Year: 1863

Seeded States when the rebel power OF the S0utn
should be subdued, turns our eyes with deep solici
tude to all revelations of opinion from those whose
devotion to the Administration is unquestioned,
and whose relations to it may authorize us to con-
slider them as in some degree speaking the senti-
ments of the Government, and whose positions are
such as also to give weight and influence to what
they say. For, if we are to accept the project
enunciated by Mr.. WHITING as expressing the
views Of any higher authority than his own, we
should deem it more portentous to the future OF
this distracted Republic than any scheme that
could be hatched in the most mischievous brain
for extipguishing all hope Of returning union,
peace, and harmony to our wretched country.


In this search after the views Of the Government
through the expressions of confidential friends on
this absorbing question it rises in Importance
above any other growing cut of the rebellion-we
are glad to find the following from different and
widely distant sources, but both of them in general
sympathy and particular favor with the Govern
ment The first is Governor ANDREW JOHNSON,
of Tennessee, whose hostility to secession and re-
bellion is as deep and uncompromising as that of
any mans In an address which he recently de-
livered to large public meeting in his State, he
expressed the following sound and consoling SEN
timents


The idea has been cunnngy circulated that after the
rebellion has been suppressed the North will not let
back into the Union let have State Government
What shallow bumbuggery and deception Some think we
must petition the to get back Into the Union


deny the doctrine of secession wholly absolutely toto
cello any other State the Unon
has BEEN and will be out The bonds OF the Con
stituon and the Federal power will always prevent that
This Government is pepetual provision is made for re-
forming the Government and amending the Constitution
and admitting States the Union not for letting them
om of It, The everchangng condition and wants OF the
people require the Improvement not destruction OF the
Government.


aOur State Govern ment lies dormant and civil govern
eut is suspended in this convul.ion. What shall be done


come not with the sword in hand and the torch in
the other but with the olivebranch Of peace, and urge
Won TO the work of restoration. 1t is noble work The
bssutv and wisdom of the Constitution unequaed for
ts grouping Of principles like emanstion OF d
vine wisdom 1t guarantees republican government to
all the States When the rebellion overthrow your State
Government the United States guaranteed You republ-
can oovernment still This its simple duty and obliaa
top 1t ia Government of many States and there must
be harmony between all parts of the machinery there
must not be cashng between the different wheels OF our
political system.


"Where are we now1 There is rebellion. This was
anticipated as said. The rebel army is driven back
Here lies your States sick 10 his bed. emaciated
and exhausted paray in all his powers, and unable to
walk alone. The physician comes; don't quarrel about
nntecedents but administer bis wants, and him ss
auckly as possible The United States sends an agent
or military governor whichever you please to call him
to aid YOU in restoring your Government Whenever you
desire in good faith to restore civil authority you do
40 Manifest desire do so and proclamation for an
election will be issued speedily it Is practicable to
hold one One by all the agencies OF your State Go
vernment will be set in motion. A Legislature will BE-
elected Judges will be appointed temporarily until you
can elect them at the polls and Of shers county court
Judges Justices and other officers, until the way is fairly
open for the people, and all the parts Of civil government
resume their ordinary functions"


s., also the Mp York Times an authority iDfe
rior perhaps in point of dignity to that of Gov.
Johnson, but nearer to the source of power, and
as likely to reflect the views of the Government.
That influential journal Of Tuesday last, in the
course of an article on the future Of tn, civil
war. expressed the following unexceptionable and
encouraging opinions


"No one asks them the rebels to beg for peace all
they have to do to stop Ggng Let them recall their
troops from the rebel armies; let them repudate and
repe the force by which the rebel leaders coerce them
into continuing the war; and then the will stop of IT.
self 1t will not be necessary for the President to hold
out the ovebrsncbt held out and has been from the
very beginning Of the The President and Congress
have aud sgan assured the people Of the South
in the most formal and solemn manner, that they were
yaeipe war solely and exclusively TO maintain the auho
rity of the Constitution and laws of the United States
and that whenever that authority should be acknowledged
and restored and there should longer be in
resstipg and defyng It, the war; from the very nature
md necessity Of the case would end This
mat as rue now has been from the beginning Of the
rebellion.


Tbe objects Of the have not changed in the least
They are to-day precisely what they when the
began The means and agencies by which IL carried
have changed from time to time TO meet the changing
emergencies to which war; like every other great human
transaction h of nee ssty exposed But the object to be
obtained by the war is erady what it when the frat
gun was fired.


'Nor have the Southern people any right 10 ask the
President 10 promise them any thing whatever as con-
dition Of laying down their Every thing he could
promise, which is TO affect their permanent welfare and
civil condition. is already guaranteed to them by the Con
stituton Of the United States Let them return to the
shelter ard protection Of that great Charter, and the
riebts are perfectly secure This they doand thi