Year: 1862




AS it seems to be incontestible that the
Democrats absent from home in the Yam
kee armies are in the proportion of at
least four to one to the Republicans, the
victory which the Democrats have just
won at the polls is the most astounding
on record What does it signify?


In our humble Judgment it means, and
nothing more: The Democrats have a
vast deal more sense than the Republi-
cans; and cannot fail to see how COM
pletely the latter have succeeded in des-
troying the prosperity of the North.
They always opposed the suicidal folly
of that faction-their continual aggres-
sions upon the South, and their system
attic efforts to make the niger the only
question in the Congress of the United
States. They oppose this policy because
they could not but foresee that it would
lead to the destruction of the Union,
and all the material interests which, so
far as the North was concerned, they felt
to be bound up in it.


The Republicans afford, indeed, the
most astonishing example of men quar-
reling with their own bread and butter,
which we recollect ever to have heard of.
They had in the South the most magniti-
cent market for their manufactures to be
found in the whole world 1t was un-
taxed and unrestrained. They paid no
duties, and we're the only people in the
world that paid none Competition was
not allowed to come near them. Heavy
tariffs shut it out from abroad, and our
own people were engaged in other pur-
suits The coasting trade-the heaviest
in the world-was all done by their ships.
The Southern cotton and tobacco, the
great staples of the world, all passed
through their hands, on their way to a
foreign market.


The very negroes, for whose sakes they
were constantly threatening the South,
were source of far more profit to them
than they have ever been to their mas
ters. The cotton and tobacco of the
South were, indeed, the grand levers
that set all Northern trade in motion
Without them New York would never
have been much above the figure that
represented her population in 1910, and
| New England would have been, where
| she ought to be now, at the tail of the
| Union The Democrats could see all
this, but the Republicans could not, and
they persisted until they destroyed the
| Union


The Democrats now wish to restore
that Union, because while it existed it
was a source of unalloyed prosperity.
They see plainly enough that if the North
be compelled to pay the same duties
with England, England will supplant the
manufactures of the North. They see
that if direct trade between our ports
and England be once firmly established
New orll will cease to be the money
center of America. They see that if the
coasting trade be thrown open to com
petition, England will do the larger share
of it. In a word, they clearly under
stand that the destruction of the monop
oily they have been so long enjoying, viii


be death blow to all Northern inter
ests, for they know we'll enough the dif
ference between framing tariffs to shu


out all other people, and having tariff,


framed to shut out themselves.


When it is too late, the Republican,


see this too; and seeing also the hope
lessness of restoring the Union, they ar,
waging a savage war for the purpose 0


rendering a desert those portions of i


which they can no longer control Th


Democrats, however, take a differen


view of the subject They believe res


toration still possible In this respec


they do not manifest their usual sagac


tv. They have the incredible folly t


believe that there still turks among tn
body of that people who have tough
, against the Union as men never tough
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flag" which is the most detested of a
t earthly symbols to the whole body of th
Southern people. They do not reAeC


that while, to them, the condition whic


it is intended to represent has been PR


ductive of unalloyed blessings, it is ass
, ciated in the Southern mind with image


of commercial poverty and sectional o.
> preston To this imagined feeling


latent loyalty to the Union they are vii
) ing to appeal They have no doubt tn;


they will be successful. But first the


must beat us into humor for submissio
y They must make us know their strengt
+ They must teach US that they are oI


masters. They must kill one or two hu
: dred thousand of our men. They mu
y take Richmond. They must crush Il
. | TGDeillOu. AHu CuCH lHcy Will OlSI
' terms, having first asserted the suprel


acy of the American eagle" as tn
~ are facetiously wont to term the Yank
III buzzard. They care, and pretend
IS care, nothing for the Niger. They W
ii be willing, after having conquered us,
d. agree upon any terms, provided t
Union be restored. They will consent


introduce slavery into every State in t
= Union, provided this grand object be
r. tanned. If the Southern people will L
on agree to all this, as most assuredly tn
nd never will, then they are for carrying
to to the war to any extremity that would S
nd isfy the most ultra of the Abolition par
,m9g They will never consent-let John V
he Buren, say what he may-to let t


wayward sisters depart in peace.
for o% 1t may be that Democratic Congr,
md might propose to the Southern States,


a condition of re-entering the Union,
~ legalize slavery everywhere, and this
/. fore proceeding further with the W
= But even were the South disposed, unt