The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-27
The Slavery Policy OF the Adminis tra-
tfon--OpPOsition or the Abolition In
cendiary Press.

that to the operations of the abolition agitators
of the North can be traced the cause of the pre-
sent war, and all the evils, sufferings and loss
of life attending it. Their continued and sys-
tematic agitation, in season and out of season,
through their conventions, pulpit orations,
stump speeches, fascinating novels, communica-
tons and editorials in such organs as the 1fi-
bane Times, Boston Liberator and that class of
journals, has from time to time furnished the
revolutionists of the South with their material
to infiame the Southern mind, prepare it for
secession and unite the entire South in their
policy for separate confederacy. In attempt
ing to build up party in the North, based ex-
clusively on the abolition of slavery, they have
palmed off upon their followers imaginary state
ments Of hardships, falsehoods and misrepre-
sensations, which, coming to the attention of
their antipodes of the South, furnished the basis
for revolutionary party and their entire po-
litical food, in the absence of which they would
have been without power or influence. Going
before the people of the South-by nature, habits
and education an excitable race-with these
statements and misrepresentation started
at the North they have increased in
power and influence just as the agi-
tators of the North grew more noisy and
arrogant. Leading the Southern mind step by
step through its several stages, they finally sue
ceeded in infusing the belief that the election of
Lincoln was only another name for the imme-
date emancipation of the slaves, and that their
np1v salvation WOO in iyn,n Rot nd
separate confederacy. Thus we find that as
soon as the election of Lincoln was made
known several of the Southern States declared
themselves out of the Union, and Immediately
entered upon extensive warlike preparations;
the leaders, daily strengthened among their
own people by the domineering attitude of the
agitators of the North, found also willing hands
in Buchanan's Cabinet to place at convenient
points the latest style and most approved wca-
pons of warfare in the hands of the government.
With the revolutionary material furnished
them by the abolition agitators they continued
to strengthen themselves, until soon after the
of Lincoln, eleven States adopt
ed this heresy and united their fortunes with
the Southern confederacy. Continuing the same
system of appeals, and declaring to their follow
ers that the entire North were abOlitionsts, bent
upon emancipating the slaves, and that Presi-
dent Lincoln was but their mouthpiece and tool
in this work, they have succeeded in uniting the
South and working them to the pitch that we
how find them-in arms against the regular con-
stitutional government and menacng the nation
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their army together, amidst prvations and suffer-
ings, by rciteratng to the rank and file the very
words of the agitators Of the North, holding
those views to be that Of the entire North and
that which the President is pledged to carry
out. We regret to say that to the latter state
ment the course of the Tribune and Times far
1shes the appearance of plausibility. The
columns of those and kindred journals, are still
filled with articles attempting to force upon the
the emancipation of the slaves as
the war cry. Thus, in the Times of yesterday
we find two or three communications, apparent
ly meeting the approval Of the conductors of
that journal, arguing the Importance of making
the war a war for the abolition of slavery, in
which we find such sentences az, eve need a
war cry, professed object" "besides, wemust
pro claim emancipation if we would conquer"
Another writer adds, after admitting that the
is not the abolition of slavery, "that
q more radical cure would be to pro-
claim slavery Incompatible with our national
safety, and the end of slavery the only end of
the war;" slavery and freedom, the one or
The other must go down.
Now we know that the President and his
Cabinet are not gathering armies, nor are our
generals drilling and perfecting them, to de-
stroy the institution of slavery, but to restore
he Union to its former prosperous condition.
through such constitutional means as that in
'trument and Congress have placed at his dis
posal. "The war now prosecuted ON the part
Of the federal government" writes Secretary
Cameron in his letter to General Butler, sis
war for the Union, for the preservation Of all
rights Of States and the citizens Of
all the States Of the Union" Again, Caleb 3.
Smith, another member Of the Cabinet and
cent speech delivered at Providence, states I'M
that "this war is not a war upon
the institution of slavery, but war for the res
toration Of the Union and the protection of all
citizens, in the South as we'll as the North, in
their constitutional rights" The law passed by
Congress confiscating the property of rebels
affects that of slavery only the same as other
There is not, in fact tho slightest
evidence that the federal government is now
conducting a war having for its object the
adjustment of slavery. On the contrary, we
have an accumulation of evidence that it is a
war for the maintenance Of the Union and the
protection of all citizens in their constitutional
rights, slavery not excepted.
This being the real object Of the war, as the
letter of Cameron, the speech of Smith and the
action Of Congress declare it to be. the
course pursued by those organs of this