Year: 1863

eDce We eau JuCgt OF lle luture Oily DY the
past" No sane man can discredit the inpor-
tant consequences We have claimed to result
from such strategical position. Let Grant
have an hundred thousand more men let him
p1sh column Of one hundred and ffty thou
sand through from Vicksburg. ria jackson. 10
Montgomery, Alabama, the whole distance
being over rolling, healthy country, and be
will completely Isolate Mobile, will threaten
Atlanta and Mlledgvilie and enable Rose
cranz TO hold East Tennessee, the Western
parts of Virginia and North Carolina and
Northern Alabama and Georgia, and cut that
great artery of communication and supply be-
tween those parts-the misunderstanding
and binding them together in trade, commerce
and military unity. This done, the difficulty
OF transporting men, provisions and munitions
OF war 10 those isolated parts would involve as
great hardships, expense and uncertainty to
the one party as to the other with the friend
ship of the mountaineers decidedly in favor of
Rosecranz But We have sufficiently dwelt
upon the military importance of adopting the
Mississippi as the great central line and base
of operations against the belligerent power"


HopeIessness of War Alone.


We have said that this central line being
taken and occupied without the addition Of
unnecessary complications and issues added to
the strife, war for the success of the idea Of
Southern nationality and independence would
cease, and all subsequent struggle would be to
defend and protect the local Institutions, pro-
perty and lives of the people of the South, if
they were seriously endangered. The persis-
tent practical enforcement of the Republican
doctrine of the hOmogeneousness of the races,
and the stubborn edict Of the Administration
in aid of that doctrine, have added these un-
necessary complications and issues to the strife;
with the addition of Another unwise complica-
ton" No compromise with traitors in arms
unconditional submission" These comDlica-
tions and issues will, as long as they remain
unchanged. prolong the conflict to an indefinite
extent, unless human nature has radically and
essentially changed and we cannot believe
that the ambition of the Southern people to
erect colossal empire and nationality upon
the ruins of half the territory of our vast Union,
can have fostered and encouraged the humility
OF mind requisite TO yield TO such terms The
proposition as TO whether they ought to sub
nit Internationally to the Constitution and
the laws does not, and is not allowed to enter
into the discussion. The emancipation pro-
clamaion and the " conscrIptiou acts have
forestalled a simple submission to the Coust-
tuition and laws, rendering, with those measures
unrepealed, a return to the status they held in
the Union prior to the commencement of hos
tilities an impossibiiity. The Democracy
would offer them as an immediate termination
to a bloody war which can be rendered still
more bloody and unfortunate, ." the Constitu
toD as it is, and the Union as it was" with all
the rights, equality and dignity of the several
States unimpaired. But the Democracy are
not in power to make the offer And no other
prospect is left Us than a further continuance
of the war, during the Administration of Mr.
Lincoln's government"


We appeal to all our knowledge of human
nature we appeal to the history of our own
Revolution when, for the first three years, our
fathers,-althOugh they had declared their in
ependence,-were willing to accommodate the
difficulties by honorable terms of paci6catiou,
remaining British subjects still, but were met
with the insane cry" No compromise icith
rebels-tmcondtional submission" We ap-
peal TO the spirit displayed by the Southern
people from the inception of the war to the
present time, in support of our argument, that
upon such terms as this Administration offers,
the war will continue to an indefinite extent
war alone cannot restore them to our Union"
They will use superhuman exertion to recover
the Mississippi, and restore communication
between the dsmembered parts of their strug-
Cling Confederaey. This failing, if it should
fail at last, they would gather their forces into
the centre OF still great though more con,
tracted circle of military operations increasing
their physical power by the very necessity Of
concentration, remote from navigation, and,
like the CircassianS but far more powerfully
and successfully, will contend for generations
for their rights of local government. their
social Institutions, their property and their
lives. What position, fellow-citizeus, will you
take when such shall prove to be the condition
of the war?


For Peace. If Possible For the Union
Aways-For Repe ling Force with Force.


This is, we believe, substantially the posi-.
tion OF the Democracy of the adhering States
in relation TO our unhappy civil war Acting,
as far as possible, as peacemakers between
two revolutionary, sectional parties engaged in
the destruction of our Union. animated with
the single and holy purpose of staying the efFa-
sion Of blood by an honorable compromise for
the entire preservation of the Government. We
have the appreciation of Heaven and of the
good in all the world. Upon this impregnabe
rock we stand, and defy the malignant attacks
aud bitter denunciatious of our motives and
sentiments by the cohorts Of AbolitioniSm. 1t
is not contrary to the spirit Of Christianity, or
the Constitution of the United States, to favor
war of selfdefense, to defend the rights of
the Government established by the people to
prevent its overthrow, or to prevent another
nationality from stealing away any portion of
the country lawfully subject to the Govern
ment. The Democracy have never been oppo-
sed to a war of defense on the part OF the
Government.-a war TO defend lis Just author
iiy. under the forms and for the execution of
the laws and the vndicati0n of the Constltu
tiou. Ia Congress they all voted for the
Criteuden resolution, which the Republican
party ard the President adopted and pledged
themselves. the next day after the battle at
Bull Run, to carry out. in the following terms:
That this war is not waged on their part iu
any spirit of oppression, orsfor any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, or purpose Of over
throwing or interfering with the rights or es-
tabished institutions Of those States, bat to
defend and maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution and TO preserve the Union, with