The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-07-10

has declined to become an emissary
Of Abolitionism ; the daily prcmnl-
cation of doctrines utterly destruct-
i've of the Constitution and Of civil
liberty, and the incessant denim
citation of every conservative man,
however loyal, who does not sub
scribe to them ; all give q warning
that ought not to pass unheeded
by the people, and require of all
who desire to see the Constitution
maintained and the Union perpet-
uated, an expression of their Henti-
ments.
We, therefore, the representatives
of nearly or quite zoe, 900 voters of
the State of Ohio, who have as
deep a stake in the welfare of the
country, and in the preservation of
the Union as any other equal num-
Der of men, in the exercise of our
duty and constitutional rights, and
with the desire of u~pholding in
stead of weakening the just pow
ers of ourG Government, and anxious
to unite all men, without regard to
their former party associations,
who agree with us in opinion, and
to treat all loyal men who honestly
differ from us with becoming re-
spect, do hereby declare our own
opinions and those of our constitu-
ents, as follows:
/. Resolped, That we are, as we ever have
been, the devoted friends ofthS Constitution
and the Union, and we have no sympathy
with the enemies of either.
2. That every dictate of patriotism re-
quires that in the terrible struggle in which
we are engaged for the preservation Of the
Government. the loyal people Of the Union
should present an unbroken front, and there
fore all efforts to obtain or perpetuate party
ascendancy, by forcing party issues upon
them that necessarily tend to divide and dis
tract them, as the Abolitionists are con.
stantly doing, are hostile to the best inter-
ests Of the country.
8. That the Abolition party, by theis de-
nunciation of the President, whenever he has
manifested a conservative spirit, by their
atrocious defamation Of our Generals, who
we're exposing their lives for their country,
and who needed and merited its hearty sup
port, BIZ their acts and declarations tending
to promote insubordination in our armies,
and want Of confidence in their command
ers, and by the persistent representations oil
all conservative men in the loyal States as
sympathizers with the rebels, have given i'm
mense aid and comfort to the rebel cause
and encouraged them to hope for ultimate
success.
4. That we have seen with Indignation the
intimation of the Governor of Massachusetts,
that the State will be slow in furnishing her
quota of troops unless the war be carried on
for the purpose of emancipation, when the
nation is straining every nerve and pouring
out its blood and treasure like water, tc
preserve its existence. 1t is monstrous thai
a conditional Unionism, that places Adolf
tionism above the Constitution, and the sue
cess of a party above the integrity of the
Republic, should thus rear its head in higf
places, and seek to dictate the conduct o.
the war.
S. That while We would mete out meritet
and legal punishment to the plotters of ant
leaders in the rebellion, we are opposed ia
the contemplated sweeping and indiscrimi
nate acts Of confscation and emancipation
BY Congressional legislation and executive
proclamation; because,
l. We do not believe that such acts woul'
be con stitutional.
2. We believe that by driving the rebel
to desperation, and converting Union mel
/. of the South into rebels, they would have tn
effect to indefinitely prolong the war, affor'
a pretext for foreign intervention, and rem
, der the restoration next to or quite impossi
BILE.
g.. Because, if practicable and carried out
they would engender a feeling of bitterness
between the different actions Of the Uniol
that would not be allayed for generations Il
come, and that would be an ever
present cause Of danger and disturbance t.
the public peace, o source OF perpetua
weakness in the Government, and an ever
present incentive to foreign powers to inter
fere in our domestic concerns, and to pro
mote a disruption and overthrow of tn
Republic.
4. Because they would destroy in a grea
degree, if not entirely, for many years t
come, the industrial interests of a large sec
ton of country, and most i~njuriously afec
the interests of the whole people.
!, S. Because the immediate and indiscrim
nate emancipation of slaves would be an &C
B of inhumunity to them.
!, 6. Because such an emancipation woul
throw upon the border free States, and e'
| pecially upon Ohio an increased number @
negroes, to compete with and u~nderworkth
} white laborers Of the State. and to const
: tute in various ways an almost, or quite, un
versal nuisance, If suffered 10 remain anon
us; and we would deem it most unjust to gu
gallant soldiers to see them compelled
free negroes Of the South, and thereby Fl