Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-12-31


The Washington correspondent OF the
Journal says that, With regard to BuRNsiDEs
army on the RappAhannock, but two courses
can be folloWed--one to return to Warrington
and remain quiet; the other to push out Doidiy
against the enemy aud carry on winter cam
paiga in spite Of wind and weather The hrss
course, he says, would be ruinous to our cause;
the second ruinous to the army, which amounts
10 about the same thing. So, nc csnc!scss, 70
use his own choice of words, "our present fu-
.ure does not present very cheerful PROMISE"
We cite this, not on account OF any high
value We attach to the opinions OF the Journaps
correspondent; but "a an index to the state OF
the Abolition pulse at Washington. The Abo-
litionists are giving up the contest in the East
IL seems, and are fairly backed down from
their "On to Richmond" cry The Emsncipa
ton proclamation that, according to them, was
to give freedom to q continent and end the re-
bellion in the twinkling Of an eye. ia just on
the point of being Issued; and yet they cry out
in the language of the JournaPs correspondent
Sour great hope 10 In the Southwest; no.
thing decisive will ever come Of this army OF
the Potomac"
Aha you ore there, now, old croakers, are
you This is very different talk from that
which you INDUCED in so freely when McCLEL-
Lam was removed and BURNsIDE was appointed
10 his stead. Then you we're in high glce at the
change Of Generals and the certainty that the
Army OF the Potomac was about to achieve won.
ders. Now, yUu ar1 terribly du~u III the mouth,
and are crying to the young giant of the West,
whom you have bound hand and foot snd nearly
ruined, to save you or you perish,
The Washington Aboliticuist who writes for
the journal, and is nestled in the same bed
with the crasest Abolitlonists Of New England
and the Middle States, thus gives utterance to
their despair, and their call on the West for
, help:
$780," writes he In the Journal of Tuesday,
1--WE must stand HELPLESS spectators OF the
: country's ruin, unless the BRAVE WEsrERN MEN
shall be able to roll back the tide Of war from
the Mississippi to the Atlantic"
nl Inc 'DrhVe WESTERN ineu VIII uO tneiI
whole duty to the country, whether in the field
, or at the polls. They would. ere this, alone
and unaided, have rolled back the tide of war
so that IL would have never have returned, had
! not their effJrts been constantly thwarted by
the mad schemes OF the Radicals, who ore now
calling upon Them for help, acknowledging
themselves utterly helpless. But this cry OF
distress comes with an III gra,e from Eastern
AboIitionists, who have joined hands with Sc
cessionists in running the West by their mad
Diaunion plots. They call upon men, whose in.
terests they have sacrificed upon the altar Of
their insane sectionalism, to come forward and
save them from the consequences of their own
madness and folly. The mes of the West are
devoted to the Constitution and the Union; they
are determined to stand by both as long as
there is glimmer of hope; but If the Aboli-
tionists of the East will persist 10 aiding she
rebels of the South in completing the work of
dissolution already begun. then the young West
will. with all her gathered energies, stand fsrth
in her own defense, and protect herself against
those who have sought or may seek to ruin and
enslave her.