Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-11-05
Count aiasparln on American Politics.

Count GAsPARrN, that eloquent and learned
Frenchman who has exhibited 50 much inter
est in the American struggle, 50 intimate a
knowledge of our institutions,and such hearty
friendship and sympathy for the sause OF our
nationality, has written long nd earnest
letter, addressed to the American people re-
specting the approaching Presidential elec-
ton.
We have room for but an extract or two,
which will suggest the spirit and significance
of the whole. 1t is proper to say that the
Count is by no means prejudiced against Nc
iCLELIANas man, and regards him as the
most worthy of an the candidates favored by
any considerable number of the opposition.
1t is as the representative Of a reactionary
and ignoble peace movement that he opposes
him. After abiding to the Baltimore and
Chicago platforms, he says that both declare
for the maintenance of the Union, and only
differ as to the meansi He then adds:
While Mr.. Lincoln announces that the war
will be energetically prosecuted, Gen. Nc
Clellan gives us a glimpse of an armistlce
and the opening of negotiations.
| understand the first policy. The neon-
testable exhaustion of the South leaves no
doubt concerning the results that would thus
be obtained. Perseverance, that American
virtue, should be the motto OF the North, as
it is that of Gen. Grant. See what perseVe-
rance has already accomplished through
sometimes striking defeats, through offensive
vicisitudes and momentary inyasions that you
ha,, Il rnt1h Q "A IA =
ed. and what you have taken you have never
lost. Perseverance has carried back your flag
into all the insurgent States, without excep-
ton; perseverance has reconquered the MIS-
sssippi and New Orleans; perseverance has
taken Vicksbuag; perseverance has taken
Atlanta perseverance will take Richmond.
And IL as proposed TO you not to pe'Se0ere!
Is it not persevering to offer an afmistlee
and open negotiations. Upon what basis
The authors take care not to tell you, for they
are anxious to trumpet loudly the word peace,
@ittom drticalating the conditions or peace.
Abiding to the charge that Mr.. LINCOLN
has suppressed liberty of speech and the free
dom of the press, he says:
Here is government engaged in an armed
struggle with the most formidable rebellion
of which human annals make mention; this
rebellion took its rise in vast treason for
which the way had been paved by goodly
number of those who were directing affairs
at the moment when Mr.. Lincoln was elected.
1t had for its almost Constant point of support
complexities which betrayed to the South the
secret of the operations meditated against 1T !;
at the moment when the South was most in
need of efficient aid, there arose, now resis-
lance to the CONSUMPTION, then the hideous
and bloody New York riot, then manifestos
designed, as it seemed, to restore courage to
the rebels, and announce to them that the
war could not be sustained. Well, this gov
eminent, thus attacked, has not suspended for
single day tie national Liberties. We
receive the America journals, and we
know whether they are restricted in
blaming, and in terms tie cioteaces of
phich at times coatounds as, the policy, of
Mr.. Lincoln, his person, his intentions. Have
not both houses of Congress sat every year
during long months, and have not their dis
cussions taken place in broad daylight. Have
the legislative assemblies of the separate
States been subject to an exceptional regime?
Have the parties that divide America lost the
right of convoking immense meetings, and of
discussing there all the interests of the coun-
try? Have men ceased to speak, to publish,
to organize We Europeans have not per-
ceived it. X Those immense conflicts of
public opinion that mingle with the noise OF
of battles; that political existence that is
maintained entire through an unexampled
crisis, that supreme reign of the Constitu-
ton, the law, of liberty, which the extreme
peril of the nation has not suspended-all
these strike us with establishment, and con-
fess, with admiration.