Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28

spars 10 the impractical extremists OF the NORTH and n
gether complete anagonism which be brought
together We have long ago abandoned all hope OF nndng
solution OF our nstona troubles IN either OF these quar-
tes Nevertheless do look for the end from some source
We now upon the fourth year of which has no
parallel IN the worlds history and as yet the end cannot
The North entered upon the present struggle with the
declared purpose Of maintaining the Union President
Lincoln, his inaugural uttered sentiments which would
to day be entirely satisfactory to the South basis for
peace Congress at its first session after the
ment of hostities resolved, with all the solemny OF egs
aton that the should be prosecuted with purpose
of aggression upon the Federal rights of the South The
ink of the eDgrossng clerk scarcely dry before the ma
tona faith thus pledged violated Three bloodS years
have sealed the sultifcaton which then enacted
"The key of the great problem before this people
may be- found in this question: What we lighting for
IL it the maintenance Of the Union is it the reconstruo
ton of the Union upon basis of emancipation Are we
fighting to assert and vndcate the of the Federal
Government to regulate and reform the domestic abuses
of the South In the to these questions lies the
solution OF all the issues Of war.
"We venture the opinion that il reliable assurance
could be given to the people of the South that the Federal
Constitution aud its strict maintenance the sole ut
matum of peace that the rebellion would cease within
three months Theifreeaters of Secessa have lost the
prestige Of their power and the people are beginning 70
yearn after the blessings Of the old order of things They
have learned wholesome respect for the North and have
been taught to the old contempt for into which
they have been educated"
And we suppose that it was in presage of the
Obstacles likely to be laid in the way Of peace by
the theoretical position which the President had
assumed on these and other subjects, that the New
York Tribune was induced to oppose his reno
mination, and in reiteration of which, even after
his denomination it held the following language ::
We cannot but feel that it would have been wiser and
safer to spike the most serceabe guns of
by nominating another for President and thus dspeng all
motive that OF naked dsoyalty for further warfare
upon this Administration We believe the rebellion would
have lost something Of its cohesion and from the
hour in which it was known that new President would
surely be Daugurated the 4th of March nex and that
hostility in the Loyal States to the National must
have sensby abated been deprived of its reades most
dangerous weapons from the moment that all were brought
to realize that the President having to expect
hope could henoeforth be mpelled by conceivable
tive but desire and his country, and thus
win for himself an envable and enduring fame
1t was singular coincidence that the friendly
editor who held this frank language after the Pre-
sidenps denomination, should have been called to
act SO prominent part in the negotiations which
have just given the whole country abundant reason
to concur with him in his opinion.
The President solemnly declared in the year
1851, in his message to the Congress of the United
States, that "loyal citizens every where had the
right to claim" that the Government should be
preserved "that it might be administered TOR all
as it was administered by the men who made it"
As loyal citizens we enter our claim" in these
words And the President said at the same time
that " the Government had no right to withhold
or neglect" this claim. Then we ask that he shall
not withhold or neglect what he has authorized
the nation to demand.