Year: 1861

! h'tf AbVtC NOuuuls


The patriotism of the masses of the peo-
| Pile in the free states has been wonderfully
demonstrated in the alacrity with which
they have rushed TO arms and offered their
/ services to the government TO carry on the
war for the Union. Party has been forgot
ten in the common devotion to country.
But while this is true of the people, there
is class of mere politicians and
nothing else--who seem incapable OF COM
pretending and coming mp to the greatness
of the occasion, and are still willing to sac
rifce the highest interests of the country
and the integrity of the Union itself to
mere personal and party ends. This is a
serious charge to bring against any class Of
men, in period Of national peril like this.
| But that there is such a class, even in our
most loyal communities, there is no doubt.
They have been cowed into silence by the
great popular uprising, but they begin al
ready, at the first lull in the storm, TO show
their heads and to whisper the treason they
dare not speak cut. Most of these men
have lived for years upon the democratic
party. To manage its voters and secure its
offices and spoils to themselves and their
friends has been their lifelong profession.
With the absorption of that party into the
great patriotic party Of the Union and the
constitution, their occupation is gone. They
have neither the patriotism nor the sagaci-
ty TO adapt themselves TO the new state OF
things, like the lamented Douglas, and Dix
and Butler, and the better portion of the
democratic leaders, and can see no future
for themselves except in the revival of ole
parties and the restoration of the ISSUES
and combinations that preceded the rebel
lion and the war for its overthrow.


! These men mean to reconstruct the demo
cratic party, and to make it more than evei
a southern party, and they base their hopes
of success upon the common desire fo


peace. They have an understanding will
some of the chief leaders of the rebellion
and their plan is substantially to substitute
the southern confederacy for the presen
Union. The first step in the process they
have fixed upon is to be the recognition o


the independence of the southern confede
racy. They will try to raise party apor
this issue. The cry will be-" Let then
60 in peace let them try their experimen
of a southern confederacy they will sooi
be willing to come back into The old Union.


If they can carry this, then in one, two O


three years, as the case may be, they ex
pect propositions from the confederacy fo


a reunion, under the confederacy constitl
tion, and with an agreement that the deb
incurred by the rebels in assaiing the Uu


ion shall be assumed by it. For this mode
of reconstruction they expect to carry th'
North, by the aid of its commercial classes
and against the republican party. Thu
the democracy will have become the pro
fessed Union party, and the free states vii
be brought under the control of the yer,
faction now in arms against the Union, an,
will be kept permanently in that degrading
position by the aid of the northern demo
. cratic party. King Cotton will then reigl
with power not TO be disputed, and al
the resources Of the nation viii be brougl
to bear for the extension and perpetuato
,, , of his power over the country.


Monstrous as this now seems, it is th


program marked out by the mercenar


northern politicians who are concocling


plan to beguile and betray the country wit


the false cry OF peace. There is little ar


parent prospect of success for them, bu


they mean to try the experiment, and Da


Wis and Beauregard seem likely TO cooper
: ate with them by delay of offensive OF
erations till after the meeting of Congress;
! 1t is deep game, but there is too muc
, sense and patriotism among the America
! people to give them chance for success.
: Thep will see that il is an attempt to re
construct dead parties and restore repud


ated pariisans to power upon the ruins c


the Union-that it is in effect offering


bounty upon treason, and establishing re


belIion as the surest means of attaining pc
Il litical power. No, this viii not be. Th


American people cannot even listen pa


tienily to such a scheme without bringin


into doubt and contempt the grand demon


straiion of patriotism with which they ar
= now astonishing the world. They will nc
e : listen to il. They will not tolerate, an
!. they will never forgive, the man who dar
: to propose it, while quarter of millio
7 of freemen in arms are moving to the dt
r. Tense of the Union and the punishment {
= the most Infamous conspirators against iii


,r.,, oo1 taxV that ever rurSatl the earth