The Placer herald., 1862-03-29
The Abolitionists and the Armv

AuC ooo'ttOn oVitoIOIo bt0 uOC COuIcuL
with the fruits of their labors. They are no,
satisfied with the Ito them) proud reflection
that they have produced civil war and placed
the people North and South in hostile array
against each other. The crazy fanatics still
persist in thrustng in the slavery question
on all occasions. They are determined, so
far as in them lies, to convert the war for the
preservation of the Union, into crusade
against slavery For this purpose they en-
ploy the columns Of the ultra newspapers,
and their mouth-pieces on the floor of Con
gress. When the war first broke out and
the people still realized that the Republican
party was mainly responsible for il, mas
much as they had produced sectionalsm in
the South, in antagonism to their own sec
tionalism, they declared, and most solemnly
averred that slavery was not the cause of the
rebellion; that it was the work of demagogues
who had been plotting for the overthrow of
the Government for thirty years. This ar.
gu,nent was used to divert the attention of
the people from their own wicked acts and
to get them committed to the policy of
rejecting all compromises and reducing the
South to submission by force of arms
Having accomplished this object, and having
committed the people to civil war beyond
the power of recall, they now eat their own
words, declare that slavery is the cause of
all the trouble, and the only way to success
fully combat the rebellion is to abolish it.
'rhaa. Stevens recently made speech in
Congress in the course of which he advocated
the abolition of slavery; the Republican
press in the East is urging this course on the
Administration and Congress. But they 90
even further than tlis. They are circulating
abolition tracts among the soldiers for the
purpose Of poisoning their minds and stim
ulating them to adopt their policy. There
is not the slightest doubt that one of the
chief obstacles in the way of carrying out
the abolition programme is the antipathy of
the soldiers to snch course 1t is indis-
pntably true that very large proportion of
the army is composed of Democrats, who
have enlisted and entered this contest for
the preservation of the Union alone, and
who desired that when The rebellion has been
crushed the Union shall be restored just as
it was, without abating one jot or little of
the rights of the people or of the States.-
their rifles. They did not dream that they
were to be made the instruments for the abo
Iiton of slavery; nor are they disposed to be
used for any such purpose The public has
be N assured of this fact repeatedly by tele
graph and otherwise. This has doubtless
been a terrible stumbling block in the way
Of fanatics. They are fearful of the conse'
qnenres when they shall have inaugurated
this abolition system. We find the following
communication in the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
1t speaks for itself:
CAAr PLArr, January 70, 1862.
SIR: IncoseA you will find cursed Abo
li;ion document-it will speak for itself
which the negro worshippers are distributing
among the soldiers in large quantities.
Comment, if it is worth comment-and of
course it isl leave you to make. If had
time, | would write long article on the
subject, but have not, as am but private
and that is the reason | got the document.
Privates are supposed to have no sense,
or just sense enough to be made to
believe and do anything; but the paper
got into the wrong hands this time. And,
further will say, or ask, if such papers are
allowed to be distributed among the soldiers
so profusely, when will this war end? This
much | would like to say to them am not
fighting to free niggers-and if they want
them, let them do the fighting themselves.
will not. would as soon shoot an Abo
litionist as a Secesh. consider that they
are as much the instigators of this war as
any man in the South, and more so; yet
they claim to be Union men. Such Union
men ought to be in purgatory. They now
k,1,llx, daolaro thar purnoSa and ara now
distributing their internal trash among the
ignorant soldiers, as they suppose; but there
are some Of them sharp enough to see what
they are driving at.
am a native of Ohio, but not an Abolil
ZIONIST by any means; and | am fighting to
put down rebellion, not to free negroes.
A. SOLDIER,
Forty.Fourth Ohio Regiment.
This soldier doubtless speaks the sentiments
of the Democrats in the army. Their tenn
per on the subject may be judged 10y bis.
But observe the means that are resorted to
to poison their minds. Tracts full of abOIi
tionism are cunningly scattered through the
camps, in order to prepare their minds for
this policy. But if we mistake not, they |
will fail in accomplishing the purpose for
which they are disseminated. The Demo |
Gratis, who have enlisted are now fighting the
battles Of their country, have gone to the
wars, not as an endorsement of Republican,
ism nor to be made Instruments through |
which to carry out their pernicious doctrines,
but to preserve the Union. They are prov
ing their devotion to their country, not to
fanatcism. Let the fanatics take warning |
from these significant facts. Let them pause
in their mad career, before they arouse the
patriotism of the country against themselves.
Marys0i!te Express.