resumed: The path of peace once entered upon, there would be no steps backward. The rebels know this, and therefore attach not the slightest consequence to the protestations of our Copperheads that no peace is possible without the Union. "But if Mr. Lincoln's successor were to be not a Copperhead, but a genuine Union man, the rebels yet would find in the fact some hope of relief, from the uncertainty what the policy of the new President would be; whether that policy, when developed, would be acceptable to the Northern people, and whether it might not breed a disaffection and discord that would rend and ruin the Union party. Indeed, no Northern man can say that this is impossible. There certainly are policies, which have zealous advocates in some quarter, that never could be practically applied, without the most determined opposition of the great body of the Northern people-policies which bear against some of the most rooted popular convictions of political right and expediency. For instance, many AntiSlavery leaders maintain, with great vehemence, that no rebel State ought to be restored without a guarantee that the liberated slaves shall have the right of suffrage and every privilege of highest citizenship. Does any sane man believe that the next President of the United States could devote himself persistently to that object without convulsing the Union party with internal strife? One of the chief official virtues of President Lincoln has been his consummate discretion in pushing no policy that the great loyal body of the people would not heartily accept, and aid in furthering. He has known how to keep Union sentiment, in a wonderful degree, united and compact. We do not believe that any other public man has the combination of qualities that could have so happily secured this. There can be no assurance that it would be realized at all under any man, however loyal, not yet tried. This is a matter of exceeding consequence, and the rebels recognize it. The great danger to the Union cause, from the beginning, has been the danger of dividing into two hostile camps upon some of the tremendous questions which the progress of the war is constantly evolving. Such a division, once established, would very soon so weaken the Government as to make the further effective prosecution of the war impossible, and would assure the success of the rebellion. We say, then, that the placing any other man in our Presidential chair, at this stage of the war, however zealous he might be for the war, would raise this strong hope in the rebel heart, and would be a new stimulus to keep the rebel flag flying. "The re-election of President Lincoln by the unanimous vote of all the vast loyal majority of the North, would do more than any thing else to shut off the last hope of the rebels. His war policy, developed through three years, and thoroughly tested, needs only the complete ratification of the people to stand as an adamantine barrier against all possibility of 'Confederate' independence. It would confront the rebels like doom itself. Though yet only foreshadowed, the rebels even now shrink from it. The political event which, of all others, they most deprecate, is the election of Abraham Lincoln to a second term of office. As it is with them, so is it with their Northern sympathizers." THE END. THIS CATALOGUE CONTAINS AND Describes the Most Popular and Best Selling Books in the Worlò The Books will also be found to be the Best and Latest Publications by the most Popular and Celebrated Writers in the World. They are also the most Readable and Entertaining Books published. Suitable for the Parlor, Library, Sitting-Room, Railroad Camp, Steamboat, Army, or Soldiers' Reading. PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BY T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia. 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