Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-07-18
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AZ organ Of Wendell Phillips. GIddings-Love.
| Ioy Republlcauism in the Northern part OF 'ne
\ lstsse, speaking Of the recent rebel demonssra'
tiops ia Tennessee aud Kentucky, says; awe
ahsll probnbly have our battles to fight over
aQain--thauks to the tender policy" This 10
the way this class Of Disunion-Abolition jour
malls are covertly attacking the Administration
and our Generals In the Aeld for the conducs OF
the war hitherto. They harp eternally on wna.
thew denounce as 'tthe tender policy" pursued
and demand change. By Hthe tender policy"
thev mean that slaves have not been generally
emancipated and armed, and war OF e1terni-
nation and devastation cirried on. This is the
change they demand, and to effect thla they
have been necessarily goading the President
and iuding fault with him aud the officers OF
the army.
"a tender policy" indeed ! Its libel on
the Government and our brave officers and SOL
diers who have fought mAnfully and heroicaiiy
against the rebel hordes, and won victory after
victory, 10 charge that our battles will have TO
be fought over again, because OF the tender
policy" pursued in the conduct of the war II
We cannot hold the places We have gained II
the latent Union sentiment in the South Is not
developed, and If the prospect of an early ter
mination Of the war and the speedy restoration
of the Union under the banner Of the Consu'
tuition, grows less and more distant day by day.
| Il is not owing to any "tepder policy " toward
the rebels, but TO the insane and incendiary
course pursued by the Abolition Republicans In
and out of Congress.
No more substantial and nourishiug food
could be given to the rebellion--nothing could
afford the insurgents greater aid and comfort
and enable them to consolidate the masses oi
the Southern people in their cause than the In
Aammatory articles appearing from day to DAY
| in the Northern Disunion papers, demanding
that the Government shall use what Is called
the " war power" for the entire abolition oil
slavery, and substantially that the war shall DC
changed into relentless crusade for the anni-
hila!ion of the institutions and the extermina-
ton of the Southern States and people Debates
measures proposed, and measures adopted at the
regular session of the. present Congress, have
tended In the same direction and have indicated
instead of slender policy" most bitter and
determined purpose that the slave States shall
not remain in the Union With ell their dignity
equality and rights under the Constitution, IN
impaired.
The people are demanding change In the
legi.lation Of Congress- But it is not the change
that the radical Abolition Republicans inslsl
upon and are so furious to bring about. Il isa
change looking siDgly to the suppression OF the
rebellion against the Constitution and the
Union, and to causing the Stars and Stripes 10
wave glOriously and peacefully over Thirty-four
United States as before the commencement ef
the present civil war. This is the conSumma-
ton which the people of the country are de-
mandipg, and that to !his end the aim Of the
Government In the conduct of the war and In
its general policy must be directed.