The South For Abraham Lincoln

The Democratie nomino iu the United States, re Mc.Clelhm for President, and Peadlöton lor Voe-Proideut. What coDCori) have peoplo of these Confedérate Stiltes ín the late óf these candidates at the approauhing olectiou ? In our opinión, the interest and hope of poacc i.-' not grea'ly ad vaneed hy these noiniiuitiüQS. From General McClellau our poople can have but littlo hope of jiencc, other than a reconsliuclion peace. ' What hope do his anteccdeuts hold out that we tiiuuld enoourage our people to believe that ho wouid yield our natiotuility atiy Boomt ihan Mr. Lincoln ? He is by f ar the nïoH dangerous man for us ; had his pohcy been persi 'ttentft) followed, and the war conductcd on the principies of cirdized warure, he might have du-ided uur people, and, ptriaps, conqmred our Itbcrties. VVith consummate aüilities he cleuily foreiw that eman. ipation might poi-sibly free the negroes, but could not unile the scotious; that eonöseatiou inight eorich his soldkrs, but could not recoueiie our people; htnee, Mth an earnestnd huiiest love for the Union, be avoided those fatal acts, ond conductcd the war for the restonition of the Union, vather than tue desti uotioii of the South. HTb policy was the olive branch in one hand, and tho sword in thu other, to conquer by power and eonciliate by kindness. Il was a most dangerous policy for us; for if Ihe amclioratlng hand of federal kindnest had tqftcned the rigors of war, our people would not have been subjectcd to those terrible fir es of siff ering by which Mr. Lincoln has hardened every heart, and steecd every sentiment againsi our niirciles3 foes. As a siueere secessionist, préferriug war and nationality to pjaee and tho Union, we loobed upon the faet of a difference between Mr. Lincoln and General MeClellan, ns to the proper polioy af condue.ing the war, as poeuliariy fortúnate for our cause. We liatled the proclaaiations of eraaucipation and confiscation, and the policy of plunder and devastation assure pledgos of our uliimato triumph; they werö terrible ordeais, butlhey uio.it eflectualJy ëradicated every sentiment of Unior and arousing the pr!de as well as tho iuterest o( our people, inflimed the patriotism of the whole, until they would havo aceepted cleath as preferabla to ultímale 'lefeat Now, between MeClellan and Lincoln there aro many points cf diffeience - the forraer iá a man of talents, of inforination, cf firmness and great military experieoce and ability - the latter is a uppie, pliant, easy fooi, a good but vulgar joker. While McCle'.Uin has the interest of the Union only at heart, Mr. Lincoln has the fanatical object of freeing cegroes iur his iuspiration. Betiveen "iny plan," as General Grant has con ducted it, and one by Geneial McClellan, there could oot have been tho samo guccess that lias alreudy attended our ruis, for we lost more men fighting the icience of MeClellan on the Península than we have in repelling the furious but UI conducted assaults of General Grant. Thus, whethcr we look at this nomination in the light of peacc or of war, ree prefer Lincoln to MeClellan. We can make bttter teims of pcace with an antislavery fanatic than with an earnest Unionist. We can gain more military Buccesa in a war conducted on "my plan" than oae of a real soldier like MeClellan, and sooner destroy tho resources and strengtb of onr cneiny where they aro managed and manipu lated by the light-fingcred gentry of Messra. Chase and Fossenden, than wheo husbandedand skilliullycontrolled by auoh a man as Guthrie. Our best hope is from Ihe honsst fanalics of the United States, men who bslieve iu their hearts that slavery is the "sum of all villaiuies," and who really and sincere]y believe it to be their duty to separate their country from this "relie of barbarisrn." Such men, when they find that their people are tired of the war, will tnd it by a peace that sacrifices territory to freedom, and wilt let the South "go" provided she carriel slavery with her. These men believe no less that the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the goverued, than "that all men aro created free and equal." The two postulates are of like importaDce to an abolltionist. Both tho abolitionist and tho Domocrat is our enemy - tho one, because we have slaves, the othor, becauso we are disuniorists. Nor does their eamity differ in degree; they both hate us most intensely. The Chicago platform is, that "peaco may be restored on tho basis of the federal unión of the statea:' - that is, roconstruction of the Union as it was, with elavery proteo' ed by tho nominal laws, but warred upon by a real sentiment, aggravated and embittered by th3-war. The reconstructed Union of tho Chicago platform would be tho cortain destruotion - first of slavery, and next of slaveholders. With Lineóla and the Baltimore platiorm, we of the confedérate states know where we are - outsido of the pale of mercy, devoted toruin and destruction, wi„h no hope eave in the justice and protection of God, and tho ccurage and manliness of our soldiere. With swords and musJcets and eannon vefighl Liincoln, and the past affords no reason ofapprehension of the future. But in the reconstructcd Imion of the Chicago platform, we would he deprived ofourweapons without beiny reconciled to our foes. There is no question that between the two men, Gen. MeClellan enjoy far more of the respect of tho peoplo of ihese states than Linsoln, and tho Doinucrutie party far more of our contidence than the Republican, and that if reconstruclton were possibie, it uroüJ.d be more ■prvbable únder General MeClellan and the Democracy, than under Ldncoln and the Republkans. Tho Northwest inspires une, and New Englaud the other; but as long as New Eugland i reposes the dogmas of her civilization, and the tonets of her faaaticism upon t ho mind uu} peoplo of the northwest, there may be peace and eparation, but there can nover be Union and harmony. If the Nirihwest desiros the resturation-of the Union, let iu people shake o il tfcw b'inilage o.f Nuw ling-land, and ah"w to lie ipnrld th'it a new era of toleralion andfratrrnalkindrioxs his risin in the pai-e fanatua I untanism and S'lfith uitïticimn.