The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-12-02
The Richmond Examiner on the Re.
Election of Abraham Lincoln.

We believe, says the Richmond Examiner,
that Abraham Lincoln is Chief Magistrate
of the eDemys country for four years long
or. How be accomplished this object
whether tho transaction is properly called
an election, or an usurpation, or a coup d
efdt--is the affair of his Own subjects, and
no concern of ours. There he is, and along
with him the whole War Administration.
more bent OH slaughter and confiscation
than ever, and backed by the great war in
terest, hungry for new and more enormous
contracts. II would be idle speculation for
US to occupy ourselves with the possible ro-
volt of the defeated and disappointed party
among our euemies. or the probable break
down OF their financial resources, with the
chance OF riots, or resistance TO drafts, or
conspiracies to separate the Western States;
all those things are contingent and pre-
carious--may happen and may DOT.
What we are certain of. the real. present,
inevitable fact is, that the whole of the ma
,eriaI resources. the army, the navy, the ar
sepals. tho treasury of the Federal States,
all are now firmly g'asped and welded By
the hands OF those who have vowed to de-
strov US, to seize our lands and houses, to
beggar our children, and brand our names
forever as the names Of felons and traitors.
This 10 the estimation" This Is what wo
have now 70 deal with; and on the way in
which we meet II depends the whole future
of our race aud nation. II We shrink from
the conflict. better we're it for Us and ours
that We had never been born. Fortunately
there is no middle course for Us. We must
be victors, or we must be annihilated; and
! it 10 better so. We are glad that there 10
no room for su omission. Submission would
be but running to meet the shameful doom
of suhjugation; IL would not save us ono
acre of ground, one right of citizenship;
the party that has placed Lincoln at its
head for another term 10 not to be cbested
out of ts prey now by compromises of elem
epcy. II knows what il has staked, and
has counted up what il means to win.
The Yankee nation has committed itself
to the game ci all or nothing; and 90 must
we. The only question for us now 10,
whether We shall call forth all the energies
and resources OF our country, all the cour-
age and manhood of our race. to drive back
the foul invaders of our homes, and make
| them expiate their crimes With their own
base blood, or whether We shall fly from
our country, take false nance, hide our
shame in the ends of the earth. and "peep
about to find ourselves dish onorable graves"
-or else remain as generation of serfs,
to beg sboltor and employ ment from YAM
kee and negro masters. Such is the al
ternatiss.
But this remains to be said. Although
unsparing war, carnage and conquest may
be the present design or dream Of that ma.
ton and it's rulers, 1t by no means follows
that there are to be four years more OF war.
We do not believe that ,here eau be-
Man proposes. but he does not absolutely
dispose. and whether there can be oven one
other campaign depends not on the present
intention of any human being or human
Government, but on events which We Of the
Confederate States have quite as much
power to shape and determine as our enc
mics have. A strenuous determination
now to bring all our enrolled soldiers to
their post will, even before this year is out,
put Us clear through the bloody deiuge of
war. and place us on tho safe shore, from
whence at our ease We may look on at the
absurd and atrocious Yankee nation Going
to utter wreck 10 the storm it had coDjured
up for our destruction.