Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-24
Pola,loal OBITUARY Extraordinary.

Politioal obituary Extraordinary'
Something over yesr ago we were called
upon to record the demiae Of the Republican
party and write it's epitaph-"Died Of a fever
Of most malignant type known as Political
Abolitionism." Its heir aud successor was
bastard, nicknamed "Union party" and come
times called by ils friends, "NO party" being
as near nothing as 1t could be and exist at all
It inherited constitutionally the seeds OF the
same malignant disorder which had proved so
fatal to i!s immediate predecessor and ancestor
After short and fitful life OF about one year 6
dsratlon, lis epitaph may now be written thus
according to the finding Of the grand inquest OF
Jury summoned on the l4th instant, from the
States Of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio
"Ded suddenly Of apOplexy, caused by an un-
due accumulation Of Abolition virus on the
BRAIN"
Seriously, there can be no question in any
hooest mans mind, that II was Abolitionlsm
which killed the old conservative Wing party
that used in Presidential elections to carry slave
States as well az free; or that slaughtered the
Republican party that declared, in its Chicago
platform, upon which President LINCOLN was
elected, that "the maintenance inviolate of the
rights Of the States, and especially the right OF
each State to order and control Its own domestic
institutions according to lie own judgment ex'
clusively, is senlial to that balance OF powers
on which the perpetuation and endurance OF our
political fabric depends" "Our political TAB
ric"--tbe Union-AbOlitionis had ptedeler-
mined to overthrow; but ss q prerequisite, the
Chicago platform must be cast aside and the
Republican party throttled.
Bat IL Abolitionism looked with an evil eye
upon the Republican organization, IL looked
with etill more withering sCorn upon the rise Of
the 90 called "Union party" for that party pro-
claimed, as Democrats and conservative men
everywhere did, that this war is waged ITO de-
fend aud maintain the supremacy of the Con-
stiLu!IoD, aud to preserve the Union, with all
the dignity, equality and rights oil the several
States unimpaired" With consummate hy-
pocricy, Abolitionism pretended TO be desper'
ateIy in love with this new party, while smoth'
eripg the poor sickly bau,ling to death. 1t in
cited the nurses and godfathers OF the infant
party 10 erase from mems minds all love and
yeneration for the supremacy Of the Consitu'
tion by themselves violating in the most hagran'
manner that very Constitution; ii strove to cast
out as evil the spirit Of holy affection for, and
of strong attachment to the old Union formed
BY the fathers of the Republic, and substitute
in its place an insane longing and demand for
tue mushroom or fungus Of new Union' or
something else which AbOltionists themselves
do not pretend to describe or define, and finally
Abolitionism caused the guardians OF That
bastard child, the "Union party" to violate tue
solemn bond they had given when they took
upon themselves its guardianship, by not only
disayowng ell regard for "the dignity equality
and rights Of the several States," but by taking
measures for the total destruction and ennlhila-
tion Of certain States, converting them into
Territories, and thus erasing even the names
of States as such from the scroll Of the Union.
Thus, AbOlitionism by its insidious and false
pretensions OF love for the newborn "Union
party" easily smothered 1t, by the very lnten-
city Of its deadly embrace, as it had already
done the stronger Republican party. Both be-
ing now for all practical purposes put out Of the
way, Abolitionsm rides in q triumphal car like
many other hypocrites and Asssssins. Ita only
trouble 10, the sudden and unexpected sppear-
ance, confronting and defying It, of the old
Democratic party-that good old Union party
Of seventy odd years standing, which IL tried to
persuade the people was verify dead and buried
With no hope of resurrection. Against this vet
eran party, as strong in the affections Of the
people as the Union itself, with whose exist
encs its own is identified, Abolitionism has no
weapons save TO call it hard names, such as
+" traitor" "rebel," butternut," "copper"
head" etc. But these are missiles which,
coming from the source they do, hurt nobody;
but will rebound upon those who send them, to
their everlasting shame and disgrace.