Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-03-05

Correspondence Of the Charles City Intelgencer.
THE
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRACY y

WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1868.
1t is understood that meeting is
soon to be held in New York city,
composed Of the so-called /" Demo-
cratic" members of the next Con-
gress, for the purpose of dcvising
measures for influencing and CONTROL.
ing the policy of the Government in
the conduct of the war. There can
be no doubt that this movement has
its origin in a reasonable spirit
towards the Government.
| Whatever may have heretofore been
the liability of the country to be mis-.
taken as to the aims and policy of the
so-called Conservative Democratic y
party, or as they more deceptively
style themselves-the Conservative
Union " faction, in Congress, in the
light of the present revelations of
their policy, there can be no possibili-
ty of longer mistaking their designs :;
and only those can look on with in
difference, who are prepared to aid
and abet still deeper treason by calm
ly standing by as sentineis to the act,
while still darker crime than any
that has gone before it is being perpe-
trated against their country and man
kind. Let not the people be longer
mistaken these men have, in one
year, laid deeper plot--and ripened
it for execution too-than the rebels
of the South were thirty years in ma
turing, and are as terribly in earnest
as they Their object, too, is far
worse--their motives more base. The
Southern traitors determined to rule
or ruin--these men have determined
to ruin, then rule. know this will be
considered harsh Judgment upon the
actions Of men who still profess to be
loyal, but it is nevertheless true one,
and is fully demonstrated by their past
acts and their present resolves.
These Conservative Union" men
prefer to throw away the birth-right
of their fathers--thc best, grandest,
and most powerful Government the
sun has ever shone upon--they choose
to descend from the proud position of
a first-class power among the nations
Of the earth, and dwindle into con-
temptible fragment-all the more con-
temptible for having basely disgraced
and thrown away their power and
their liberties, rather than involve in
the overthrow Of their country's foes,
that institution which has been its
standing reproach, the only check to
its power and progress, and its lasting
dishonor.
Meanwhile, their counter revolution
has been inaugurated, and their plot
only awaits execution. That | have
not overdrawn the picture, nor misrcp-
resented their policy and designs, ]
will give you glance at their field of
operations, as boldly ayowed to me in
conversation with member Of Con-
gress closely affiliated with and ac-
lively cooperating in the execution of
these plans. By shrewd management
in retaining their friends at home
while enlisting soldiers for the war,
and in procuring furloughs and leaves
Of absence for thousands Of such as
did volunteer, SO as to have them at
home to vote. they secured the Legis.
latures of New York. Pennsylvania
and the Northwest. thereby ensuring
the election of United States Senators
of the Richardson stamp, who would,
with equal alacrity, murder their
country or their ancestors for the
spoils Of the one or the estate of the
other. Another turn of the wheel is
expected to give them executives in
those States of corresponding char
acter. When these are secured, in
conjunction with the executives Of the
border States, they are to say to their
soldiers in the filed, We did not en-.
list you to fight solely for the free.
dom of the slaves Of our friends we
did not enlist you to fight side by side
with the nigger-come home! As The
E1eeutires Of your respeciire States, aee
command you 10 come honae!" And they
rely upon the dissatisfaction of the
soldier with the conduct Of the war,
and his weariness with the hardsbips