Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-08

On The Revolutionary Schemes of the Aboi,tionasts
and an Defence Of The Policy Of he President.
At the Unconditional Union Meeting held at Rockville.
Montgomery county, Maryland, Saturday the Sd in
slant the suboined speech delivered BY Hon MONT
GoMERY BLAIR, Postmaster General, in defence of the
policy of the President Of the United States and in oppo
ston to the forts Of the radical Aboonsts to blot out
the Southern States and receive them back into the Union
only as Territories
Felow-ctzens cong ra.uiate you the hopes justly
inspired by the circumstances under which we meet to-
day The progress Of gives good for
believing that peaos will be restored to country
and that when it it viii be enduring peace be-
cause obtained by preserving the integrity of the Govern
ment and because it will be followed by the early sup
precision from our system Of the institution Of domestic
slavery, which occasioned most the difficulty in the
founding Of the Government and has been the only
which ever seriously endangered its existence.
But even whilst we induging these well-folnded
hopes that country ia saved from destruction by the
rebellion, we menaced by hs ambition of the ultra
Aboltonsts which is equally despotc in its tendencies
and which if successful could not fail to be alike fatal to
republican institutions. The alavocrats of the South
would found ogachya sort Of feuda power imposing
its yoke over all who titled the earth over which they
reigned masters The Abolition party, whilst pro-
nouaciug phiippics against slavery seek to make caste
of another color by the black element with
the free white labor Of land and TO expand far be-
ond the present confines Of slavery the evil which makes
it obnoxious to republican statesmen And now, when the
strength of the traitors who attempted to embody power
out Of the interests of slavery overthrow the Govern
ment seen to fail they would make the manuUisson Of
the slaves the Of nssing their blood into whole
system by blending with it ANAL ganaon equality and
fraternity"
The cultIvaors of the soil must then become hybrid
race and our Government hybrid Government ending
all such unnatural combinations have DONE in de-
graded if not aborve nerations, aud making serdom
for the inferior castethe blood of the couqaeror
race inevitably asserting despotism it. To facilitate
his purpose concerted appeal new made to the people
of the Free States through the press open the way
this daring innovation beginning in the Southern States
uhhappiy now brought uud the ban Of the Calhsunse
conspI ators With this it is proposed to declare
the State Governments in that section when they
are restored to the Union and all the loyal Of the
South whom the treasons Of Presidents Pierce and Bu
cbanan in completely with Syuthern traitors has subu-
gated are to under absolute submission to the rep
of the Nor hern States in Congress- without
the vestge of State rio ht State law Constitution To
protect them Nay not the franchise If vote to
send solitary representative 10 the legislative body to
which their destiny is to be committed.
simultaneously three leading organs-the Chronicle at
n, bOasting
souri, Democrat the ultra abosher Of Fremont graft at
st LOUIS the Atlantic Monthly, which lends 10 the pa
stock Boston all it can boas OF literary strength
and elreancehave struck the ky note of revolution the
sheer abolition Of State constitutions ia the reg suffer-
iag uader the rod of the rebellion
The article in the Atlantic Monthly may Justly be
quoted the programme OF the yement 1t presents
the which the abolition party has resolved to rest
It's hopes Of set ing it, domination in this country The
bodnrss that marks the Of it's design to
for Congress absolute power over the States recov
utqt qtlnnf
the body argues much FOR the confidence OF those
who atsined OF poltcsl weight until they
threw them elves into tbs scale If the Republican party
at Chicago wherein State rght- even the most doubtful
one asserting exclusive power the subject Of slavery
was solemniy recognised And IN tins discussion,
says the ukase brought 10 the practical qnes
ton uh destined 10 oecnsys much Of public attention
is proposed bring The action ot Congress 10 bear di
yectp upon the rebel States This may be By The establish
Of Provisional Governments under the aahoTi Of
Congress simply By making the admission recegai
ton States dpead upon The action NJ Congress The
essenia Of the proposition IS that Congress sha
jurisdictioH Of the rtbet Stat's One would sup
pose thai the acti uf Congress had been already
brought to bear directly the ebe, States" by the
armies which Congress has raised and sent aganst the
rebel States; to exact language, the States III
which the rebels eoorce an usurpaton over tae "yal
people
But it not the States in the hands Of rebels which
the sbol ion programme proposes to Jurisdiction,
but over the States when wrested from the usurpao uf
the rebss ard IN condition to be restored to the control o
the loyal people against the political military bodies
exertDp the rces Of Government th,t porol Of the
United States which tho rebellion regns for the time
Triumphant The Union wages war; but it does not wage
war upon the loya people upon the Consultation they
cogns the true Constitution, upon the spirit snd
forms Of their Government upon its archives pro-
perty Oa the contrary the whole system part of the
Union subslsts aud is respected by the nation and only
mains abyauce where the rebes hold sway by force OF
arns 1t ugsinst this rebel organization, aga nit the
persons and property the and nsirumenates of
the rebels that the United States make defence OF
the loyal men and loyal Governments.
The assumption that certain States Of the South
tnctahuihiated by the rebelon-snd that Congress
composed of representatives from The States which
the rebellion des not exist has the right to consider the
sister republics where the nsurrect0n for the moment
prevails cad bodies to be posed "f they please
when they get posse sun abhorien {, every principle
on which the Union funded. No member Of the
Unon nor the Government o the whole act upon any
f the States bat TIL, mode prescribed by the Consu
ton They are all bound guarantee to each repub-
form OF and that is government adopted
by people, for 10 is the OF republican govern
meut tnat shall from the people of the state
The Federal Government derives its power from the
source aud it is tho people aud through the pee
pie that il nationality and not upon the States
plotting tn, out of existence by supp son while tbef
consu ions, laws archives pr, perty, all survive, and
loyal people 10 give them activity the moment that
strant ls thrown OF The abolition programme assumes,
ternments and State rigbts they have ceased to
exist; that loyal people in whom they still aud
have bebg and to whom the U,cd States ands p dyed
TO guarantee them forever, must po have persisted and
that Congress of the other StaNs may step 10 aDd take
absolute authority the whole region vacated States
aud Territories aud eg-ate for IL. founding this
patton upon fcton absurd as these which the rebel