Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-15

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The Washington correspondens OF sne W."
York TTibnns writes TO that pHper under dat'
OF the 10Th met, that General HALLKcK hold
that ait is wholly impossible to subdue the re-
bellion whlo such an army OF laborers as the
slaves of the South continue TO produce sup
plies for the fighting army In the field we
doubt whether General HALLHcK has over ex-
pressed 90 opinioa Of this sort; butWhesber ne
has or no IL 10 the view the Abolitionists are
seeking TO make popular In order TO justify the
plain and palpAble violations OF the Consiitu
tion in the sudden, wholesale aud iorcible
emancipation Of Southern slaves, both Of loyal
and disloyal masters, and the dissolution Of tho
Union by dlefraucbisog and aunihlating SOW
ereign States, cotqual, though aporton or even
O majority OF their citizens may be in rebellion
with ,very other Safe in tho Union.
Has IL indeed come to this that the Govern
meut aud people Of tho United ststes must &c
know edge that the whole military and naval
power Of the Republic, backed by the immense
resource, in IDen aud means OF which we have
been 10 the habit OF hearing 30 much boasting
10 wholly inadequate to crush out the rebellion
bec,u-e Of the strength it derives from that
slavery ~hich used 10 be siigmatized as an ele'
ment ol inherent weakuess7 II this is to be
taken ne a tact upol which We are to act here
after, aud principle which lie to guide the
tuture operations Of the Government against the
rebtll,en, the people will be astouuded ut the
weakpc ., iucapncitj and ute, want Of foresight
Ia oui high civil and military authorities, who
failed TO make this important discovery at OF
near ,he beginning Of The civil war and regu-
llto the policy of the Goveinmebt accordingly
We are now gfavely told--it is in the mouth
Of every bogus UDiOuist or Abolitionist in cfbce
and out Of Ofiice-by those who were lately
dinning Que cars With ehouis for a more
vigorous prosecution Of the var" and calling
out Iustiy, at the top OF their voices, for "Moie
men More men !"-that the rebels CANNOT
BE CONQUERED BY OUR ARMS, aud that
we must give up The contes! or set the negroes
free. Upon the negro, these valiant Abolition
ists, la,,ly such terrible war men, place the only
hope for the salvation of the Government, as
they tern il, for they have given up theideO Of
saviog the Union, and never use the term ex.
cep, for ;he cake oi sulling some ignorant aud
unthiukiDg dupe.
II may be considered impertinent, but never
theless We cannot avoid asking how we can set
tie negfoes free, II we can not put down the
rebellion by force Of arms. Pfoclamations
will not emancipa.e the blacks; 1t must be
done by the military and naval power, If done
as ell; and that same power, as the President
declares in his proclamation it shall be, must be
used to keep them free. The same power that
can accomplish all this can twice as easily pu!
down the rebellion aud keep it down. So it
comes to this, that If we believe the Adolf
tionists that our military power as againat the
rebellion has proved failure, aud undertake
war Tor the freedom of the neg oss, We shall
have two wars on our handsome against an
insurrection OF whites, and the other for the
Emancipation of blacks--and If our arms have
failed, as the Abolitionists allege, when we had
bus one Of these on our hands, they will cer-
tainly fail when we shall have two. and We
shall neither put down the rebellion nor free the
negroes. ....t