Year: 1863

Conservatism,


The Louisville Journal the Boanerges Of
UnlOnism in tucky and the South, the
paper that has held the Border States ia
the Union by its good sense and patriotism
the paper that elected Gov. BRAxLErrE
against the secession radicalism of that
State-the paper that is called eminently
''loyal"-the paper that represents in the
South what the Seymour Copperhead''
organs of the North support-this paper
in speaking Of a1ate letter of Gen. Cass
advising an overthrow of the Jacobins o
the North at the ballot box, while bayonets
shall suppress the devils of the South
says:


1.-THE venerable Cass occupies essentially
the same position that our lamented Crit.
tenden occupied. He is War Democra,
but not Republican Democrat. He is q
Union Democrat. In other words, Gen.
Cass, though Democrat in name and in
sympathy, now stands in fact on the sim.
pie basis Of that devotion to the govern.
ment itself which undcrlay the Old Whig
| party and the old Democratic party alike,
and to which the terrible shock Of this re
5ellion has brought equally all the Old De.
mocrats Of the North whose love Of coun.
Try is stronger than sectional hate and
fanatical zeal combined. It is on this basis
that enlightened patriots Of whatever region
and of whatever party antecendents are
preparing to make grand stand for the
rescue Of the Government from the wild
jacobins now in authority. The basis at
the lowest. not less Whg than Democratic,
and the millions that occupy it, with the
thousands that are thronging to it, embrace
the flower both of Old Wing party and OF
the old Democratic party. Doubtless these
millions embrace considerable number OF
mere factious zealots, whose clamors make
them appear ten fold more numerous and
thousand fold more influential than they
are; but this is the fate of even the no
blest bodies Of men, united in the noblest
of causes. Sincere and intelligent patriots,
keeping their eyes fixed upon the great es.
sentials il the contest, will suffer these
clamors to lass by as the idle wind. 1t
behOoves men, high minded men, such men
as CONSTITUTE State" firmly to put aside
all such clamors, or nagnaniinously to rise
above them. They do not really touch the
paramount issue, and can never touch it,


There are but two principal divisions of
the people in the loyal States. One is the
radical party tho other is the &C nscrvative
party. The principles and the measures of
the present Administration constitute the
basis of the former the principles and the
measures announced IN the platform Of the
Union Democracy Of Kentucky constitutes
the basis Of the latter. Between these two
bases the peopl. Of the loyal States who
have not already chosen must prepare to
choose. These are the alternatives before
the people, and not to choose the latter is
to choose the former. One or the other
the people must choose. There is absolute
" no escape from the alternatives. The
time has come when the people are under
obligations of especial sacrcdness to decide
not according to prejudice or accident, but
according to the broad principles OF Justice
and Of truth as illuminated 10y a pure love
Of country. From decision thus formed
and freely rendered the Republic has every
thing to hope and nothing to fear.