Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-28
RepubIicansUnion.

Az the Hibernian said Of the flea, II you pu
your finger on a modern Abolitionlst, no isn
there at all The heroes of the "old Liberty
Guard" ss they called themselves, were no
ashamed OF thoir AboliIionism. They con
fsssed they we're Aboltionisls and were prouc
Of the title. Bat their successors, though out
striuuipp their Abolition fathers In radicalism
and ul,raism on the slavery question, sneaking'
" and cowardly disown the name, while de-
maudiug the total abolition OF slavery in some
ten or dozen States in about sixty days hence,
and bowling all over the country that We can
never have peaceable and prosperous country
again, unless slavery and slayeholders are utter
" ex,ermluated, and we establish free Negro
Republic.
Until last year these fellows had called
themselves for some Eve or six years kepuoh-
caus--tather too decent name for them to use
a great while. So last year, when they took
the old Abolition Disunionists of twenty years.
s,,ndine. such az WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON,
wrsDELL PHLIIrs, ETC., into political partner
ship, they changed their Hsme into "Union"-
they became the "UniOn" party, that is, the
Uuion wish.Abolition party; for they consider
ed themselves too pure and holy to think OF
a Uuion with slavery in IL, such as WASHINGTON
and OTHER ignorant and einful men formed some
seventy years ago, who had not seen even the
dawn of the millennium OF negro freedom and
negro equality.
Well, this name "Union" lasted about 3
year, until certain elections came of about the
middle of October, 1862, when it was dlseoverd
that the people had no confidence in the new
amalgamatei Union party, and believed its pro-
fessec Unionism to be only cloak 60 cover up
old Abolition Disunionism. Then the leaders
and high priests of the party began TO cast
about .or some new invention with which to
dupe the people. They imagined their misfor-
tunes in the recent elections we're partly owing
to their having dropped the name Republican;
besides they had heard some Democrats style
themselves Union Democrats, and being prone
to trick the people by stealing, not tho livery
of heaven, bu, the livery OF Democracy, to
serve the cause Of Disunion in, they caught at
once at the idea, and adroitlJ turning the phrase
round, dubbed themselves Republican
Union"
Now we eee in nearly every Abolition paper
we pick up, from the New York Tribune to the
Ohio State Journal, something about the Re
publican Union' vote and the nominations OF
the Republican Unionists" This new-fangled
compound suits the party very well, though the
name Abolition, both by hereditary succession
and services rendered. is more justly and appro
priatelg theirs. But " Republican Union" ex:
,reeses what the Abolitioniats are after very
,learly and definitely. Ii ia the dissolution of
he present Union of free and slave States. aud
he establishment Of new Republican or Abo
itlon Upion or Government. AL that ails the !
resent Union in their opinion ia, that Il soler-
ties negro slavery; they, therefore. 60 in for
lev one on the basis of negro freedom and ne
,ro equality. For this reason, they call them
Ielves Republican Unionists, and their party
Republican Union. Having already formed
,nion with Abolitionists, their next step in adj
rance Ia to form unisu with Negroes.