The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-06-05

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l have not time; / must attend to
my crops | must cultivate my
farm. Of what benefit to you is all
your labor, if you cannot enjoy in
peace your own acquisitions, with
out fear or unlawful diminution !:
answer this in truth, and our word
for it the 21st of June will find
every one Of you at the meeting.
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Extracts 'fIom a Letter from the Hon.
VIM. Duer,
Hon. VIM. DuAr, of Oswego, N.
Y, formcf an influential Wing
member of Congress from that
State, and latterly a constitutional
Union man, has written an able
letter upon the condition of the
country, which we find IN the New
York Express. He writes in re-
spouse to an invitation to consult
with a committee appointed by the
Union party organization
OSwegO, May 16, 1852.
My DEAR SIR I have read your
letter inviting meyto meet yourself
and other gentlemen constituting a
committee appointed by certain
members of the Legislature and
designated as "Republicans and
Union members" with authority,
after consultation with committees
of other organizations, to fix the
time and place for holding a State
Convention for the nomination of
State officers. 1 will give you the
reason why l think it proper to
decline the invitation.
The members of the Legislature,
by whom the committee was APP
pointed with which you invite me
to consult, adopted an address and
resolutions declaring certain prin-
ciples and inviting toJa convention
which they recommend, GAIL Re-
publicans, Union Democrats, and
other loyal citizens, supporters of
the policy of the Administration
and responding to the principles
and policy" set forth in such ad-
dress and resolutions. .u.i .aJ
I can not call myself ga support
er of the policy of the Administra.
tion," and | do not "respond to the
principles and policy set forth in
the address and resolutions" and,
therefore, though a loyal citizen,
am not embraced with in this inyl-
tation. y ..l.r b.
The messages and speeches of
the President; the proclamatlons
of his Generals pledging the public
faith to the people of the invaded
States, and of which his mere 81
lenee was an approval and conir.
nation; the resolutions of Congress
passed almost unanimously, only
two Republicans voting against
them in the House of Representa-
tiyes the language of the press
and of popular meetings-all united
IN declaring that the war was to
be prosecuted not to subjugate the
South, nor to change Southern in
situations, nor to deprive Southern
men of their property or rights,
but simply to establish the author
ity of the Constitution over all the
States. Such were the appeals and
assurances uEder which the wal
commenced. But when we have
halt o million Of men in arms
when our armies were filled with
Democrats and others who volun-
teered to fight for this cause and
not for Abolition when Maryland
Kentucky and Missouri, relying
upon our promises, had sent loya
men to Congress, opened their ter
ritories to our troops and placed
themselves in our power-theu
first, we heard that slavery being
the cause of the war, slavery mus
be destroyed. 1t is notorious tina.
at this day a large portion Ito sa,
the least) of the Republican part.
} repudiates these pledges and tram
} Piles even on their own Chicag,
, platform. They are the open ad
vocates of the abolition of SLAYER,
; in the States, and of measures O
co~nfiscation so sweeping and re
lentless that their like has no
u, been known since the days of Viii
liam the Conqueror. They hav
theories, several theories. Som
: of them maintain that the secedet
| States are out of the Union, an,
therefore have no rights. The.
> adopt the doctrine Of Secession
attaching to it consequence tina
t enhances its absurdity. The States
they say, are gone as States, bu
remain as territories subject t
absolute power. This is the theor
of Mr.. Sumner. 1t is the theor
Q adopted by a great meeting in tn
9 city of New York, over which
son of Alexander Hamilton presto
i ed. Others derive tho power t
abolish slavery from a differer