Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-22

|, sloyal citizens every where had a tlght to
claim" that the Government should be sdminis-
tered for al, as Il sras a1minisssred ty snse ~ho
made ,itp Who will pretend for moment that
the Niagara manifesto does not deny the g right
then affirmed to exist in loyal men every where or
that it does not repudats the claim then put in
their mouths BY the President? For who win
pretend that the men who g made the Govern.
ment" ever stipulated for the abandonment Of
slavery" as one of the conditions on which the
country should have Union and pssce2 'e
And as with the President SO with the Congress.
The detection Of the one from the constitutional
objects and ends of the war has been a. marked
as the detection of the other. The traces Of this
detection are seen as clearly in the Legislation OF
the country during the last two years as in the pro-
CARNATIONS and manfestoes of the President. Poll
cies Of confscation and sweeping schemes Of social
reform in the Southern States have come not only
to divide the attention Of legislators with the
interests of the Union and the successful prosecu
ton Of the war. but these policies and schemes have
been SO id entitled with the fate Of the Union and
tho issue Of the war that it is perfectly just to say
that the original theory of the war has been en-
tirely repudiated by the dominant party in the
National Legislature. Invited again and again to
re-afrm the principles of the Crittenden resolution
it constantly refused to do SO. Why this refusal,
If, as the Springfield Republican says there had
been no change in the object of the war? Was not
that resolution accepted in July, 1861, as the ex-
preston of the almost unanimous sentiment OF Pre-
sident, Congress, and country? Whywas the same
resolution cast out in 1862 and 1863 and 1864, by
the same body which in 1861 had adopted it With
such unexampled unaniuity, but that in the mean
time total change in the policy Of the Gov
eminent was first foreshadowed and afterwards
effected? Lven as early as December .4th, 1861,
the same Congress which in July of that
year had adopted the resolution of Mr., Crit
tender, refused, on re-assemblipg in second SEES
sion, to rearm it, when asked to do so on motion of
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana. His motion to this
effect was laid on the table by vote of II yeas to
IS nays. On the 14th of December, 1868, the
same resolution was brought forward by Mr.. Finck
in the House of Representatives for reafirmation
by the present Congress. 1t was laid on the table
by vote of yeas 81 to nays 64--euery supporter
Of tbs Administrator voting IN the affirmative,
and every opponent of the Administration poting
IN the negative. 4na
We thus see that there had been change Of
opinion, and the record of the House shows who
had changed. 1t was the supporters Of the Ad
ministration who had changed, as the Administers
ton itself had changed with them To deny that
there has been any such change in the object of
the war is to deny the records Of Congress, the
proclamations and manifestoes Of the President
aud the evidence Of our own senses We all kno,o
that the whole theory of the war has been changed
not only in its but in its ends, not only in
its measures but in its objects. The President has
happily put this subject beyond contest or doubt
by his terse rescript addressed to all whom IL
may concern" The portion of the Republican
party which, by its pressure" its Importantly and
its earnestness, precpitated this change on hest
tating and reluct ant Executive, stand to-day in
the attitude of conscious triumph, and demand from
the same Executive the complete and punctual
fulflment of his pledges, engagements, and COM
mitments. They are not men who palter in any
double sense. They leave to others the heavy task
Of trying to prove that the President did not mean
what ne said in that paper. They feel assured he
did mean it, and it is only in this sense that they
interpret a or support him. They know the
policy and ends of the Government have been
changed in the conduct Of the war, to suit their
purposes, and, having dictated this change, they
will not be slow to that it is carried to its log
cal conclusions, if the powers of the Government
should be suffered by the people to remain in the
hands Of those who now administer it.
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