Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-05

their ability and integrity in the conduct oi
the Government; and that they can only hope
to obtain renewed lease OF power by demon.
strating that they can and will use it for the
general welfare, rather than for private and
partisan ends.
President LinCOIA's Last Speech.
"Four scoresland seven years ago our Faith.
ers brought forth upon this continent new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal"
The New York World thus comments upon
this declaration Of the President at Gettysburg
"a sentiment entertained by those who sym
pathize with abolitionsm.
The passionfor obstetrical analogies appears 8
to have ascended from Mr.. Seward to his chief
Questionable as may he the taste which repre-
sents the fathers in the stages of coneep-
tion and parturition, that fault is small in com
parison with gross ignorance, or willful mis-
statement, of the primary fact in our history
by President of the United States.
Now, the Constitution not merely does not
say one word about equal rights, but express.
y admits the idea OF inequality Of human
rights
The Declaration Of Independence announced
to the world, not that "our fathers. had brought
Unies had declared themselves free, sovereign
and independent States BY the treaty of
peace Great Britain acknowledged, not a new
nation, but the sovereignty Of Massachusetts
New York, g., name by name, State by State
But if the assertion Of Mr. Lincoln were as
correct as it is incorrect that fact would avail
him nothing.
r his United States is not the United States
which fought the War of Independence.
This United States is the result of the rat-
ihcation of a compact known as the Consti-
tuition, by eleven States originally, and such
AS have acceded since.
The States met in Convention to form
Government for themselves
They framed plan which was to go in op.
Grafton when nine States acceded to and rati-
fed it, Ia that convention some delegates
from the (nOw) free States, and some from
Virginia. felt and talked about slavery lust as
Mr. Lincoln feels and talks, Just as Wendell
Phillips feels and talks, Just rs Greeley feels
and writes. Some others felt and talked. lust
as we feel and write, that slavery is au injury
to the interests of both slave and master.
Georgia and South Carolina said in substance
1--WE do not think as you think; we do not
seek to convert you, nor can you convert us
Count us out" Thereupon it was clear that
Maryland, Delaware, the two Carolinas, Geor-
gia, and Virginia would form separate Con.
federacy, and The rest of the States possibly
another, il slavery was insisted upon as one
of the subjects of Federal cognizance.
The other States had the option either to
ally themselves with slavery or to cut loose
from it. They choose the former, and cannot
now, with the slightest fairness, hold to the
benefits and reject the burdens of their bar
gain.
"But' some one, ''the world has progressed
since the formation of the Constitution;
slavery was not then regarded by mankind as
it is now" What of that? Faith has not
changed the principles that govern contracts
have not changed your perceptions of the
value of an Union have not changed. If the
Constitution were to be made for the first
time tomorrow, you would consent TO polti
cal union with slave States upon precisely the
same terms as before. Doyou want TO sepa-
rate now 2
"But there is the war, caused by slavery"
says another When the rebellion is put
down, and the rebels dealt with, the States
will remain with all their rights as nanied in
the Constitution. This is question behind
the war and behind the rebellion The aboli-
tionists are lighting the warto settle it in their
own way
If the States which compose this Union will
govern themselves in their feelings to and
relations with each other on the principles
which govern honest men IN their intercourse
with each other, the States can continue in
an union for all time If they will not there
must always be war; il they cannot, federal
republic is zone Of the dreams of the enthusiast
MIDNIGHT AssAssINs Leaguers, as
sassins of regulations o-day,-assassins Of
liberty always, when the time comes they will
be the assassns Of their next neghbors and
the very playmates Of their boyhood Such is
ever the end Of FsnAticsm, stimulated by Sc
cret midnight conVocations Nothing so Grim.
inal ever existed in any country, not even ex-
eepting the Jaeobin clubs which filled France
with cruelty, blood-shed and murder aud even
committed its outrages under the deseerated
forms Of law and in the name Of public order
Syracuse Union
D6y~ Up to the first Of October the Confed.
crate privateers had captured no less than one
hundred and seventy-eight vessels, the tun-
mage Of which Amounted to eighty thousand
eight hundred and ninety-nine tons, and whose
value was estimated at thirty millions of dol.
lars.