Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-30
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aHe who accepts" says GREELEy In the
Tribune OF Nov. 25, ",he fundamental dogma
of secesslon.-.he natural inequality OF Human
RiQhts--isa at heart with JEvE. DAVIS, and might
better get ferried over the lower Potomac the
iirst dark night. He does not belong bere' and
he should 60 to his own place."
"He who accepts the natural inequality
of Human Rights!" GhErLEy uses this ex'
preston In an article headed "The Contra
bands" He is treating Of negro slaves and
vlndicAting their right to freedom and equality
with white men and women. His true meaning
is, that he who does not believe that blacks are
naturally equal to whites and entitled to the
same civil rights, Is at heart With JEFF DAVIS
.hs. ia, traitor, and should be imprisoned, be-
headed or banished the country. This Is Ao-
olitionism, pure and simple-rsmpant, RADICAL
insane Abolitionism-w which Is driving the Pres
idept, the Admiuistration and the country on
to destruction with Lightning speed.
The quotation at the head OF this article
comes from a leading Republican editor, who
in the came paper says: awe are two nations;
the North and the South have always been two'
and not one; and In order to associate the Two
under one permanent Government, their institu-
tions must be assimiated." II we have always
been two nations, what nonsense for GREELEY
and his Abolition crew to talk, as they have
been in the habit Of doing, about the rebels
} graphing the nation BY the throat, and seeking
to take its Lie! Do they mean the liis OF the
Northern or Southern nationf II we are and
have always been two nations, then thls war is
most egregious folly and blunder, and the
people have all along mistaken its character
and design. It is not, according to GREELEY
civil war ct all, but national war--a wal
between nations that were never one, bu
always have been two.
Such absurd giviDgs out prove that GREELEY
has become, from the excitement Of the war
or some other cause, perfect mouomapiac, an'
J.. should be either ferried across the Potoma
and left to wander In the mountains Of Virgin
Ia, or be shut up in a madhouse. His Graz
were they not sent forth In print broadcast owe
t the country, and calculated to poison other peo
+ pie and deprive them Of their common sense.
: GREELEI says in the came connection
Q "These nations [the North and South are b
be wholly free or wholly slave, or must remaiI
disunitsd." This is the doctrine Of the who'll
Abolition party-the doctrine to which th'
Administration is at least partially, and mo!
be soon wholly committed. 1t is in plain term
: this and only this-thst the present war mus
! on our part be made an Abolition war-it mus
/ be carried on for the Abolition of slavery, anC
3 be made effectual to that end-or the UnioI
D must be dissolved and the North and South be
come two separate and Independent nations.
It lie folly to shu. our eyes longer to the ter
: rible fact, that there Is g party In the North
\ strong in its controlling influence over the Ad
ministration, strong In its official power ant
patronage, and strong in its numbers, which II
as bitterly hostile to the restoration OF the
Union ss II vas, as are the most rabid secea-
sionists south of Mason and Dlxon's line. The
leaders Of that party have determined that a
restoration of the Union shall not be. They
prefer dissolution to restoration. GREELEY
says in his paper, following the one from which
We have quoted 1--WE clearly comprehend
that, whatever any one may wish, the Union al
Is was is not the Union that is to be-" Let IT,
then, be clearly understood that the Abolition
war upon slavery is in reality war upon the
Union our fathers made. That Union 10, under
the pretense of putting down the rebellion by
sbolishing slavery, to be doomed to fnal
destruction.