Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-08-20
meeting to endorse the views sxpounded by Mr.,

meeuhg 10 endorse the views expounded by Mr
Whiting:
do not CONCUR in the proposition that certain States
have been recently overturned and wholly subverted as
members OF the Federal Union, upon which the call 10
based This s in substance hat the Canfederates them
selves ella and the fact that secession is maaaned by
the au nors OF this call for different purpose does not
mske u more constitutional. prspent them from being
Actual aiders and absttors of The C0nfdeTaes.
No one who knows my politiral career will suspect
that my condemnation Of this doctrine Influenced by any
indrposlhon to put an end to slavery have left OPP
poruniy unmproved TO strike it, and have never been
restraiued from doing by personal But
have never believed that the abolition of slavery any
other great reform could ought to be -ced except
ty taptu and constitutional modes The people haze
nerer sanctioned and sanction any other; and
the friends Of Wiu especially ayod all questionable
grounds "h as IN the present insaacs nothing else
long postpone their SUCCESS"
In proportion as the prospect of restoring tie
Union under the Constitution shall seem to in
crease from the progress of our arm, in ,uppressng
the rebellion, we may expect to find that class of
men at the North who are denominated by Mr..
Blair as "actual aiders and abettors Of the Con-
federates," seeking to throw all possible obsta-
cles and to 6nd all possible difficulties in the
way of such consu nmation. These men, sore
of them consciously like Mr.. Wendell Phil
lips, and some of them uuconsciously, like
Mr. Whiting, perhaps, are essential disunionists
from the very necessity of their convictions.
We do not doubt that Mr.. Whiting supposes him
self to be a "loyap man, but Mr.. Wendell Phil
lips, in his recently publ shed letter announcing
that for nineteen or twenty years he was dis
unlonist and will be so again just 80 soon as it
may be made to appear that the Union is not iden-
WI he of slo has haeo
the country in very clear light the fact that no
consistent abotionist can be true to his hobby and
at the same time true to the Union as the para
mount object of patriotic aspiration. Mr.. Blair,
in expounding the right doctrine on this ubject,
does but reafirm logical conclusion resulting from
the repeated declarations of the President, when
he says that all who concur In the proposition
that certain States have been recently overturned
and wholly subverted as members Of the Federal
Union" are "actual aiders and abettors of the
Confederates." How this antagonism to the Pre-
sidents policy strikes rejecting citizens in the
ing, from the Springfield (Mass) Republican, an
Administration paper:
William Whiting, Solicitor Of the War Department,
mas Wrtt lettor 10 tDe Union League ~ Philadelphia
in which he und ubtedy represents the theories
g at the War O"e as TO the proper treatment of the
revoied States and they remarkable being exnct
opposition tn frequently and distinctly declared by
the President aud by Congress. 1t would as il
Secretary Stanton at the head of little Government
OF his oWna sort OF imperum 10 impsr-and that it is
not Considered necessary that his Depa tmen shall be
harmony with the OF the Administration, either in
theary pactice. Governor johnson, If Tennessee,
acting der authority from the President HIS officially
assured the pe"ple Of that State he sue wrs
fha rf nf tha
moment that Ia he REBEL on thorough
down in the State by the military that general md
free ballot will be possible, and the peope shall
disposition to return t. the Un.n We suppose thI. de-
cla alton indicates the Presidents policy that Ten
Is not be treated exceptionally. but that the
stat occupied BY he rebel armies will be PEI NIT ed
to return 10 the Union the wsy wherever tn
ready.
But Mr. Solicitor Whiting takes quite another view Of
the mater he supposes that afer the power OF the
billion broken the people If the South will IT'LL hate the
Gov-i mn ut and the NorIh bitterly ever; ttas
will still be Traitors heart aod seek to get back into the
Union ouy to obtain the power they failed 90
by fighting that they will mak- St,te laws exclu iirg
Northern aud free blacks stroy freedom of .p-tcn
and of the pres anil send back Congress the eonspr4
tors who have brcughtcvl war upon The country; and
finally, the insanity OF State rights doctrines vi b.
shed and hened by admitting back conquered
people our EQUALS and its baelu Influence caunot be
estimat-d! Mr.. ng therefore pro es against allow
ing the Southern States back into the Union until
they have charged their constitutions and abolished 81 very
aud he argues h the rebellion has given the right to
treat these states Territories aud admit them OILY
such conditions may choose to impose. Mr. Wait
ing up policy of reconstruction brt fly fvows
"Alow the nha5i Of conquered territory TO form
themselves ntJ St only by adopting
will forever remove Of col son with the Un ted
Sta'es by excluding slavery heefrom, military
government the conquered district until there shat a
therein su umher of loyal Inhabitants
republican government which guarantyng freedom TO
all shall be in with the spirit of the Cons
tuion of The United States
I'VE state the two theories without at this time discus
sing them Whether the President his War Sc ecrrty
is right aud which likely to carry his point at last time
will soon show"