Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-07-02

The Chronicle urges a continuance al
the. Union movement of last year. upon
the one platform of sustaining the war
and the Government, and by the above,
intiRates that all other questions are
thinner and less important issues" While
Re4aenot dispute this, we believe not one
of the principles of the Republican party
are sufficiently unimportant to be over
looked or lightly set aside. We would
mot set them above the war, but we would
discuss the one with the other.-CereZand
Leader.
These are times that call for deeds, for
action, not mere words and pompous
wherases. The Leader is in a stew about
its party principles. VIII it pause long
enough to afford itself an opportunity to
state what important principle is imper-
riled, or likely to be forgotten in the press
ofmore important matters? VIII it please
define its principles in specific terms, so
that we can see whats the matter" with
It, and what has causedit to be afflicted, so
suddenly, with such a virulent attack Of
political jealousy? What would it have
the State Convention do in the wa of
constructing a platform? Does it deem
it necessary and expedient to require the
next Convention to endorse the Chicago
Resolutions? Do they contain 4 specific
Just adapted to present national disor-
ders? If the Leader thinks they do. we
hope it will publish them, and show how,
and where, and why. We fear the editor
of that paper has rot reviewed his Chicago
catechism recently, else il is likely he
would have found that several Resolutions
there might be in the way of some of his
new tangled notions.
We hope the Leader Will check ND its
headlong ~propensities, and try to be more
practical. What the country wants in
the present emergency is men and money.
Fighting men who carry their resolutions
In their cartridge boxes, and sometimes
at the point of the bayonet. All we ask
is that the Union Party of Ohio will cor
daily endorse that kind of resolutions,
and promise to back them up in every way
that fhe cause of our country may de-
mand. That is the kind of platform the
times call for, and one that every patriot
is ready to endorse. That is the kind
that will win. If the Leader is anxious
to do some real good with its resolutions,
1t had better give them to a MINER for
wadding, to be used in peppering the reb-
els, otherwise the paper on which they
may be written will be wasted. The idea
that the way to put down the rebellion is
to re-afirm a batch of secondhand resolu-
lions. framed in a time of profound peace,
yerges so nearly the ridiculous as TO be
somewhat amusing.
What the Government wants is practi-
cal assistance in crushing insubordination,
yindicating the Constitution and preserv-
ing the Union. We ask the Leader if that
Is not so? And is that not the all-im-
portant and most vital question that could
arise IN OUr national career? Is not the
determination of the question of Govern
ment supremacy the grand key that will
furnish a solution to all minor issues =
We believe the finale of the contest will
demonstrate this to be the fact, because,
IN the efforts necessary to sustain the gov
eminent all distractions to that end viii.
be swept away by the memorable DEGREES
of an ~aEenging war power. Hence we re-
gard other questions of less importance as
compared with the consequences involved
in the war, for it seems as certain as the
law of cause and effect, that the influence
Of the pre-slaTery party in this country
viii aeEer In the future be what it has
been in the past, and that it is destined
to die at the hands of its professed friends,
and be buried so deeply under the oppro-
brium of public sentiment as to be beyond
the reach of any possible resurreetionary
power. And it is not necessary to make
o direct war on on the South because of
their psculiarinstitution in order to strike
slavery q fatal blow, for this death-stroke
will be given indirectly and as an inevita-
BILE incident i'll the wal to preserve the
Union. Democrats, who are not theore:-
ical Abolitionists, understand this, as well
as the most ardent anti-slavery men. But
they do not refuse to enter the army for
fear they may aid in bringing about such
o result.
"United We Stand"