The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-13

Government. They are too much possess
ed of the devil to tempt any of our faint
hearted ones with such hopes; they shut
them up to the alternative of fighting to
the end, or else accepting loss of rights,
property and honor, that even dog would
spurn the latter. We thank them for il;
they recruit our armies perpetually from the
oppressed districts. The more they invade,
ravage and persecute, the more impossible
our soldiers feel submission to be. If the
United States chose to continue this war,
crowd US down, possibly by superior num-
bers; but the issue will be precisely like
the war of l776. Our people b we never
doubted the justice of minority of the
Democratic party of the North. We have
given them credit for Willingness to accord
US our rights. But we regard the course of
the bulk of that party as suicidal, and more
inconsistent and wicked than that of the
Federalsts and Black Republicans.
Had the Northern Democracy said at the
beginning, "rhese Southern States may be
misguided as to the extent their rights are
threatened, but our Constitution makes
them the judges (not us) Of that, and Il
their dernier remedy; and if they choose to
go, We can not righteously keep them by
force;" had they only risen in their strength,
and while condemning, perhaps the South,
still said, sthere shall be no coercion" Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Ark
ansas never would have gone out. There
would have been no war. The cotton States
would have come back in five years; all
would have been well-far better than ii
has ever been since the disastrous strife OF
1929 But no; these Northern Democrats;
misled by sectional pride, folly and ambi
tion, deserted their own principles the very
first moment they were ever truly tested
joined the mad cry for coercion, and threw
themselves, like lunatics, into the arms OF
their enemies, the Republicans. What has
been the result? In the wicked effort tc
join their enemies in robbing their brethren
of their liberties, they have promptly lost
their own.
The Confederate States are not subjuga-
ted; the Northern Democracy is. Our Con
federaey has before it, in the good provi
dence of God, two alternatives, either Of
which is possible. One is long, barrass
| ing war, at the snfferings of which the re
ueCtluS LulHu SlChCHS, SHuiuS lH
hatred Of the people of the United States,
and an utter separation after the needless
useless spiliing of oceans of blood and the
wasting of our public and private wealth,
but leaving people, decimated and impov
erished, but still free, proud and nerved
with the terrible energies evoked by such
A struggle. The other prospect is, that dip
lomatic connection with our Government
has such powerful means of alluring, may
secure for US exterior aid, which will enable
US more speedily to take the aggressive,
and hurl back on the United States all the
military an d financial ruin of this gigantic
war and thus end it. Butthe United states
as we view it, has no alternative her destiny
is already settled; and that's Government
akin to that of Rome under the Caesars; or
France under the Directory, nominally a
radical Democracy, actually ruthless and
bloody military despotism. No ole here
talks alb, ut the United States as being in
dang Q : of tbs as having their co Institutional
rights threatened; that despotism is already
established those rights are gone. There
will never be another real Presidential elec
ton, but only sham like the election OF
Connecticut, ifeven the tyrants stoop to
put on that transparent vail,