Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-02-13
A False Hope.

The Richmond Examiner, and other papers, profess to see evidences of the conversion of northern men from the abolition fanaticism, in the failure, in the federal Congress, of the pre- position to abolish slavery in the District Of O. lumbia, and in proceedings of certain public meetings in Indiana and elsewhere in the north west. Fully admitting the abilities of the edi tors of these hoping and hopeful journals and their superior facilities for acquiring informa. ton, we cannot bring oursef to the belief they mencement of the war until now, the North has been daily becoming more and more abolition ized. The real designs of Lincoln and his cabinet have been carefully concealed and at first strenuously denied. If the proposition to free slaves and arm them had been made year ago, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri would have seeded with Tennessee and Arkansag- In recent speech at Chicago, the brigand Lane positively asserted that Lincoln and his cabinet were fully committed to the ultra abolition policy That 1t was not announced at first, was because they intended 10 deceive the union men of the border States until they were fairly committed to the federals. Davis, of Indiana Bright, Hendricks, Vallandingham and others are the representatives of the conservative men yet left, but the great mass of the people are becoming abolitionzed. Tosuppose that the federas have any disposition or desire to stop short of war of emancipation is doing violence to common sense. It is singular how men suffer themselves to be duped by the Balloon. Even yet, in Ken lucky, the tory presses talk glibly of protecting the slave property of tories and of being com pensated for those stolen from them, and at the same time it is declared by Lane that no slave holder can be a union man, and 1t Is favorite dogma of the abolitionists that there can be no property in persons. As to Lincoln's colozina- ton theory, it's absurdity would be manifest, even if it was not admitted to be humbug.- Lane says he wants 34,000 negroes as servants for his soldiers, to cook, wash, black their boots and do other menial services for them Other plans have been promulged in Congress and their leading papers, providing for holding the slaves on cotton plantations, under Yankee mas ters. Lincoln broke faith with the South, is double dealing with the border States, and will betray the last remnant of conservatism at the North, We have no faith, not even hope that any considerable opposition can be maintained to his policy at the North. The fires or fanati- cism can only be quenched with blood.->
 After the appointment of Lane and the license granted to him of wholesale thett and murder; the making major general Of Qassius M. Clay; the appointment of Stanton as secretary of war, who is as bloodthirsty an aboitionist as Came ron and the indorsement of the cruelties of the 1 federal commanders in Missouri, he vho dcss not believe that the Lincoln government is fully | com ni,ted to the most radical abolition policy 1 would not believe, though one rose from the l dead, The policy Of the aholtionists is to un> fold their plans gradually, and as their people l become more desperate; to denounce slavery as the cause of all our troubles, and make cru ,ade Of oxterninationi 4 few nay resist it, but the bloody current will sweep them away