Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-03-12
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/ Tbs grea. difhsulty experienced by onr
government j. undoubtedly owing 10 the
Importance attached to slavery, and its con-
neetion with almost every step that IA Ia
ken. All this is detrimental to success
fol prosecution of the war, and ought to be
forthwith discarded. But one rule must
govern as, and that is to protect slavery
among the loyal men, and destroy it with
the disloyal, without regard to the mouth
ings of doughface politicians in or out of
+ Congress So too with the States which
have seeded, and thereby lost their rights
az States Until We can ascertain who
were loysl and who disloyai, they ought
all TO be classed IS territories no great
er injustice could be committed than TO re-
admit the present rebels 10 political power,
aud thus plsce loyal men at their mercy.
On this subject cotemporary has some
well.timed remarks, which We commend to
oar readers. It says
In the present matter in hand, the true
view is, that all the States which have pas
scd ordinances of secession are now out of
the Union, and arc to be readmitted, not
as = matter Of right, bus at such time and
under such circumstances and conditions
as may be judged best by the nation. E1-
cep.ions may, perhaps, be made of Virgin
ia and Tennessee, in both Of which, impor-
tant ntterritorial divisionsha9e remained stead
lily loyal. Nothing is more absurd than
the idea that the object Of this bloody and
exhausting war is to restore to their former
political weight and power in the Union the
old aristocracy of South Carolina, OF that
little nest of repudiating swindlers, hereto
fore fraudulently dignifed as the State of
Florida. The war has no such preposter.
Gus object as that 1t is to preserve our
territory intact within its essential bounda-
riss, and to vindicate the vital fast that
this is really 4 nation, and not mere league
Of thirty four sovereignties. We arc
fighting to maintain our own rightful au-
thority over the territory of South Carroll
ma and Florida, and not to enable the reb-
els ascendant there to send new Yulees and
Mallorys into tho Senate to plunder US, or
new Hammonds TO beard and insult US in
our own Capitol We are fighting in short,
TO establish the rights, not Of rebels, but of
lie nation. 1t is, Of course, the expecta-
ton and hope that ultimately the condition
Of affairs may be such as to render it safe
10 re-admit into the Union all the States
which have left it. But great social and
political changes must be made in some of
them, before this expectation can be rea-
Iized.
In the meantime, the monstrous heresy |
that the Union exists to day as it did in |
1860, contrary as it is both to notorious
facts and rational legal views, should not |
be tolerated for a moment It takes two to |
make bargain, and any agreement We may
hereafter make with South Carolina and !
Florida, (we speak Of them by way of illus
tration,) is bargain de moro, they having |
themselves nullifed the old one In treat |
ing with them, of course we must consider |
our duties to their loyal inhabitants, few at
best, but not on that account the less enti-
tied to protection. How it may be next
week, or next year, no man can forcsee, but |
today the very worst way to protect them,
would be to re invest the bloody and des-
perate factions which rule them with the |
powers and attributes of State sovereignty.