Next week the editor speaks of the "determined and loyal course of the President." After that he explains his motto in a different spirit; prints Union letters and speeches, in one of which a War Democrat declares "compromise impracticable;" and so the paper swims quietly along until the State election, at which Democrats are exhorted to "Stick to your party," "Vote the Democratic State Ticket," "Stand by the old party," "Don't be humbugged by the cry of no-partyism," "It is an old dodge," etc., etc. The result of the election -- for Secretary of State and other officers, in the off year -- giving the Republicans a majority of all they wished, with the first appearance of Judge Robertson in the capacity of State Senator, the editor finds comfort in the removal of Fremont -- effected about the same time -- which he assumes as a

THE CIVIL WAK, 1860-65.

mark of "proper respect to the sentiments of the Democracy of the North."

It would take us far beyond the limits of such a chapter as this to follow the course of political opinion at the county capital with any minuteness; but the tone of the Edsteni Slate Journal grows stronger and stronger in opposition to the prosecution of the war during the year 1862, though the obnoxious "true sentimeut" is dropped. There are no more articles openly abusing " Abolitionists:" but the paper sticks to the doctrine, as late as April 20, 18(52, that "the general government has, even in war, no more power" to coerce a rebellious State "tlian the Constitution gives it," and therefore none to confiscate slaves or set them free- The abuse of "Abolitionists" is changed, as the summer goes on, to philippics on "lazy, mindless negroes," and predictions of a "San Domingo massacre " if the slaves of the South are ever freed.