Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-09-03
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Aid and Comfort to the Enemv


SIhe abolition press of the North is engaged
in the reasonable business of giving aid and
comfort to the enemy in two ways First, by
enceavoring to pervert this war for the Consti-
tuition and the Union into crusade against
slavery, and thereby utterly destroying the re-
naming Union sentiment in the Southern States.
second, by wickedly and maliciously represent.
Ing the Democrats Of the North as secret avn.
pathizers with rebellion, ready to revolt against
the Government upon the first favorable oppor.
tunity' and thereby encouraging the Southern
people to persevere in rebellion with the hope
OF ultimately obtaining assistance from the
Northern Democracy.
NO argument Is necessary to demonstrate
that the dissemination OF such treasonab able e
views throughout the South would be followed
oy dlsastronsc consequences to the cause of the
ionion' and perhaps postpone indefinitely the
prospect OF reconstruction. So anxious was
Congress that the object of the Government
should be set before the Southern people in the
proper light, that it adopted with singular una
nimity the resolution Of Mr.. Crittenden, de-
clariDg that the war was prosecuted Tor the sole
purpose OF maintaining the Constitution and
The union-yet in the face of this official decla.
ration such abolition organs as that of the Sec
retary OF War, published at this place. by an
oncer OF the Government, insist that the war
shall be prosecuted for abolition aud rsusnge,
and that the reconstruction OF the Union is no
longer the Nations watchword
In reply to the oft repeated charge that the
Northern Democracy sympathize with the efforts
OF rebels to destroy the Union, we ask the ques
tion-Why should a Democrat be a traitor T.
The Democratic party has everything to lose
ana nothing to gain by the dissolution of the
/ U.ion. Admit the fact that the strength of the
lDemocratic party is In the Southern States, and
80 much stronger the reason why Democrat
should desire and labor and fight for the main
tenanco OF the Union. Those who seek Il
amx the stigma of treason to the Democratic
party because 1t has stood up for Southern
rights IN the Union, reason most illogically
wnen they Conclude that this party must neces
sarily sympathizs with the Southern States IL
their efforts to get out of the Union. Not only
daty to the government, but the highest inter
eet OF the Democratic party, impels it to wish
for and to work for the preservation of tn,
Union.
Thus taking purely selfish view Of the case
1t IS evident that the Democracy as a party hav
an interest In the preservation Of the Unio
beyond that of any other party organization =
But the great mass OF Northern Democrat
.ho were ready to make every sacrifice for IN
Union when the Abolitionsts talked OF "lettin
1t slide," and when the Republicans exclaime
mot an inch" of concession for the unior
were governed by higher, nObler, more patr
otic impulses, when they filled up the ranks o
the army and rushed to the defense of the Gov
ernment. They are now as ever loyal to th
Constitution and constitutional government
and as determinedly hostile to abolitionism i
all its phases as they were during the last cam
paign, when they predicted the bitter fruits G
sectional domination.
The Democratic party is loyal to the Const
tuition and the Union-and the only traitors 0
the North are those who seek to destroy th
Constitution and to give such aid and comfoi
20 the enemy as to render the reconstruction {
the Union impossible. Milwaukee Nsws.