Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-05-01
NO Union with sInvchoIdcrs."

This was, and we believe still is, the
motto of the famous Abolition agitator,
William Lloyd Garrison. 1t stands dis
played in llaring capitals at the head of
his paper, the Boston LiJerator. The
same is becoming the watchword and
countcrsign Of the Republican and Flu
sion party.
Whatever they have been, it is now
manifest that those who have been in the
habit of calling themselves "Uncondi-
tiona Union men," have generally be-
come as much "Corditional Union men,"
as the most rabid secessionists Of the
South. indispensable condition they af-
fix to u restoration and continuance OF
the Union is that slavery shall be cXtin-
guished. They will consent to recon
ciliation and reunion Of the States and
people upon no other terms. They 10
not want the "Old Union" with slavery
in it. They secede from, and utterly re-
pudiate the Union our fathers establish
ed in 1889
81 am for the Constitution and the I'M
ion," says the Democrat. $50 am L.
responds the Republican or Fusionist.--
"But are you," demands the Democrat,
"lor the Union as it existed before the
war;" "No," replies the other, not
with slavery in it," SO the Secession
ist is for the Union, But not with Aboli.
ton in it. Both he and his Republican
or Fusion sympathizcr are Of feather
and are united in common obicct-thC
overthrow of the cold Union"
1t is not the radicals merely, but tn,
great body of those Republicans anC
Fusionists who have boasted Of thei
conservatism and unconditional Union
ism, who assuming position Of hostilit,
to the Union, as fierce and determined a
the lovers of JEFF, Davis. We have be
fore us a striking example of this hostil
ity. The New York World has been es
teemcd conservative, unconditiona
Union paper Of the Republican or'Fusior
/, stripe. 1t has battled, and is still bat
tling the IrijuHc for its ultra notions
But the difference between them is one o
mere eXpediency, not of principle
h The TriJaRe is for striking slavery {
death blow at once; the World is 70
killing it by degrees. Both make tn
eXaction Of condition or term of com
promise for the reunion Of the States.
The Il'orW, in its issue of the %,
inst, speaking of the probable natura
} increase Of slaves, says that "our free
institutions cannot bear such a weight,
and denominates the policy under whicl
slavery has been heretofore retained, a
"trcason to the Republic" Then, tn,
, fathers who framed and adopted Con
stitution recognizing slavery and the mel
/ who framed and sustained Union with
, slavery in it, were traitors to the Republic
, The H'orld says the Republic was mad,
5 for centuries, and yet in the same con
nection, almost in the same sentence, it
declares that, as originally formed witt
slavery in it, it cannot last for anothe
generation. The truth is, the World an,
2 its colaborers are determined that tn
/ Republic, as they now style what the.
2 say was once the Union, shall no Ion
ger be.
q Looking to the recent events of tn
war, the UiorH AYERS that "pacilicatiol
t in some shape will be necessity" Th
} shape given to it must establish som
$ specific policy, the PorlI continues
! "must be either the restoration Of thu
condition before the war, and the lettin!
of slavery run on its own selfish course
without concern for the ultimate conse
| qucnccs, or the Inauguration Of a ncy
, treatment Of the institution calculated t,
pat an end to it.
. The World of course thinks that al
end must be put to slavery. The Unio
= we mistake, it does not say the Unio
but the Republic cannot, in its opin
0 ion, be pcletuated with slavery in it
and, therefore, it will consent to no re
c cognition of the slave States as belong
= lug to the Union or Republic, unless sla
Q very is put in the way of ultimate cXtinC
f ton. 1t rcioiccs that President Lincol
D is initiating policy of this descripto
| in his twolold measure of emancipation
5 We know the position of radical Re
e |publicans; let Us not he deceived abon
}. that Of the mass Of the proiessed conSev
, stive Republicans and FuSonists. The
|. arc not unconditional Union men--the
a are conditionalists and compromiserS.- -
II They demand as n condition of the slay
N States remaining in the Union that slave
n ry shall cease, or, which is the same thing
" be put in the way Of ultimate extinction
y They are willing to compromise upon tn
h basis, and form new Union or Republ
i not restore the old one.
e Such is the position of the mass of Il
v party now controlling the affairs Of tn
n great people. Its talk about preservin
the Republic is all CANNON, it does mt
seek to preserve the Republic formed b
Washington. Jefferson and the fathers
J., but to form new one upon the Abol
:, ton model Of Sumner, Greeley, BinG
e ham, and their brother conspirator
e whose name is Legion Statesman