The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-06

| letbargy eud despair that had crept over tbo
pubiic mind trcmedahlc Is sthe strength which
The Oppositinn 'as gathered through those mis-.
takes SO potent thA resistance Il vain ? Must VIZ
submit 20 defoat, not through the Inherent
strength Of our oppJne,. Is, but In succumbinV IN
The weakness which ~ our selves have sepera.ed
and uurturCd} Is thefe 10 hose let for usp
Mt 30. Our cause to-day is stronger than
ever before. Let Us understand and ackuo yled ye
That TINS apprehension Of the future had its origin
IN our unmanly fears, aud not 10 the actual con-
duion Of silairs The AdminislrNtoR to-day is
precisely what It was, aud what we know Il was
SIX months-a ycar-fEo years-ago. It Is not
NAT II has developed any new charlcters'ics,
hut hat We, through impotence and the egreri-
ous folly Of eXtrayagant expectations. have been
called upon 90 meet new disappointments We
have met them every ycar--eycry six months
since the war begun: We have met them and
overcome them bravely, with, at the eud Of each
period, new triumphS 10 encourage aud strengthen
uH. Shall We give up in despair when 50 near
the end We might, indeed have a better Adj
ministraton; we might have one, on the other
hand, thousand times worse. We shall have q
we're before VIC have a better.
But II Is too late now 20 take a new departure
We must accept the situation with all its dim ul-
tics, II the Administration wants vigOr, give il
yigOr Il IL wants earncstness give il eurnestnsss
If It wants understanding, give il understanding.
lnluse IL with peoples will; invigorate il with
peoples courage; reinforce It with q peoples
confidence oyerwhelm il with peoples deter
miDation that treason and slavoTy shall never
prevail against them, but that both shall be
trampled under their feet But never desert IT,
Never let It's shortcomings its weaknesses its
shoTt-sightcdness and its DELAYS defeat us god
knows 1t might have done better; God alone
knows how much worse 1t might have done
We know, ut least, that with IL we have come
well nigh TO the overthrow of the Rebellion; We
know that, with little patience, little more
energy, little more courage, we shall soon come
TO its utter overthrow. The end is near, the good
and the true end is certain, if we are faithful 70
ourselves, even with such tools as we have. The
choice is no longer ours, whether we will throw
them aside and try new ones. We must do this
work with such as VIC have or not do II at ALL
II we throw them aside and abandon tho work
TO other hands, where are we Alas! who
does not know The best that eau befall US in
Coppcrhead triumph is disunion--disunon
first between the North and the South, to meet
thereafter, as best we may, the question of new
boundaries, TO bo settled by new wars, the East
and the West, the Pacific and the Atlantic coast
arrayed against each other. Or, il Union shall
be maintained, 1t will be a Union that shall
mean only annexation; the North tied-ted
hand and foot and delivered over-tO q slave
holding Confederacy, the appendage TO an oil
gsrchy of Shareholders; slavery made legal all
over the North and West, both States aud Ter
ritoIies; the assumption of the Confederate debt
by the Federal Government; the unquestonAble
National d bt to be liluidated so ely oy Northern
taxation the right OF suffrage denied to Northern
laloring men extension of representation to the
owners OF slaves; IN short, anything that JEFF.
Davis and his fCllOw-cOnspiratOTs may choose to
demand as the price of our submission, as the
terms on which they will agree TO grant us peace
and pardon. They may have us on their own
terms; for there are none go eXacting, mono so
degrading, none so base, that their Northern
allies will not grant on q promise of being admit
ted TO be fed once more on the crumbs shat fall
from their masters table.
Choose ye! For our part, we have chosen.
Better perpetual dinner of herbs than the stalled
OK In such company though, for that matter,
but little of the stalled OK would fall TO the share
OF those who believed in fighting for the Union.
HenCetOrth, we fly the banner Of Abraham Lin
coin for the next Presidency, choosing that far
rather than the Dsuuion and a quarter of cen.
tury Of wars, or the Union and political scrvitudc
which our opponents would give us. Let the
country shake of its apathy; let il realize what
is the price of defeat-a price neither We nor the
world can afford let il be understood how near
we are to the end of the Rebellion, and ahat no
choice is left us now but the instrument put into
our hands, and that with that we can aud must
hnish Ii.
We grant, from our own convictions much that
can he said in criticism of the present Admins
tratiOn for the sake of argument, we will grant
anything that any honest and loyal man can say.
And then this is our rejoinder-Mr. Lincoln has
done seven eighths of the work after his fashion;
thrre must be vigor and virtue enough left in him
to 60 the other fraction. The work is in his
hands If il passes out of them, il will be- as there
are no better but far worse, TO receive il, to our
utter ruin. We MUST re-eect him, and, God
helping us, we WILL.