The mountain Democrat., 1864-10-15
OF IPRAcH.

The proofs Of . general desire for an
honorable peace multiply. The mechanics
'11S s8SrrAents ,YeFT EOr pssGS ~ sa%'S-
sis Of the Union; for one dag with COM
mon azure Geld. 1t is the pervading SEN
timent Of the eountry-South and North,
East and West. There was Q desire, or q
yearning, analogous to this feeling among
the people Of England after they felt the
Norman heel on their necks and they
ionged for the old Saxon days Of rights
and liberties. To-day the people long for
a renewal Of the state Of friendly relations
between the States Of the American Un-
ion.
Who can make peacee Is the ssces.
sion theory the way to iti Will peace
come by creating two, or three, or dOz.
en- American UnionsI We see in this
path but war and anarchy, loss Of nation
al power, faithlessness to the greatest
trust q generation ever had transmitted 10
it. We had the patience to go through
British pamphlet on our country-carv.
ing us up, and parcelling us ont, with the
coolness with which butcher carves up
an OK slicing OF Maine to Cenada among
the rest OF course it leaves New En-.
gland nowhere. If there ever was Q spot
on Gods footstool that British toryism
absolutely hated, it was New England !;
aud because it faithfully applied the etsr
nal truths Of republicanism that Sydney
and Hampden fought for; and il there is
q soil on which legitimate State Rights
to use Amos KendalI's term-.ever
was appreciated and applied by mejorities
it was once New England. This Brit
ish secession sympathizer about annihi.
lates New England In word; it sets
up half dozen Republics a. certain -
American citi3en-lover Of your country
have you 90 much of Q lurking tsnden.
cy to accept-acquiesce in, eVen-s divid-
ed land as basis Of peaceP Read one Of
these exulting and insulting British Seces.
sion pamphlets, and we should suppose II
would cure you. Surely it is no pathway
towards peace to 60 for diuided country.
Say rather peace with this basis is impos.
sible 4
Can there be peace SO long as Mr. Lin
coin and his eet-th's engineers who run
now the political machine-are at the
head Of affairsf Who are they, pray D
How often are Democrats pointed to Stan.
ton and Holt and Halleck and Dickinson
and now Andy johnson with the remark,
Democrats run the machine. Who does
not know that they hold their positions
on the tacit bargain to screen the men
and the measures they have, their whole
lives long, condemned that they have to
bend and cringe to the real engineers
that it is mockery-an insult to call
their adhesion to Mr.. Lincoln that oi
Democrats. They are Democrats no long.
eri They have been powerless but to do
the ruinous work Of carrying out abolition
measures, and the whole country knows
it; and no Democrat, for a moment, will
accept one Of the n as an exponent.
The real engineers are well known
their real theories and their objects. They
are the same Abolition set that every
Democratic National Convention that ever
met characterized and denounced as ene-
mics of the Constitution and the Union.
One Of them is Charles Sumner, with his
Cosmos theory of the South. as clean as Q
sheet of white paper, and he second
Locke to write all ovsr it new law
Where, in Gods name, is there the first
sign of any hope whatever Of peace on
this theOryi There is Henry Wilson ;
and he has hundred times over pledged
himself to work on until the sun shall rise
on no master and set on no slave. How
can he bring peaceP Is not the moral
force Of his whole past arrayed in phalanx
against himH There is William II. Sew.
ard, who reiterated Rufus Kings idea
that as to a citizens rule in civil affairs,
there is higher law than the Consitu-
ton, and who sanctioned the whole line
Of Abraham Lincoln's transactions, can
he make peace? Who supposes it possi-
be for him to do it? Is he not the &C
credited father Of the irrepressible conflict
doctrineP Did Helper, and John Brown
class Of small abolition demagogues, do
more than put his volcanic words into
acts of blood? can he give peace to the
countryP But further: the doctrines OF
Garrison are HOW the doctrines at the top.
Has not this man for thirty years, literal.
ly cursed and sworc against the Union ?
Has he not continually called it cove
nant With death and an agreement with
hell? This man Of peace. with words Of
blood on his tongue, has no hand for the
rifle to go to the front, but stays behind
where safety is, and urges schemes that
turned this land into holocaust of blood.
Is there peace element IN him or his
theories? God forbid that he should be
an agency for peace! Once more, and to
go to the head? Did not Abraham Lin.
coin announce that this country must be
either all free. or all slavei With this
well known. party took this man as
their candidate; and though adrOit and
deceptive, and making nothing Of solemn
pledges to others,he has been true to this
idea-true to Phillips, Garrison, Wilson.
and the abolition conspirators. AS the
Chief Magistrate Of the country, speaking
not in accordance with law or the Consti.
tuition, but on his so-called military neces-
sity principle, he dares to tell this nation
there shall be no peace until his pArtizau
talk to get political power is realized un-
til great communities change their local
law until slavery is destroyed Ameri-
can citizen, how can there possibly be
peace with this class of politicians in pow.
er-wielding the purse and sword-the
vast naval and military power Of this ma
ti0nf Look for the milk Of human kind
ness in the wolf, bat do not look for peacs
SO long as Mr.. Lincoln is at the head O.
affairs.
The first step in the direction Of peace
on the basis Of the Constitution and tn,
Union, ia to change the National Admin
istration. Let every good citizen rous'
up his genius to effect this work. It i,
the only path Of honor or to peace.
Boston Post.
Ma. WEIR, one Of the Lincoln nomi
nees for electOr, in Kentucky, says, in 1