The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-24
THE WAR NOT FOR ABOLITION.
CHALLENGE TO GARRISON, PHILLIPS, GREELEY,
BEECHNR AND OTHERS.

BEECHER AND OTHERS.
from the Missouri Republican, Oct. H.
GOVERNOR OF UTAH TERRlTORY-A SIGNIFICANT SION.
John W Dawson, Esq, late EDITOR OF the Fort Wayne
Gndianal Times and Umion has been appointed Governor
ment, owing to the views which Mr. Dawson has fro
quenty expressed through tho columns of his paper In
his yaedctory address TO his readers, few weeks ago.
Mr.. Dawson, among other things, Said
William Lloyd Garrison, OF the Boston Libeyaor, are
you willing Tor the sake of the Union to take from tho
head OF your columns yoar reasonable ensign Tho
Constitution Of tho United Statcsa with death
and agreement with heItand TO up In its place.
the upon which you will fight the battle for tho
Union-'s The Union tho Constitution and the enforce
mont Of the awss" Are you, Garrison, Wendell Phillips
and Gcrrit Smith, and the thousands of men
who follow your lal, and glorfy martyr
John Brown, Of Ossawntomie, ready TO declare with
sincerity OF heart that this il not God sent for
the abolition Of negro slavery but TO mant Mn the
pemacy of tho Union and tho constitution and that you
will hcnceforh be silent on the wrongs o. III, slave and
III, atrocities Of Shareholders until Throughout at tho
land the federal laws are freely obcyedY VIII yo, Henry
Ward Beccher, for tho sake Of the Union, make your
church and your pulpit no longer the theatre OF political
gatherings and political harangucs, by which the people
are niamed TO take up arms In this war, holy cru
SADIE against the Shareholders of the Sout Are pre-
pared to say and To verify by your acts that the pre-
servation OF the Union and the constitution in their in
tegrity is important u the pccpc of the United
States and to the true interests of humanity than tho
abolition of negro slavery in the United States? and will
yoa consent that tho Independent shall become sincere
coadjutor Of your pulpit in furtherng the same
great end of Union, irrespective of its relations
10 the wrongs and the emancipation OF the savef
Will YOU ii race Greeley, and your editorial
brethren everywhere to your widely circu-
lated columns for the same purpose for which Henry
Ward Beechcr uses his pulpit and the Independent,
and make your papers no longer the source whence tho
ultra OF the South derive their most potent argu
ments to sty their parrcidal blows against the go
verneHt that has nused and protected themY Further,
you, Abraham Lincoln. President OF the United
States and the men Of the bcan party of every
shade OF opinion, who elected you 10 yor high Office,
content the sake OF the Unon to forget and bury in
oblivion the disputed dogmas OF the Chicago atform,
and join heart and hand with the Douglas men and Bella
and Brcckin ge men in one common effort /" to
preserve protect and defend the constitution Of the
United Sates ~ and to this end you willing to
to inquire, in yosr app ontments to public patronage
whether men are for you or against You in your cleo
ton, but to ask Are thy honestg are they capablee
they faithful to the Unon the constitution and
tic lawss' Followers of John C. Breckenridge, you,
you enter the ranks of the OF the Union ready to
Scott decision and the discussion Of the rights of the
Shareholders IN the national Territories, until these Terri
tories subject to the undispued authority
Of the federal government under the constitution Con-
serrative remnant Of the wing party, who with John
Boil and Edward Everett at head bore the banner q
he Union the constitution and tho enforcement Of the
laws through the great conflict Of $780, do yon hearts,
Notwithstanding tho detection Of your Chief still respond
10 the motto you bore in tho battle ed and are you
willing by that sign. and by that aono, to conquer
peace for the union7 Democrats Of tho North whom the
dauntess lion hearted Douglas led through his last
great but disastrous campaign, under the banner
OF ''popllar sovereignty are you willing, while
your hearts yet bleed over the defeat and death
Of your heroic aud patriotic leader, " say as
you muster in hundreds of thousands OF stalw0rth
men in the army of the Union that you will rise
above party as he above it, and under the command
OF Abraham Lincoln his Cabinet and his gensrae strike
manfu blows maintain the sovereignty OF tbs nation
under the leral constitution until tho dying injunction
Of Douglas shalt be realizoi and all the people OF tho
United States shall oboy the laws AMI support the con-
stitGton OF the United Statesr Finally, we loyal mon,
enrolled for the Unon yoa really TO cease to crim
nate recrmnate Arc you ready to cease denouncng
as traitors loyal who pcrchance do not about the
streets breathing out threatenngs and saughterp Will
you rDwn upon and put down, by your prscep and cx
ample mobs and mob law and mob leaders, and main
the freedom Of speech and the press 50 that every
man faithful to the government may freely speak
and write the truth no undo stands t Arc you ready
admit by doing, that great strength a. govern
mcnt lies in keeping the issue between freedom and
desosm pure and simpe and that peace and unanmity
OF sentiment brought about by dcspotism, where the
bulwarks of civil liberty are broken simply the quiet
of death before corruption begins its work? Anarc
dc crmncd carry this in the spirit Of justice,
humanity and mercy not as war OF ions, nor war
abolish slavery to blot ont or subvert the sove
regny States In the spirit Of conquest to slbu
gate their people, but to compel them, by the stern
power they have rashly invoked to lay down the wea
pons Of their rebellion, and return to their allegiance
and the and enjoyment of their political
rights and powers as coequa States In the federal
Union?"
These are patriotic sentiments and we have right TO
conclude from the administrators appointment OF thor
ut,erer that 1t sanctions Tn M They would afford but
small comfort to the abolition fanatics.