American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-04-12
Giving i'd up.

Giving i'd up.
Perhaps the most significant of the
numerous signs of the times portendine
the early overthrow of the rebellion, is
the fact that its sympathizars in the North
gives up the contest. If anything, they
have been more determined than the
Southern people, and have had quite as
many reasons for desiring the success of
a cause to advocate which was both un.
natural and expensive 1t is not to be
presumed, therefore they would give up
as long as there was the slightest pros
pect, aud the white feather in this quar-
ter may be taken to indicate iu what light
the rebel leaders, with whom they are
on more or less intimate relations, view
the prospect. We may readily suppose
the N. Y. World would hold on so long
as the rebel leaders did, and it is this that
gives to its declarations how that the
Southern cause is utterly hopeless, insig-
nifcancc. The World of Monday, un-
dertook to give "some good advice to the
South, aud we thing it was emiuently
successful. We quote:
We do not want the Southern car for
the purpose of communicating these
facts; on this head the South needs no
information. Nor is the proper inference
from them SO difficult to draw as to call
for much assistance. What we would
like to impress upcn The Southern peo-
pie is the Importance to them-seeiGg
that success must be 10 their own eyes
nearly hopeleis--of 50 acting in this
emergency that friends Of the Consti;u-
tion in the loyal States may cooperate
with them for the defense and protection
of their and our common rights. In adj
dressing them we would reason from their
stand point; for we should expect to con,
vince nobody by reasoning from priqci-
pies which they do not admit 4
1t should be evident to every reflect
ing man in the South, that the most vi
tai stab that can be dealth to State rights
is continuance of the war, nov that the
contest has become on their side hope
less. The only practical question thai
remains for their decision is, whether
they will hereafter be equal members of
the Union, or territorial dependencies.
The policy of the Democratic party would
make them the former; of the Repubi-
can party, the latter. But the Democrat
ic policy has little chance Of success, so
long as the South furnishes to tho FEEDER
al Government sound and unanswerable
reasons for keeping up large armies for
holding them iu subsection. The polite
thing for the South to do is to disbaEl 10
armies, peacefully insisting on its rights
under the Constitution, but not prejudi-
cling these rights by setting up untenable
claims. When they eVinae a determna-
ton to perform their duties, they will b.
in the strongest possible position for Sc
curing their rights. The pretext of mil
itary necessity by which the Constitution
has been ogerriden, will then have no
color of plausibility. If the consoida-
tionists should then pursue their scheme
Of Capitalization, their design viii have
no cloak to cover its hdeous nakedness.
Had the World, instead Of acuag as
the ally of the rebels in the North, by
doing its utmost to ALLEVIATE support from
the Goyernment, instead Of encouraging
the South to continue the contest till the
Democratic party obtained possession Of
the Government, when Southern inde-
pendence would be Recognized, used Ian
guage like the above, aud had it been the
language of the Democratic party, who
can say the war would not have onded
many months ago, aud thousands of lives
and millions of money been sayed2 I'M
partial history will hold the Democratic
party responsible for no small share Of the
blood and treasure spent in prosecuting
the Far. Its course was solely in view
Of party interests; and the advice of the
World now, it would seem, is for no high,
er motive. "The Democratic policy has
little chance of success" it says, so long
as the South wages war against the Gov
ernment-a self evident truth. we con-
clude; for the ''Democrgtic policy" and
the rebel policy haze been 50 neat identi-
cal that it was impossible to sapport one
apd not the other. We will not under
take TO say they were not loyal hearted
| Democrats who stuck TO their party but
we undertake to say that there is not q
man of them who has not felt hog griey-
ious was the burden imposed by the uupa-
triotic course of the party. Who will say
that had the Democratic party continued
to work up to the line on which il stood
at the outset it would not have been in
power to-day? aa
The Wortd conSesses it, and to regain
the lost groupd changes front. It is too
late. Faithlesspess in the past is poor
title to the confidence of those who have
been betrayed The World and the Dem
oeratic party must stand on the record of
the past three years--of opposition to the
Government, efforts to divide the North
completely with riots, and policy that
has afforded the rebelsin arms their almost
sure ground of hope. % sl
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