Year: 1863

agency Of popular election. That such Q


platform as this will bring over to General


fremont the larger wing OF the republican


party cannot be doubted. Accordingly, there


is fair prospect that Chase and the radicals will


be superseded by this Fremont movement, or


that the hopeful Secretary Of the Treasury will


hnd his Presidential party reduced to something


like the old proportions Of tho abolition faction.
so much for the republicans. Next, in


coming to the democratic camp, we find that


here too there ia considerable confusion and
commotion. Butthe most significant movement


among the wireworkers Of this party is
the call by August Belmont for meet
ing, September z, at the st. Nicholas
Hotel, OF the National or Presidential Douglas
Committee, holding over from the Douglas


Baltimore Convention Of 1860. The committee
will meet to appoint the time and the place, we
presume, for the National Democratic Conven-


tion of 1864; and as the call will doubtless
embrace war democrats and peace democrats,


conservatives and oopperheads, the convention
will probably favor the public with another ex-
hibition Of the fight OF the Kilkenny cats, with


all the latest improvements.


| Lastly, there was q meeting Of mysterious
looking strangers ct Rochester the other day
| on the Presidential question. Greeley repre-
| sents them as the wandering ghosts Of the Bell


Everett party, which came into life, fourished,
languished and died, or became defunct, in 1860.


If we are not mistaken, however, this Roches'


ter meeting was composed Of men who repre-


sent those broad conservative Union principles


which have SO signally swept everything be-


fore them in the late Kentucky election. They


are the same principles which are this day pre-


dominant in New York, New Jersey, Penusyl-


vania Ohio and all the border States on both


sides Of Mason and Dixon g line and the OHIO


river. These principles embrace The vigorous
| Prosecution Of the war to the suppression Of


the rebellion, q cheerful support Of the admin


istration in all measures demanded to secure


this end; and then the restoration Of the rebel


lious States without any further abolition tin


kering by the general government with the


institution of slavery. In the meantime these
| conservatives hold that there should be as lit
tie tinkcring with negroes and slavery as pos


sible, and that the institution should be left to


take it's chances among the unavoidable neces-
stiles and casualties of the war. ra
These are the principles and this is the party
which, we predict, will carry the next Presi.


DENTAL election; for, when brought to the


pinch, this party will absorb the war wing Of the
democratic party and the conservative Union
wing Of the republican party. All the great
central and border States from their latest
elections, have shown that they are on the side
Of this new conservative Union party; for
| Governor Seymour, OF New York. and Governor
Bramlette, of Kentucky, owe their election
each to the same identical platform in regard
| to the Union and the war.


Let our republican and democratic polit-


clans cut their cards accordingly. or they may


all be distanced and set aside in 1864 by this


new conservative Union party with its sound


and popular Kentucky platform. It is absurd


to suppose that the republican party, or the


Douglas democracy, or the Bell Everett party,
can, in any event, be reorganizcd as they were


in 1860, In any State or in any county or town


of the Union; but this Kentucky Union party


embraces o new movement, and the field is
open and the way is clear to Its success.


| PROBABLE RECOGNITION or TIE SOUTHERN
CoNFEDERAcY BY MExIco.-Our last advices
from the Mexican capital are Of q very signin-
cant character. The French journals and the
Mexican newspapers under French control are
strenuously urging the recognition Of the South
ern cenfederscy. Knowing the stern discipline
| to which the press is subjected by the French
authorities, we cannot help arriving at the con-
cluson that Napoleon is about to carry out his
policy Of Intervention in American affairs


through the agency OF his new conquest. Ac-
! cording the sham Mexican government nomi-
| nal freedom of action in this matter, be will
| endeavor to so shape its proceedings Is to
maintain unaltered his own ostensible position


as a neutral. He calculates, no doubt, that in


this way efficient aid can be given to the rebel
confederacy, and its independence assured
| without embroiling France with the United
| States-a risk that he cannot afford to incur
| just now, in view or the critical aspect Of
European affairs.


This plan is q very ingenious one, and Ii Of
| piece with the policy hitherto pursued by the
French Emperor in our regard. II needs for
its success but one condition, and that is the
passiveness Of our government. It Is not


likely, however, that It will quietly submit to
this underhand mode Of arriving at an object
which is intended as death blow TO its inte.


rests. Qui facit per alum fdcit per 90 Is q rule
that holds as good in diplomacy a in law
Let not Napoleon, therefore, imagine that he
will be allowed to play this game unpunished
He has committed an enormous blunder IL he


has determined upon putting forward Mexico
| as the scapeQoat of his net acheme He will


avoid no responsibility by this course, but, on


the contrary. will increase the deep debt Of re-


sentiment which We owe him for tho persistent
efforts which he has made since the commence


ment Of the rebellion to. insure the co-opcra-
ton Of the other European Powers in his plans
of infcrxantinn We will nav him off with his