Year: 1862

Osaveasasa q tAs 0svsraors ef Northern
states et Wsshingtsns


Ih0 Governors Of Northern States who held
convention OF Providence, Rhode Island, and
adjourned to Altoona, Pennsyivania, arc, 60
oording to news from the Western States, about
TO hold another convention at Washington
the object being TO control the action Of the
federal government az to the policy and con-
duct of the war. the management of campaigns,
the regulation Of generals, and other matters Of
which they desire to relieve the President Of
the responsibility. If this news should turn out
not to be true hereafter 1t is no proof that 1t was
not true when it was first announced. If the
convention should not be held. 1t will only be
because the premature publication of the pro.
gramme shall have disooncerted the plans Of the
conspirators. Their objects at Providence and
Altoona, and the objects which they coatem-
plate at Washington, are the same Their de-
sign Ia to put Mr.. Lincoln under their feet,
70 virtually and practically nullify the federal
authority. and to act as independently as the
Southern rebels.


The effect Of this movement on the coming
elections cannot fail to be very great. The
radical spirit Of dsloyaity, or conditional loyal
ty (Which amounts to the same thiHg), can 40
longer be endured by the people. and they will
show their Indignation against it In very de-
cisivs way at the ballot box The course Of
the rebels at the South and the disunion aulfi-
fiers at the North is substantially and practi-
cally the same. The difference is not in prin-
ciple, but only in degree, The action OF the
Governors will increase the conservative ma
jorities everywhere. and perfect the popular
revolution inaugurated by the misconduct and
failure of the republican party.


Out Of evil comes good. The law Of COM
pensation pervades the world. The defeat Of
the republicans will not iniure the nation
Though they have the political power in their
hands, and their overthrow might seem at first
sight to be injurious, their discontinue will
prepare the way for more vigorous and ener-
getic action. 1t will unite and consolidate the
lighting and governing element ofthe North. The
radicals have equally failed to govern and to
fight The conservative element will furnish
the ruling aud the combatiye qualities From
narrow minded fanaticism nothing large or
great can spring. From conservatism must
come the salvation of the country. Whom the
insurgent chiefs find that the radicals and abo-
litionists are defeated in the coming elections,
as they have been in the contests Of this month,
their hearts will quail within them; for they
know what awaits themselves. The triumph
of conservatism at the North is but the pre-
cursor Of the conservative reaction at the South.
AS the Northern population become discon-
tented with the conduct Of the war and with
the results Of the financial disturbances caused
by Secretary Chase, so will the Southern pop,l-
lation become awakened to the reality of their
situation. The great conservative masses.
North and South. have been drawn into the
vortex Of civil war by the extreme factions of
both sections, and the people Of the South
will ind it to be their interest
to put down the faction in their section
who have usurped the government. just as the
people OF the North are rising in their majesty
to crush the party who shave temporarily OBJ
tanned power under false pretsnces, and have
brought the Northern States to the verge OF de-
structiOn.


Instead Of carrying on the war for the Union
with vigor and energy, the republicans have
obstructed and paralyzsd il by their dishonest
schemes 10 psrvert II 10 war for the abolition
Of slavery. The elections are the denunciAtion
Of the popular wrath against them, and IL they
will not heed this manifestation let thsm look
out for more terrible consequences They
might a. we'll attempt to arrest the progress Of
The flowing tide Of the ocean ~ To stop the revs.
luton which has now cot in. Their wisdom
will DO to submit with q good grace to
what is inevitable. The completion OF the
Northern revolution At the polls will
be the signal for similar revolution


t the South, which will overthrow JED. Davis
4 Go. The people Of the South will soon
understand that they have beon deceived by
politicians and demagogues, and have expended
their blood aud treasure in vain. The restora-
ton Of amicable relations will follow and the
authors Of the disruption Of the Union will
meet with thc rewards due to their crimes


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