Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-25

Tne RdvelatiOns OF an AD"A'''yy-Ss-' y- ~
Itis ouite amusing TO look over the Aboii'
tiou pnosrs In Ohio. and read their commenta
upon the result Of the recent election. Besides,
iti instructive. Il lets US into some secrets
about which they kept "shady" before. The
beauty of the thing is that some of the "sore'
heads" are so very sore and irritable that they
lose their discretion and blab out "family Sc
crets.
OF this stripe is the Ashtsbula Sentinel, ed
tied by dyed-in. .the-wool Abolitionist, the
pupil and echo of JOSHUA R, GiDDNos, Con
sol. General under President LINCOLN for British
North America. Tho Sentinel in Its issue OF
o,t %, has an article on the result OF the cleo
tiop, In which it confesses that its party ia
csubiect to tho humiliation OF defeat" That
defeat 10 attributes to the slaughter Of the Re-
publican party last year and the inauguration
in Ia stead of a party chat regatds," we quote
the Sentinels oan words, coffee and o1icial
nos,tion above all .hings besides, and has shown
Iilssii ready to sacrifice everything OF principle
! for .hs triumph Of party" .A.bs
Thepolnt the Sentinel makes is that tho Re
publican party had principle, while the bogus
|; Union party had none save to get otbce ana
official patronage, The Sentinel goes Into az
! exocsI.ion Of wha. the Republican principle is
8 and the consequences to which it led, which Il
OF This stage of our political history
= II ssstss that principle 10 be 'f.hSt freedom
. ahouid be national and slavery secticnal'--be
= IMP ibs same proposition ss is contained IN
. series Of resolutions of which Secretary CHisi
: ia the reputed author, and adopted at On Adolf
!, ton meeting in Cincinnati IN December, leai
This principle raised what the Sentinel call
".o issue Of freedom" Il says that "as nAtu
% rally as possible the war grow out OF the con
test rron this issue. and the battles on The melt
I were only euother form of the strugsles o. 'h
. polls" ~
So the war, according 10 the Abolition edito
no in Ashtabula, is only the continuance
2 The contest which the Republicans raised OF
she Question Of slavery at the polls--in oshe
words, |. is an Abolition war. ls there any ois
: IovAlty or teint OF treason in this' We sup
poss not, since Il comes from man OF who's
LOYALTY to the most radical lAboli1ionism iher
. can be no question.
le Bat the Sentinel, In order that Il may not b
d usundsrstood, Gays, referring to the pas
St events Of the war, that "ihe object Of the bal
ID tlo was to suatain tho Union which had onl
ID heeome anosher name for liberty" Hereis th
IN t,ue secrst Of the Republican and Abolitio
O. turrehs for the Union, aud the reason for th
sh formation of the 60 called Union party.
20 was 10 usrpetrate fraud of the darkest dy
u apou the people-tO pretend 10 be for the unio1
% shile they only meant to rse it as another nam
~ for negro freedom. N.
o. The Sent.ael complains Of some who got in'
'g the new Union party that they sought
o "change the issue from the Republican idea
re free Union to the mere preservation of tt
81 Union itself" Here again the Abolition CT
be "iumps out Of the bag" The Republican
" the Abolition idea is, not the mere preservi
zion of The Union'--not at all but the organizir
e. of a nav---"a free Union" This is the key
he n.nv mysteries--snd explains why so mai
I'd men, VINO we're as true as steel 70 the idea
rs the mere preservation Of the Union'" nav
d. been accused by Abolitonists calling themseiV'
n Union men, of disloyal practices and even
Ut treason. Their dlsloyalty and treason conslsse
'e in being true to "the mere preservation Oh 1n
Union" and opposed to the neW-the free Abt
~ lition Union. ,...
Do The Sentinel thinks the election in Ohio wa
ne lost to lts party, because the issue Was nc
n made by its leaders directly and openly uPo
cy this question of new or "fiee Union" on
er of the causes Of their defeat doubtless WAS tbs
On the people began to see the stupendous irAu
that had been practiced By the Abolition iea'
g. era ever aimee the war began, who had preten'
O. ed to be ready to go to the death for the Vnior
he while they were plotting and trying to mansg
Id the war so as to compass the destruction OF IN
old Union and the establishment on it's ruins
r a new--ua free UnioD." as the GIDplNas orga
rt calls II. e'sas7
ID Let these Abolition "rebels" and "rehel syn
is pathizers' come out boldly. If they dare In
I'd subseauent election, with their issue for th
IN dissolution Of the old Union, and the fofmatio
Of Of their new free one, and see what their door
NJ will be- They will wish that mill-atone ma
10 been tied about their necks, and they cast Int