Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-04-26
..ro union win slaveholdors."

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This was, and wo believe still is, the motto
Of the famous Abolition asitator, WILLIAM
I,royp 3.nnIsoN. Itstands displayed In aAring
o.pltals at the head Of bis paper, the Boston
Lsbgatsy. The same Is becoming the watch
vo.d and counleFsign Of the Republican and
Fusion party.
Whatever they may have been, Ii Is now
manifest that those who have been In the habit
Of calling themselves "Unconditional Union
men," have generally become as much "Con
dltional Union men, az the most rabid Sc
cessioniat of The South. The Indispensable
condition they sfix to a restoration and contin-
! uancs Of the Union is that slavery shAll be ex-
tinguishsd. They will consent to reconcilia-
tion and re union Of the States and people upon
no other terms. They do not want the "old
Union" with slavery in II. They secede from,
and utterly repudisse the Union our fathers es
tAblIshed in l7S9. H
81 am for the Constitution and the Union,"
SAYS the Democrat. $50 am l." responds the
Republican or Fusionist. "Bu. are YOU" de-
mands the Democrat, "for the UniOn as /. ex.
listed before the war7" "NO," replies the 9th
or, "not With slavery In it." So the Secession
is. Is for the Union, bat not With Abolition In
IL Both he aud bis Republican or Fusion gym
pathizsr are birds oi feather, and are united
IN common tbject-the overthrow OF the
"oid UnioD."
Il is not the radicals merely, but the great
body Of those Republicans and Fusionists who
have boasted Of their conservatism and uncon-
diIicnal UnioDiam, that are assuming position
Of hostility to the Cnion, as fierce and deteFm-
ined as the followers of JEFF. DAVIS. We have
before US a striking example oi this hostility
The New York World has been esteemed
conservative, uncoDditionsl Union paper Of the
Republican OF Fusion stripe. II has bat.ed, aud
IL still battling the Tribune for It's ultra notons
But the difference between them is one Of mere
elpedieDcy, not Of principle. The Tribune is
for striking slavery desth-blow ct once; the
World is for killing Il by degrees. Both make
the extinction Of slavery condition or term
of compromise for the reunion Of the States
The World, In its issue Of the 23d inst,
speaking OF the probable natural increase OF
slaves, says that "Our free Institutions cannot
bear such weight" and denominates the
policy under which slavery has been heretofore
retained, as "treasou to the Republic" Then,
the fathers who framed and adopted CODstliu- |
tion recognizing slavery, and the men who
framed and sustained Union With slavery in
1t, were traitors to the Republic. The World
says the Republic wss made for centuries, and
yet 10 the same connection, almost 10 the same
eeItence, IL declares that, as originally formed
with slavery 10 II, il cannot last for another
generation. The Truth is, the World and It's
90 laborers are determined that the Republic,
., they now style what they cay was once the
Union, shall no longer be
Looking to the recent events of the war, the
World AYERS that Qualification in some shape
win be necessity" The shape given to 1t
mnst Establish some specific policy" That
policy, the World continues, "must be either
The restoration OF the condition before the war,
and the letting Of slavery run on In its selfish
course, without concern for the ultimate oonse-
lue1ces, Or the Inauguration of new treat
nsnt Of the institution calculated TO put an end
o e."
The World Of course thinks that an end must
o put to slavery. The Union-we mistake, itI
Ioes not say the Unon--but the Republic cannot,
n It's opinion. be perpetusted with slavery in it,
nd, therefore, it will consent to no recognition
{ the slave States as belonging to the Union
{ Republic, unless slavery is put in the way of !
ltimate extinction. II rejOices that President
.mcoLS Is initiating policy Of this descrip-
lon In his twofold measure Of emancipation
nd colonization. II
We know deposition Of the radical Republic
ans; let Us not be deceived about that Of the
nass Of the professed conservative Republicans
nd Fusionis.s. They are not unconditional
Union men--they are conditionAlists and com.
romisers. They demand as q condition Of the I
lave States remaining In the Union that slavery
hall cease, or, which is the same thing, be put
n the way Of ultimate extinction. They are
Tilling to compromise upon this bAsis, and form
new Union or Rspublic-not restore the old
ne. f3 tft
Such Is the position Of the mass Of the party
ow cOnirolling the Affairs Of this great people.
. talk ahQus preserving the Republic is all gan
ION, It does not seek to preserve the Republic
,rmed by WAsmnOTON, JEFEERsoN and the faith Q
ss, bu. to form a new one upon the Abolition 9
lodel of suMHER, GREELEY, BNoHAm. and their
roiher eODspiFatoEs, whose name is Legion. h