Year: 1861

ted at the last election with the Republican party,


but not with it an abolition party, and We have


no sympathy with that wing Of the party which


halls it's only as 4 Of abolisbing ella


very We voted for it chiefly because we were


satisfied that the Democratic party was rotten To-


side and out, as recen, developments have proved,
and because the North had submitted long enough


to the disunion threats Of the South. The real
curse Of the country is in its sectarisnsm and it's
democracy. We believe universal suffrage one Of


the best hits the devil has ever made, and that
any people who attempt to make il the basis Of
their institutions are sure to 90 to destruction. We
think it a real gain that We Save got rid Of the
name democrat, and have got in place party un-
der aDolber name, and a better name. We wish,
however. to see the party in place assuming the
good old name Of Federal, as far as the Union is
concerned, aud laboring to restrain as far as pos
sible the democratic tendency in the States them
selves.


We have little hope in politics, but We would
urge upon the new Administration a Union policy,
and 70 cut itself loose from the abolition and ultra
democratic section of the party that has elected
it. We care nothing for Chicago platforms or any
other platforms except the Constitution. We
shall deeply regret to see the Administration favor
slavery, and less to it favoring abolitonism


Ii it is to save the country at ALL i, must do so BY
planting itself on broad conservative principles
and place the Union, the wise, just, firm, and eco
nomcal administration Of the government, above
all questions relating to slavery either for or
against it, Its first step must be to disavow the
revolutionary doctrines and principles defended
By the American press generally, to assert the au-
thority Of the government, and prove that it re-
spects itself and can make itself respected. 1t
must arrest the revolution, it must yndcate the
insulted flag of the Union, and assert the majesty
Of law. If to do this it must suppress armed. in
surrecOns and hang traitors, let it do so, or else
abdcate itself. If civil war is the consequenc
let civil war come, for civil war canno. be worse
than no government. Let it be just, let it be for
bea-ng, but let it perform it's constitutional duty
and its whole constitutional duty. 1t must not be
frightened by the words coercion" and "inva
siou," neither Of which probably will be neces.
sary If the government shows frmness and reso-
luton, and determination to abide by the Con-
stitution. In this way it is perhaps possible to
arrest the evil but no measures looking to the
protection or abolition Of slavery, ane DO policy
that turDs on the,slave question will save us from
utter ruin.


That the Administration will be able to carry
out the policy we suggest, we think extremely
doubtful, because We fear that there is neither
wisdom nor virtue enough in the American peo-
pie to sustain it. We know not where the ele-
ments of true and sound Federal party are TO be
found. They are in the minority at the North,
and minority at the South, and we fear 60 in the
great Central and Western States. Democracy
has perverted the whole American mind and
heart. and we hardly know single State, with
she exception Of the State of New Jersey, in which
the mob is not supreme. Yet We may take too
gloomy view, and there may yet remain amongst
us something of our old uadtionary respect for
law, and something of the patriotism and good
sense that won our independence and formed the
Federal Constitution. Time will soon show, for
events travel fas:. The new Administration has |
Difficult: task before it, and we dare hardly hope
Tor its success. But let it do its duty, and leave
the result to Providence.