Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-08-04

srfu armies most skuly led have heretofore failed te
conquer them and think will fail long we pursns
this fatal policy,
Now, Mr. President appeal TO Senators whether 1t ID
not time to pause aud inquire whether that policy which
certainly united the Southern people in their cause
aud which quite certainly has divided the Northern peo
peD their support of ours ought to be abandoned at
Why persist it ionger7 Can do nothing to retrieve
fortune by retracing seps3 Can we not divide
the rebels aud unite the loyal of the Loyal States by
going back to the single idea of for the Unon OF 10
it too late Have lost irrecoveraby our hold on
the affections of counymen who were for the Union
in l66l-even in 1862 Is there no way by which we
could satisfy them that yet Union and not con-
quest and subjugation2 And what difference IN the
meaning of those two phrases The first offers the hand
of brother the second threatens the yoke of master
Or obliged now to exchange the hopes we had Of
Southern Union men for that other and miserable hope in
the negro2 Is he all that is left of loyalty in the South
and the only ally rely upon to aid us in restoring
the Union2 Ye gods what have come TO at last?
Either TO yield to unholy rebellion, to dsmember an
empire, go into national companionship with the ne
go Is this the alternative which madness has
brou ght us2
Mr. President, these things enough to drive sane
man mad After all preenson all Boosting, how
absurd will appear in the eyes of all other nations we
fail in this struggle Especially almost all the measures
about which have occupied ourselves fer the last three
have been based upon already assumed
fixed fact We provided for confscating the estates
of rebels before got posseson emancpated slaves
before we got them from their masters and provided
for the disposition of conquests have not made we
disposed the skin of the and the bear itself is
yet uncaught All this haYe put upon the records the
statute book win bear witness against in all coming
4 ma and yNac he
Mr. President our Government intended to be
of law preemneutly Of law There to be nothing in
the administration of it left to the arbitrary will OF an in
diyidua individuals. This its merit, intended
so, par ezceenee for preserving it's character in
that respect strictly Let man, rcm the President
down to the most petty officer dare to do any thing,
whether friend enemy, except warranted by law.
Let make according to law, and let have peace
according to law. If fight belgerent enemy let US
do it according to the law of nations If punish
strain refrac ory Citizen let do it by the law OF the
land by due process of law Had we had faith in our
Constitution and laws and people, had not been in
our present condition. Had made and alone,
4 the loyal people North and South to would have
been with u.s. The of faction if not entirely hushed
would have been harmless The capital Of the demagogue
would have been worthless and the nation would have
been irresistible Had treated the negro the Const
tuition him. person. another had made
no distincoupr Inference between him and other citizens,
had aroused against him that tribal antathy which
will be far likely to destroy him than false phiian-
thropy will be likely to elevate him in the scale of being
III he friendly 10 the use could have been
made of him that we have msde; could have enlisted
him in our armies have been enistDg him 10
navy for long years We could have received him as
volunteer if he able bodied without looking to his
complexion and we could have drafted him without in
curing into the relations which existed between him and
his master any than inquire into the relations Of
the white of twenty years of age with his parent or
his guardian State laws adjusted all those questions but
to the Untsd Satest made difference whether be owed
service TO individuals not; bs owed his first duty to
the Republic military service required Al this
lawful and oya man did or wonld have COM
planned Of it, kindly done In the proper spirit.
have only TO say in conclusion sir that hope that the
Joint resolution will not be repealed and that this and all
kindred projects will fail in the future for the simple
son that they CITIZEN the rebels by uniting their people
with them and they weaken the Union by dividing
its friends sad dsractng them with unnecessary issues
Let unite upon the single idea Of uppressng the armed
opposition to the Government Let the energies Of the
naton be devoted solely that purpose and may
yet come, If success lie possible.