Year: 1865

when the result seemed trembling


in q balance, and it was uncertain


whether Sherman's movement


against Atlanta could be n success,


their party met in formal dolibcra-


ton as u national party and dcclar-


cd the war a failure. They had


shown the same disposition in their
personal attacks upon the President


and tho members of the admins


tration. While Mr.. Lincoln was,


with honest and patient purpose,


seeking only how the country might


be freed from its perils and cmbar-


rassmcnts, they were dcnouncing


him as tyrant and usurpcr. No
bitterness ofattack seemed too ma
Ilignant, and no expression ofhatrcd


too intense, to vent their feelings


against him, whose only fault, in


their eyes, was that no was the rep


rescntative of the determination of


the American people, to sacrifice


their lives and fortunes rather than


that the Union itself should be de-


stroycd. And now that the war is


ended, this same organization ex.
lists, and the defeatcd rebels at the


South are looking to it as their


natural ally, in upholding the po.
Ilitical struggle which is now taking


the place of the military conflict.


SHALL VICTORY lie WASTED.


The war being thus far transfer


red to a new arena, the question


now to be determined il, whether
tho fruits Of our long struggle shall


be wrcsted from us by a combina


tion of the defeated rebels at the


Soath with the defeated disloyal.


lists - the North


During the whole war the South


ern press teemcd with evidence of


the reliance which tho rebels were
Iplacing upon thoir allies at the


North, and their confident expcc-


tation that by long continued ct.


fort they would succeed in so en-


barassiug the Government by OPP


position to its necessary measures,


or by stirring up dissatisfaction


and strife in the several States OF


the North, that any vigorous pros


ecution of the war would become


impossible, and their independence
\ would be achieved.


vALLANrIGUAMIsM.


One who was but recently their
: candidate for tho Governorship OF
this State, openly proposed the


formation of u new contederacy, to
be mado up Of the Northern States,
and the possibility that such new
secession might be accomplished
+ gave courage and perseverance, to
the rebels at the South, who knew
that this would be equivalent to
the immediate success of their own
cause. In dilitrJnt forms the same
idea continually came to the sur
: surface. What could not be ac-
complishcd in one way, they sought
to accomplish in another. With
untiring perseverance and peril
+ nacity they worked for the success
l of their southern friends, and even
now, when,tho cause of slavery and
the cause of rebellion seem TO have
fallen together, the most consistent


and outspoken of the disloyal par
| ty boldly affirm both the right Of
secession and the proprietv of re.
+ storing slavery. The instinct OF
i success prevents the party as a
: whole from avowing the doctrines
!, of the more radical wing,s but in
d their actions and conduct there is
d no difference TO be seen, and thu
: same spirit and purpose animate
d the whole. 1t is Of little consc
f quence what verbal differences
there may be in the statements o.
: opinion, or the statements OF prin
t ciple which may be put forth by
] the two conventions of the opposi'
t ton shortly to meet in this State
: Their real purpose will be one, ant
o the only question between then
+ will be as to the propriety and ad
II visibility of greater or less bold
! ness Of utteranee.


= THE NEW SHAPE OF SOUTHERN RE
q DELLIoN.


= Meanwhile in the South, thos
: who but a short time ago seemed
o to have abandoned not only tn
Ir hope of opposing the Government
81 by force OF arms, but also the pur
" pose of resistance to the decreos o
l. fate in reference to their pcculia
'e institutions, are now found assert
L ing themselves, and preparing TO
d organizing with q view to a neS
% struggle to prevent the results o
g the war from being thorough
g, consolidated and made permanent
of They would never have dared al
t. tempt or even think of this had
t, not been for the existence Of thi
At disloyal party at the North, an
II their knowledge that its organiza
AZ tion mere afforded them the basi
at for action, and a ground for hope
re where otherwise the future woul
" have been to them hopeless. A
G. history shows us that mems opir
IN ions are rarely changed by militar
Do conquest-that those who wer
NJ rebels in aims will remain rebeI
IL in thought and at heart until
n change in the condition Of til
IL country, or the establishment