Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-27
Concluded from the first pGgs.l
VICTORIES ALONE CANNOT RESTORE PEA'

But why why my frienda, should success on tue Daue
6ald d;pin,h The chsncss Of Gen McCleans electonf
5bat 10 stle reason IL there for such result NO
body ia ag presume that the hero Of Antletam woud
he lees prudent OF less sklei sgperntsoaen q su
stsnton. Nobody dreams that he would be hsey 70 ~
terlere disadvapageousy with the condnct q ING T
Tie President, certainly could mol nave Iro him
he &c -ouy connived few weeks ago AZ ueis IN
high command il ne would only decline W 70 IT, p
gor The Presidency Laughter and applause ne p ne
pubicsn party will hardly be ready 70 accuse tue Ifesl
a. MT OF bepe willing to buy of dargT competor al
the tapeuse Of putting doubt u general into the ned
No the civil policy OF the EN- mni9n 1ou,
MclslIan Il r. lied upou change IL 10 the civil polcy
- he S;ni,traton which imperatively demands to he
chnSed We believe that this civil policy OF the Admins.
traou prevented all our msry Inc pas
snd viii il conipued. prevent all our military successes
r. tb ure from esctng the great end for which we are
:, edIlethe only end for which we could constitution
stv he up arms We believe that this civil pohcy-f
y ihfa the Augmentation has recently done can fairly
b. ca civil [sughisr>-has been calculated to extin.
gil Every spark OF Union sentiment 10 the southern
tae. that has been calculated to drive those States
e. sv cut of the Uni instead Of being adapted to draw
them back to their old allegiance Cheers We believe
mat bs civil policy has tended to breathe spirit OF de-
Bne and Desperation into the breasts Of every Southern
man. and woman and child that has rendered the work
cf our own brave soldiers thousand fold harder to be
achieved and has thus far given them os barren and
frci'less victory whenever they have succeeded.
Who wild enough to imagine that mere military
runth can accomplish that great contamination OF Union
a. eace Is the dew ut wsh and prayer OF every
patriotic art7 Applause Why, my friends we may COON
CO.. querng conquer mouth after month ana year
Of Ell yesri may overcome armies we may laGe pos
se, sion OF Cities may "trip and devastate whole TERRI
trs and 70 oious of country msy make solitude and
cal il bur the restoration OF the Old Union OF our
fathers with all the States in their constitutional relsuon
70 he General Government and all the ftars upon the
folds Of our ccuntrys flag will require something more
tbsn any force of arms can affect lAppause NO
no. svy th more CLEARLY Admitted it more frankly than
Pre.d, Mt Lincln himself when he declared emphat
call. IN his Inaugural address, Suppose you 60 to war
Iou fight aways; and when after much loss on both
sds and no Jain either you cease fighting the iden
cn aops AZ to terms OF intercourse again upon
you The great advantage Of victories my trends Is ID
opening the wsy for wise coDciliatory hethpg pocy
10 cou in aud settle the questions issue; and ills thus
q, The ry mt those Wet es achieved that
we mot iced at the head of the Government who can
turn the trumphs of our armies to the only acoount
f which they are worth straw. 1t th-his epph-
cation of wlse conciaory healing pollcy-which must
follow close upon the track of mtary triumph IN order
TO r. nder it fruitful s this for which the present Ad
mtis1ratCp az we tliak is wholly incapacted and for
vhcb we believe Administration is the great aud
cessy Of the hour 1t is IN this view that
victories insteBd Of mparing the prospects OF Gen. Nc
Crians con, ought to plead trumpet tongued IN his
behalf The question prompted BY every victory should
be- Where, where are the men who can turn all TINS
carnage account, and render repetition OF
il pedle.s Where the men who can RaVe us from
the preach If having shed all this precious blood in vain
and can orsnste and pursue po9cy wn,ea sha make
are the men, where is the man, who can eItrcate bis
country from impending ruin, by frat extricatng himself
from all mere sectional and partisan pledges and entsnge
snts and by painting bimself the simple platform o.
ihe Cons,itutcn1" Loud cheers These are the ques
tops hci each succeeding victory should call upon US Il
put 10 ourselves and these questions which, IN udg
Ipeut only Satisfactorily by the resolution
change he Administration If any man would vote To-
Gen 10 Gaze our military had
Cured huudredfold more should vote for him now
rCbeers Without those successes 1t mattered little
no was President We could have accomplished nothing
But it'll them way s opened for new President to
store Uu, and peace TO our land Shall not have
ne Pendent take advantage of that opening {" Yes
ysl"l -- o,,ov n,,,,nn
end more deliberately You will not expect me- my friends
10 so tnck he ogn of the great srute gle 10 which we
are moved can tell you thing about the history OF
the pas, uhlch is abundsnily familiar to you You al
know that w-ptcu and 1ltfsble rebellion agsins ou
National Government inausurated In South Caroin
pes )y years sgoi that 1t soon expanded % tne pro
nortDs of The most gigantic civil the world has
nit essed and that IL Is raging msdy and wildly ul fo
Al know Ire story Cf Its rise and progress You all know
~ mich treasure and how much blood IL has ALREADY
90, Aud yop all know what has been accomplished
Tcn have followed brave soldiers and sailors in al
iber tolls and pers oil their reveTses and in all thel
tunIhs se land aud on the ses from that hst mos
;mnte,siye scene Fort Sumter, when the stars
aripes were lifted by the gallant Andersen on the breat
of solemn prayer down TO the last acoievemenu Q
Nole hay aud in the valley Of the Shenandoah CHEERS
You have watched, too, the Of cv rulers
Washington 4 heir sbirg and drifting polcy-as it ha
been trsus develop ed In resolutions aud proclamatons
and mantle 4" TO whom it may concern is famia
IT, you Ill., You know what they hsve promised and yo
In bat they have performed in the past and you know
what ID, y propose for the future.
and now il is for you and for each Of you TO say
h tber you satisfied 10 recOmmt the hnal destiDe
his Republic TO The hands; whether you are sat
bsyd tb- now in power are IN the way OF bring
ing his fes full struege to sale end successful termna
ton vbeher 10 word you ready to take your shar
of TIE responsibility OF continuing their domination throug
that PrrdrDli term Of all others which IL to decid
be b-r hrTe hail ever again be Precedent over thu
bylr Uulted States Of AIperics7 Applause For my
se have Fsid elsewhere, have reflected deliberately
aud dee y th question, and have In vain ATTEMPTED
~ resist he conclusion that the best interests OF ou
cunuy ard the best hopes Of restoring the Union Of
county, cemuDd change Of national rulers have
not been ebe to resist tue conclusion that almost oLe
party uCu be able than the Republican party, ant
au ost any other PresIieIt would he likely thar
Abraham Line D TO accomplish that great contamination
which every Christian patriot ought to have, and
have ct besrt--tbe earliest practicable restoration
uniUp end peace snd constitutional liberty to fl cte(
land have lot been able TO resist the conviction tina
shera would be better chance under any other Admins
srat than tie present for speedily efecng termina
ton If The rebellion upon that basis Of the Union as
and the Coust luton s which the only legt
mate ain oil loyal [Cheers
corcEnSInG THE SWAPPING OF HORSES
Ard lei ne roy, 10 the fret place, my friends, that
should have To this conclusion as think, without
auy regard 10 the peculiar policy which the Administration
has sdop.ed ring the last two years should have
Cou c 70 his cope.uson upon the plain, common
Eepe views Vhch Presdtn ut Lincoln himself seems to
have 5prr'spd upon somewhat similar state Of facts
.foue you may remember, perhaps TO have
count an ursrview which certain very earnest anti
,Uv ~ gentlemen ff Massachusetts held with the Presi-
dent etett lille ago. the subject substtutpp