The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-25

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cago, to nominate candidate for the Presi
dency. A Congressional Democratic eau
Gus. which lately assembled at Washington
has adopted resolutions disappearing Q
L,ncoln's emancipation proclamation ah'
also declaring In favor of such poiey IL
wards the people of the insurgent States, 81
Is best calculated to bring the war to close
and restore said States to the union, under 'h'
Constitution, with all their constitutions
rights unimpared 1t is also announced
that the greatest harmony prevails between
Democrats and Conservatives.
This intelligence Is not without interes
in the Southern Confederacy. Amos Ken
dali, who lately presided over conservative
meeting in Philadelphia, gravcly announced
that a suspicion had recently sprung up il
his mind that the Coufederates really intend
ed to dissolve the Uuion We frankly con
fess that an idea OF the same sort has NOR.
than once occurred to us since the first
blood was shed at Bethel We have not been
able to dismiss the apprehension that perma
nent alienation of feeling might spring NJ
from the constant chickering's of Yankees and
Confederates for the last three years. Per
hans il is owing to respondent tempera-
ancnt, or natural propensity to looking Oh
fhe dark 81 lie but, so it is, we have some
times found that the constant: recurrence OF
such unfraternal hroils as those of Manassas,
on the Peninsula, in Northern Virginia, il
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and every othe'
Southern State, might lead ultimately to a
separation aud dispersion Of the whole happy
American family. We have at times ianei, q
that We heard the rattle of musketry, The
roar OF cannon, the groars Of the wounded,
the sorrowtul signing OF captives that We
have seen the pale faces of dead mtn, the
fearful eyes of widows, and whole districts
of country, once the garden spots of the
earth, changed into bowling Wilderness
We have even dreamed OF millions Of men be
ing in arms, Of despot at Washington filing
dungeons with prisoners; Of Southern SCI
diers tortured and hung; of great battle
fields, where twenty or thirty thousand fallen
warriors slept their last sleep on earth. Al
this must have been dream, engenderedby
iheiexcited state of the public mind for the
last three years, and the examinations ana
determinations which have passed between
estranged and unnatural brethren. A Ike
etfec. seems TO have been produced upon the
venerable Kendall, { ow We should think
ABOUT the age Ct Methusalah,l and the appa-
rition has been 80 much like daylight life that
he begins, ike ourselves, TO fear that he is
awake, and that all this is not an oppressive
nightmare, but horrid reality.
The National Democrats of the United
States have not yet arrived at the sombre
aud intelligent apprehensions Of the melan
choly Kendall. They appear to indulge SAN
guine hopes Of the probability Of ayeriing
that dismal catastrophe, the dissolution OF
the Union, by such policy towards the in
snrgent States as viii bring them back in love
and confidence to the dear old family hearth.
stone. They evidently look upon the visions
which more or less have visited all mems
minds, of blood, slaughter, desolation,
groans, and wailings, as mere phantasmago-
ria, Illusions Of the eye and ear--possibly,
even forerunners Of coming insanity, which
may, however, be averted by judicious
curse of treatment. They therefore pro-
pose certain "poiicy," "policy"-loveiy
word, suggestive Of everything honest, can
did, and boyeboard-which will soothe and
harmonize all conflicting elements aud dis
miss from the body polite forever those dis
tempered dreams which are now haunting
its Imagination. They will open the eyes OF
the wretched sleepers, and enable them to
wake upand thank God that all this has been
dream. The mothers, wives, and sisters whose
faces are wet with bitter tears, viii wake to
find their loved ones once more in their
warm embrace; the aged father viii grasp
once more to his heart the manly son who
was his pride and hope, and whom in
adream OF agony he had seen mangled and
dead upon furious battle field the captain
who had fancied himself in a dismal cell, pin
ing away his life in q hopeless captivity, will
wake TO breathe once more upon his native
sod the free air of heaven. The dry bones Of
the vision will stand up an exceeding great
army, rising from their multitudiuous graves
rs ii the last trumpet had sounded, and bear
ing a,off the celestial banner of the Stars
and Stripes. Davis and Liacoln will rush
nto each Others loving arms, the inevitable
negro will once more return tn his appro-
pirate sphere, and-the Democracy will di
vide the spois.
TO dismiss these blissful visions, and come
to sober, waking truth We must say in al,
sincerity that We regard the Northern De.
anocraey ard their 'policy" AZ the worst
torn of Northern hostility which has been
manifested in The war But for them we
should not be where we now are. But for
the military ch,eltains and soldiers of North.
crn Democracy, who once proiessed to be
the bitter enemies OF coercion In every shape
and form, the war could not have lasted two
mouths. The Black Republicans proper, un-
aided By the Democratic element, would
have beer struck with paralysis before Ljn-
coin had been three months In his seat AT
The same time, however, that this 'spoli.ic''
party has given the war its chief impetus in
leaders and men, it has professed policy of
peace upon honorable te.ms, which was far
more formidable in its arts than the conf
Tined arms Of all parties at the North
There was at one period of the war more
danger from its seductive tongue than the
{ brawling and bitter mouths Of Lincoln and
his Cabinet. Even now, we would much
rather have Lincoln for the President of the
United States than the candidate of the Con.
hervative Democracy. Lincoln seems to
have been raised up, as was George the
Third, TO render restoration Of Colonies to
their tyrants impossj&ae. II be had pursued