Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-08-26
wendell PhtIIips on the Union and
the Administration.

WEEDELL PHILLIPS lisa representative man oi
class, ,.oiten said BY those who would like to
have it believed, to be few in number; but
whose views will be nund upon examination tc
harmonize in the main with those Of the leaders
of the go called "Union" or Fusion party.
Mr.. PPrLLrPs published letter in the New
York Tribune of the Goth inst, in which he
states his position. He says:
From IS43 to 1861, l was a Dsunionist, and
sought to break this Union, convinced that dis
union was the only righteous path, and the best
one for the white man and the black.
He then states his present creed as follows:
now believe three things:
l. The destruction. of slavery Is inevitable,
whichever section conquers in this struggle.
2. There never can be peace or union Till
slavery Is destroyed.
3 There never can be peace till one Govern
ment rules from the Gulf to the Lakes; and
having Wronged the negro for two centuries, we
owe him the preservation of the Union TO guard
his transition from slavery to freedom, and
m axe il short, easy and perfect.
Believing these three things, / accept Web.
ster's sentiment, "Liberty and Union now and
forever, one and inseparable." Gladly would
serve that Union giving IL musket, sword voice
pen-the best Ihave. But the Union, which has
for twenty-five years barred me fromits highest
privileges by demanding an oath to support q
Pro- Slavery Constitution, still shuts that door
In my face; and this Administration clings to Q
policy which, think, makes every life now lost
In Virginia, and every dollar now spent there,
utter waste I can not conscientiously support
such Union and Administration.
The perveraion Of WKBsTER's sentiment is
little short of PROCLAMATION. WEBsrEA meant
the " Liberty" Of white men; PHILLIPS perverts
1t to mean the " Freedom" of negroes. But
ParLLPs, GREELEY, BEECHER, and the rest Of
the Abolition gang, profess to be "Union"
men; but they are not for the Union with what
they call its " Pro-Slavery Constitution" nor
for an Administration that upholds such Un-
ion. They cannot, as PHILLIPS declares be can
not, q oonscientiously support such Union and
such an Administration"
PHILLIPS has no confidence in the Admins
tration1 and he openly expresses it by speech
and in print He says in his letter:
Whether the Administration will ever pilot
US through our troubles have serious doubts:
that il never will unless It changes its present
policy, am quite certain.
This old arch apostle Of Abolition and Dis
unionism charges that President LINCOLN and
hls officials are dragging the Union to ruin,"
and in defiance Of him and them says:
The Union belongs to me as much as to
Abraham Lincoln, What right has he or any
oficial-our servante-to claim that / shall
cease criticising his mistakes, when they are
dragging the Union to ruin7
EDaoN B. 0LDs, Of Ohio, for language less
condemnatOry of the Administration and less
calculated to discourage enIistments, is in
prison; but WENDELL PHILLIPS, Of Massachu-
sets, is at large, with full liberty to repeat his
treason, as he says in the letter alluded to:
said on the 1st Of August that, had been
in the Senate, should have refused the Ad-
ministrasion dollar or a man until IL adopted
right policy. That l repeat.