Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-29

% has marked the Transition from the Bo.tor
Daily Advertiser of October, 1851, to the Boston
Daily Advertiser Of September, 1854 If by such
oonstancy and fidelity he is now placed in "a false
position" before the public, 1t can only be public
which counts political regeneration among the
virtues Of patriotism and holds apOstacy to princ-
pie in higher esteem than honest convictions main.
tanned ct any cost
1t the Advertiser, in its search for the " con-
siderauons' which may have induced Mr. Win
throp to stand aloof from the prevailing political
influences In Massachusetts, and in the present
Administration, should need further light on
the subject, it may perhaps derive additional
Illumination from its own columns. For instance,
on the 7th of October, 1861, returning to the sub
Ject then, as now, uppermost in the thoughts of
conservative men, it held the following language:
The history of the anti slavery movement in this
country will here's er rank as one Of the strongest
wnere human lmpatence and devotion to ut0pan idea
mas Dhnded mems to the practical good which Proy
dence has placed ready at hand The insane folly Of the
Killed out years ago the emancipation party
wnc one Tune had the actual control Of Virginia aud
promised TO eradicate slavery in other Border States
Inc overnce scrupes of the extremists some years
aer elected Mr. Folk and insured the contamination of
aheir folles and have still later furnished the
Soutnern extremists and their allies with whole arsenal
OF weapons which have been turned without reason but
with marked effect against the Republicans the only poll
ca party which has pretended to recognise any moral
duty connected with slavery resting upon the nation or
upon inc otzsns Of the Free States What the aboi-
Affected to DESIRE that they have prevented what
ney aeced to deprecae that they have insured Those
VINO wished to DO something 10 the only practical way
the extension of slavery they have weakened and
loaded with heavy weight of odum.
bV uuho tha,
conversion OF this into for emancipation They
camor for blow to be struck against slavery ITSELF
tnat providence has already oreshadOwed the de-
cay and end of that institution ia such terms al are clear
~ Ineligible even to human apprehension They are
esger 70 DO made the instruments of Gods dspeasue
on sGnorrea system neglectng the papabs deter
OF providence that the system shall perish by the
SUICIDAL folly of those who uphold it, No more nstruc-
tive lesson could be left for future imators of the selfish
ness arrogance and wickedness of the ruling Southern
interest," than given in its destruction by its own hands
sud 10 consequence Of its own and
conduct bur foolish zeaots would an weaken the force
o. TINS example and would leave it for future ages to be-
neve mat wckedness has pershed not by its own venom
put by some external interference"
What if Mr. Winthrop, with the additional lights
now before him, setting its truth in the blaze of
MONDAY sun, should think now as the Advertiser
thought in October, 1861 that "the folly of those
who urged the conversion of this war into an eman
oipatlon war; is the same "insane folly which at
other periods in our history "has blinded mems
eyes to the practical good which Providence has
placed ready to hand?" What if Mr. Winthrop
should think now, as the Advertiser thought on
the It'll of October, 1861 that it is only foolish
zealots" who would fam weaken great historical
lesson by thrusting themselves forward where they
are not wanted, to "make themselves the instru-
ments of Gods dispeasure against an abhorred sys-
tenn" thereby "neglecting the palpable determine
ton of Providence that the system should perish
by the suicidal folly of those who uphold it ?"
Shall it be cited to the reproach of Mr.. Winthrop
that after more than three years of war, when the
"insane folly" against which the Advertiser pro-
phesed in October, 1861, has become history writ
ten in blood, he should be only more and more of
the same mind that he was in 1862 Is it re-
CURED that ho should add disqualification to the
odium of political inconsistency, in order to estab
lsh status for sagacity, according to the notion
of that useful quality current among certain peo-
pie in Boston 7 We ask the question 1t is one
fer others to answer