Year: 1861

That most radical change has taken place in public sentiment in several of the non- -slaveholding States of the Federal Union, with regard to the unholy, unright- eous and brutal warfare that the LINCOLN government is waging against the south ern people, there can be no doubt, and we hear the murmurings, loud and deep, com ing up from the far North, the East, and the West, are found bold enough to denounce, in unmeasured terms, the policy of government that IS fast hur- rying its people and their country to certain pecuniary destruction, If nothing worse. We do not pretend to know what motive may actuate the conductors of newspapers who thus deal frankly and honestly with the destructive and ruinous tendencies of their government, but we must presume the motive is good and the object praisew orthy, aud we feel disposed to award to them the need of appreciation for what they say in condemnation of the LINCOLN despotism.

 We make number of extracts from leading free State journals. The first is the concluding paragraph of an article from the New York News.

 If the question could be put to vote Of the people of the United States this day-a day so memorable, so precious to the recol- lection of every thinking patriot-whether there shall be peace or war, the minority in favor of the suicidal conflict between the North and South would be found to be so small, so contemptible, that abolition dem- agogism would never dare to raise its head again. There is no imaginable compromise, | no programme of conciliation, which would not be accepted, in preference to the hideous, dishonored future which must evolve out of the fratricidal and unnatural struggle into which the country has been preciplta- ted by the federal government Merchants, manufacturers, agriculturists, laborers, cap italists, all unite in deploring state ot things so unparalleled, and which one short year ago would have,,been deemed utterly impossible. The yearning cry of the nation is for PEACE, PEACE, PEACE. The blessings of greatful country will sur round the memories of the Congress which meets to-day, if it shall for ever close the gates of the temple Janus and give back concord to the States: while if they refuse to do so, the page which records its history will be read with generation by their chil- dren and their children's children.

 From the Concord (N. H.) Standard.l

 The noisy din about the Union, destroyed by their own acts, which the republican press has raised, will not deter us from do- ing justice to the South. The North will l yet acknowledge the justice of their com plaints, and history will record the sober fact, that the Union has been dissolved and civil war brought upon the country by all unjust invasion of the rights and peace o1 the South, by the anti-slavery party of the North This is the solemn conviction ol our conscience, and we have the courage to assert it. The artful dodge of the admin istration to change the issue from the gull l of republican abolition;sm to one of Union or no Union, cannot shut from the sight o

 the world the actual fact The fogs and mists of falsehood may for time enveloI the holy shrine of TRUTH, but they will bt in time dispelled.

 From the New York Freeman's Journal.

 Our wish above all things, is that Lin coln's administration could, and then scould

 adopt course which, as loyal American freemen, we can sustain. The presen course of the executive is unconstitutional , outrageous, and dn open rebellion agains i, the United States government as establish i ed and recognised. We cannot sustain | in it's course, and we will not. We declar l, and protest, On the contrary, with the chic iustice of the United States, that it subvert all law as recognised by freemen, and st

 tempts to place our persons. our property

 liberty and life, ct the will ofone or anothe army officer.