Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-12-15
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There are as everybody knows sotts ofsound
lsAld and furj signifying noshRg% WeknoVotnof
iqN .hhg in the current politics ofthe daymOre anus
SisS inr than che tiradss Of certain Republican jour
,ss8 nals against heir radical brethren, who would
"a V Immediately free and arm the negroes. Atihe
:, same time, these aeemiDgly Nrathy journalists
i s,, admit that the Goveroment may be driven Oh
b :. necessity, TO adopt ts radical policy, and they
become as excited and ipPantoyer the prospect
!, a. the fercest Aboltiopisk' siyif sas ~
= The New York World whichha '"by AuthO
s5as ty,s or OF It's own accord, assumed to be the
sl'p champion OF President LINCOLN, Is sample OF
this class Of pApers In one breath 70 rdicnleS
ssos5 and abuses the Abolonists mostunmtrciiully,
ala and in the next, curses slavery up hill and
down and pronounees Ito doom on this continent
NO sealed forever in consequence Of the rebellion
asli. Below is the Hrst paragraph in an article,
g a'' headed "a Craven CFyp In the World OF the
18th Inst. Did Jon, ever, reader, see finer
ssal specimen Of unspariug Fidicuie and witherng
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cue! Can it be believed that there are Ameri-
can freemen dastardly enough to raise q ory
~ ike that There is not day We 90 not hear IL
~ 1t is bawled at every point OF the compass and
M comes down TO US from even the sacred walls o.
the captol. They demand emancipation as a
military necessity, In effect, We are told that
he twenty millons Of the North are no match
for the AZ millions of the South--that We are
doomed to defeat, unless We get the help OF the
black man. They do not like to have II put
iust in thar style but Il tamounts to exactly that
Shor. of ihai, their military necessity" would
n be a misnomer and their claim to abolitionize
81, under the war power the baldest pretext.s We
say that vileI insult was never dealt upon the
80. Northern name. The worst libel ever uttered
,F BY southern slAye-driyers docs not eqgsl ~ y
ii be true that, with such numerical odds In our
~ favor, and with the noblest cause that ever sp-
b, peaied to man, we mnst crave the spceor OF
/ slaves; il we must look 70 the poor, hLnd,
lf creeping African 70 help vindioate our Dirih-
"a right and stay " up in our extremity, men .S'
Ia il be recorded, we are "mudsills indeed,
There is no word Of scorn too low for us. We
cannot court the alliance Of slaves, without
proving that we are ourselves fit TO be slaves.
Il is our heritage that is assailed, not theirs;
- a. and if our own guod right arms, WITH all the
advantage they have, cannot pfosecs IL, we may
as we'll at once advertise our degeneracy TO tne
world, and prepare to take our place 80 under
lings Emancipation as military necssity! A
MILITARY NEcEsaITY If emancipation must
csme, for the honor of our fathers, for our own
independence, for the prospects Of our children,
for the good name of free government, and LOT
shape but that. AN suaf
Ia the very next paragraph, the World turns
round aud gives slavery "6ta' in the following
style, q Ia GARRIsoN: ,e1ty
Now we will yield to none in hatred OF sls-
very as the instigator Of this heinous rebellion
Whatever its character before, Its crime here
s INCAPABLE There is not, and never will be,
rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash clear
its parricidal hand. Cursed be be who shall
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there need be no fear OF its escape. IL 10
doomed beyond recall. Itis to perish inch Dy
inch, and therein its retFibution will be all the
more terrible There u reason why IL should
not be struck down suddenly 1t has its hold
upon too many civil and social interests for
this to be done safely. To prostrate II at once
is to lay in ruin much Whion cannot De spared
Not for its own sake would we stay the aveng'
ing blow for an instant, but for the good OF
the nation, for the order of society, for the
welfare of the poor slave himself, we Would
give H. slower exit.
The difference between the World and its
mole radical cotemporsries is simply this-that
the latter are in favor Of immediate, and the
former of gradual emancipation. But both
s agree that universal emancipation is TO be ac-
complished through the fundamentally OF the
Federal Government, and is to follow as me-
cessary result of the war The World, like q
fond but peiulent mother, first boxes the ears
Of its Abolition pete, and then gives them sug-
ar-plum, as witness the following sentences
n ear the close of the article alluded TO- .s
There need be no apprehension that slavery
will not suffer sufficiently for its agency in this
rebellion Every Discerning man sees, every
thoughtful man knows, that it has drawn con-
sequences upon itself that are as fatal 70 lite ex.
p istence as would have been the annihilatiDg
bolts of heaven. ~ ~ ~ it.t 4 1-ilff'