Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-15

oeive why, for this and for many other rea
sons, the Richmond Enquirer, the organ of Gen
Jefferson Davis, should express wish, as it does
for the success Of Mr.. Lincoln in the impending
election rather than of Gen. Mcclellan. 1t may wei
fear that the steadfast mind of the latter will know
no change in its fixed loyalty to the Union and the
Constitution. But the fluctuations of Republican
thought justify the expectation and the hope in
Richmond that the day will come when, on some
sudden and unexpected ebb of our military for
tunes, the present Administration, allowing it.
self to be controlled by eveots will agree to peace
on terms of disunion. That we do not speak
according to mere human probabilities, but that
such is the animating prospect held out to the
enemy by the infrmity Of purpose which he be-
ieves to exist in the present Administration, m
&c clearly read in the following suggestive obser-
vations Of the Richmond Enquirer in its number
of the Sth instant:
The national unity of empire or kingdom may be
by conquest but force belongs not 10 const tn
tona governments Compromise is the only principle by
which popular governments perpetuate their
when the appeal to made the peaceabe remedy
OF compromise was impossible; and four years of
has 80 wdened and deepened the gulf that the
two sections that they be again united peace
intoxicated by sudden and partial success Mr. Lincoln
may imagine that conquest within his power and
means No word of ours can be more convincing than
four years of but in the interest of humanity will The
sober thought dspe the deuson that by
the parties in this disgrscsul confetti We regard his
explanation by the editor Of The Washington organ re-
tertng as does TO The example Of Mr. Raymond
fcation before The parry step oDard lasting peace
Ii abandons the negro entirely and polts to MIR Greeley
ready to foego philanthropy and freedom for national
unity When partisan phreDzy and fanatcm thus reduce
their extraordinary demands the reasonable and
sensible OF the people, who bearing all the bur-
dens, enduring all the suferngs aud making all the
fees, will not long continue the for the shadow of
national unity That people, as well as our own will
soon see the folly of attempting to live together after such
war They will soon learn that n offensive aud deen
sve alliance of the two natonalt against the world with
separate governments for domestic affairs lies their true
and real interests we'll as tae road to lasting peace"
And, asif their own sagacity might not be enough
to induce the insurgents to place reliance on the
fckleness of Northern opinion under the aterra-
tons of military fortune, the New York Times,
one of the leading organs of the Administration,
fully endorses this view of the Richmond sheet
Only day or two ago it said:
There is not thing under the sun that this North
ern people needs so much We do not refer to
our armies; they have plenty OF it. We the mil
lions who are here at home looking out upon the war;
for instant coming within cannon range it, We
don't go the ront7 Not all They are not all wanted
there Their true place speaking in general at home
just where they They lack courage because they
lack that which is its rst element, rmne.s Of spirit
Who dares deny this? Is not every wtntss that
one Month ago the majority of people chilled be-
numbed almost paray zed with fear that the
would eDdf Does not every that the majority
half intoxicated with the fancy that it will -nd thin
three months probably and six months sure' That is
frmness of spirit 1t is just the opposite We have
disposition to undervaue recent They
truly vauable but not whit than others which
have occurred, aud which yet did not end the war;
In thus speaking of the " Northern people" the
Times should be understood, of course, to speak
only Of that portion of the Northern people for
whom it is entitled to speak-tha portion with
whom it is most familiar, as being embraced in the
ranks Of its own party. 1t might not be safe for
the Richmond Enquirer to count too confidently
on the ascendancy of party which has SO dis
heartencd the people that, in the judgment Of the
Times, they now lack the first element of courage
-frmness Of spirit