Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-18
Geo. III. Crossette on the War.


The following is from recent letter to the
Butte Record, from its editor Goo u. Cros-
settle, who is now on visit TO the East.
Some of the Republican press have the de
cency to admit that the Government should
do nothing inconsistent with the Constitution
but a majority Of them are desirous that
! slavery should end with the present war, 10y
! fair means or foul That the Government
will entertain any such i'ea do not believe
Thus far. property of all kinds, belonging TO
| loyal citizens, has been respected, and iugl-
tive slaves have been returned TO loyal mas
ters, while those belonging to rebels have
been declared contraband.
There is now and then glmmer of hnatl-
cal light from some member of the Powers
that be, which would seem TO indicate that
! the determination of slavery was to be one
of the points attained Such, however, can
never become the settled policy Of the Gov
ernment The Republicans, in their new
born zeal for the support OF the Constitution,
require something of an entraneous nature to
hold them steady in the path of duty as good
American citizens, and we occasionally see
something of n semi official character, like
the following, put forth for their comfort, and
merely for the purpose, probably, of prevent
ing them from flying off in a tangent of Abo-
! litionism and arraying themselves in oppo3-
! ton to the Government. Secretary Cameron
at n meeting of the st. Andrews Society on
the 10Th ult, is reported as having said "tLat
the war would continue until all the causes
which produced it are removed, and when ii
terminates we shall hear no more of Nrgini-
ans, no more of South Carolinians but shall
be all Americans, one and indivisible" This
is regarded by some of the Republican press
as intmating the abolition of slavery; but it
does not satisfy the ultra Abolition sheet the
New York Tribune, and old Greeley con-
tinues his grows and growlings at every
thing that does not lead directly TO elnanci-
patton. 1t will be rccollectcd that the Tri-
bune favored secession, and that while thus
fayoring the dsmemGerment of the country,
one Of its correspondents minister llarvey)
was acting the spy, and informing the rebels
of every important move Of the Government.
But no sooner is the treason of Harvey ex-
posed than the Tribune, with well-fcigned in
dignation demands his removal and hunts up
other cases to denounce, as follows:
ave congratulate the powers that be- at
Washington, on the rare virtue Of consistcn-
cy, which is, fguratively and provcrbally, a
Jewel" Emory, the secessionist and traitor,
who had resigned, has been restored to an
our brave and glorious privates delight to
serve under such an officer! They must ex-
perience feeling akin to that with which the
Wings of the Revolution would have rushed
to the leadership of Arnold just before the
execution of Andre. But this is only in keep
ing with many other kindred achievements.
Harvey still flourisbcs in spite of his admitted
treason. The Departments are iucumbered
with the known Secession clerks; Ross Wi
mans has been permitted to return to his
treacherous and traitorous occupation at
Baltimore ; and who knows but the pirates re-
Gently captured on board the first privateeI
may yet be organized into a pctted body
guard p
The Government should look after the cor
! respondents of the Tribune There is more
than one Harvey now in the reportorial corps
of that Abolition sheet. 1t has ceased to be
denounced at the South. 1t was the ally of
the rebels, and advocated their cause While
| the Administration was believed to be ready
to override the Constitution in its efforts to
destroy slavery, Greeley was with it, but
when the inaugural Of Lincoln endorsed the
Constitution and Fugitive Slave Law, the
sanctum of the Tribune was found to be Il
nest for traitors. Greeley wants direct ex-
preston of the Government in favor of the
abolition Of slavery wherever our forces shal
triumph. 1t does not take these cQuivoca
expressions on the subject SO near its heart
The declaration chat the war would con,
tinue until oil the causes which produced i
are removed" is directed more against sucl
Black Rcpubicanism as the Tribune's than
, the institution Of elavery, and the idea doe
not suit.