Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-10-07


ern states now in arms sgnnst the Constitutional gov.
ernment and In arms around the captal ihntln thls
National emergency, Congress, baniahng nll eeings
Of passion resentment, Wit fcoilect oHly rs
% ss ps = Ip EnSs q any Sf S y
purp9se o. cc1lnett OF spbi ugstiop or pnfpose OF
tSshed q those sses ia x sSd and
rhsnseln pc spremscy s,tne g pre-
4sFss 4sSss s y ~ SDss VIE ~ s S "a. and s
soon as these of5tes ere accomplished tho war ought
TO cease" tNIB
The Convention was harmonious. The
Crttenden resolution was adopted as TIE pat
form Of the Union party in this countyg The
slavery question was ignore ?, for noae cane
but those who felt invited nnder the soall.u,nOr-
was that acknowledgements TO be thrust for
ward to divide the people Of the North and
destroy unionism at the Sooth, and render
the restoration of the Union impractieable. -
A republican Congress had just given us the
needed guarantee in the adoption of the Crit1
tenden resolutiop,H Without any solicitation
on my part my name was placed on the ticket,
BY men too, who knew my unalterable devo-
ton TO democratic principles, and before whom
declared in open Convention that II had
not changed one iota OF my principles, but
still held the same views upon the great poltl-
cal questions / had heretofore done" Ifthere
is, or ever wns one thing above another which
j condemn and abhor, as subyersive of the
Of the Constitution and the Union, that thing
is political abolitiOnism. To the best of my
feeble ability, encouraged the peopleto unite
with us, citing our platform, as guarantee
that the slavery question was not to be dragg-
ed into the contest, to the end of the war
Mainly, through the Efforts of9Unioh demo-.
Gratis, the ticket was elected by q large maj,f
ority--a majority which might have occurred
to the benefit of the republican party in the
future, had that party not thrown away the
advantage, by abusing the confidence of the
people, and trying to lead them into Aboli-
tionism--republicanislp. The evidence is
overwhelming that their object was not to
abide by the "Union" platform, but to take
advantage of it to lead democrats into the
republican party "a Slim. .s..
In the conduct of the war, Congress agreed
list ITO Danish all feeling of passion or re-
sentment-2d. To recollect only its duty to
the tchoie country, I'D. That the war was
not to,he waged in any spirit of oppression
nor for any purpose Of conquest or sUBJUGA
TIoN, nor purpose OF ouerthroscing or inter
feTing with the rights or established insitu
tiops of the Stotes,-4th g but to defend and
maintain the supremacy Of the Constitution,
9Th "And TO PreseTre the Union with all the
dignity-equality and rights Of the several
States UNlMPAIRED,"
| Il Now compare these propositions, with the
proceedings Of the last Congress and the
Presidents emancipation proclamation and il
will be seen that, long ago, has every princi-
pie been violated and every proposition aban-
doned. Even the Legislature Of Ohio, elect
ed upon that platform, amongst its first acts
lrepudiated and threw it overheard, and then
went to work, and continued to work nearly
the whole winter, to secure the election of Ben
Wade to the U. s. Senate,-a ranting, per-
sis.ent Abolitionist Of the Giddings- Wilson
Sumner School-and which was only prevent
ed by the efforts of few conservatives
Was Wade a Union man, when he wanted to
'siceep a,ooy this remnant Of a Union, and
when he wanted "No union with slavehold-
Eers, and denounced every man as a traitor
who stood upfor the Constitution2 o. d,
On meeting in December Congress still
found the dreadful strife going on, as at the
late session, and instead Of endeavoring TO
promote unanimity at the North and Union.
ism at the South, the most intensely Abolition
schemes, almost without number, were origin
ated and set in motion, The roll of the two
Houses had hardly been called, when the In.
troduotion4 of Abolition and emancipation
schemes of every conceivable shape and hue
loaded down the speakers table, and from
that hour down to the adjournment-a period
of more than six months-were the people
annoyed with the ihcessant ding dong Of the
"ngger question" their business and wishes
disregarded the defences of the nation ne
gleetedi the meansto carry on the war and
sustain the credit of the nation, provided for
only at the very llatest extremity; the.nation
ii treasury robbed and plundered to an extent
unknvwp IN the history of any country; mem
bets Of Congress, in SOME instances BY fraud
aud corruption filing their own pockets from
: the hard earnings of the people to the extent
of $4,000. And the Crltenden resolution
II the Union platiorm--which at the preceding
! session had been so unanimously adopted
: aye, thrown out to the people as the tub to the
Z whale, to quiet their apprehensions, and con
> ceal the real designs Of the republican lead
} eIs, was deliberately repudiated and thrown
: away as unworthy an Abolition Congress-
The election had passed, the bait was nc
longer needed, their purposes had been ac
: complished, and the mask was thrown off
: The determined efforts of Congress to abolish
: slavery every where in utter disregard Of the
. Consultations the practical notification of The
: Fugitive Slave Law; TO abolish the Interstate
i SLAVE trade-7at least by the Coast to plac,
Q blacks on an equality with aohltes in carrying
{ the mails; the abolition Of slavery in the Dis
y triet OF Columbia, in violation of the Consti
; tuition and of good faith with the States cednt
! that territory to the Federal Goverum mt, anC
y tending still more, to excite and infame the
9 border States; the acknowledgment Of the in
4 dependence and social and political equality
4 Of Liberia and Hayti, two negro governments
? thereby paving the way for the reception o
8 black ambassadors, at Washington, on an
Q equality with the ministers Of tDhits nations
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