overthrown in the rest of the slaveholding States, for Virginia, Tennessee, &c., voted by large majorities to remain in the Union, and it was almost universally hoped and believed in the South that Mr. Lincoln would take no hostile steps against the seceding States, and that a mighty reaction at the North would, within the next four years, explode the monstrous Abolition delusion, and, the question settled forever, the seceding States would return to the Union. This, to the certain knowledge of the writer of this arti cle, was the general view of Jefferson Davis, as well as other leading men in the South, and it is now certain that if Mr. Lincoln had followed the policy of Mr. Buchanan, not one drop of blood would have been shed, not one dollar wasted, nor the American people, save the seceding States, injured in the slightest degree, and eighteen months hence all the States would be in Constitutional and harmonious relation to each other. But Mr. Lincoln could not do so without giving up the "great principle" of his party, that for which it was formed ten years ago, for which the British and other monarchical governments have labored for sixty years, and for which their dupes and tools in our midst have so debauched the northern mind; in short, that which Mr. Lincoln was elected to accomplishthe abolition of all distinctions between whites and negroes, and thus the debauchment and destruction of Republican institutions on this continent.

If, at this fatal juncture of affairs, the Democratic leaders of the North had stood by their principles, and aroused the masses to the danger of the country, they might have saved it from the awful evils now impending

over it; but they cowered before the clamor of the Abolition madmen, and stood helplessly looking on, even when not drifting with the current leading to certain ruin.

Any attempt at coercing sovereign States would be absurd, of course, in a delegated government, and therefore the wild and desperate faction that elected Mr. Lincoln, set up the theory of a nation, which, were it correct, Messrs, Lincoln, Seward, Chase & Co., could have no right to be at Washington at all, as they had only one-third of the votes of this "nation." But this and all other monstrosities, Constitutional and social, have been submitted to by the people, and for three years the deadliest and most des tructive war known in all history is waged-for what? Why "impartial freedom," to complete the schemes of European monarchists, and break down Republican institutions by an abolition of all the distinctions separating races. If the South can be overrun, devastated, its adult male population destroyed, and its four millions of negroes amalgamated in our political society, then the 'Union," of course, will be lost forever, for then we shall become a nation of mongrels, ruled by a despotism like Rome, perhaps, or the French empire of to-day.

The "Government" now claiming to be the United States is as absolutely mongrel as if the men who made it designed to include negroes equally with white men in the political system, and it is moreover an oligarchy as well as despotism, for one-third of the people rule, and rule by brute force. If, therefore, the men who made this Government did not include the negro element in the political sys

tem of the United States, then we are in the midst of the most astounding revolution ever witnessed in human affairs, for what can be even imagined deeper, wider, or more utterly antagonistic than a white Republic, or a mongrel one, composed of whites, negroes, mulattoes, sambos, &c.? And if the Government of the "United States," created in 1788, was a delegated Government, with no powers whatever save those delegated to it by the States, then it is equally obvious. that we are living under a monstrous usurpation, and all, or nearly all, that Mr. Lincoln has done since he entered Washington was, and is, in direct hostility to the true Government of the United States.

Such, then, in conclusion, is the "situation" the Constitution is suspended, and the Constitutional Union along with it while the people are blindly

drifting through blood and horrors unparalleled, into social anarchy and utter ruin. The remedy is obvious. We have still the written Constitution to guide us out of these frightful dangers, and when we rally around it as it was made, and construed by the Supreme Court, and administered for eighty years, we will have saved the country and restored the Union.

This Constitution applies only to the white citizen, and the Government under it is a delegated Government On these two great vital truths "hang all the law and the prophets," and when they are restored at the North, they are restored everywhere, for they are the basis of the Confederate Government at Richmond, as they were those of all the Governments at Washington be fore the fatal advent of Abraham Lin coln.

GOVERNOR SEYMOUR's last message deals with the Administration of Mr. Lincoln unsparingly, if not mercilessly. It not only asserts, but it proves its incompetency, by such an array of figures and documentary evidence as no Republican paper, and no friend of the President, dare attempt to answer. The Times, Tribune, and Evening Post, denounce, abuse, and falsify, but do not attempt to refute it. But its incompetency is altogether the lesser part of Governor Seymour's attack upon the Administration. Not only does he hold its corruption, its downright swindling, up to the gaze of the world, but he goes further, and nails the charge of revolution on its very forehead. He shows that it has assumed powers which are necessarily destructive, of not only the spirit, but of the very form of the Government of the United States. He accuses it of having already subverted the Constitution and disregarded the laws, to such an extent as annihilates liberty in the North, and prevents the return of the South to its old place in the Union, even if it desired to.

Now those charges are well put, and well proved; but here comes a reflection which will astonish an intelligent historian of Governor Seymour's administration. If even one-half that he affirms and proves against this Administration be true, instead of receiving the countenance of any patriot, it deserves the execration of all-instead of being supported, it ought to be hung. He demonstrates that Mr. Lin

coln is ruining his country and subverting the Government of our Fathers. This stupendous revolution he is executing by means of the army. The larger the army becomes, the more easily will the Administration effect its fell designs, and yet he goes in for supporting an army which he shows is being effectually used for such a revolutionary purpose.

The message of Governor Parker, of New Jersey, is open to a charge of the same astounding self-stultification. He proves clearly and ably that the Administration has pretty effectually barred the South against a return to the Union. If his language is less positive, his array of facts, and his ar-. guments, as plainly affix the stamp of revolution upon Mr. Lincoln and his party. If what he says is true, every man and every dollar given to the Administration, is so much material devoted to the ruin of the country, and to the prevention of reconstruction. He says:

"The great question to be considered is how can we have peace and the Union in the shortest time? For, however desirable peace may be, we should be united in the determination that when it comes it should bring with it the Union of the States under the Federal Constitution, and the re-establishment of the national authority over the whole country."

A determination that when peace comes it shall bring with it the Union, are pleas ing but futile words, when used in connection with a recommendation to give further support to a war which he shows is rendering the restoration of the Union under the Constitution

impossible. Equally futile are these other words about the establishment of the national authority over the whole country, because Mr. Lincoln is not attempting to establish any such authority, anywhere. By "national authority," Governor Parker means the authority of the Constitution of the United States. But the Governor himself proves, in this very message, that the authority Lincoln is attempt ing to establish is not the authority of the Constitution, but is precisely subversive of that authority. And he ought to be able to see that, by his own showing, whoever supports the material power of the usurper assists the revolutionists in the overthrow of the Government. Governor Parker does not seem to comprehend, or to appreciate correctly the position of the peace men-which is, really, the position of eight-tenths of the masses of the Democracy of his own State. He says the policy of peace "would result in perpetual disunion." That he does not know. Wise and good men now living in the South, think otherwise. But the position of the peace men is that of the lamented Douglas, that "War is disunion-final, eternal separation." This is the real point of attack, if the doctrines of the peace men are to be fairly essailed. We have shown often enough, by arguments which need not be repeated here, that the principle and life of the Union do not admit of the existence of such a war. That the very fact of such a war is not only an overthrow of the Union, but of the very foundations of the Government of the United States. There has been no attempt to refute this position of the anti-war men. The Republicans are generous enough to

admit its truth, and old enough to accept its conclusions. They have the consistency to say that the Union uader the Constitution is gone, and shall not return. It is left for the faction of the Democratic party which supports the war, to stultify itself by urging on a war for the Union with one side of its mouth, while with the other side it clearly proves that it is used solely for disunion and revolution The Republicans take the ground that the war is right, and that the Consti. tution is wrong. The peace men affirm that the Constitution is right, and that, therefore, the war is wrong. The "War Democrats" declare that the Constitution is right, and that the war which destroys it is also right. The intellectual illumination displayed in this position is stupendous indeed! If the war is right-if it be possible to conduct such a war without violating the Constitution, then the existence of "the Democratic" party is a fraud upon the public, and has been from its foundation. All its platforms and resolutions, down to 1861, have been cheats and lies. To affirm otherwise is to publish one's ignorance of the history of the Democratic party. We believe not only in the Union as it was, but in the Democracy as it was. That the only hope, the only possibility of Union, is in peace. That the only hope of preserving the Government of the United States and of the States is in peace! The Republican programme of subjugation and extermination we can understand-it is plain, straightforward, revolutionary and devilish; but it is not senseless. The position of the so-called "War Democrats," viz., of trying to fight sovereign States back into a voluntary union, is wicked,

evasive, hypocritical and foolish. The cant about "supporting the Government" in this connection, is equally senseless. What Government shall we support? To support the kind of Government that Mr. Lincoln and the Abolitionists are administering and attempting to fasten upon our country, is to help destroy the Government that was founded by Washington and our fathers. To support, to give aid and comfort to "the Government" now administered by Lincoln, is to support a revolution—a revolution based upon the idea that negroes shall be co-equal citizens with white men. According to the showing of the messages before us, it will not do to give to Mr. Lincoln's deeds the mild name of a misadministration of the Government of the United States. It is not a misadminis tration-it is a REVOLUTION! The machinery he is running is not the Government of the United States at all!

To a small extent it is so in form, but in spirit it is not the Government established by our fathers. Jeff. Davis's administration lacks the name, but in spirit it comes a thousand times nearer to being that Government than Mr. Lincoln's. Indeed, if the southern leaders would so far come to their senses as to hoist again the old flag, and resume the old name of TEE UNION, they would strike such a blow at the northern Abolition revolution as would send it staggering to its fall! The northern people do not want Abolition; they do not want Lincoln's revolution. What they want is The Union, just as it was, and the Constitution just as our patriot fathers made it! From whatever source that glorious result may come, it will be hailed with the plaudits of a grateful people; but to hope for it through war is to seek for life among the dead-is to hunt after happiness in hell!