Year: 1862

The following from the Richmond Ex-
aminer of the 18th instant shows how
the rebels rejoiced over the hope of sue
cess of the submiSsionists at our State
elections


Many anxious moments have passed
since the commencement of the war.
The fortunes of nation have several
times seemed to depend upon the turn
of single chance. Yet it is doubtful
whether any period has yet occurred
more burdened with suspense than the
present


A large portion of the Northern peo-
pie evince the disposition for a return to
the ordinary ideas of civilized society.
1t they can prove themselves party suf-
ficlently strong to secure their own safe
ty they will establish something like sane
politics in the Northern States, and rem
der their Government amenable to the
laws of reason. Under these conditions
1t is possible to see termination to that
carnival of the Devil now in full blast
over the North American continent
But if the movement is shortly crushed
out, measures will certainly be taken by
the Abolltionist tyranny to prevent re-
currence of such menace to their power
by measures like those through which
the leaders of the first French revolution
maintained their hold on nation long
disgusted with their crimes.


This is the matter to be decided at the
next election in New York and other
northern States, now close at hand. If
the men whose bold attempt to recover
the ordinary liberties of Anglo-Saxon
people can elect their candidates, and so
establish the fact that they constitute
majority, the tyranny at Washington
will be rapidly reduced to insignifcance.
We know how quickly the mass of the
people in the northern States, and indeed
everywhere else, rush to the winning
side, and, we doubt not, Lincoln and
Chase will have no other supporters of
their usurpation, after such defeat,
than the Abolitionists fanatics who were
wont to vote for Gerrit Smith and Gar
rison in the old elections of the United
States. 4 reaction of public opinion, as
Irresistible as the tide of the sea, would
be swiftly commenced; the PRINCIPLES on
which American government is founded
would reappear, and the Instincts which
have animated the race, with rare and
temporary exceptions, for full thou
sand years, would resume their sway
over the conduct of the nation. Then,
and then only, will it be possible to stop
the torrent of blood, and reduce the
present war of determination to an ordi-
nary issue of arms.


1t is difficult to believe that the major
ty of people sprung from free nations,
and having at least large admixture of
Anglo-Saxon blood, can be resolutely
bent and deliberately decided on govern
ment at home not less absolute than that
which Russians prefer to freedom, with
the concomitant perpetuation of war
abroad, such as the subjects of Ghengis
and Mimour could only delight in hither-
to, The people of the United States
have given, i'll the last two years, every
evidence necessary to prove that they are
such people. But, as the reader now
sees, some bold men have dared to utter
in their land the words of freedom, law
and order, once familiar to the ear.
We shall soon know whether these words
have still an echo; and We may well listen
anxiously; for on the answer depends the
duration of the war.