The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-01-18

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the grand army In abeyance, and recog-
uixing their empty frame-works of State
Governments, inducts them as bona 6de in
to the sacred temple of our sovereignty.
In short, the two bodies seem to be at
one table in full communion. Their ac-
tons tend unmistakably to the same result.
whether they know it or not, and their sue
cess will develop reunion of the slave
holding interests on the platform of the
Administration, for the protection of Slave
~, and against all who oppose it.
In this way the party of Slavery will be-
come again the party Of the Administra-
lion; MIR. Lincoln will become the Presi-
dent of the South, through the agency of
the Union. and Jefferson Davis will retire
to the shades. The Federal Capital will
once more become the seat of the slave
power. the Federal Government its ,nstru-
ment. and the country its subject realm.
The old game of united South against
divided North will be repeated. The party
of the Administration will play the role Of
the old Democratic party again. The for
mer strife will be renewed; and in the end.
however distant. Slavery will again be driv-
en- to extremities.
may be permitted, at this point, to put
in protest against extemporizing State or
CARNATIONS for seeded States, and clothing
them with powers to correspond. So far as
| legal correctness is concerned. this action
is as unwarranted as secession itself. It is
quite asrevolutionary.
will not impeach the motives of the
| Administration. It is doubtless guided by
sincere desire to do, in all things. what
will prove to be for the best interests of the
country. But it is nevertheless acting up
on most deplorable policy in this respect.
Principles control events: and its priDci-
Piles in this regard cannot fail to develop
another woeful cycle Of national contention
and disaster, probably more violent, bitter,
and fatal than anything in our past history.
The very opposite course is the one it ought
to pursue. To liberate the Government ut
lelly and forever from slavery should be its
frs; and paramount object. To accomplish
this it ia only necessary for it to discard an
attenuated abstraction, and avail itself of
opportunities which God has brought TO
our very doors.
II the war, carried on in this manner,
should now cease, new one would imme-
diately begin. Moral forces would take the
place of physical ones, and the ant-slavery
Editor and lecturer would appear instead of
the dragon and muskeeteer. The center
Of Abolitionism would be in time transfer
red from Boston to Richmond, and we
sh ,uld Sc Virginia "liberator," in the
person of some new Garrison. come forth to
break the remaining covenant with death"
and League with hell"
The war must. therefore, strike for free
dom, or its professions about Union are de-
lusive, and it's end will be nought but evil.
Should it fail to do so. then let US cast it
out as wickedness and an abomination.
and trust the cause of Union to other pre-
ssrvatives-to God 3 Providence rather than
to mans imbecility and treachery. War
! is obnoxious on general principles, and is
only sanctioned as means to noble end.
The report of the Secretary of the Treas
; ury tells fearful tale. Nearly $4,000, 900
! per day will hardly more than suffice to
cover existing expenditures; and in one year
} and half our national debt, if the war
; G continues, will amount to the sum of 5000,
OOO, 900.
This is the immense sacrifice we are
making for Freedom aud Union; and yet,
is it all to be squandered on subterfuge
and cheat? For one, I shall not vote
another dollar or man for the war, until it
assumes different standing. and tends di-
re;tly TO an anti-slavery result. Millions
for Freedom, but not one cent for Slavery.
) Sad. indeed, will it be if those who, in
this suspicious hour, are invested with the
responsibility of command. shall continue
: to lack wisdom TO comprehend or virtue to
; perform their duty. This is the great op-
portuEity which God has vouchsafed to US
for our deliverance from that great curse
which darkens our past. Let US not prove
ourselves unequal,to the destiny which it
tenders. Oh let US not attempt to rebuild
our empire on foundations of sand; let US
rear it on base of eternal granite. Let the
order Of justice-the harmony of Gods be-
nignant laws pervade it. And no internal
commotion or outward assaults will after
wards beset US, against which it may. not
rise triumphant and enduring.
Thou vampire Slavery, own that thou art dead
Yield to
The wealth thy spectral fingers cannot hold;
Bless US, and so depart to lie In state,
Embalmed thy lifsless body, and thy shade
So cIamorous now fer bloody hoiocausts,
Hallowed 20 peace by pious Festivals
Thus may the great Republic. 50 long
perverted and paralyzed by Slavery. stand
forth, in the words of the Irish orator, .tre-
deemed. regenerated, and disenthralled by
the genius of Universal Emancipation"
Miss slidelI is reported as being made
quite heroine in England from the ridic-