The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-09-23
Far the Register.
Restoration Of the Union.

- For the Register
Restoration Of the Union.
-y That Union, formed by the voluntary
will of the sovereign people, which dispensed
blessings alike on the rich and the poor
the bond and the free, is no more. 1t i:
really an idle dream 10 think of preserving
that which is wholly and irretriveably lost
1t may be restored, if the proper policy
should be pursued by the Administrations
But the dlsgraceful history of the last two
years leaves not shadow of hope that any
other policy, other than the fanatcal poll
cy of the radical Republicans, will be pur-
sued by the partizan Office holders at
Washington. Mr.. Lincoln has so far over
rode the Constitution that it seems almost
mockery to call him Preside
He is welded to his idol, Aholitionism
and can only see that which promises q
support to his paramount cause. From him
nothing can be expected looking to restor.
alton of the Union as it was; for the Union
Cal only be restored by adhering implicitly
to the letter and spirit of the Constitution n.
This instrument he has utterly set at
naught. The sacred rights guaranteed to
the people by the Constitution, have, one
after another, been torn from them. The
last lingering hepe has been blasted. The
only remaining chance for a restoration of
the Union, that with it our liberties may be
restored, is with the people. Can it be said
that Government, formed by the spon-
taneous will of the people, shall be permit
ted to be destroyed by the agent whom
portion of the people had elected to exc
cute the laws Of that Government? Such
an unnatural event can scarcely be suppos.
able. The people, in whom is vested the
rightful power of the Government, must
resume that power, and hurl from the po-
sitions which they have disgraced, those to
whom they havo entrusted the agency of
that power. 1t would be an anomaly of q
free people should entrust their rights and
their liberties to agents whom they would
suffer to deprive them Of those rights and
those liberties !
But we find ourselves in peculiar stu
alton. A portion of the people, who once
helped to form the Union, have seeded
from the Union. They are now, however
much their first fatal step might have been
unwarranted by the exigencies ofthe times,
fighting for their rights. Another portion
of the Union, at firstassuming to enter into
a war for the preservation OF the Union and
the Constitution, have so far failed to ac-
complish the avowed object of that war that
the Union is destr Dyed and the Constitution
become less than q mere nudam pactnm.
The deviations of the Administration, in
the Union de jure, have alienated large
portion of the people from the support OF
chat war because they SEQ in its present
prosecution q determination on the part of
the Admlnistrat to prostitute the war to
unholy and unconstitutional purposes.
Thus a preservation of the Union is ut.
tery hopeless. We may only hope Go re-
store it by timely action and change OF
policy. We must first restoIe the CONSTR
tuition to its pristine power. That ofwhich
it has been shUrn by usurpation must be
restored. 1t must be endowed with its
original potency and justice. 1t must be so
far restored as to receive its former adora-
ton both by the people. and those who act
as their agents. When the people OF the
North 50 far effect restoration OF thai
spirit of the Union, which characterized the
trainers of the Constitution, as to cenvinct
the people of the South that they will i'm
plicitiy obey its recurrence snts, then there
may be some hope that happy reconcll
iation can be effected between the Sortf
and the South. But, so long as the blum
dering, not to say dt.loyal, Administrator
continues to disregard the Constitution
aud eviuces spirit of subjugation and ex
termination, just so long will this unhappy
and unnatural war continue, and just S,
long will there be division iu sentimen
on this subject in the North.
Hence, to open up any vista OF hope 10
the restoration of tue Union the peopl
must rally to the ballot box, if this preciou
boon be still allowed them, aud BIZ thei
voice hurl from the high places Of powe
those who so impotently and so despotical
ly fill them. Tyrants are towards. Whe
= those who weld make necessity Of thi
unholy war 10 ldrther their damnsble fana
acism, see that the people are determine
to check this devastating and withering cur
, and bring about peace-A restoratio
the Union as it was-a return to the lett
and spirit of the Constitution, then the
: will pause sufficiently long to behold Il
dizzy eminence on which they sand, Al
that there is but ore way left to beoom Q I
!. awful abyss which awaits them belo "
speedy return to the Constitution. Th