Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-04-13
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The Abolition newspapers and orators
persist in calling Democrats traitors, and
the Democratic party disunion party
Now we assert that no Democratic news.
paper or leader, now acting with the par.
ty, ever uttered q sentiment in favor Of a
dissolution of the Union. We challenge
the production of it. The whole course
of the Democratic party has been an un.
sltersble, undying attachment to. and de.
fence Of the old Union and the Constitu.
ton OF our fathers. But how stands the
record of the Abolition party on the
Union? All its leading men and jour.
nails have taken open ground, FIRST, in ia.
vor of breaking up the Union before it
WAS dissolved, and its now against resto-
ration. By their fruits shall ye know
them. THAD. STEvRSs, the Administra-
ton leader, in speech delivered in Con.
gress said
Il will not stultiiy myself by supposing that
we have any warrant in the Constitution for
this proceeding.
This talk OF restoring the Union as il was,
under the Constitution as il is, ia one of the
sbsurdites which have heard repeated un
I'll have become sick about it The Union
can never be restored rs it was There are
many things which render such an event i'm
possible This Union never SHALL with my
consent be restored under the Constitution
as tbs, with slavery to be protected by it.
If there is any Union sentiment in that,
we fail to see it.
Horace GREELY, of the Now York Tri.
bune. the leading Republican organ in the
United States, through tho columns OF his
paper says
speaking for ourselves, we can honestly
say that for the old Union, which was kept in
existence By Southern menaces and Northern
concessions, we have no regrets and no wish
Tor its reconstruction.
who wants Union which is nothing but
continent to lacquer Forth Of July orauons
witha?
"lf, by chance, in ancient times, the crimi.
nal felt the oathsome corps, which Justice
mad tied upon his shoulders, slipping off-he
did not we fancy, cry out: 10 wretched man
that am who will fasten me again to the
body Of this death2' If we are, in the Proyi.
dencs OF God, to be delivered from unnatural
alliances--it the January OF slavery is no lon
ger 10 chill BY unnatural embraces the May OF
human hope, who is there weak or wicked
enough to forbid the righteous divorce?
Here We have the acknowledged leader
OF the Administration party, asking who
it is that is "weak or wicked enough to
forbid" = dissolution of the Union. And
GREELY is held up as pure and spotlsss
patriot, while Democrats, who have al
ways been for the Union. and are for it
still, are TRAITORS" forsooth.
And this disunion party has called to
its assistance, the vile brute and Infamous
scoundrel, Ben. BuTLER-the man who
has made five millions of dollars out of
the misfortunes of the country, and calls
it patriotism" Yes, this old fend, and
dsspicsble wretch, dripping with corrup-
uon and fraud, is put forth as counsel for
the criminal Abolition party. He makes
his first plea in its defence. in New York
city. And there he is reported as saying:
IL am not for the Union as it wAs."--
OF course not. You can't find an Aboli-
ZIONIST that is in favor Of the Union. And
of all man in the conntrv Raast Q,,,, ,,r
will be the last to favor a reconstruction
of the Union as it was. He has stolen
too much money from the people of the
South ever to want Union with them
But he is true representative Of the Abb
clifton Disunion party, which adopts the
"stop thief crp of "traitor'' against tho
Democracy to turn public attention from
its own iniquities. There is day of rot
ribution in the future,