his policy
must continue until March 1865.
While he remains in power, additional vlgor
in military operations is not to be expected by
encouraging those who discourage volunteer
ing and openly denounce the draft, who use
every art to destroy the confidence of thepeo-
ple in their rulers, who proclaim their inten-
ton to cut off the supplies; who declare that
the war cannot be ended with the sword, and
who propose State Convention for the purpose
of placing the commonwealth in declared hos
tility to the General Government. If the war
Democrat can thus deceive himself, the rebels
arc not so blind. Looking on at our political
contentious with the eager watchfulness OF de-
spair, they see, in the success of the Democra-
tic Party, their last hope Of achieving indie
pendence, and they are willing to risk another
Gettysburg, in the hope that the unchecked
ravage of bur fertile valleys may aid their
Democratic allies to carry the State.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAR;
Other War Democrats cannot avert their at
tention from the orgre Of " Abelitionism,' and
lose their horror of rebellion in their detesta-
ton for the freedom shriekers" who caused
it They forget that the republican party of
1860 had expressly abandoned the radical po-
sitions assumed in 1856, and by the Chicago
platform had guaranteed the South against
all interference with slavery where 1t existed.
That Mr.. Lincoln had repeatedly declared
that the Constitution protected slavery as a
STATE institution, and that the South was en-
titled to the efficient enforcement OF the Fugl-
tive Slave Law. That Mr.. Vice President
Stephens, in January, 1861, in the Georgia
Convention, bent ON secession, vainly asked
the revolutionary party to declare, What
l right has the North assailed What interest
r of the South has been inyaded? What business
7 has been denied? and what claim bounded
. on business and right has been withheld? y
Q That the future of the South was as secure as
the past, holding, as it did, entire control over
o the legislature and judicial branches Of the
Government,
a That the " Crittenden Compromise could
+ readily have been adopted had it not been
killed by Southern members, determined on
n separation. That, even after the departure
of the Southern members, when the Republi
g cans held both branches of Congress, they en-
o deavored to win back the South and preserve
y the Union, even at the sacrifice of their dis
; tinctive principles. Not only did they pass
by their requisite two-shirds vote, Mr., Cor
r, wins resolution amending the Constitution sc
d as to perpetuate slavery in the slave States
1t but they abandoned the exclusion of slavery
. from the Territories Colorado, Nevada anc
d Dacotah were organized; and, 50 anxious
Is were they to prevent the threatened strife
that, ,not.content with emitting any prohibi
ton of slavery therein, the acts expressly pro
Q vided that g no law shall be passed impairint
= the rights of private property nor shall an,
= discrimination be made in taxing diferen
u kinds of property, but all property subject t.
~ taxation shall be taxed in proportion to tn
value of the property" Thus in all the ter
ritory under control of the Government, tn
IN South was free to carry its slaves, and thei
safety from hostile legislation was secured
long as the Territorial condition should re
- main. !" Here" says the Raleigh IN. @.
Standard of July 31st 1868, "tcas a setV'
s. n,et othe question Of the Territories made b
nc Republican Congress sohich gaze to the So't
lie all that up to the time of the Charleston Con
C. vention she had euer asked, and far more ha
IN she could hope to gain, IN any ecer" by sece'
u sion"
IN Read by the light of subsequent events, thI
q, abandonment of declared political principle
I'd to propitiate armed rebellion is almost humil
ne ating, and it merely adds another instance
On the long Infatuated docility with which tn
III North was accustomed to kneel when tn
IN South cracked her whip. That some arder
e'' spirits rebelled at thus being made to eat an
IN digest the hard planks of the Chicago platforl
" was natural. We took care of them and the
I'll could do no harm but nothing could restrai
,n' the chivalry, fred with the idea of might
10 empire around the Gulf, based upon SLAYER
"a and cotton, drawing fabulous wealth from tt
mines of Mexico, and controlling the
y changes of theword with their fosculent kin
=, IS Yet the expressions of powerless disconte
'no from few disappointed "abolionists y
=" s gravely quoted to throw upon the Admin
'Vu tration the reanonsibiitV of this causeless r