Year: 1868

~ - . u',N :. Wv radical journals to refer,
~ . 'iiun,i i'-". sone, to the demonstrations
T" sympathy &C the South with the spirit of
ies'S'''l0' nich breathes of late through the
u..erano' s of the Northern Democracy. They
anec' % see in this an evidence that secession
s'n lives. as moral fact, in the South, and
cat all the whites there, except few truly
| loyal, law abiding, Constitution-fearing, and
Union-loving carpet-baggers and mendicant
hungerers for Office, are ready to unfurl the
conquered banner" and again try issue with
the North in the assertion of Southern indie
pendence. 1t is a positive insult to the intel
ligence of the Northern people to tell them,
as these radical journals do tell them, that
the desire which is generelly and frankly
manifested in the South for the successful re-
sistance of the Northern Democracy to radical
usurpation, revolution and tyranny, has any,
thing in common with the idea of secession,
of rebellion, of sectional Independence on the
part Of the Southern States. As must be dis
cerned upon the slightest reflection, the pro-
position is absurdly and indecently false. 1t
is logically impossible for it to be true, or to
wear a plausible guise of truth. The fact that
our people sympathizo with the conservative
masses of the North, now rallying under the
Democratic banner. and would, if they could,
eagerly cooperate with them in the work of
rescuing the government from radical usur-
pers and anarchists, is conclusive proof that
the sentiment and the policy of Union are
now prevalent in the South. They are more
ascendent at this moment than they were at
any time within period Of twenty years pre-
ceding the war. 1t may be safely affirmed,
indeed, that this idea of restoring the Union,
rescued from the inherent anarchy of radical
ism, to constitutional basis and surrounding
it with practicable conditions and adequate
guarantees of stability, constitutes the most
active principle of our politics, if, violently
excluded from participation in national
affairs as we are, we can be said to have any
politics. To every rational and sincere Union
ist in the North it must be gratifying to see
our people organizing to render all the
encouragement and support within their
power to Northern organization
which represents the only one Of the
the old national parties which has sur





of the last twenty years. For what does such
demonstration signify Why, plainly this
that there is still political vitality in the South,
and that this vitality is developing itselfin the
direction of union, and not in the direction of
sectional alienation. 1t imports that South
ern conservatives, having lost what they
sought to conserve by secession, are now anx-
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rigors of a war that refuses to end with con-
quest. Their disposition to make common
cause with the Northern Democracy is simply
an indication that, like this party, they have
not yet utterly despaired of f.separating Union
from despotism and of securing constitutional
liberty for all sections. The division of the
Democratic organization in 1860 on sectional
grounds, was the logical prelude to the sec
tional war which soon after broke out. Hence,
nothing could be more symtematic of the
final healing of the sectional feud and of the
restoration of the Union on principles con-
sistent with peace, order and liberty, than the
reincorporation in the same national organiza-
ton of those who constituted the Southern
wing, and of those who constituted the North
ern wing of the Democratic party in 1860
The radical leaders know well enough that
if Southern Democrats were permitted to Join
with Northern Democrats in future elections
the fact would not involve the least peril to the
Union. But they know also only too well
that it would hode an end to the sectional aei-
tations and distractions. to the usurpation and
despotism, which have become essential to
the continued ascendency of their party.
This explains why they are SO persistent in
representing our people as bent on reviving
Southern rebellion and the Northern Demo-
Gratis as aiding and comforting this rebellious
design. Such is the preposterous and fagi-
tious slander. upon which the chiefs of the par
tisan domination at the North appeal to pop
ular support in that section. Let this slander
be exploded, and their scheme of usurpation
and tyranny, stripped of its only pretext. will
stand forth in infamous nakedness, the object
Of universal execration.