Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-15


which have concluded to adopt and the reasons Tor H.
First beg you to remember that the present Is no
common or customary Presidential eleeon !. occurs -
the m DIST of civil arising out of disputed succession
to the Executive power Disputed SUGGESTIONS are the
most frequent of civil not only IN Republics
but Monarches. despute about the succession
OF the President periodically begets aborve real
revolution in of the Spanish and American Re
pubc So the disputed succession OF the Spanish
begot that memorable thirty years which convused
| all Europe. dispute whether Juarez was the lawiu
President brought the present civil war win tne con
sequence of French Intervention in Mexico dispa.e
whether the present King of Denmark VINO
the throne last winter, is lawful heir 20 tho Duchies VI
Schleswig and Holsten brought about the cVi war IN
that country which, through German r h nn aaS
Just ended with the dsmemberment OF the Dahsn
kingdom 1t remarkable also that civil wars produced
by disputed invariably begin with oy
some one or more of the States provinces which con-
stitute the Kingdom Empire or Republic which Is ds
urbed. IT was tn the United States OF Mexico IL
the United States of Colombia and the case was
] the same in the United States Of Venezuela.
Now it is certain that in 1860 elected Abraham Lin.
coin lawfully and constitutonaly to be President OF the
whole of the United States of America Seven OF the
States Immediately thereon rushed into dsunion, and
summoning eight to their alliance, they set up
Revolutionary Government They levied war against
eff sct and establish distinct sovereignty
and Independence We accepted the war in defence q
the Union The only grievance OF the insurgents was hat
their choice of John q. Breckenridge for President was
consitatonay overruled in the elec ion Of Lincoln Iny
i rejected Lincoln and ret up usurper The Executive
of the United States therefore by force prac
tci1y suspended between that usurper Jefferson Davis
President Abraham Lincoln Inc
waged by the usurper to expe that
President the capital which In some sort Is constantly
held in SIEGE and to the States which oyay ad
here to him. The is maintained on our side to sup
press the usurpe and bring the nsurgent States back
under authority of the constitutional President The
at it's crisis 1t clear therefore that we are hight
ing to make Abraham Lincoln President of the whole Uni
ted States under the election of 1860 to continue until
the 4h March, 1865 La voting for President OF the
United States wisely safely vote out the denti
cal person whom with force and arms we are hghng into
| the Presidency No, no II
You Justly say no" 1t would be nothing less than to
give up the very object OF the at the baotbox The
moral strength which makes our loyal position mpregna
bic would pass from and when that moral strength has
passed away material forces longer effective even
the enemy and shall have given him the victory But in
hst agreement the Constitution aud the Union will have
persisted because when shall have been proved that
minority can by force crcumvent0n defeat the full
accession OF oonstitutionaly chosen President Pes
dent thereafter though elected by 30 large major
ty hope exercise the executive powers unopposr
throughout the whole country One of two things must
follow that fatal error Either contest between your
newly elected compromise Pres dent and the usurper
in which the usurper must prevail or else combination
between them through which the usurper or his successor
subvertng your Constitution and substituting his will
become President King Emperor OF the United States
without foreign aid if he with foreign Intervention il
necessary That's so. To be sure it is so; nothing Is
certain than that either the United States and their
constitutional President, the called Confederate
states and their uurpng President must rule within the
limits of this Republic. therefore regard the pending
Presidential election involving the question whether
hereafter shall have Constitution and country left
US How shall we vote, then country from
this fearful danger? Vote Lincoln in again
You hit it exactly my friend. We must vote Lin
coin in sgan ard fight him at the time il we do
this the rebellion will perish, and leave root If do
otherwise only the alternatives Of acquescence in
perpetual usurpaton or OF entering endless
sion OF civil and social Upon these grounds entirely
irrespective of platform aud candidate consider The
concentrations of the Convention at Chicago tending
to subvert the Republic. 1t, So that's fact 1t will
seem hard thing when imply that party like the
diIsta hlipllu odd
measures to overthrow the Republic. All experience,
however shows that it is by the malice the madness of
parties that Free states have been brought down to
destruction You often hear alarms that party in power
is subverng the STATE, and it sometimes happens But
tunes out Of ten II party out of that in its
, impatence or its ambition, overthrows Republic.
The Democratic party of leaving off the loyal
Union Democrat opposed the election Of Abraham Lin
coin in 1860 In doing they divided and organized in
three gumnsUns reasonable column of State rights,
dsunon Democrats under Brscklnridge second loyal
Northern column, under Douglas; the third conciaory
flying column under John Bell who has since joined the
Insurgents We thereupon invited the two loyal columns
combine with the Republican party to oppose the DIS
! union Democratic column. They declined. On the eve
of the election in 1860 told the followers of Douglas and
Bell that when the election should have closed they
would ud they lad inadvertently favored dsunon and
beon. They persisted and the attempted revolution
came Dsunion then presented itself the practical form
preventing Abraham Lincoln from assuming the Execu
tive authority Thus the Democratic party produced that
caamity-the Southern Democrats acting from design,
the Northern Democrats passive through nadvertence.
The disputed succession still remains unadiusted A
new election has For time the Northern De-
mocrats, with notable exceptions, gave or less
liberal support TO the Government against the democrat
insurgents the South But the Democratic
which figured in the election OF 1860 appear in the
political field, with positions and policy unchanged since
that time think except for the worse. The South.
err Democracy still in under the usurper al Rich
mond. The Douglas and Bell columns conso Idated. are
found at Chcsgo and all three Of the parties
the rejection Of constitutional President of the United
States They agree not only 10 this attempt but they
assign the same reasons for it-namey, that Abraham
Lincoln is tyrsnt They agree, aso, that the real
nsurper at RchmCni s blameess and pureat least the
Richmond democracy affirm it, aud the Chicago democ
rcy do eainsay To me- therefore the democracy
at Richmond aud the democracy at Chicago, like Casa
and POmpey, TO retain all their original family
sembauce They very much alike especially Pom
pey But it is not in externas that th-ir similarity
lies They talk very much alike, have already shown
you. When you consider that among the Democrats at
Chicago the Indiana Democrats present, who have
imported TO resist the national authority and defeat
the nation laws and that all the Democrats there assem-
will with that the Richmond Democrats and the
Chicago Democrats have lately to act very much
alike
shall 20 further aud prove TO you that they not
only have common policy and way OF defend
ing IT, but that they have adopted that policy in
cert with each o.beT You know that when the Chicago
i Convention approaching in july last, George San.
ders Clement c. Cay and H. II. HOlcombe appeared at
the Clifton House, the Canada bank Of the Niagara
river fully invested with the confidence and acquainted
with The purposes of Jefferson Davis and his
4 at Richmond You know also that Chicago Democrats
rssored there in considerable numbers to confer with