The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-14

in Providence, r. l., on the 10th of August, in
which he lays down the views and policy of the
administration in reference to the war; declar-
ing that "there could not be found in South Ca
rolna man more anxious, religiously and scrn-
pulously, to observe all the features Of the con-
stitution relating to slavery than Abra-
ham Lincoln" The administration, he
said, made no war upon Southern institutions
They recognized the right of South Carolina
and Georgia to hold slaves if they desired to do
30; and they held dhat it was not the province
Of the government of the United States to enter
into crusade against the institution Of slavery
In the face Of these positive, repeated, I'M
questioned, explicit declarations Of Congress
and the executive officers of the government
is 1t not the very extreme of mendacity to
assert that the object of the war is the extinc-
ton Of slavery? The abolition demagogucs Of
the North and the rebel demagogues Of the
South know equally well that there is not a
shadow of foundation for the assertion although
they persist in making it. The design of the
one set is to destroy the institution which
makes the prosperity of the Southern States;
that of the other to destroy the government
which makes the prosperity of the entire repub-
lie. Their criminal madness has brought the
American people into an internecine war which
disgraces the civilization of the age. But let
not the delusion be perpetuated. The admins
tration Is not, never has been, and does not
intend to be, in favor Of directing the national
arms against the institution of slavery, but sim
ply and solely of preserving the existence of
the nation. The Fremonts, the Summers, the
Raymonds and the Grceleys, who would fain
drive the administration into this runous poll
cy, have not the sympathies Of the people Of the
free States, and cannot swerve the President
from his fixed and unalterable purpose. The
people Of tho South should know that fact
Once knowing it and realizing its truth, the
delusion would fade from before their eyes, the
base traitors who led them into this wicked re-
bellion would lose their power, and with it
their heads, and the whole people of the United
States would once more join in constituting a
republic enc and indvisibe. But If rebellion
be persisted in to the bitter end, the inevitable
result will be that which Northern abolitionists
PioJ WV Vliiuheipu1ioA VI lue <AllICuu IuCo
at all costs and sacrifices. What good man,
North or South, desires to see such an event
accomplished?
The only way to prevent it lies in the people
of the South resuming the exercise of their
reason and recognizing facts as they are, not as
demagogues represent them to be. They will
then return to their allegiance, and receive the
protection Of the general government in all
their rights Otherwise they must either sub
nit to see their cherished institution ruthlessly
swept away, which will be the case if the ultra
abolitionists obtain the preponderance, or else
modified into sort of Mexican peonage, which
would suit the views of the more moderate anti
slavery people. But their only safety lies in
returning to their allegiance, and rendering
loyal obedience to the constitution and laws of
the United States.