Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-04-11
ThS Process of AboiitlonizIng On
Republican Fuaion Party "0ees
mrnvciy ON

Iiepubiican Fusion Party "Gees
nravcIy ON y
4 Is nonsepae--aay. worse--it 10 gross oe'
csplIcn for proiessed conaersatives In the ne
publican and Fusion party 70 talk OF posspon'ng
the slavery question till after the war is oV'r'
The leaders Of the party do not intend 20 do
any such thing; because, 10 their estimation IL
Is more important to save the party than 70
preserve the Union. If they were to become
really aud tlul, loyal to The Union, they would
become merged in the only Union party 10 the
countryside Democratic. Seeing this DANGER
they are gradually sbOli,icniEing their party,
sod the work progresses finely, as Ia evidenced
by the manner In which such Dlsanion fanatics
as WENDELL PHILLIPS, CHARLHs SUMNER, CARL
soauRz, Rev. DR.. CHEEvEn, and Others "too nu
merous to mention" are received aud lauded by
the Republican and Fusion pressr
"Bul VIC don't agree with Phillips and SUA-
nER 10 their Wild notions about the cid Union
being at an end and past resurrection" says
some indignant Republican or Fusionist. You
don't agree with PHILLIPs and SUMNER and such
as they! Indeed! and yet you fellowship
.hese men politically; they belong to the same
party with you; worship at the came political
altar, and are placed In the highest Offices OF
the nation at home and represent her in the
most powerful foreign courts.
The war is not to be, and while the present
Republican and Fusion party holds the reinP,
will not be war solely for the preservation OF
the Union, whole and undivided Some men in
the party may desire IL; but their NUMBER is
dwindlipg down day by day to mere insignih
cant handful, and has even now scarcely any
real influence to stay the Abolition side that is
gradually, but with renewed volume and
strength, sweeping away every vestlge OF real
Uponism that may have once had Odgment
in the minds Of some Of the present leading
Republicans and Fusionists.
Along With the war, is to be prosecuted q vg-
orous anti slavery crusade. To insure the sue
cess of the latter, the former must be continu'
ed, until slavery is extiDguisbed, or in fair
way Of final extinction. The Union may Or
not be preservedj many influential men in the
Fusion party declare |. is already gone befoRd
redemption; but at all events, one leading tb'
iect Of the war and Of the onerous taxes 10 be
imposed upon the people, 10 to be the Annibila-
tion Of what Is called the "slave power" by the
immediate or gradual emancipation Of all the
slaves 10 the country.
This Is not the programme only Of those who
are styled Radicals; but 1t is becoming the
svowed position of those who have been regard
ed as the conservative portion of the Republican
and Fusion press and leaders. One Of the lead
ing Republican journals that h's had reputa-
tion for conservatism, and still affects opposition
to radical notions, is the New York Times -
Yet In that paper of the 5th inst, We find the
following significant sentences:
We are addressing ourselves to the greatest
work ever set before msn--that of mitigating
the condition Of four millions ignorant and de-
graded fellow.creatures, and preparing them for
eventual freedom. WecommeDce, as the Pres
ldent wisely recommends, where the work pre-
sents the feWeet difficulties, and best promotes
the advantage Of both races.
There is no mis.aking the meaning of the
foregoing. The work to which the Republican
FnsIon party is addressing itself, ia not prima-
rily and solely, perhaps not even secOndarily,
the preservation Of the Union, but the entire
abolition Of slavery, immediate Or gradual =
The commencement of this great work hasi
been made, as the President recommended 10
his special message, by adopting in both HOuses
Of Congress by large msiorities, his co-opera-
tive emancipation resolutions. Another step
has been taken In the same direction by passing
10 the Senate the bill for the abolition of slaV.
cry in the District of Columbia. Other meas
ures for the accomplishment of the grand de-
sign Of the universal emancipation Of all per-
sons Of African descent in the United States
are before Congress, and may soon receive lite
sanction and that of the President.
Thus, the attention of Congress and the
county Is to be turned away from what was
declared at the beginning of the war to be its
great and only object, end is to be absorbed 10
schemes and plans for emsncipating and taking |
care of negroes. Who can doubt what will be
she fate of the Union our fathers made, under
such an administration Of public afAirs2
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