Year: 1863

Union as it wasl


The more sagacous members of the "Repub-
lican" party begin to fear that if the is car
ried on much longer, we may be compelled tn
make peace the basis of final separation from
the South and Acknowledgement of Southern in
dependence There is now no longer any doubt
that the brink of war with both
Frasce and England, both of whom. in that
event, will at once espouse actively the cause of
the South. Nay il looks as if we might expect
to hear any moment of the landing of French
army at Mobile, and the arrival in Charleston of
the new Confederate iron clad feet, accompanied
by an English squadron. TO break the blockade.


X


WASHINGTON, August l9.


Nothing has yet coDe of the gathering of rad
cal Republican politicians which was to take
place here this week. A large number OF them
have been here for some days, and many of
them have spent good deal of time with the
President They have the ear of that function
ary whenever they desire, and he listens with
complacency to all that they suggest They are
delighted with the doctrines enunciated in the
letter of Mr.. Whiting, Solicitor of the War De
pArtment, which, it is whispered here, was writ
ten at the instance of the President himself and
contains a plain exposition of the principles by
which he will be guided in the future prosecution
of the war. Aud this, | believe, is the reason
why these radical politicians here are so quiet
and do not make any demonstration. They find
that, in this letter, the President comes out at
last, aud fairly and squarely plants himself upon
their platform. They caused the in order
that slavery in all the States might be abolished !;
in order that the Southern pleope might be either
suhiugated or exterminated; and in order that
the estates Of the Southern people might be con-
fscated and divided among the fanatics of the
North In this letter of Mr. Writings we are
assured that the Administration has adopted this
view, and will be euidei in its future action by
these principles; that the Southern States now
occupy no other relation TO the Government than
the relation of foreign countries with which we
are at war and which we are determined to con-
quer and subjugate; that the people OF the South
States are no longer our fellow citizens, but
that they stand in no other relations-tOward us
than that OF public enemies, whom it is the in
tention of the Government to conquer and sub
due; and that. after being conquered and sub
dued. those States are to oc treated as conquered
provinces, and the estates of the Southern people
are to be confscated; above all, that the South
ern Staes are never 70 be readmitted into the
Union NEVER. until they abolish slavery. Find
ing therefore, that the President has adonted
these views, and is shaping his conduct according
to them. the radical politicians here fnd their ob
iect attained, and that they have nothing more TO
DO except to urge the President 10 embody
declaration of these views IN his next mes
sage to Congress. which he has readily prom
sed to do.


Here then is food for thought for the people
of the Wet. They were deluded into this war
by the solemn declaration of the Administration
that il was 10 he war for the Union. The re
peated declarations Of the President the Secre
tsry OF State and Congress- to this effect, are on
record, and can never be efficed. The Secretary
of State went further and assured the country
that the condition of every human being in the
Southern States, after the war, should be the
as il was before the war These solemn pledges
are now blown to the winds like cobwebs The
radical "Repnblican' members of the last Con-
gress passed measures which give to the Presi
dent all the powers of an Eastern despot which
change the form Of our government from free
republic to military desp0tism; and the Presi-
dent has determined To exercise these powers.
The matter is serious enough, and alarming
enough In all probabitv the days of American
liberty are numbered The freedom of elections
in some Of The States is :lres'ly taken away. How
much longer will it be before il is taken away
from all of them, and Burnside or Shenck
found for each S;atel Do the people still de
lude themselves with the idea that they will be
allowed to hold another Presidential election?
Do they not see that il is in the power of the Ad-
mnstration to prevent that election from being
held. or, rather, to have it held under bayonets,
as elections are now conducted.in Kentucky and
MARYLAND and no one but Republicans" AMI
soldiers allowed to vote? And can it for mo
ment be supposed that the Administration will
refrain from the exercise of that powerf


There is another very serious matter in rela
ton to which the people ought-to be warned.
The recent elections for members of Congress
make it probable that there will be a majority of
members in the next House of Representatives
in opposition to the Administration. Ii will be
very small majority. but sill majority, and
they would have tie power 10 elect the Speaker,
who would undoubtedly be Fernando Wood of
New York The Administration have taken
means to prevent this When Congress assem-
bles men will present themselves from all the
districts in the Southern States now occupied BY
our iroops. and will claim to be Union men,
elected to Congress by Union men in those dis
tricts Arrangements have been made to have
such men sent from North Carolina, Arkansas
Louisiana, the western part of Tennessee, and
Florida These men will really have been elect
ed, but il will be by an election held and CONTROL
ed by military force. and at which no one will
have been allowed to vote except tools of the
Administration need not say that the voice
of the people of the States have named will not
be heard or expressed in those elections at all
But the creatures thus elected" will come to
Washington. and will demand seats in the House
OF Representatives. ne utmost power of the
Administration will be exercised in order to have
them admitted to seats The money OF the FED
eral treasury will he used in lavish rrofusion to
effect this end II it is effected, if these men,
even if FIVE of them. are admitted. Il will turn
the balance. and the Republicans" will elect the
next Speaker. Already, by the juggling of the
last Congress in passing the bill for the dismem-
berment of the State Of Virginia. the Admins
fration has created for itself two votes in the
United States Senate. The dismemberment
game will be tried again in this Congress. For
every State thus dsmembered, the Administra
ton gains two new votes in the Senate.


have had an excellent opportunity recently
of ascertaining the real facts in regard to the ex
istence of any alleged Union feeling or - unon
sentiment" at the South rbe views of the
Times, as expressed in the editorial article on the
subject on the 18th inst. are unquesionably cor
rect. OF all the delusions that have afflicted the
public mind at the North for year past, this is
the most lamentahle There is literally no Union
feeling at the South, has there been since the
President issued his emancipation proclamation
All the acts of the Administrations and of Con
gress, since that time have only tended to crush
out and extinguish in the hearts of the Southern
people whatever love of the Union they had pre-
viously cherished; and tie whole South as one
man, are now uuited in their determination 60
achieve their independencey What else couli be
expected? The Administration now unbushingly
avows its intention 10 exterminate or to subju
gate them, and to con6scate their estates Would |
they be human beings If they acted otherwisef !