Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-07-19

men, Of n e61ct. Tbe con(itu DSx-
Easily plSides that I State g pot %
I1i!:dsd bd fbrmed IL 1--WE stat with.
/ DOT ao, brii1 Of ths{ laIA r. ls y
sndh Sue. eonseqne ne 10
any case, I'd ga,orys IItB. not in tho
power Of Cdogresaf fosa the power OF
Congress aph the Rfesi1ent United. TO
destroy the Iergaot ltiq et any State.
| governmentli,self. rle PRESIDENT has .
var power 70 suso1 ind 6hte faRc!l!olpss e =
any rebel idhs Sta :, Al 70 appe'df P'o'
vie onal Gok erno9 d fbg the progress
of the war ! but ek dusnt the wsf u
terminated that HoSef ceases to exist,
and the StatS ret3 lnf toiits normal con-
dition. The PrIi4ebt recognizes this
principle 10 the dHkbf'the bill be has
Just sent to CSpg& for the gradual ab-
clifton Of slavtry1l the Southern S'ates
With their own q lent; for no admits
that though theyi1ight abolish slavery
to-day they cbuld re.enact it in Dix
These exceptiob} bSle, @s{efore, can
only be regarded = (emporak and a.
measures Of p4% and \exPNdiency:
The question is, aie they PollAc and
ezpedieot! They cAnnot boyd tuless
they aid the progress of the 1a3 ! Dut
exp rience has shown, and cYAmoD
sense procIaims aloud, that they are
producing the contrary effect. rheiI
tendency is to unite the whold South
against the federal government, labd t,
exarperate the rebellion to de.pa!htioD,
while at the same time they arel ea!cu-
lated to produce divisiot aud disdhteJt
at the North, and seriously to iotkffere
with recruiting and eflistments,I 10 e.
sential to success. The main poist is
to carry oa-tne war with vigor AND to
successful issoe.>, Everything which is
not subofdi6ste o,that is worjes than
uselesss The Agitation Of the pleasures
Of the radicals ts ha only sab fdina,e
to THE end, but diametr,call opposed
to it. Consequent ythe radie5fs in Con
gress are, doing all that in Them lies to
render tho war disastrous failure, and
the reconstro ttiea Of the Uuion an i'm
possibility -
The w6ol4e We ms,cbief arises out of
departure from the ansient landmarks
AN ignoring of the very first principles
on which fhe Governments was founded.
When tbS Declaration ofIndependence
as signtd all the colqpies possessed
slaves. Between that period and the
formatio4 of the Constitution only one
of the Std(es had abolished slavery, and
that StatA was Massachusetts. The
right 10 ho1 negro slaves was not then
questioned. 1T was an iudisputable
common law hight, and is plainly recog.
n,zed in the Constitution. But when
the Northern StAes, on account OF eli.
mate, and the jimmy sation OF free white
labor from Europe, foul d it profitable to
abolish slavery, and did abolish it voIun-
tariy, set Of fanatics Conceived the de.
sign of compelling the Southern States to
abolish it too, though these States be.
l,eve It to be for their Interest to retain it
OH account oftheir peculiar climate, and
the fact that they do mot receive . sutfi-
cheney of free white labor by iumigra-
ton ! and because, moreover, the negro
alone is suited to the cultivation Of the
cotton and sugar States. The meddliug
of tho radical with the labor system OF
the Southern States is revolution airy aud
subva ,slve Of the foundation Of the Gov
ernmept. 1t is the cause ofthe war, the
cause Of its failure Hitherto to accomplish
its legitimate Object, and if continued it
will be the cause It last OF the catastro.
phe for which the radicals have been la
boring for the last thirty yesrs-tbe final
and irrevocablc dissolution Of the UPON
"a compact WHICH they have declared
through their organs to be IA covenant
with death and an sg.ebnent with
He'll" 50"
A MAN 25 years old, may, for City
cents week. secure policy 10 the Equitable
Life Assurance Society. paying dividends oil
the time. and providing for his old sge $1,000
when 60 years old, and for his family $1,000
at bis death if he die sooner. w. F. Ross
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