Editor's Table [pp. 93-96]

EDITOR'S TABLE.
-Will Abraham Lincoln,'or any other
magnate of the new despotism, attempt to
show wherein the principle of government
which they are endeavoring to force upon
the country differs from the Austrian, Rus sian, or Turkish principle of government?
Names andforms may differ, but the principle
is the same. Russia is murdering men and
women, and plundering and testroying pri vate, property in Poland, because that gallant
people want to govern themselves. The Abo litionists, "War Democrats," and all their
aiders and abettors in the North, are d,)ing
precisely the same thing to the people of the
South. We are even worse than the Rus sians, because they have never pretended to
allow the principle of libertyi But we, while
professing liberty, are practicing a relentless
and bloody despotism which almost makes
the griping tyranny of Turkey respectable by
contrast.
Gov. B3ramlette, of Kentucky, admits the
dbspotism and crimes of the Lincoln Administration, but advises his people to "rectify
them through the ballot-box." Does he mean
Stuch a rectifying as the Administration practiced to elect him, when two-thirds of the legal voters of Kentucky were driven from the
polls at the point of the bayonet? We are
for rectifying all our difficulties or wrongs
with the ballot, by all means, if the ballot is
allowed us; but if it is not-if it is not fairly
allowed us, according to our Constitutions
and laws, then let us fight or fully abandon
the struggle, and let the nations look upon
us as a mob of cowards and slaves, which we
b.all, in that event, prove ourselves to be.
-Abolitionists, in considerable numbers,
are preparing to move South, to follow up
and settle in the track of Lincoln's army, in
hopes that they may make fast seizure of the
fruitful lands of the South. Thus do conquest
and avarice go hand in hand. On they march,
deitroying, pillaging and killing, leaving it
impossible to decide which they love most,
gold or blood. When the tide of their fortune turns, as turn it will, if they prove as
vile in adversity as they are pitiless and cruel
in prosperity, they will leave an intolerable
'ahnk down the track of time, which nothing
this side of the barbarism of Africa itself will
be able to match.
-The Legislature of New York hlas spent
more than half of its session in schemes to
control New York city. The very first right
which the people of England re-conquered
from the Norman dynasty, was the right of
their cities to make their own officers, to ma nage their internal affairs in their own way,
and to regulate them as they j udged best.
And the throne of England to-day dare not
meddle with the police regulations of the ci ties as the Legislature of this State does with
the city of New York. The error was that
the people of this city allowed the first en croachment; and the sooner they stop it,
the better for the cause of liberty and hu manity. The thing will be stopped some
day-the sooner the better.
-We are ihformed by an intimate personal
friend of Edward Everett, that he (Everett)
is most sick at heart at "the turn which af fairs have taken with the Federal Govern ment." He says Mr. Everett begins to see
that the designs of the Administration are
entirely revolutionary and destructive. He
."begins to see!" Is it not astonishing that
any man could fail to see it from the start?
Ex-Governor Gardner, of Massachusetts, saw
it and denounced it lHe is heartily acting
with the true Democracy. Mr. Winthrop is
also right, and will oppose the RepLublican
nominee for President, whoever he may be.
-Some time ago Gov. Seymour removed
Messrs. Acton and Bergen from the office of
Police Commissioners of this city for malfeasance in office; but these delinquents contumaciously defied the power of the Governor, and refused to vacate, and the Governor
meekly and shamefully allowed his authority
to be despised, and the laws of his State to
be dishonored by the pampered satraps of
Mr. Lincoln. To keep these dishonored officials in office, the Republicans in the Legislature repealed the Police Bill, and made a
new one, and, to the amazement of every
body, Gov. Seymour signed this bill, keeping
in office the men whom he had removed for
malfeasance. Since Gov. Seymour's election
he has eaten a great deal of revolutionary
abolition dirt; but this last act is swallowing
the whole pile at oncoe.
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[April, 1864.]
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