Washington telegraph., 1864-07-06


has taught us that this is the general character
of Federal dispatches. They have lied persist
emily and upon settled policy, inaugurated at
the beginning of the war. But now it has be-
come necessity, so far as the parry in power is
concerned. 1t is the war of Lincoln and his
supporters. He began with the assurance that
he would crush out the rebellion in ninety days
with $4,000 men. That pleased all the parties
at the North. The people are essentially mean
natured, and void of generous feelings. They
were fattered with the idea of bringing the
South to their feet-forgot their political quar-
rels, and Joined in the huzza for the humiliation
of Dixie. No one then was so poor as to do us
reverence except ex-President Pierce, to whom
be all honor We remember no one other lead.
ing man. We can never forget, nor remember
ing it easily forgive the truculent conduct OF the
Northern democrats, who owed so much tc the
South. They thought us down for ever and,
to make capital at home, were lc:idest in the
hue and cry for the war-most forward in fur
nishing volunteers for our invasion. They illus
trate the homeiy proverb. "when man is
going denn hill, every one gives him kick"
+" See now," they cried, "you have accused us
of courting the slave power. Behold how we
WILL ourselves, thrash these shareholders into
decent submission to our glorious Union, and
get credit thereby in all future political con-
tests" They might have prevented the war at
any time before the battle of Fort Sumter
At first the whole matter was a frolic, and
every body in. The thing did not work,
however. Hundreds of thousands were then
called, and responded with shouts and huzzas.
Time asked, and cheerfully granted. The
first efforts were only little awkward and care
Jess, they thought. Now they would go at in
earnest, and did not doubt the result. They
were only getting their blood up. They were
mad now, and secession doomed, with mock ex-
pressions of pity for our folly. With Lincoln's
party in the van, and with abolitionists and
democrats trooping like blood hounds in the
rear, they came again, all united in one senti-
ment, and actuated by one design, to carry fire,
and sword and desolation through our land.
That they accomplished partly. God knows
how sinfully and cruelty. AL were guilty, but
their crime failed of its promised fruit. Subiu-
CATION was still further off than at the beginning
Three ears have passed. Two millions of SOL
diers have been raised. Half million have
gone to their long account, with their hands red
with rapne, and Lincoln sits still exposed to the
gaze of the world a grinning and bafled demon.
His blunder has become apparent, and his
followers, with the usual treachery of mean
spirited natures, are turning 10 rend him. The
abotionists and ultra radicals profess to quarrel
with his conduct of the war. There must be
some scape-goat, and Lincoln is chosen. He is
incompetent, they say-weak, half way, and
hesitating. Already they have mustered their
leaders at Cleveland to overthrow him. and SUBJ
stitute another in his stead, to prosecute with
more vigor their hellish objects. Fremont has
been selected, and from that side goes the right
arm of his power.
The democrats see their mistake, and repent.
professed they now begin to express again.
They have seen the sure destruction of the
North from the prosecution of the war. They
denounce Lincoln for beginning it. They are
foremost to wash their hands of it. They are
clamorous for peace. One would think they
were Christians. They have most of them e
favorite panacea for restoring the Union, to
which they cling with insane pertnacity. 1t is
to stop the war, and keep us ia the Union by
kindness. Absurd as it is, it has taken large
hold of the public mind. The old portion Of
the party rallies upon it, and rolls up on Lin
coins left enormous and portentous clouds of
evil to his dynasty.
From the depths of Northern despair new
party begins TO emerge which we can hail with
hope, and with which can sympathize with
patriotism. A few leading spirits have recog-
nized the finger of Providence, and read the
magic word recognition written on the book of
fate, and spoken it aloud. The echo has been
loud and immediate, and still reverberates
and grows throughout the land. This party,
growing bolder, bids fair to absorb the demo-
cratic party altogether, and to have its principles
incorporated in the platform. If not, it will
draw largely from its ranks, and portion from
the ranks of all other parties Already the
people begin to perceive what desolation TO
themselves might have been avoided but for the
mad spirit of subjugation. They look around
upon their commerce destroyed, their hearth
sIOHeS utSOldltu- tHtll HcluS my
wake as madmen do to witness the horrible eff
fects of their own insanity. They are sick with
the view, and from every quarter thousands
shake their fingers reproachfully at Lincoln, and
exclaim, thou art the nan!'
Truly he is beset upon every side. All these
furious waves dash and roll around him. He
feels them undermining his seat whilst before
him the enormous task of subjugation, which he
must accomplish or die, grows still to huger
proportions
If the devil would only grant him some splen-
did success! He sees some hope in that. If
he could only capture Richmond, and over-run
Virginia, then the aboitionists might be paci-
fed awhile and come again to perfect the work.
With renewed prospects OF subjugation, the
mass of the democratic party would hasten again
to share the spoils and the glory. And the true
peace men-woe unto them for a season. They
would shrink. .cowed into silence by public sem
timent, or find their reward in bastiles and BAN
ishment
Thus Lincoln has not only every, the mo s
powerful and desperate inducements to succeed,t