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will his election do us? He is a war man — a decided war man — and is run as a war candidate. He is proclaimed by his friends to be a State-rights man. But what sort of a State-rights man? He was the man, as Mr. Harris, of Maryland, justly said, who initiated that policy by which the rights of the States in Lincolndom were completely prostrated. He ordered the arrest of the whole Legislature of Maryland. A very singular sort of State-rights man this, to be sure. He is also accused by Greeley of being a friend to the slave power. We take it some of our farmers on the Peninsula could tell a very different tale from that. He is, however, at any rate, determined to restore the Union as it was, and that, under the circumstances, means that he will continue the war if elected. How, then, he can be considered any better for our purposes than Lincoln himself (whose unscrupulous tool he was while he commanded the army) we are unable to see. One of the means by which the "Platfor
ty, and the conquering party, and the party that is sure to win in the end, can afford to offer generous and magnanimous terms to the people of the South, who, however erring, are still our brethren — bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. Mr. Greeley himself, the great anti- slavery leader, who commanded and demanded the emancipation proclamation, is now, I believe, willing to take any ground consistent with the national dignity to secure a reconciliation between the two contending sections.--Nay, it is not a violent presumption that Mr. Greeley would be willing to ignore that proclamation in order to secure such a reconciliation. We are not fighting a foreign foe. The blood poured out in this war for liberty mingles with the blood that is poured out, not for slavery, but for an ideal Southern independence, and if we can change this latter sentiment into the belief that Southern independence can be better maintained in the old Union, why should not all the issues, except that o