Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-11-16


The country is in dangeY-it is to be rescue,
~ the Gov' rnment You will succeed, be
cause you y,te for the Government, In votin
nents CON mil the fatal ell or OF supposing tina
\ tney can divide the Administration from tn
ssovern nen,, and support the one and discart
| ne DINER. NO man can serve two masters
Ionsicer this point for q moment. Il is only
ikr"uRh the Administration that the country
can p9t forth the effort necessary for its res
cue If you discard this Admin stration O
.ne tovernment oy your votes, You bring nc
rev or better one to it, place. You then have
practically an interregnum from this time q
NE ath OF March, 1865. An interregnum OF
sixteen moaihs in the very crisis of REBEL on
| Yon would repeat even in more dangerous
way the great, though then unavoidable, ms.
10 tune OF the interregnum which was pro.
ouoed py the election OF Abraham Lincoln in
TOO, leaving James Buchanan in the Presi-
dsney until the 4th of March. isil. During all
that period the ship of State necessarily and
| III az oidab1y drifted and dashed itself against
| the r. chs Of lee shore. The American peo-
| new.
Orr opponents do not see this They do not
see II because they have surrendered them
Low they can see it. There are 100000 Ameri-
can citizens in arms In the Southern STATES
sganst their country. They look to the cleo
they do to the defence Of Charleston or the siege
OF Chatianoofa. II you could pass the ballot
! DC through their camps, every man Of them
would vote for the Administration Of this Gov.
eminent by Horatio Seymour or Vallandigha
| and against the Administration Of Abraham
| Lincoln. You have enemies in certain classes
| OF sorlery all over Europe. They are fitting
| out navy and privateers for the American
| fEsurtents. If the ballot. boxes could be
opened at Laird's ship-yard in Liverpool, or
III Jonn snoeIi house in Paris, there would
ne unanimous vote tor Seymour and Vallan-
qlPHaH, ana new iron. clads would escape
| from III der the broad arrow, in armor impreg.
| hahIe, ID array lnnumerable, and you would
nave superaded to this terrible struggle upon
ianc. more trf mendous contest than the world
mas ever seen upon the high seas. The instinct
OF enemies Is infaIlible.
You have friends in arms at home ief,udirp
the u over Lit ano the country. Every ma.
VINO reefs the enemy in battle, knows what
be Is fighting Tor. lie is fighting for the coun-
try. Pass the ballot box through tle Union
camps or give the soldier pass TO reach the
ballot box at his home, and he votes az he
nthts, Tor ms country and for the Admins ira
tion, which lie sees is identified with his coun-
u! You have friends IN Europe. TIL. great
ass OF society on the Continent, from the
v, " mt sea to tie Mediterranean, from the At
IantIc 10 The Black Sea, are the friends OF the
United States. The great mass Of society in
Amerit a, from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn
ar the friends of the United States S.no the
ballot. box through all those regions and the
vofs would be counted ten thousand 10 one for
AbItf am Lincoln and against Seymour and
Valiandie ham. The instinct of dis passiosat
dis nterests d friends is infaIlible.
hut must lot forget that our opponents OBJ
JeGt 10 allowing soldiers to go home to vote.
The objection is disloyal as well as migrate.
fUi, and is therefore a crime If the Soldier
ought OF to be allowed q furiou GA to rea ch the
ballot, hox, why did Gov. Seymour refuse to
allow Inc ballot box 20 60 into the campl He
ana e1s that il is Moons tltutionaI Why then
object to the soldiers Gong home to yote| That
10 Il OF unconstitutional. They do not mean to
quarrel with th- mann er of the soldiers voting.
.ney set to d priv him OF his vote altogether
Ihey allow the soldier to fight for his country.
because they cannot help it, but they seek 70
a. prlHe him of the privilege Of voting for it.
because by clamor they think they can prevent
IL. " no are thss os. soldiers nat Ia NJ
involuntary toldler or conscript among Them.
They are J our sons and brothers and mine, as
intelligent, well trained as we or their op-
ponents, better entitled 10 vote than you or l,
tor they have gone for ward to the battle, while
We have been content with staying at home
and ma king contributions, meritorious in them
selves, but nevertheless contributions in money
instead OF blood. Not allow the soldier to vote
for the q Government You saw what came Of
You voted the Government down in his alb
sence, and then were obliged to call the soldier
from the front, in face of the enemy, back TO
the State, to restore peace, order and safety at
home. Not allow the soldier to vote! Has the
soldier only the right to languish In the hos.
pital, to die on the battle. field, and to be carried
rights! tell you no. l tell You that the SOL
diers OF this var will vote, some thousands OF
them to-morrow- many more thousands every
year ereafter-and they will sit in Judgment
upon parties in this country throughout two
generations. and determine the verdict of pos
terity in regard to them.
will succeed to. morrow. You have the right
side upon apiain, practical, simple issue. Our
opponents do not see this; they have suffered
faction to blind them. They say that they are
voting down this Administration, because it is
incompetent and ought never to have been
elected: They say, again, that they are voting
are doing no such thing. Abraham Lincoln
was elected in 1860 to be Presiden, of the United
1877 -four VI yz from sss t
justly, hOnorably, constitutionally elected The
question is not whether he ought to have been
elected in 1860; that was settled in the election
Of 1s6U, and is irreversible. The question Is not
whether he or any person connected with his
Administration shall be elected in 1861. That
will be settled in the election of 1861. Abraham
Lincoln was elected in 1860 to be President, not
Of part, but of the whole of the United States;
but he has been fOrcibly kept out Of a part Of
the United States-Louisiana, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and other
Gulf States. In those States he is Presidentde
jure, but not de facto The object of this election
is the object OF the war. 1t is to make Abra-
in Georgia, South Carolina and other Gulf
States, as he is President de facto in Massachu-
sets, New York and Ohio.
will succeed, and know elections held for
the came object will succeed. They will sue
eesa because q the o6jes: is Just and justice in
right robbery OF Abraham Lincoln, and the
majority Of citizeDs who elected him, to refu.e
him the full enjoyment OF the authority con.
ferred upon HIM in that election There
can be no peace and quiet until Abraham Lin
coin is President. under that election of the
whole United States.
Now, justice is an instinct of the whole
human family. II a man has a house, horse
or boat, and 1t is taken from him, all society
combines TO restore it to his possession, and it
awards severe punishment to those who at.
tempt 10 rob him Of his rights. You saw this
lesson written in the earliest school book that
was put INTO your hands:
Steal not thus book my honest friend
For fear the gallows will be your end /.
The American people will repeat this simple
moral instruction to morrow by SAY ing to every
insurgent and every Confederate in the Free
States, as we'll as in the Slave States,
Steal not the Presidency, my honest friend
For fear the gallows will be your end
The resultto be attained is as important to
our opponents as 1t is to us. What IT, through
battle and suffrage, the President who was
elected in 1850 should by his opponents be kept
ont OF the Presidency Of the United States until
another election? What il thew should then
succeed in electing President In 1864 against
the majority who elected Abraham Lincoln in