The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-22
Abolition under the War.Ma king Pow
or-AbOiitiOn Now or Never.

er-AbOlitiOn Now or Never.
The anti slavery society of the United
States, has called an early meeting of the
fraternity in New York, to take into conside-
ration the great issues Of Abolition pending
in Congress Strong appeals are made for II
full attendance, and extraordinary vigilance
epjoined. Special earnestness and activity
are demanded says their bulletin, of every
friend Of freedom and OF just Government to
secure the. SPECIFY abolition Of starery under
tie uar-makiag pouer. The present and flu
ture well being OF not only tour millions OF
slaves, but OF every inhabitant OF the land, IL
at stake. The dangerous and fatal spell OF
submission to slavery must n09 te broken i;
the slave rescued from the vile grasp Of lrot.
t0r0As oppressors, and thus, justice having
been dono, An abiding peace be ensured
The anti slavery leaders Of the Puritan race
have made great many efforts to convince
themselves that slavery was unconstitutional;
but these efforts have always failed Of SUCCESS.
After prodigious intellectual efforts Oh the
subject many Of them have given up i'll des-
pair and, ia the fury Of disappointed passion,
nave been willing to curse the Constitution
as League with the devil and covenant
with hell Others, more moderate, have
toiled on in the painful augmentation, and
one Bostonian, by the name OF Spooner,
lawyer and jurist, has written thick vol
ume Of three hundred pages demonstrating to
his own satisfaction that slavery is an unc0n-
stitutioual condition, and may be abolished BY
authority Of that Instrument 1t il very Ger.
tain, however, tn. ihe learned Spooner has
teen able to make very few converts, and it
is u matter of question whether there are not
more leaves in his book than disciples OF his
creed
The consequence of the poor success Of the
with the organic law of the Federal Union
has been, in past times, to set them at war
with that Union itself; and many have been
the rash speeches and laundering fulmina-
tons they have launched against it. In the
blind fury of fanaticism they lave been vii
ling to send to perdrion not only the Union
which upheld slavery, but the Bible that sane
toned it, and in their blasphemous rawlings
they have even impeached the God who
reigns in Heaven aud permits the existence of
such an institution upon his earthly footstool.
But there is at last aprospect of reconciling
themselves to the Constitution of their coun-
try, the Union which they have particularly
assailed, the Bible which they have trampled
under foot, and the God whom they have
blasphemed The war has come to relieve
them of all their troubles, and, by the egis of
its authority, to make their schemes of aboli-
ton constitutional. The war making power
has, in all ages and by the uniform practice
among all nations, been held to embrace the
power of cOnfscation; and it was not to have
been expected that Abolitionists would have
failed to discover in this element of war the
long sought and long craved authority to
wreak their vengeance against the slavehold.
er.
They have suddenly, therefore, from war
ing furiously against the Constitution and the
Union, both of which they were formerly
anxious to let "slide," become warm support
ers of both, and have put up the lives and souls
of ak hundred thousand white soldiers for
sacrifice, to accomplish the liberation of as
many Southern blacks. They are now willing
to sing hosannas to a Union which formerly
was the object of bitter anathaans, and they
gladly invoke the most cruel and barbarous
expedient Of war to accomplish that abolition,
and their own loyalty to the country formerly
forbade.
Having as they think at least the autho-
rity and sanction Of law for their schemes, it
now remains to see whether they will be able
to execute them. Their best authorities de-
clare that the warts too costly to be protracted
longer than the present year 1862. The
greater portion Of that time will be expended
in angry congressional debate of the wholesale
policy of slave confscati0n, and the period
then remaining will be too brief to admit the
accomplishment of the undertaking. The mere
agitation of the subject will drive away from
their support the slaveholding border States
now in dispute, and every step taken to e~ry
out their barbarous programme will sand 70
mark more and more the line Of this eOa3set
between slaveholding and free States.
In fact events have already blazsd out this
line as the boundary finally to be settled on
between the Federal and Confederate States.
This war ia not likely to end until the South
shall be altogether slave and the North alto
gsther free soil. The lines between these
territories have been long defined, and they
are likely to remain the permanent boundary
of the two Unions.
Old Scott.
What has become Of Old Scott? We have
not heard Of him for days. He has not yet