Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-23
From the cinoinnatt Gazette.
The object Of the Cry Of Abolition

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The Object of.the Cry Of Abolition.
That slavery was in no danger from the
election of Republican Administration,
and that it was from no fear for the safety
of slavery thnt the rebel leaders resolved
on secession, we havefthe evidence of Will
liam L. Yancey and his associate rebel
commissioners, in their official statement
of the case of the Confederates and their
claim to foreign recognition, to the British
ministry. But the same rebel leaders made
the cry that slavery was to be destroyed by
the Republican Administration the means
of precipitating the mass of the people of
the Southsintel the rebellion. This none OF
them deny. 1t now keeps alive the rebel
lion; and the fact that fear of interference
with their 4domestic institution caused
the SouthitO REBEL is continually reitera-
ted by the Democratic press of the North.
Thus we have the fact established before
a candid world, by the evidence of the re-
belleaders themselves, that their rebellion
owes its existence to lie. y,
In the North also. the Slavery question
was found the most effective means of aid
ing tho rebellion, by those whose attach
ment to the party that raised the rebellion
is stronger than their allegiance to the
Government, and whose Unionism means
only the restoration to power of the party
which is now in 1rms to destroy the Union.
One of the most potent weapons of this
negro agitation was to denouuce the war
as an Abolition war, and those who were IN
earnest in putting down the rebellion, as
radicals and Abolitionists. 1t is not &C.
cordiug to human uaturNain a time of great
public danger, when the existenceof the
Government is at stake, and when every
man is called upon to peril his life for bis
country, that men who really desire the
preservation Of the nation should attempt
to create disafection. among its defenders
by assailing their sentiments, and doing
their utmost to make them obnoxious.-
When assassins hnvo a man by the throat,
and are about to plunge the knife to his
heart, he does not stop 10 assail the re
ligions, moral or political sentimentstof
those who come to his deliverance. Nor
is it any more according to human nature
that those who desire the country's deliy-
erance from its peril, should direct all their
zeal to attacking the sentiments or motives
of its defenders. The conclusion us to the
sYmpRthies Of these is obvious to the pub
lie sense. ri. sass5 rad sssa.'ft.
The cry of fAbolitiouism, continually re-
iterated against the people who elected the
Administration, with all the fnlsehood that,
ingenuity, stimulated by hatred of the
cause, could invent for appealing to the
preiudices of the ignorant, has been po-'
tent instrument for exciting disatfection in
the border slave States, and for preventing
eDlistments among a certain class in the
North whose aprejudices are in favor of
Slavery, or whose party subJcction to the
slaveholding class is their strongest alle-
p,,k I I'M hppn
still more effective. 1t was seen from the
first that the patriotism of the people of the
free States was abundant to carry the war
ito a triumphant termination, no matter
what its extent. This patriotism mnst be-
alienated or depressed, or the case of the
rebels was hopeless Iethe Slavery agita-
tion could effect this, would 1t not be even
a more potent aid to the rebellion than it
had been in the South -
The majority ofthe people oil. the free
States are anti-slayery in sentiment. The
majority OF the Democratic party are SO,
IT is but a few years since the Ohio Demo-
cratic Platform declared slavery hu evil
which it was the duty; OF Ohio Democrats,
by every means in their power, to mitigate,
and finally eradicate. When the Missouri
Compromises was broken down; the Demo
cratic leaders in Ohio pretended that pop
nlar sovereignty would prevent the spread
of Slavery into the Territories; and until
the Missouri raids upon the emigrantsf
showed what the South meant by that
measure, the Democratic leaders in Ohio
claimed,the rapid emigration fromthe free
States; to Kansas ms evidence of the triumph
of popular sovereignty in securing Kansas
TO freeilabor. They have been compelled
to pretend that every slavery aggression
aud agitation which the Democratic party
inaugureted would really be apti-slayery
lin it's operation, in order 70 retain any bold
upon the mass of the party. And it,was
on account of this sknownlanti-slavery sem
timetit in the majority OF the Democratic
marty of the North, that the Northern dele-t
eates at Charleston refused to put into the
platform clause declaring slavery Wight
in all the national5territory. They refused
this, though the threatened alternstiye was
the split of the party and seeessioui be
cause they knew that with such pro-
slavery platform they could not keep their.
party togetherin the North. + !
we refersto these facts merely to show
should have the hardihOod to
dispute it, that the majority of even the
Democratic party in the North was always
topposed to Slavery. That the majority of
the people who elested this Adminis nisttatfon
are so, no one nequesLlouS. Ou Tue peopte oI
anti-Shvery sentiments the support of the
Government in the war against rebellion
whoIlydepelded. Therefore the Secession
allies in the North turned their VII ole force
to Outrage this seutfment, and deptess its
patriotism, and to ALLEVIATE it by creating
division between the ADMINISTRATION and
the only people on whom It could rely,-
The h6eiand cry of Abolitionfst has pur-
sued every representative of the sentiments
OF the people who earnestly support the
Goyernment, and the most bitter hate and