Year: 1863

Democratic Press, define your position and
let the people know what principle you
are contending for or If you dare not own


principle, confess your unworthiness to
guide and instruct the public, and abstain


hereafter from comment npon political
themes. You acknowledge the war 10 bs
conducted in the interest of disunion, SO far
you are in the right. But you support the
war, such as it is, iempering only your sup
port with occasional denunciaiions of the
Administration The fact is still patent
that you support war which you insist has
every Gisunion attribute. How can the
conclusion be avoided either that at heart
you are disunionists, or that some selfish
motive controls your boasted affection for
the Union and makes you "palter with us
in double sense 2" The World says that
that Mr.. Lincoln 'has rendered a Union
party in the Sonth impossible In the face
OF that impossibiity, why sanction war
SO frought with misery and misfortune 2
Why should The World demand that hun-
dreds of thousands of lives, billions OF treas
ure commercial prosperity, financial order,
social happiness, political security, should
be sacrificed in mad end eavor TO accom-
plish an impossibiity Perhaps The
World thinks that reunion can be effected
without Union party at the South. Does
it pretend that such Union would be de-
sirabIe, or that it would be possible without
the entire overthrow of our political fabric
Our contemporary does not intimate that
Union majority would be impossible, out
a "Uniou party" which means that, in lis
estimation, the South is and will remain
unanimous in resistance to reconstruciion.
Does The World expect to prevail upon
the Administration to change it's policy
Does it hope that some mi7aculeus agency
will intervene between Mr.. Lincoln and
his fanaticism ? Will that insensate wor-
ship of Abolilionism, which has intensified
from year to year, until now it is the para
mount, nay The only object of Radical exist
ence, be reiinquished by It's idolators, and
the pure fame of patriotism supply its
place There is not "War Democratic"
organ that conceives so vain hope, or that
would have the effrontery 10 make il the
excuse for prolonging the appeals 10 arms.
The North is being dscimated, imProversh.
ed, ruined by strife for which no bRter


result is claimed, even by Mr.. Lincoln,
than the extenc:ion OF Slavery. The "War
Democratic" organs admi, the fact, deplore
il, but cry lei us fight on We are fight
ing TO achieve that which is impossible, yet
let US fight on They describe the Jugger-
naui in all its hideous aspects they cali
attention TO in as il rolls on through blood
and carnage, leaving desolalion behind,
while every hope OF Union vanishes before
its path they say, Lo the accursed engine
of the Republics destruction, the in sru
menl of d;shnion, and they call upon the
people to put their shoulders to the wheels
and push it on.


If the "War Democratic" organs, by
some subtle reasoning, have discovered
how it can be just for Them to advocats that
which they condemn or how il can be wise
TO attempt that which they confess irnpos
sible, we trust they will give their logic to
the people. We ask them two plain ques
tioos Do they believe that the Admin
istration design to prosecute the war for
the restoration OF the Union Do they sup
port the war? If the first question be an
swered in the Affirmative, they belle their
own words. If in the negative, how in
their conscience, can they answer the
second, except likewise in the negative
Speak, gentlemen, and to the purpose, SO
that, although but few may agree with you
all may understand you and let the people
after their Presidents direct Reputation of
a ''War for the Union," be no longer mysti-
fed by the sOphisms of journals that still
cling to that abandoned theory.--N Y.
Daily NetOs.