The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-03-25
From the Delapareda.
TThs Campaign of 1854.

1ou ptfonSy W oa1 ehot 1ho ucStiutce VI
Ibis nation are hinged upon the result-of
the campaign for the Presidency in 1864.
The election of true friend to republican
to the Constitution, and the
Union as it was, will certainly bring order
out of the present chaos of national affairs,
and eventually win back the revolted
States to the Union while the continu-
ance Of the present incumbent of the Pre-.
chair in Office, or the bestowment
of the place on any of his political associ-
ates, cannot fail to perpetuate the present
confusion and in the end lead to the total
overflow Of all our cherished plans Of free
government, A brief review of the course
Of events during the last few years must
lead, any calm and impartial reasoner to
this conclusion.
The principle difficulty in the way Of
change Of administration is the disposition
manifested by the Republican leaders to use
the war power as an electioneering ma
chine, and to set aside our old-estabIished
mode Of electiug officers by the will Of the
majority expressed through the ballot box,
as they did to considerable extent in the
Border States in the election of Represeu.
tatives to Congress. Another obstacle to
an expression of the will of the majority
in the approaching campaign is foreseen in
Mr.. Lincqln's plan Of reconstruction in
the rebcllious States, by which one tenth
Of the voting population will be allowed
to vote under military control, and cast
the whole electoral vote Of such State
Still, the people, who desire a change,
should not be cast down and relinquish
hope in view of the possibility of defeat,
but with full consciousness of their
rights, and interests, and duties, put forth
every manly effort to accomplish cher
ished purpose. A candidate sound to the
core 10 hls opposition to the principles
and practices Of Black Republican Adolf
tion.sm, u statesman of ability and tried
patriotism, whose exalted worth can con-
ceptratc the whole conservative vote of the
the country in his favor, should be ucui-
mated by the Democracy in the coming
campaign. With such man for lead
er we need have no doubts of his election,
even thong h the war power is evoked,
both in the adheriug and in the rebellious
States to accomplish bis defeat.
. We believe the country is heartily sick
of the present administration, and that
hundreds of thousands of those who voted
for it in 1860 will joyfully record their
votes against it in 1864, aud with reason.
They have discovered that it is not only
treacherous and dishonest, but absolutely
incapable of comprehending the vast in
terests intrusted to its keeping. They
have seen it break faith time after time
with the people. Beginning with the
Chicago platform for its chart, which de-
clared its purpose to be not to interfere
with the question of slavery in the States,
they have seen it resolve the government
into huge negro-stealing and negro-equal.
izing establishment. Commencing the war
with the assurance that it was only to be
waged for the preservation of the Union
and the maintenance of the Constitution,
they find it at the end of three years de.
clariDg that the war should not cease until
every negro slave is free. Entering Office
with professions of apurpose to economi-
caAy administer tie government, they find
that at the end of three years our national
indebtedness has been increased from eight
ty. to two thousand millions of dollars
Finding the country in healthy and pros
porous condition on its accession to power,
it promises to leave it bankrupt and ruin,
ed. 1t found the expenses Of government
sustained by light tariff on imports, it
now requires loans amounting to about
six hundred millions of dollars annually,
besides an onerous tariff on foreign pro-
auctions, and burdensome excise tax on
every branch of industry. 1t promised to.
end the way in three months with seventy.
five thousand troops-,he war has lasted ,
for three years, and a million of men have
been called into the field, and its cry
is still for more. Humanity shudders
when it learns that in this war half a =.
million OF men have been cut down In the
vigor Of manhood to fill sntimely graves
or lipger out miserable existence from
wounds in the field or sickness in the
camp. Millions Of acres Of the fairest
soil the SUP ever shone upon have been
laid waste, and property Of untold value
sacrificed to the relentless fury of ADOLF
tionism. Besides the treasure exhausted
to keep armies aGeld and nayies afioat,
and the blood shed during these three
years, We have lost, all through trusting
Abolitionism with power, the labor of a
million Of men at the pillow, the loom and
the anvil-an aggregate productive value
of eighteen hundreds millions Of dollars. Z,
All this we have lost for the want Of
craftsmanship iu this administration, from
its want of the spirit Of Cancellation and
comp omise and true patriotism, and from
its yielding to the behest Of Abolition.
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And now what have WEI A bankrupt
national government, ten States still in
revolt, three others merely held in sub.
lection by military force; 40 immense
standing army of whites, and negroes 4.
constitution violated in all the provisions