Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
From the Philadelphia Evening Journal.
The Abolition Traitors want an elm.
proved" Union.

The New York Tribune says: eve 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 engratt all the doctrines of Adolf
tionism upon the parent stock" Emancipa-
ton, negro equality, negro suffrage, and, when
ever possible, negro oficeholders are some of the
means of improving" the "Union," and ma
king it what sit ought to be-" according to the
xhite-coa philosophers idea.
In the stme paper we find a report of a dis
course delivered in New York, by a"Rev. VIM.
r.. Williams, ID. D." in which that Reverend pa
trot exclaims: Better "A war for centuries than
peace on a pro-slavery basisl" This simply
means "better a war for centuries than a peace on
the basis of the present Constitution" This is
a briet but comprehensive explanation of the
Abolition policy, No more Union with slave
holders"-no restoration of "the Union as it
was, I" on the basis of "the Constitution as it 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, cooperating
with the armed hosts of secession in the South.
1t is for the success of this disunion platform
that the Abolitionists require the Union soldiers
to fight, bleed and die: it is for this that the
" CutulCc u luC OOnSbtlullOn III Tue
Union of our fathers, would fill the air with the
groans of dying and mangled soldiers on the
field. and with the means and signs of their be-
reayed wives, children, brothers, parents and
friends throughout the North; it 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
f,ffAp opd tho Tpfon - 70 fha ,,tr 70 ko fol
Grated? The Southern rebels we kill-Northern
traitors we allow to live and thrive by the open
and everyday avowal of their 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 rs
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 friends 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 effectually 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: ITO make bondage
for the African the cornerstone for freedom for
the Caucasian were treason against all the mem
cries OF our hevOluLOnary fathers anu reDelllOn
against the edict of GoD."
Mr.. Williams, of course. regards the Federal
Constitution as making bondage for the African
the cornerstone of freedom for the Caucasian, Z"
or white man, aid therefore opposes a reconstruc-
ton of the Union on the basis of that instrument.
Ii this was not his notion, there could not have
been, in his opinion, any necessity for his dis
course" from which vs. quote. Such being his
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 Gree
dom" would be treason against all the memo
ries OF our Revolutionary fathers" This state
OF bondage OF the African for the freedom of
the Caucasian was very generally recognized
and approved by the "Revolutionary fathers. I"
most of whom themselves held the African in
"bondage."
When they founded the Government of the
United States and framed the Constitution in
1859, 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,
aud Of providing for the rendition Of "fugitives
from labor escaping from one State into an
other" Even the great and glorious Washing
ton sanctioned such proceedings as thesel He
was President Of the Convention which framed
the Constitution, and afterwards, when acting as
the first President Of the United States, under
that instrument, he signed and approved the first
fugitive slave law which, subsequently. such pious
patriots ss the "Rev. William r. Williams, ID.
D. did all in their power to nullify by their
reasonable opposition to its execution, thus rem
dering the much complained of fugitive slave law
of 1850 a necessity. Mr.. Williams, himself. by
implicitly stigmatizing the CONSTITUTIONAL work
of their hands-as making bondage for the AT
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, If Mr.. Williams would not treat the BIZ
BILE with as great contempt as he treats the Fede
raj Constitution, 1t would be no difficult matter