The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-12

volt. ana long Alno "a OSUAeyi ~--
local Offices, afFording bread and butter
for innumerable hungry mouths, danced
TO the tune of Dixie, bsfore them. The
Presidency, seats in Congress, and other
high positions, appeared within the grasp
the larger fish, and at once the cry OF
psace was raised, and echoed and re-
echoed from the Atlantic TO the Pacific,
and from the lakes to the southern Dor
ders of the loyal States.
But alas for their nicely laid plans!
They had mistaken disgust at want OF
y;gOr in the prosecution of hOstilities, for
= desire that the war should cease, upon
the only terms which would, at that time,
have been accepted by the SOuth-sePa-
ration; bat how wonderfully they were
aaistaI1sa The verdict 81 the people at the
polls, last fall, is a sufficient answer. The
Offices which had appeared within easy
grasp, were conferred upon wicked Abo-
Htionists, SO that the famine among
greedy aspirants for place through the
North was unprecedented, and bar-rOom
politicians, who had hoped to mix some
thing of the substantial with their bad
whisky, were compelled to hunger.
1t is not surprising if, under these I'M
toward circumstances, they were TO put
themselves mp at auction once more; men
of sterner virtue than they, have done so
before them. But we were entirely IN
prepared fox the new style of bidders
invited. We had expected they would
call for those who were for prosecuting
the war vigorously on conservative
principles"-that is, who were in favor
of compelling the negroes Of the South
to remain at home, and raise bread for
the rebel army; but in this we were mis-
taken. A district judicial convention has
lust been held in New Albany, Indiana,
the very centre of HOOsier COpperhead-
ism, and the Ledger, the organ of the
assembly, says the delegates were unan-
imous for MeClellAnl Unanimous for
Mcclellan, the man who, in his official re-
port or perhaps more properly, his
autobiography, which is being published
at the expense of the nation, avowed
himself il favor of carrying out the
confscaIiOn laws of Congress, relative to
slaves, Snd who declared that it might
be necessary to issue 5 proclamation of
emancipation applicable to whole States,
or districts, though he did not give his
opinion relative to the expediency of that
promulgated by the President He,
however, admitted the principle, and
thus ssps the foundations Of su the fine
arguments SO recently INDUCED in about
usurpations," and "viOlatsd cOnstitu-
tiOnal principles )" and this endorse
ment is made with . full knowledge of
Gen. McCIelIan's position, as it had been
published several days before the a.
sem bling offtho convention.
But this is not the only indication
that the late COppsrhead party is be-
coming AbOlitionized. We have before
as two papers which supported ValIan-
digham-suppOrted him, though print
ed outside of Ohio, for in that contest no
one in the nation was neutral--urging
his election with the greatest vehemence,
only admitting themselves secoad to the
Chattanooga Rebel and Cincinnati En-
quirer. One is toe NeWberrypOrt, Mas
sachusetts, Herald, long the organ of Ca
Ieb Cushing. It says:
slavery is to be abolished before this
war closes, come what will, oppose it
what will, and cost what it may. The
political opposition may say that the
people do not have freedom TO express
themselves; that does not matter; they
will not stop upon any nice points, an
expression will be had, and recorded.
They may tell US that the Union-as we
have understoodit-can not so be restor-
ed or the Constitution preserved Lett be
90; some Unions union of territory-.can
be had from the lakes TO the Gulf, and
the Constitution will be in force with all
the modern improvements The past is
q closed book, and whatever we may
have wished or believed, or labored for,
we may IS we'll prepare for the present
as il is, and let the future look out for it.
self IF il is better than the past, we
shall be the gamers; and if worse, we
shall only share the common lot; but bet
ter or worse, il is useless to whine and
grumble about what the people have de-
termined shall be; and if we read Alright
the signs Of the times, the popular decree
runs thus: First that this country shall
be one nation; not an acre or rod of il to
be given up, if the war must 90 on for
ever and eternally fog its unity, and
though we shall have to lay waste State
after State, till . territory bigger than
than all of Western Europe shall be turn
ed to q desert-depOpulsted and denu-
,ded-for that end. Second; that slavery
shall be wiped out The cause of the
war shall be removed more completely
than was the human race destroyed by
the great food, not eight persons survi.
wing in servitude to tell the story of the
past"
Nor is the language of the Pittsburgh
Post the most influential Democratic pa
per in Western Pennsylvania, less en-
phaiic. 1t remarks:
''We feel satisfied that the future peace
Of this now bleeding and distracted |
country requires the total extinction of !
slavery among US. We do not allude to
iss eradication this year or next. Our
idea is that its final abolition, at some
fixed period, is necessary for the future
peace Of this republic. One of the re-
suits Of the present rebellion will BE- the
weakening, or, perhaps, destruction Of
one of its eauses--slAYery in the South.
With that will follow the death of Abo-
liiion among ourselves. Then, after the
terrible experience of the present times,
our country will be re-creAted, and in
creased civilization, on luminous wings, /
will spread it's blessings upon q regene-
rated republic, destined to be the great
est nation upon which the sun has yet
shone."
We are Observation-Disclosures this
evidence Of the manner in which the