Year: 1864

lre0 rom on eeln6n enu c0rruPuuB m-
| fuences! Gould they not easily select
two eminent, Trustworthy, patriotic and disinte-
rested men to all these high ofdcess Would
not the people heartily approve Of such pro-
ceduref Would it not at once overthrow the
existing corrupt factions, raise up new and


great party Of patriotic citizens and, at the


same time, by the noble sacrifice Of party ties,
draw back 10 the Union the great body OF
the sorrowful people of the Souths And
now II any authority is necessary to be
cited in support of our proposition, we can
give Ii in the words of the immortal Jackson
in his message to Congress in 1929, and let the
electors read. mark, learn and inwardly digest
them:-"In a country where Offices are created


solely for the benefit OF the people, no man has
any more intrinsic right to official station than
another. Offices were not established to give
support to particular men at the public ex-
pense. No individual wrong is therefore done
by removal, since neither appointment to, nor


continuance in office, is matter Of right" The


electoral colleges may therefore safely act on


our suggestion.


Beyond all question the electoral colleges


have perfect right to eelect their candidates


without reference to any caucuses or conven-


tions. The nomination of the NEw York


HERALD-viz: General Grants of more


weight and value, and really more to be re-


spected than either those made at Baltimore or


Chicago, and would be more satisfactory to


the people. His unanimous choice by the cleo


toral colleges would be ono Of the greatest aud


most pleasing events in our history.


Southern Governors I'm OouncIi-The
Rebel Situation.


Six Southern governors recently met at
Augusta, Georgia, and condoled with one


another over the melancholy. prospects Of the


rebel cause. They constituted very harmless


party these ak functonaries. They gathered


about the bubbling cauldron of rebellion and
| mumbled their toothless jargon over it. just a.


their kindred old women did in Macbeth. "to


make the mixture stronger" They added. 30


far as they were able, some new ingredients to


'tLe charm Of powerful trouble They put


into it all>the niggers and all the State rights


They gave up officially and formally for the


Benefit Of the rebellion all Of those pretended
rights in defence Of which the Southern States


made war on the Union; and they also gave


up that real cause OF the war-negro slavery.


These six governors tell Davis that there shall


be no more slavery if the niggers are necessary
for the army and can be made to 6ght; and
| that there shall be no more State rights, or


even States, il States OF State rights stand ever
| 80 little in the way of Southern success. They
| have given the last man and the last dollar,
and now they give up the original cause Of
war. Slavery and State rights were the South
ern cries. Each of these has been by turns the
Sbibboleth Of the South, and the Southern ar
other purpose whatever. Now the six South
ern governors arc abolitonists and advocates
of federalism and Capitalization. Can it be


wondered that tws-thrds Of the men of the
Southern armies have gone home "without
leave" when the Southern governors now oc-


cupy position identical x.sa the position the


Southern men have always hated and that
Southern ;aen made war upon in 1867


What, then, does this council of six COVER


nors indicate: First, that the South has abso-


lutely lost the cause for which it fought and
now formally gives it up. 1t abdicates the
position that hundreds of thousands OF South


erners have died in battle for Slavery can


not longer be defended, except with the assist
ance Of the niggers; and the fact that the
niegers are called upon to defend slavery puts
slavery out of existence. State rights weaken
the common defence, and so State rights must
be abandoned for the sake Of existence, which
is more important than all rights. Thus the
Southern governors furnish most practical
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rights. But this council indicates loss that


the practical Southern politicians look upon as


much more serious than q mere moral loss Of
their cause. They can invent another cause
any day, but how can they get over the fact
that council of Southern governors numbers
but six. The Southern ooniedcracy claimed at
the commencement thirteen States; now it can
only claim foothold In six States-and its foot


hold is precarious in some of these. The six
governors even urge the legislatures Of the
States to seize every man and send him to the
army, because the little territory that tho con-
federacy holds in these six States s in such des
perate danger II is true that these governors
deny the danger in one minute, while they


recognize it in the next. They will not leave
man at his home to plant corn, because there


is such need for men in the army; every one


must go; they sweep all so Unfortunately


that the robbery of the cradle and the grave
| is hardly hyperbole. And even while they


thus ruthlessly hurry every decrepid aud
frightened wretch into the ranks, they turn


round with a smile, aud rub their hands


smoothly, and assure the Southern people that
they certainly do not think the case is SO very
bad. Bat we have better authority on the
rebel situation than these governors are, es-
pecially on the situate In the West. General
Dcauregard, who has just assumed command OF


the rebel Military Division Of the West, speaks
OF the present as q "critical hour" He knows