Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
From the PhiladeI phia Evening Journal.
The Abolition Traitors Wantan sim

The New York Tribune says: 1--WE are for the
Union as it was if it can not be improved; but
we greatly prefer the Union as it ought to bel"
This means that Horace Greeley and his tribe
think the old Union can be improved" upon,
and that the way to bring about this improve
ment is to engrait all the doctrines of Adolf
tiOnlsm upon the "parent stock" Emancipa-
ton, negro equality, negro suffrage, and, when
ever possible, negro OfficehOlders are some OF the
means of Improving tho Union" and ma
king it what lit ought to be" according to the
1hite-coated philosophers idea.
In the stme paper we find a report of n dis
course delivered in New York, by a"Rev. VIM.
r. Williams, d. D." in which that Reverend pa
iriot exclaims: Better a war for centuries than
peace on a pro slavery basis." This simply
means "better a war for centuries than a peace on
the basis of the present Constitution" This is
a brief but comprehensive explanation of the
Abolition policy. No more Union with slave
holders"-no restoration of "the Union as it
was" on the basis of 1.-The Constitution as il isl
no reconstruction, save on the basis of universal
and entire emancipation.
This is the platform of the Abolitionists-the
Northern traitors, who are, in effect, CO operating
with the armed hosts of secession in the South.
1t is for the success Of this disunion platform
that the AbOiitiOnists require the Union soldiers
10 fight, bleed and die: it is for this that the
Northern enemies OF tile constitution ana the
Union of our fathers, would fill tie air with the
groans of dying and mangled soldiers on the
field, and with the means and signs of their be
reaved wives, children, brothers, parents and
friends throughout the North; il is for this that
these fanatics and malignants would saddle pos
terity with an enormous load of debt and taxa
tiOn-for this they would bring grief and gloom,
death and debt to their fellow men. How long
Is this open and shameless treason to the COnsti-
tuition aud the Union-to the country-to be toll
Grated? The Southern rebels we kill-NOrthern
traitors we allow TO live and thrive by the open
and everyday avowal of thiir treason. Gree
ley's Tribune is more powerful for evil than all
the rebel forts around Richmond and Charleston,
and the AbOlitionists of the North, combined as
as they are against the Union, are quite as dan
gerous to the Government as are all the rebels in
arms in the South. and deserve no better fate at
the hands of the true irieIsis of the Union.
Brownlow was right when he RECOMMENDED that
the leading Abolitionists of the North and the
leading seceSSionists OF the South should be
hung side by side. Until both classes of traitors
are eXterminated, or eflectually silenced, there
can be no hope OF a permanent, happy and pros
porous reunion of the States.
The same Reverend patriot, from whom we
have quoted, further SAYS: TO make bondage
for the African the cornerstone for freedom for
the Caucasian were treason against all the mem
ores of our Revolutionary fathers and rebellion
against the edict of COP"
Mr.. Williams. of course, regards the Federal
Constitution a. making bondage for the African
the cornerstone Of freedom for the Caucasian, /"
or white man, aid therefore opposes a reconstruc-
ton of the Union on the basis of that instrument.
Ia this was not his notion, there could not have
been, IN his opinion, any necessity for his dis
course from which We quote. Such being has
views, as unquestionably they are, We can not
agree with him that TO continue the African in
bondage for the sake of the white mans free
dom would be treason against all the memo
ries OF our Revolutionary fathers" This state
of bondage OF the African tor the freedom OF
the Caucasian" was very generally recognized
and approved by the Revolutionary fathers,
most of whom themselves held the African in
bondage"
When they founded the Government of the
United States and framed the Constitution ia
I7c9, they recognized this bondage for the AT
rican, even TO the extent OF fOrbidding that the
African slave trade should cease, by law. before
the year one thousand eight hundred and eight
and of providing for the rendition of fugitive,
from labor escaping from one State into an
other" Even the great and glorious Washing
ton sanctioned such proceedings as these lie
was President OF the Convention which framed
the Constitution, and afterwards, when acting as
the first President of the United States. undel
that instrument, he signed and approved the hrs
fugitive slave law which, subsequently such piOu,
patriots as the Rev. William X. Williams. ID
D." did all in their power to nullify by then
reasonable opposition 10 is execution, thus rem
dering the much complained of fugitive slave Law
OF 1850 a necessity Mr.. Williams, himself, 10y
implicitly stigmatizing the COnstitulion-the worl
of their hands-as making bondage for the Al
rican the corner stone OF freedom for The eau
casian." insults the memory Of "our Revolution
AIRY fathers" The Reverend gentleman's argu
ment is slightly illogical and contradictory.
And. II Mr.. Williams would not treat the Bi
ole with a. great contemPt as he treats the Fede
raj Constitution, il would be no difficult matte
to show him. by the Divine Record. that he pre-
sumes too far when he intimates that by recon
s~tructing the Union on the basis of the preseh
e. pro- slavery Constitution. we should be act