New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-09
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
SLAVERY AND THE WAR
A Catholic View Of the Question:
NOW PEACE AND UNION MAY BIZ SECURED
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my "i'N = The rebelliOn of the lave States,
never g. ;,s object not so much DE dissolution
winch r'o =, tho separation Of the Sonth from che
y, ~, w. reconstr1lction Of the U0on on the bass
o. "a the Presideyt Of the Cgnfed-
80 s,o;es bss II, with Slavery as its corner
49, - and therefore the eXtentiCn of Slavery over
.bo whole country, cannot fail u force ths question
mon the grave attention Of every citizen Of the loyal
states who loves his country and believes in the
maeticability of Freedom. The Slave States, By
their rebellion and war on she Union, ere compelling
us 10 regard this question as one which must soon be
praetcay met, and are forcing all loyal citizens TO
make Their election between the preservation of Che
Union and the preservation OF Slavery. The, what
ever the Federal Administration, whatever individu
ais or parties in the Free States, with, or without
Southern or Pro-Slave1y prOcliyities, may wish or
desire is pretty to be the inevitable issue Of the
terrible struggle in which our glorious and hitherto
peaceful Republic is now engaged. Perhaps, ST the
moment we write the last of August, a majority Of
,he people of the Free States may not only shrink
from this issue, but even honestly believe 1t possible
70 avert it altogether. The bare suggestion Of the
abolition of Slavery may shock, perhaps, enrage
them; but events march, and men who mean to be
be successful OF not to be left behind, must march
with them Another disaster, Ike that of Bull Run,
or another unsuccessful action, like that OF Wilson
Creek where the brave and nOble-hear'ed Lyon fell
martyr to the cause of his country, AID victim 70
the failure of his Government TO SEND him timely
aid will DO much 10 change the feelings and conyic-
fions of the loyal citizens Of the Free Ses, and per
baps force them TO give up the last hope or thought
OF preserving both the Union aud the institution OF
Slavery. II requires, however char our public
men may be even ofwbispering it, 10 extraordinary
saCacity or foresight 10 perceive that II the present
war is TO be continued ana the integrity OF the ma
fion restored and maintained, the wag can hardly
fail to become war of liberation, or tlat the North
ap blood and treasure which demands for it, sue
cessful prosecution, viii demand in return, rs their
indemnfcatiOn, the emancipation OF the slave, and
abe universal adoption for the South rs well a. the
North Of our free labor system.
We need not say, for the fact is Wei known TO
our readers, that 10 man, according ~ his ability
and opportunity, has, since April, 1888 more SIREN
uously opposed the Abolition movement in the Free
States than we have; not because we lred slavery
OF had any sympathy with that hatefG iDstir:tion,
but because we loved the Constitution 4 the Inion,
and because we believed that liberty I home and
throughout the world was far more int asted IN pre-
serving the Union OF these States undo, The Federal
COnsii ution, than in abolsliUg Slay2sy as J. ex-
listed in the Southern section Of our coUcon coabry.
Bot we believe, and always have bela ed, tbs lib
erty the cause of free Institutions tho opes o. PHI
ianthr0pists and Christians both at be, and abroad,
are more interested in preserving the on alE the
integrity Of the nation, than they are 81. &c in
maintaining negro Slavery. If we lave opposed
Abolition heretofore because we woul4 preserI the
Union, we must, tortlOTi, oppose Siaiery when
ever in our judgment, its continuance Secoms In
compatible with the maintenance of III Uniot or
of our nation as free republican Stats.
y Certainly We said in our last Reyi,r4 the ls)rb
has not taken up arms for the desIut&sg OF Yigro
SLAVERY, but for the maintenance o. ste Fetsral
GOyeInment, the enforcement 0. the 1--WE,
and the preservation Of the ttiln. t.his
ie true. The liberation OF the ~ e ifI not
the purpose and the end Of the war q wbicS we
are now engaged. The war is e'r Against
gagged in by the Rebels foF the purpot. II 1sfmg
this great sayeholding Republic, IN y oh tef ia
Dor Of the country shall be performed y sl&es,
either black or white; and If to defeat u.y rebes)D
the destruction of Slavery be rendered. .eces sry,
and be actually effected, II Will change sothiGF III
the character or purpose Of the war. iSill Ave
been necessitated by the rebellion, 8II sse Rs
will have only themselves TO thank fgr vs. DIES k1c
sion abolition they force us to adopt Seiensk Of
liberty, the Union and the authority x he tsy.
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The real question now before the t,, Staff il
not, whether the Rebe9l shall Re s,',-s esse's by
force Of arms or peaceful division OF - conlsry
into two ieparate and independent R, lies sb.
United to. Any one who has any knov,J of ile
plans and purposes Of the Rebels, know ell, that
the division OF the territory of the Un.Ca into x,
independent Republics is far short of whs they sre
aiming at. The leaders OF the Rebellion hey %lo
planned it, they who have stirred It up, ~ armed 1t
against the Union, have worked Themselves bsto
the conviction that Slavery is not to be .ked upon
as an evil, under certain circumstances . be toe-
rated but as good TO be desired, which religion
and humanity require not only TO be peypetuated,
but extended the farthest possible. Their doctrine
is that liberty is not practicable Tor whole people,
tbat it is practicable only for class a race; and
that Republicanism can sGbsist aud be practically
beneficial, only where the laboring class is deprived
of all political and civil rights and reduced to
Slavery. Their plan, their purpose is the recon
structiOn Of the Federal Government in accordance
with this theory not merely to cut themselves loose
from all companionship with the non-Slaveholdng
States of the North and Northwest They propose
TO extend Slavery over the whole Union, and,
an those States where negroes cannot be proitably
employed as laborers, to reduce, perhaps gradually,
but ultimately and efectually, to the condition Of
slaves the present class Of free white lsborers who
an the Free States are, to great extent, Irish and
Germans, by birth or immediate descent.
The reconstruction Of the Union On the b;sis OF
Slavery is the real aim of the chiefs of the Southern
rebellion, which reconstruction would give them
government similar in its essential features 10 that
OF ancient pagan Rome, and government if the
States held together, prepared for future conquest
Ihe Union reconstructed, it could proceed TO the
conquest Of Mexico and Central America and reduce
their negro and coored populations to Slavery which
would be counted their AUGMENTATION. This done
At could proceed, beginning with Cuba to the an
nexetion, one after another Of the West India
Islands. 1t then could extend its power over the
whole continent OF South America, and threaten an
advance upon Eastern Asia, and the annexation of
all the cotton-producing Countries and tropical re-
gions OF the globe, and through the monopoly of
cotton, nee, and tropical productions in general TO
Obtain the control Of the commerce and credit Of all
cations. Such, to a greater or less extent, is the
dream which Southern Statemen have INDUCED, and
winch they have taken the first step toward real
azing. In Its full extent no zane man supposes the
dream practicable; but its practicability, up to