Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-12-18
The Purginr prncass.


A Washington dispatch to Republican, ma.
per says, concerning the proposed expulaIon Of
Senator Polk Of Missouri, 'The Senate has de-
termined to purge issli of all traitorous mem
Ders," That is right. And when It shall have
inquired into the cases Of Polk, Blight and 9TH
ers OF supposed accession proclvities, let it in
YeatlgAte tho cases Of TrnnibulI, Chandler
wade, Sumner, Hale and all the other abolition
conspirators. Senator Douglas declared, during
the session OF Congress last winter-and who
viii question his reliability the abolition
caDal In the Senate was just as intent as the
southern secession leaders upon breaking up
the Union. The same cabal Is In the Senate
now, and is banded to prevent any termination
Of the war that shall not destroy slavery ~
These men are as thoroughly traitors az Jeff.
Davis, or John Slidell, or j. NJ aMasen, and the
senate, IN purgng itself of traitorous members,
should strike at the greatest traitors first, and
tnese are Trumbull and Chandler and Wade
ana sumner and Hale, and not Polk and Bright
ana Johnson These latter may be traitors, but
tney are small lights by the eide Of the aboli-
tion traitors. ~ ~. 80
These abolition traitors are going to I'd estroy
slavery because, they say, it is the cause of the
teoeillon ana the war. Nobody knows better
tnsn tney that it is not slavery, but abolition,
tnat IS tne cause OF the war. If there had been
no soolitlon' would there have been any re-
Demon III we have rightly read certain docu-
mments' ~ known as WashiDgton's and Jackson's
Farewell Addresses, their authors foresaw the
dangers of abolition and warned their country.
men against them. Slavery was not aggressive
forty years ago. II it has since grown appres-
slve, II has been in resistance to abolition
Aoolition is the grand cause of the war and of
all the untold evils that sflict the country. Let
us not be understood as conceding for q mo-
ment tnat abolition has at any time been sufi-
cient cause for rebellion, IL has not. Had the
south remained firmly in the Union, abolition
would have been dead to-day. But it was abo-
htion that armed the secession leaders-the
traitors OF the South-With power to mislead
tne southern people and precipitate the catas.
tropbe of rebellion. - -..TI-l
The secession leaders did not have this power
when Congress met last December. They
could not az that time have carried any State
beyond south Carolina and Florida out of the
Union. IL was the subsequent action of aboi-
tion that gave them this power. Abolition per-
sisted In the personal liberty bills, and refused
all those concessions which Southern Union men
asked to enable them to resist secession success.
fully. In the same breath that it refused all
concession to the Union sentiment in the South
1t declared that "the Union would not be worth
rueh without a little blood dieting" Wha
could Southern Union men do after that bu
bury their faces in the earth and permit th,
waves OF secession to roll over them and ovel
the whole lanG7 L.-- r,....
Let the Senate purge itself of all tratorout
members, But let it begin with the traitors
who, while patriots were, with indescribablt
anxiety, trying every possible expedient to save
the Union without bloodshed, proclaimed thai
without little blood letting the Union would
not be worth rush. "-ChicGso Times.