Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-12-24

Wiut.'' He then pronaadz "a argue. quotink
lJoHk Quisor hDAsi as anthosity. that Coz
gresb hss th6 poger IL time Of war % chhpge'
the social psranssmseis oi the eOutharn States,
even to the freeing and aiming Of their slaves.
And lest the reader should suppose that this.
idea is confined to the cranfnms Of a Few hot
headed Aboltionists, we may mention Incident
ally that the Journal of this city cAmes out on
Monday morning, Dscembog %, With long
communication placed conspicuously on its sedi-,
torial page, elaborAteIy attempting to maintain
the same doctrine. and citing the same author-
ity In its support. The Journal commends this
communicable as worthy Of petpaAl and 70.
petpsal, and saysit isS theproducsion Of one of
the most eminentjuristso of the country. So on
the question Of freeing and arming the slaves,
WESDELL PaILLlFs hasstEong Republican back.
ling. and to that point the whole party Is unde-
niAbly rapidly tending, if 10 may not besaid TO
have already arrived there. a-4ed - aa's :.
ADoLIrIoNIzED REfusLIcANisM IS DisUMoN.
| The chief difference between WEEDELL PHIL
L1Ps and the rest of the GbOlitionised Republicans
10, that he uncOvers to the light Of day what
they carefully conceal under honeyed words and
smooth phrases, lest they should be hindered In
their greed for Office. PHrLIIPs says that eve
can do anything"-in substance that we can
destroy the Union in order to save n! %We
could" he exclaims, "cede the Cafolinas.--
Would to God we could shove them Into the
Atlantic!" And this infamous sentiment was
applauded by New York audience! & -
This man, PPIILIFs, is plainly as much of
disunionist as he ever was He admitted In bis
speech, that ho was once diaunionist. He
said: ~ 3ra .ssauA4 30 s.ass,4la
Well, Il was disunionist, sincerely, for
twenty years. ! did hate the Union, when
Union meant to make the white men hypocrites
and the black men slaves. Applause. / did
prefer purity to peaee;7I acknowledge It, The
child of five generations Of PuritAne, knowing
well the value OF the Union, u did prefer dis
union to being the aocomplice OF tyrants. But
noW--now--When see what Union must mean
in order to laat when / see that you cannot
have Union without meaning justice; when
see twenty millions of people with q current as
swift and inevitable as Nisgars, determining
that this Union shall mean Justice, Why should
object to it2 b[Applause.] endeavored hon.
estly, and am not ashamed of IL, to take nine
teen States out OF this Union and to consecrate
them to liberty. Twenty millions Of people
answer me back !; ave like your motto; only
we mean to keep thirty-four States under it,"
and do you suppose l am not Yankee enough to
buy Union, when can have 1t at q fair price2
Laughter and applause 3sg0 r eys
. After arguing that a reconstruction Of the
Union is impossible, and that Congress has
power, not only to change State institutions,
but to annihilate States themselves, It Is the
badest hypocricy to pretend to be for the Union.
lsis not The Union the fathers made, that PHIL
LIPS aud his co-Workers want, it is new Union
and a new Constitution such as WASHINGTON,
JEFyERsoE MADISON and their compeers ueyer
knew. Tbis is disunion-lt is the same in es-
sence as aecesaion--and into this vortex is the
masu of the Republicans being drawn by q force |
that few in the party, we fear, will be able to
resiet.