Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-01-01
BY TYLER u ALLEGRE.
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY l, ls64
The policy. civil and military, CT the Wasf :


. ,nsolidate the power ard resources ofall the
States into great American nation. The
Cabinet has outwitted the people, and will sue
coed in retaining power by having permanent
" dissolved and disrupted the Unith. The
gulf, desisnedly and deliberately opened by
tho Washington Cabinet, is too vide anddser
ever to be bridged by material interest, OF
closed by the pride of national power. In the
excitement and dslirium of war, the people ci
the United States have not seen or understood
the reason Of the policy of the Cabinet at
Washington, Theunparane.ed esert'sns and
.eso.rcps put forth by thai people have been
consumed in the consolidation of power BY the
Cabinet. But this blindness and iniatuaticn
cannot last much longer; the scales will fall
from, tho eyes Of the people during this year
already tue fraudulent AMI forced successes Of
the Cabinet in The late elections have excited
popular enquiry as to where they ara drifting
The skllllul machinery Of the last prccisma>
lion, by which one tenth of thepeople Of States
at war, are empowered to east the electoral
votes Of t!,use States agains: thr votes OF the
loyal States, canrot elu6c and deceive tic
people.
When cnce reason las resumed her sway
over tbat people. they cann"t fail to sec tie
abyss into vhicb Mr.. Seward has been hurry
i"g their constitutional liberty. They might
have been willing to become tic subjects of o
great military chieftain, whose genius and
p-owass had recovered tie seeded States, and
who stocd ready and able to dictate CT Ame.
rican policy FOR this continent TO the govern
mcnts OF Europe. AZ other natioIs lave
been &a2zicG hy tho blaze Of military glory.
and, while they lost their individual liberty,
retained the splendors ci national greatness,
so the people of the United states might have
consented to tie subrers!on Of their Co3sJitu.
ton, if the prospect Of great national en-
rire, extending from the Lakes 10 the lsthmus,
had promised The qualification Of national
pride. But to sink into subjects Of Lincoln
and Seward. of Stanton and Welles with
Halleck as Chief Provost Marshal, we cannot
believe them capable of such degradation.
When experience shall bave openel their
eyes to the snd, expensive and wicked folly
into which, for the last three years, they haze
been durcd ard deceived by Lincoln and
Seward. that people must see and understand
that, though secession has divided ard dis
Elemhered the Union, and may have destroyed
Tie dream of empire, SO pleasing and dazzling
% popular imagination, yet, that for all the
purposes OF uas national greatness and indi-
Tidual happiness, secession Will not and can
rae have Injured them.
The lerritt!y Of me two republics is more
than aup,a FOR iii she material deyelopm en- +
;has The ncs: eStraragaut iraginations could
conceive. The difference in the systems of
labor, in the habits and tastes of the peoples,
have divided the United States, while war and
outrage, and crime, have made that division
permanent and irreparable. In the vain e.
fort to reubite the broken fragments CT the
Union, not only has many thousand valuable
lives been taken, and thousands of millions Of
treasure thrown away, but the success is moro
distant this lst of January, 1864, than at any
previous period in the progress of the war
Armies have uvcrrun States, at enc time
Mcclellan was in few miles of Richmond:
at another time Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
tcard the thunder Of Lees artillery: now
Grant is in Chattanooga, but Bragg's artillery
has been heard in Cincinnati. Military lines
are ever changing; peace alone marks out
boundaries. 1t is useless t. expect a people,
maddened with excitement, and rejoicing over
recent successes, to believe that their present
condition can change; they cannot realize
tha, battle may open up Pennsylvania to
Gen. Lee, or Tennessee and Kentucky to Gen.
Johnston.
Experience only can teach that people the
uncertainty Of battle, and the shifting yicissi-
tudes of tho fortunes of war. That expert
enee they are now realizing, as well as begin
ming to understand the policy Of the Cabinet
They are beginning to comprehend how PrCcla
nations have disrupted the Union how the
military policy has been devoted to the over,
throw of their own armies how the vast ex-
penditrres Of public treasures have enured to
the aggrandiaement of the minions of the
Executive and the Cabinet; and how their
fathers, sors, brothers and friends have been
hutchercd, for the peculiar use and benefit Of
Mr.. Seward Wespeak of Mr.. Seward alone =:
because il is vel known that he furnishes tho
b,ains Of the Cab;nss, and IS justly responsible
for all the wickedness his minions, in and cut
Of the Cabinet, have committed.
Returning reason must convince that people,
that the two Republics contiguous in bound
aries and similar in form Of government oan>
not have conflicting or divergent interests :;
that. despite OF present passions and animosi-
ties, mutual iaterests will compel that reci-
procty Of trade and intercourse which an en-
lichtened civilization has shown to exist
among all nations. In their celmer moments,
that people viii recognize that the Monroe
Doctriuc, for the American continent, may be
enforced when thore are two or more Repub-
lies, which, uniting their voice and influence,
shall demand that European Governments in
terfere not in american aifa;rs; but that an
long as the Confederate States and the United
States exhaust their resources in mutual des.
tructicn, Louis Napoleon will laugh at the
empty threat Of the United States. The effort
Of Napoleon to plant scion Of the House
Of Hapsburg upon the American continent,
when considered in connection with the fact
that he seized upon the existence of the pre-
sent war to accomplish his object, should open
the eyes Of both nations TO tho fact, that the
mutual exhaustion of this war invites
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