Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, And Rebel Ventilator

Dr. Lieber on the Chicago Platform.

The New York Times publishes the following philosophical and logical extract from a private letter, recently written by the eminent Dr. Lieber:

The Chicago platform appears to my mind the well-framed creed of Northern servility to the criminal arrogance of the South—a sanction of the highest-handed lawlessness. The election of General McClellan means armistice; armistice means separation; separation means disintegration—the instant separation of California, the dropping off of Utah, an empire in the Mississippi Valley, the excision of New England, and an inorganic clustering and reclustering of the Eastern Middle States without any inherent character. Disintegration means defiance to the wonderfully great and self-completing geography of our country, and a lapse into that state which befell Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages, when principalities rose and fell, enduring only long enough to perpetuate the sanguinary turmoil: it means a repetition of the chronic revolution which has afflicted South America this half century, possibly with a neighbor growing in monarchic power, which soon would claim the right of extension and recuperation. Disintegration means the reckless rising against that polity which the Disposer of Events has ordained as the normal type of modern civilization, against the Nationalized Government, which is the opposite to the halting League, the vast, yet incoherent monarchy, the provincial kingdom, the petty city, State, and the fragmentary feudalism. It means quarreling, bloodshed and ruin, without an idea, for a century to come, and disgrace forever. It means the heartless destruction of a nation appointed to perform great and sacred tasks. It means all this and slavery to boot, that "divine institution" whose altar is the auction table, on which the undivine ties of parents and children are torn asunder by the auctioneer, who thus becomes a holy missionary of the worshipped institution.