Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-21

be closed up In the course of time.
Men In Tennessee, and must confess
! believed IL, were constantly SAYING
that any manifestation OF conserve
tism there would prejudice our claims
for redress. But this is not true. The
Republicans have never believed Till
now that concessions on their part
would avail anything. They saw that
almost majority Of Southern CON
gressmen came here with
the distinct and deliberate pur-
pose of destroying the government
and of accepting no terms of adjust
ment however liberal. They feared
that they might make their proposl-
tiona, stultify themselves, deny their
creed aud professions, and still fail to
save the country. Now they are sntis-
fled that the middle and border slave
states are desirOus of an honorable and
final settlement of the eternal negro
question, and II they tell the truth pri-
Vatoly, they will accede to any lust
measures ~ paciilcation.
THE MIDDLE AND COTTON coNFEpEu-
ACIEs.
How nre the seeding states 10 be
drawn into the restored Union They
have framed their constitution and
elected their president, They have
furnished politicians with All they
sought In the creation Of new gov
eminent. There are lnnumerable of
lices To bo filed in the cotton Confed-
eraCy, and all offices will he monopo-
lized by the very mon who anticipated
either starvation or the more dreadful
alternative of honest labor ~ the fear
full consequence of LinColn's election.
While these men reign the cotton
states Will never return 10 their allegi-
auoe 10 the former government, and
the question arises, must the
middle and border slave states
join them or as indicated by
the elections In Tennessee and Viz
glnia remain connected with the
North? | am not certain that the
formation OF "A middle confederacy Ia
not still the aurest and speediest
means of rcconstructlng the govern
ment; at least of consolidating all its
desirable elements Of strength and
greatness. The cotton states would
readily enough be brought into an
alliance with US, and 80 with the
no less desirable states OF the
Northwest. The former will subject
themselves and their people to many
evils before they will retrace their
steps and again become members of
oonfoderacy from which they 80
hastily Withdrew. They begin to feel
aEd appreciate, even now, the abb
surdity of their own proposition 10
"secede first and cooperate after
wards" They see the folly embodied
In the ridiculous idea Of seeding now,
and rec0nstructing In future of"going
out for the purpose of coming in.n Tho
people will not readily thus stultify
themselves, and IL occurs TO me that In
cass of the failure Il the peace con-
ference TO arrange all troubles, that
middle cOntcderacy must be formed by
the middle and border slave states if
we would seCHre an alliance with both
the Northern and Southern states.
The North Will not 80 with us into
faucey's Kingdom, and Nancey's do
mintOns viii not connect themselves
with coniederacy of which the North
constitutes a part. The people
of the cotton states will submit
to many burdens before the despotlsm
of their leaders Ia shaken of. This
will ultimately occur. rwo-thlrds of
the people Of Mississippi have never
spoken and never voted ON the subject
of secession aud the third that has
done 40 never reflected upon what IL
did. In the event OF the failure of the
pence conference shall we have Mid
die Coniedoracy or shall we at once
swear allegiance 10 Jefferson Davis?
This question must now be discussed.
And another; Shall we remain in the
Union without n final adjustment of
the slavery question?
THE EXPLOSION or THE REPUBLICAN,
PARTY.
Astor, Grlnnell, Lowe, Brown lof
Brown Bros. " Co, with many OF the
leading bankers and Gaerchants ofNew
York are In the city urging an adjust.
ment Of pending difficulties upon con.
gress aud the peace conference. This
New York committee own themselves
more than one hundred millions of
property. They called ON Seward, the
premier, and stated that not one dollar
of money should be furnished the
bankrupt treasury unless MI need
ful concessions were made 10
the south, but that when made sixty
millions In cash, were Ht the service of
the new regime. The black Republl-
cans want offices but not the offices
without the money. They care moth
lug for the "niggerp really, no more
than southern ultrRlsls care about
HlAVery In New Mexico or Kansas AS a |
practical question, and ann inclined |
TO believe the New Workers have made
the strongest argument yet presented |
on either side OF tho question. III they |
had only addressed Il two or three |
.onths ago 10 dozen Southern men, |
! could name, this difficulty would |
never have occurred.
The bursting mp of the black Repub- /
lean party may be hourly looked for. /
II In btnited about the streets to-day /
that Seward said last night that ali /
troubles, now that Virginia ana Ten
nesseo have spoken, would Ice settled
In three days, wrote you few daya
ago that Lincoln would publish his
on Wednesday or Thnrs-