The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-02-12
Political situation.
NUMBER III.

oil elIher wing aot the Northern Dem
ocracy were in league with the South
orn conspirators at tho date of the las
: Presidential election, we do moi charge
but on the contrary believe they The,
were Union men. That they during
that heated campaign, really appreben
dcd any armed revolt upon the election
Of Abraham Lincoln or amy other man, u
we do not believe; bu! accord to the
leaders Of oil four parties alike, through.
outthe North, equal patriotism. Many
leading politician indeed, inveighed
against the dangers Of "soctionalsm, y
and grew eloquent on the possibility Of
Southern disunion." butt was under.
stood to mean only "eltctioneering" Gas
part OF their "stock in trade" Not ono
speaker in hundred, nor one voter in a
thousand, ever had a serious thought Of
actual war being dependent upon LhO IS
sue Of The canvass. And there was alb.
undant reason for this universal incred.
ulity, in that, the freaters had for
many years iterated these threats upon
every occasion when they pretended
their peculiar interests were endangered,
md uniformly upon every recurring
Presidential election The belief conse.
quentIy Ind bccome chronic. that all
these threats were simply threats bun
comb.
Thus matters stood on the 9th of No
vember, 1860. When hatlltle,ingfain,
cd, tory State-South Carolina led of
in calling convention to inaugurate re-
sistanco to the Federal Government, the
Northern people remained ncredulous,
regarding it as huge joke; when, how
ever, her example was quickly followed
by other States, then the rstten portion
OF the leaders Of Northern politics, began
to canvass "the situation" They look
ed complaconty upon the embarrass.
mcnt Of the cold Public Functionary,"
nor once Quilted the sorrows of poor
old man." Though, TOO, the people
cared little for ~. B." the firing upon
the Star of the Wost, dem onstrated they
did care for their National honor-and
the demonstration gave little encourage.
ment TO invest in Secession stocks."-
As shock after shock is received. slorm
after storm sweeps over the north, and
these pliable leaders bend as tho sap.
ping in the tempest. With true Jesuet-
zeal tact, these nAscent traitors accomo.
date themselves to the varying loyalty Of
the yet uncorrupted masses, occasionally
taking sounding to know when it will do
10 loose anchor and strike boldly for Sc
cessiondom.
The patriotism of the people dissuade
these rebel au1iIiorics from an open, gan.
eral and concertol avowal Of treason,
till, our decimated armies neOr Corinth
end Richmond, suggested the necessity Of
hundreds of Thousands ofadational vol
unteers. Thea the sky for them bright.
ens-thcy simulate Unionism, and to in,
sure against drafting, with great gnsto,
enter upon recruiting.
The subtility Of traitors is unfnthom,
able and sympathizers ways "pust find
ing out" for while patriots Of tho four
great political parties, are absorbed with
providing against national dissolution,
these abhorrcnt wolves in sleeps cloth
ing are intent not upon how best to sue
cor or defend their unequalled govern.
ment from traitor assaults, but how best
they can succeed in rposes'ing heir lost
! c&ces.
Itby covert assurances Of assistance,
they can encourage the Southern cou-
spiraors TO persevero, and to conscript
force enough to neCessitate to meet
them, immense drains upon our remain
| ing voters, then surely their "stor will
( be in the ascendant" When most of
the Union voters have "sono to the war"
certainly "sympothiaers" will put trai,
tors in oiice-bciog alive TO the incrcas-
ed influence inciden! TO official positions,
They Qu'ely innoouloto all susceptible,
with the current beresios, as, "this is a
niger an abolition war; &C., and thus
inyoiglc them into their secret, trcasona.
bic organizations; knowing hen they will