Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-18
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Those journalistic, professed adherents to the
Republican party,Cwho represent the designs Oh
the Administration, in carrying on the present
war to be different from the purposes avoWed IN
official documents emsnating from the Pfesl-
dent and Secretary Of State, are doing serious
injury to the ecountry in weakening the hands Of
the loyalists and strengthening those ofthe reb'
ella. Regarded as the organs Of their party ana
of the Administration, they widen the breach
between the two sections Of our common coun' |
try, causing the Southern people to unite IN |
more determined opposition to the Federal Gov
eminent, and dividing Union men upon ques-
tious that should not be mOoled, until the para
mount question Of the day as to the perma-
nence of the Union is placed beyond peradven-
ture. r.t. .s..rf 81. sr5 v4ll1 d
Both President LINCOLN and Secretary SEW
ARD have repeatedly assured the country ana
the world, in official State papers, that the sole
object of the recent armsments by sea and land
was to repossess the forts, arsenals and otner
Federal property, to execute the Federal laws
and maintain the Constitution and preserve the
Union as it is, or was before thebreaking out OF
the rebellion. The loyal men OF the country
are disposed to take the Administration OF Its
word, and to believe IL sincere 10 making these
declarations. Il is this confidence in its in
teprity that has rallied the masses to the sup
p,rt of its war measures While this confidence
remains mistaken and the Administration is
found faithfully redeeming the pledges it has
given, no fears and no distrust need be enter
tanned OF the fidelity and unanimity OF ihe peo
pie in seconding its efforts for crushing ont re-
bellion and preserving the Union.
But there are in the Republican camp enc.
mics to the Union, to call them BY no harsher
name, who are indefatigable in sowing among
the people the seeds of distrust and doubt as to
the real designs of the Administration in this
war. It is said, that at first, the object was
merely to repossess the public property, to col
lect the revenue and execute the laws; but that
subsequent events have changed the original
purpose into one of determination against the
institution of slavery; and come 60 so far as
to assert that, if necessary for wiping out the
last yestge of human bondage on American
soil, State Governments must be destroyed and
State lines obliterated This ia clinched by the
assertion that as slavery is the cause Of all our
troubles, it mustbe extirpated at any cost and
any sacrifice.
The assertion that the present war Is, on the
part of the Administration, a crusade against
slavery or any local State institution, is made
in the face of repeated declarations to the con-
trary by the President and his Secretary OF
State. They have not indicated in any pubic
document the slightest change of policy in this
respect. The intimaton, therefore, that there
has been such change is utterly gratuitous
and without foundation, unless we are to credit
the monstrous assumption. that the Administra-
tion has secret designs and ultimate objects in
carrying on the war, which are studiously con-
eealed from the great public, and only revealed
toa faithful few, who are permitted to SOUND
the alarm in whisperings and surmises, for the
purpose of rendering eHectusl and certain the
tnsl severance of the Union.
The legitimate as well as the avowed object
of the Federal Government, in initiating the
present war movements, isto maintain the su'
premacy of the Constitution and laws and pre-
serve the integrity Of the Union. Tomaintain
these necessarily involves the maintenance Of
the State Governments, and their constitutions
and laws, 40 far as these are not contrary to
the Constitution and laws Of the United States.
The Union cannot be preserved without
preserving the States in their appropri-
ate and constitutional spheres, for without
these, there can be no Union, but only one single
consolidated Republic or Empire. Hence, this
is not, and must not be made war upon any
Legitimate State Government or upon any
constitutional State institution, az in that
case il would become q war upon the Unior
itsef, which il is the declared purpose Of the Fed
eral Government to maintain and defend. /
The great stimulent to the secession fever In
the South is the repeated assertion in the Re
publican journals in the North that the Admin
istration is engaged 10 war Of determination
against slavery and even against the conssitu-
tional existence Of separate States. This !
construed and aggravated into threatened des
potism, and psralyzes the efforts of the Unio'
men in the South to stem the tide Of rebellion
IL also distracts the loyal people 10 the Northef
States by raising false issues and renewing oil
political grudges and animosities. We do no
charge the men who thus promote discord AM
disunion by false representations Of the avowe'
policy of the Administration, with treason; bu
they are certainly no friends to the Onion or t
the peace of the country, ,,r,-< 49,. e-.