Year: 1863

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warfare. We cannot calmly contemplate
disunion. We know and love the blessings
of the Union; but no human eye can pene-
trate the dark and terrible future that lies
beyond the grave of the Constitution The
war for the preservation of the Constitution
has all our hopes, and all our energies. -
"But wal" the address continues, E'is not
our only duty. We owe political debt to
the constitution, and that too must be paid.
We adopt the language of General Jackson
that war alone cannot preserve the constitu-
tion agap disunlpa. War can and we
hope speedily will subdue the armies of the
revolted States War can and we hope
speedily will disarm every traitor, possess
evry place of strength, and uphold the grand
old flag on every flagstaff in the United
States. But when war has accomplished
all that war can do, the Union will not be
fully restored. The participation of the re-
volted States in the government of the
Union must be voluntary. War has no
power to compel such voluntary action. The
peace and permanency of the restored Union
will depend in great measure, in the con-
fidence of the people of the recovered States,
in the justice of the general government,
and in the faithful observance of their con-
stitutional rights War has no power to in
spire confidence. The stability of the Union
then, as in times past, will need the mutual
good will and affection Of the people of the
several States. War has no power to con-
troll the affections. The people of the South
will return to the Union, when they do re-
turn, wounded in their pride and embittered
in their feeling. When they return they
will return as brethren and merit the treat
ment of brethren. The law may demand its
victims, but those guiltless of the war, and
those forgiven by the law, will again be our
political brothers. The restored States will
return to the Union with all the rights of
other States"


How fully all this accords with our own
views and sentiments we need not say 1t
is manifestly in deep and perfect harmony
with the position of the loyal men of Ken
lucky as presented in the inaugural address
of Governor Bramlette. 1t is a faithful pre-
sentatiOn Of the platform of the great con-
servative party of the country.


On this platform we invoke all the true
lovers of the country to rally for the coun-
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must be saved from its declared enemies and
rescued from its pretended friends. The
men who are in armed rebellion against the
eseuarnr''-n -".s'A in moral l~ee,--~ --;4L -
armed assallants, must be subdued each on
their selected field of warfare Bullets for
the armed rebels, and ballots for the un-
armed ones, and as vigorous an application
of each as is consistent with that obedience
to law which is the dictate of policy as well
as of duty. The liberty and independence
of the American people demand imperatively
that the rebellion shall be put down and that
radicalsm shall be put down; and the only
way permanently to put down either is to
put down both with the weapons they re-
spectively have chosen. This is the duty
of the hour-the day-the generation. The
duty cannot be performed too quickly; it
must be performed though the performance
consume years. And the more thoroughly
both branches of the duty are prosecuted to-
gether the more quickly will the perform
ance of each be cOnsummated To attempt
to put down the rebellion without at the
same time attempting by all Legitimate
means to put down radicalism would be to
heap combustibles upon the flames we are
seeking to quench; it would be to sustain
the rebellion with one hand whilst assailing
it with the other. The notion that such
onesided and suicidal attempt is the require
ment of patriotism is absurd. 1t is ga
weak invention of the enemy" He who is
deceived by it is blinded by passion or has
no eyes wherewith to see. Radicalism is
the great moral prop of the rebellion
Whilst dealing the heaviest possible blows
upon the armies which constitute the physi-
cal prop of the rebellion we must do our ut
most to remove its moral prop Not to do
thus would be to cancel by policy what we
achieve by arms The work of re-estab-
fishing the Union would become in this
event as endless as the weaving of Peneopes
web. And such is really the work to which
the radicals with headlong zealotry are con-
signing the loyal people of the country
The radicals must be checked in their wild
and reasonable career We must second a
vigorous prosecution of the war by driving
the radicals from power and sweeping away
the great moral prop of the rebellion. There
is no hope in any other path of action but
in this path there is hope the most inspiring
and the most glorious that can swell the
breast of patriot Let this path be trod-
den manfully and harmoniously by all the
true patriots Of the land Louisville Jour
nal.


NIL DEsPERANDUM.-Unde this title
the Richmond "Examiner" contends that
no rebel territory has been conquered by the
Federal Government. 1t says, "if we ad
NIT that they have conquered one square