Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-12-19
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From the Providence Or. ~ Postl
Nothing can be palmer than that the leaders
Of the RepuOlicap party are determined TO
oppose the restoration Of the Union TO the
bitter end. They have abandoned all the
professions with which they commenced the
war, and now openly proclaim that Il muet
not cease until The South is snbiagated and
slavery annihilated. The slave Stntss must
also be made TO pay the cost Of their subjuga-
ton, and must give mp their officers Of Gov
eminent to be dealt with under the martial
law proclamation OF Mr.. Lincoln. They must
give us idemuity for the past and security for
the future that is, they must not only pay us
for whipping them, provided always that we
succeed in whipping them, but they must
come under bonds never again to claim the
right Of secession or the right Of revolution.
This is the programme, as We find II in
several Of the Republican papers and all the
movements Of the party leaders indicate that
il is to be carried out. The Republicans
plainly do not mean to recognize the South
ern States as having equal rights with other
States in the Union. They would far sooner
recognize them as constituting an indepen-
dent eopfederacy. SO they win bring objec-
tons to any plan Of reconciliation that is
offered, however reasonable and honorable it
may be, and thus, il possible, End an apology
for continuing the war until the Governments
credit is exhausted, and it is certain that no
more men can be raised to fight their battles.
Then they will accept separation as a neces-
sity, and be content with ruling what is left,
until heavy taxes shall drive the people to
desperation and revolution.
Our own belief is that the Union must be
virtually restored in the next three or four
months, If it ever is. IL in May next we
stand where we stand to-day, the hope of the
Union will have persisted. In July we shall
lose three hundred thousand of our soldiers.
One hundred thousand more, of those now ia
the field, will be found to have deserted. We
shall find it impossible to raise another army.
The South will, Of course, take courage over
the desperate character Of our circumstances,
and separation will become a fixed fact Let
April go by without bringing results more
decisive than we can reasonably look for, and
she will perceive that she has only to maintain
her resistance a few months longer, and her
Independence becomes a certainty. We must
occupy her territory as we conquer it; and
this alone will require an army twice as large
as that We shall have when July has departed.
Indeed, if s~ubjugation and emancipation are
our watchwords, the farther we 90 the worse
of we shall be. We shall need from fifty to
one hundred thousand men as a standing army
for each conquered State; and since such an
army cannot be raised and maintained, we
shall soon find that our victories are only
defeats under another NAME, and that aboli-
tionism and not secessIonism has sealed our
ruin. We shall quit the field, bankrupt in
purse and in spirit, and the South will be its
own master, and ours also; for the West will
follow the South before separation has been
three months decreed
And this is the goal to which the Abolition
lists are now leading us. They will not hear
of peace and the old Union. They must have
all the niggers, or nothing at all. So fearful
are they that they may find themselves by-and.
willing to accept honorable conditions OF
peace and union, that they are trampling de-
cency itself under their feet in their efforts
to blot out the majority which conservative
sentiment and labor has already obtained in
the Thirty-eight Congress. Mr.. Lincoln has
sent a messenger to Tennessee, with ~instruc-
tons to the military authorities there to as.
sist him in eleeting 'loyaP' Representatives.
The same plan is to be tried in North Carroll.
M, in Florida, in Texas, and at Hilton Head
for Rught we know; and If enough cannot be
thus obtained to vote down the Democrats,
new States are to be admitted until the work
is accomplished. fAIA
The important question Of this hour is, shall
the Republican policy as W. hsve presented il
triumph II yes, then we submit that our fu
ture is black enough. Will the people con
sent to III
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