Year: 1861

According to President Lincoln, it is the Re-
publican party which is to put down the Southern
rebellion. In his late message to Congress he
uses this language


"It is now for them (,he American people, 20
demonstrate to the world that hose who can fairly
carry an election, can also suppress a rebellion
that ballots the rghtful successors to bullets
and that when ballots have fairly al ccnstitu-
tonally decided, there can be no successf-l appeal
back to bullets that there can be no successful
appeal except to ballots themselves; at succeed
ing elections.


.'Such will be a great lesson Of peace, that
what they cannot take by an election, neither can
they take it by war teaching all the folly Of
beginning war;


That is, those who carried the election last No.
vember, are now to ed monstrate to the wOrld''
that they lean also su press rebellion" What
pity the President had not announced this idea in
his proclamation calling for troops to conquer the
South. How much farer It would have been
then, to announce that it the party that elected
him to which he looked for the men and the
money to sustain his Administration by force Of
arUs.


1t is a misfortune that the President can not
raise above party couside rations in discussing the
momentous questions before the country. As in
his inaugural. he recognized the Chicago plat
form as the guide for his Administration, SO now
he divest himself of the falIcay that it is
the Republican party which is to suppress the
rebellion" and sustain the Government. Nor is
the President alone in this absurd notion While
in one sense. party lines forgotten, that is. SO
far as to accept the service of Democrats as well
as Republicans to fi.ht the battles of the country
the theory nevertheless through all their pO-
litica calculations, that it is the Republican party
which is to save the Union. and to suppress the
rebellion. Yet it is not often that the idea is so
frankly ex, ressed as in the paragraph We have
quoted from the President message.


Should this war prove successful. and the scce
ded States be reduced to subection. we shall have
no end to the partisan boast that the party ''who
can fairly carry an eletion can also suppress
bellior - and that it is due to the political organi-
zation which elected Mr.. Lincoln, that the Union
was saved from dissolution. 1t is insulting to the
thousands Of men who voted against the Republic
an party. but who are now fighting the battles OF
the Union, or contributing of their means to su-
tam those who have gone 10 the war, to be thus
officially tod that it is not their services but TO
those v hO carried the Presidential election, that
the salvation of the country, if indeed it shall be
saved by war, i'll &c due


We hope the Union may be saved from disso-
luton, and that the Government will prove equal
to The immense strain upon 1t, caused by the pres
ent civil war. We would scarcely stop to inquire
who saved it-whether r pnblicans Demo
CT ats bat it does seem little odd that while cal
ling for troops without distinction of party, the
President should announce to the world that one
party alone is to have the honor of snppressing
the present rebellion.-N Y journal Of Com.
merce.