The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-03

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cOgnitiOn Of the South OF
Four Years more Of War..Ere-
mont the First Choice OF mr..
Phillips. 4, i f.l)b
BOSTON, May q
DEAR Sir: deeply regret that it IS out
of my power to attend the cleveland oon.
yention. Allow me to suggest one or TWO
things which hoped to urge on its atten
ton: i3 9 gIW uj3 Va.
uIs OPINION OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
Without denying what the friends OF the
administration claim that it has done
something toward crushing the rebellion
NV charge against it is that it has not done
half that it should and could have done to-
ward that end had it used fhe means IN It's
hands with an earnest and single purpose
to close the strife Thoroughly and forever
| It has thought more Of conciliatlng rebels
than of subduing them. 1t has avoweaiy
foreborne the use of lawful ana ehcient
means Ito wit, the abolition OF slavery un'
til it was thought indispensable, and even
then has used it in half.hearted, hating
way, wishing to save the feelings OF rebels.
We had three tools. with which to crush
the rebellion, men, money, and the emancl'
nation of the negro. We were warned TO
be quick and sharp in the use OF these, be-.
cause every year tho war lasted hardened
the South from rebellion into nation,
and doubled the danger of foreign interior"
ence. Slavery has been our great trouble
in the past, and, as every man saw, was
our great danger in the future. States
manshp said, therefore, seize at once the
God given opportunity to end it, at the
same time that you, in the quickest, short
est and cheapest manner, annlhllate the re-
belion!
For three years the administration has
layished money without stint, and drench-
ed the land in blood; and it has not even
yet thoroughly and heartily struck tue
slave system. Contrasting that the use OF
this means is indispensable, the administra-
ton has used it just enough to irritate the
rebels, and not enough to save the state.
, In sixty days after the rebellion broke ont,
the administration suspended habsas corpus
on the plea Of military necessity-justly.
For three years it has poured out the
treasure and blood of the country like
water. Meanwhile, slavery was too sacred
to be used; that was saved, lest the feelings
of rebels should be hurt. The administra-
ton weighed treasure, blood, and civil lib
erty against slavery, and, up to the present
moment, has decided to exhaust them all
before it uses freedom, heartily, as means
of battle.
RESULT OF MR.. LINCoLN's RE ELECTION.
Mr.. Lincoln's friends tell us that if he is
re elected, be is re elected to pursue the
same pulley and obey the same cabinet.
What will be the result Of another four
years of such policy? Unless the South is
recognized, the war will continue; the tax.
alton needed to sustain our immense debt
doubled by that time, will grind the labor.
ing men of the North down to the level OF
the pauper-labor of Europe; and we shall
have government accustomed to despotlc
power for eight years-a fearful peril ia
Democratic institutions.
LOUISIANA RECONSTRUCTION.
Mr.. Lincoln's model of reconstruction is
the experiment in Louisiana, which puts all
power into the hands of the unchanged
white race, soured by defeat, hating the
laboling class, plotting constantly for aris'
tocratc institutions. To reconstruct the
rebel States on that model is only continu
ing the war in the Senate chamber after we
have closed it in the field Such recon
struction, leaving the South with it's labor
and capital at war, puts the whole payment
of the debt on the industrious North, and
in that wayiit will hang on US for century
Such reconstruction, leaving the seed oil
discomfort and division in the South in pla
ces:of powerd, tempts an:.facilitates another
rebellion, at the instigation or with the aid
of French Mexico. Such reconstruction
dooms us to second or third rate place
among nations, and provokes foreign insult
and aggression.
Mr.. PHILLIPS PLAN.
There is no plan of reconstruction posi-
BILE within twenty years, unless we admit
the black to citizenship and the ballot, and
use him, with the white, as the basis to
build on. If we refuse this method, we
must subdue the South and hold it as ter
ritorv until this generation Of white men
has passed away, and their sons, with other
feelings have taken their places, and Nor
thern capital, energy and immigration have
forced their way into the South. Should
We adopt that plan, and wait for those
changes, twenty years must elapse before
we can venture to rebuild States. Mean
while, a large and expensive army, and the
use of despotic power by government
holding half tits territory and citizens as
subjects, make every thoughtful man trem.
bic for the fate of free government. A
quick and thorough reorganization of States
on Democratic basis, every man and race
equal before the law, is the only sure way
to save the Union, urge it not for the
black mans sake alone, but for ours-for
the nations sake. Against such recogni.
ton of the blacks Mr.. Lincoln stands pledg'
ed by prejudice and aAowal. Possibly
But three years have been a long time for .
mans education in such hours as these
The nation cannot afford more. At any
rate. the Constitution gives us this summer
an opportunity to make President, man
fully educated. | prefer that course.
CIVIL AND MILITARY FAILURE.