Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
INDEPENDENT SENTIMENTS.

The paragraphs quoted below are going the
round of the conservative press under the cap
ton of Returning Reason" Whether they be
the expression Of returning reason or unchanged
reason, We are equally happy to find, emanating
from authority SO high in the Republican ranks,
opinions accordant with what we have felt it our
humble duty to advance, though not, we are sorry
to say, with the entire impunity which we hope
will attend the utterances Of the independent Re-
publican Senator and Republican Herald There
is an old adage, founded doubtless in the expert
ence of all countries, but expressed in the homey
phrase of Yorkshire, that "one man may some
times steal horse with impunity while another is
hung for looking over the hedge"
The following are the paragraphs to which We
refer. The first is on no less an authority than
Senator SHERMAN, of Ohio, who, in speech
made lately at Dayton, remarked:
"A great deal is said about the Presidents emancpa
ton proclamation. My idea of it is that this would
have been prosecuted successfully if the President
had not said any thing about the negro"
The following, from the Newburyport Herald,
a Republican paper, is still more significant:
Seven-eighbs of the people, all of them out of New
England except such have freshly emigraed from here
and few red-Republcan Germans, would be in favor OF
restoration of the Union upon tho old basis leaving all
questions of local institutions aside, and letting the pun
shment of the rebel leaders take pace under National
State laws they have always existed If therefore the
opposition should make this the grand issue they would
force the Republicans to say yes to it, If they
sented the North would be unit with the exception Of
the aboltonsts, who would not carry than two
-
ation and damnaton If the other hand the radicals
should get the ascendaRy in the conventions and say
to the proposition for restoring the Union it was then
they would fall into lesser minority than did tie Whig
party Of 1852"
While drawing on Republican sources for liberal
sentiments, we will add some expressions Of en-
larged patriotism which we recently met with 10
the Now York Times, a journal which, however
bound by party ties. gives frequent examples Of
independent thought and comprehensive nation
ality at variance with the narrow bigotry of the
extremists of its party, We quote from recent
number Of that able journal the following refresh-
ing sentiment, forcibly and eoquently expressed
Every thing shows that united vigorous, and de
ermned effort the part of the Government backed and
aided by the people, will bring this horrd tragedy to
close and gps hack the ree the proud the glorious
Union of our happier and more hopeful days"
How any ft to live in such land this
look upon the dismal of death and desolaton
which the rebellion has caused and the still dismal
prospects of disaster aud ruin to the great of civil
liberty and humsn happiness which the possibility of its
success uulolds without making every prejudice every
passion every thought and wish of his heart subordinate
to the great end Of restoring the Union of estab-
fishing the full authority of the Constitution and Govern
ms af thp al
Of national progress and prosperity What party
schemes and party proecs-what are the lotest per-
sonal aspirations Of the most ambltious-what the
cherished theories of the most enthusiastic and phanhropc
of besides the realization of this grand and beDecent
practical result Gpe back the Union that our fathers
died to create and that many thousands of th,r noble
have died to save-gve back the Nation IL
erisedust and liberal in all its civil relations, lofty and
imperial in all its aims"