, 1864-12-09
End of Volume III.

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week and will continue it to No 81, unless
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our price, and something more congenial to
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Of either of these things occurring. We
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lieved we were returning, value received for
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and so long as under our control, the STATES
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ficial to remain SO in the future, We will ask
their patronage upon that ground alone.
THE RULERs.-Henry Winter Davis, after de-
nouncing Lincoln as a "usurper," and guilty OF
great outrage upon the legislative authority Of
the republic, finally came out in favor of the
reelection, giving the following reason for SO
doing:
'If Mr.. Lincoln is elected, Benz. Wade and
the men that stand with him, are the Presidents
and rulers of the Republic. That is ny opinion
of the contest and Of its ultimate results
In order to know what the policy of Ben.
Wade and these boasted "rulers" willbe in the
event that Mr.. Lincoln hands the reins Of Gov
eminent over to them, we have the opinion OF
Henry J. Raymond Chairman of the Republican
National Committee and editor of the New York
Times, on the subject. The Times is excel
lent Republican authority 1t says of Wade
& Cos policy:
"They have sought, steadily and consistently,
their conquest, the seeded States subjuga-
tion and determination as States in order that
they might found on them new empire based
upon their own ideas, and to be made by their
own counsels. They have sustained the war,
not as a means of restoring the Union, but to
free the slaves, seize the lands crush the spirit
destroy the rights, and blot out forever the po-
litical freedom of the people inhatiting the
Southern States"
These are the objects of the Wade faction to
which it is boasted that Lincoln sold out, to Sc
cure his reelection. If they are to be the "Pres-
idents and rulers" being steady and consistent
men, no one need to be in doubt about the
course they will pursue. But we shall see after
little whether Mr.. Lincoln hands the reins o.
government over to them or not. If he fails tc
do SO, we will have Wade manifestos in abun-
dance denouncing him as a usurper and tryan
and pronouncng the government despo
tism of the worst order. The only chance fol
Lincoln to save himself from the hands of the
contending factions in his own party, is for hin
TO conclude peace with the South before hii
re-inauguration on the 4th of March next L
a peace is not effected by that time he will have
one or other of the wings of his own party bit
terly opposed to him, besides the ''inevitablC
Copperhead opposition;" which oppositiOncom
bined, would be rather stiff current to stem
while 'crossing the stream"