Year: 1863

long ago, from the balcony of the Eutaw
House. Even then Mr. Breckenridge
was on his winding way to the headquar-
ters of the rebellion, having stayed, how
ever, long enough in the United States
Senate to utter the following traitorous
views, now serving, as we have said, for
a new essay in the interests oftreason on
the part of him he left behind This was
the ex-Vice Presidents language on the
first day of August, 1861:


Eight twelve months longer, and the
already opening difference between New
England and the Northwest will develop
themselves You have two confedera-
cies now. Fight twelve months and you
will have three; twelve months longer
and you will have fourl'


Well, eighteen months have elapsed or
therebout, since the foregoing fell from
this traitors lips; and now, here comes
his man Friday-the member from Ohio,
to reiterate the same stale threats of
probable divisions, if thereby he may
scare back the loyal from their noble en-
terprise of endeavoring to save the
Union; if thereby he may set the reeling
and blood-stained Confederacy, suffering
from deadly wounds, once more upon its
legs, aud give it strength to continue for
while longer its revolving and horrible
crimes.


And when he tells us that Slavery"
was the sole cause of the controversy"
who can forget the fiat contradiction put
forth by Yancey and his fellows abroad;
and if it were true, even, what sort of
TOlp Jc hot 10 q,
OF terrible conflict, by way of pacity-
ing those who have suffered in so many
ways from the onslaught of the Cotton
States2 Can any one have patience with
this political profigate in the interest of
the rebellion, when he undertakes coolly
to prescribe the terms upon which a
blood-stained and guilty oligarchy will
grant the Government breathing spell?
Bringing upon the loyal States an un-
provoked war, the slaughter of an hun
dred thousand of its citizens, the maim-
ing of myriads more, and an indebted
ness counted by hundreds of millions,
the Rebellion. leaning upon its blood
stained sword "-as boasted by Rich
mond paper-will consent, possibly, to
come back in the Union, in prospect of
failure of their revolt any how, if the
long-forbearing Government and the
loyal States will hereafter agree to have
their mouths sealed in regard to all
these horrors, and once more bow down
to that supercillious aristocracy"
which seeks, and has ever sought, to
domineer the continent. We may add
one more condition put forward by
Fernando Wood, the co-laborer of Val
landigham: All here must consent to
come under Democratic rule, the rule
of that Buchanan or Breckenridge party
which, in the very crisis of the nation
fate, betrayed it to the horrors which at
present beset it.


Let the loyal of the land, as ever,
shrink back with indignation from these
threats or these bids in the interest of
treachery-the most black and revolving.
And if 1t needs to be made palmer to
the most ordinary apprehension than it
already is, we have only to hear from
the chief organ of. the -rebellion-the En-
quirer at Richmond AS part and par
eel of the same effort, as exhibiting con-
cert of action unmistakable, let the
reader scan the following, contained in
our issue of few days since, and only
few days from the rebel capital:


Z" Let six months of truce try Its pow
ers of adjustment, its arguments and
persuasions; and ifthese fail-if neither
by arms nor persuasion, by conflict nor
argument, by cannon nor compromise,
the Union can be restored the folly of
longer delaying the recognition of Con-
federate nationality will be so great, that
permanent peace will result long before
the six months of truce shall have ex-
pired. x Separation is inevita-
BILE. War has failed to prevent it; peace
cannot stop it. An armistice, with prop
ostions for reconstruction by constitu-
tional amendments or conventions of
States, would very soon reveal the fact
that separation was final; and as far as
one generation can speak for its success
ors, it is eternal .-.-...s


"Then why not stop the conflict, and
set about, like sensible people, to adjust
the terms upon which the two nations
can live upon the same continent in
peace and harmony. To this end the
contest has got to come. Enough blood
has been shed to test the valor and ap-
prove the manhood of both nations, as
well as to teach each the blessing of
peace in the future, and make each
charv of giving ofi'ense."


In other words--although there is no
earthly hope of reconstruction if we
can get truce" that coveted "armis-
tice for six months, we can amuse the
people of the loyal States, as of old, with
hopes of " adjustment" we can hold con-
ventions, we can talk over more plans
like the Crittenden compromise" while
meanwhile we labor to make good our
losses, to supply ourselves with new war
material to be sent thither with the aid
of half of the British mercantile marine,
without the risk, as now, of running the
blockade; and then, when all is ready,
when our granaries are filled with the
wheat and corn of the Northwest, and
our cotton all disposed of at present OF
proximating prices, we can snap our fin
gers in the faces of the loyal everywhere
while proclaiming, as oil yore, the pur
pose of slavery and the Cotton Oligarchy
to dominate the continent Then, in
vigorated, we might indeed make good
our threats to burn the Capital" anC
plant the Stars and Bars over the grea
cities; then, indeed, we might show the