Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-21

dent In carrying out such q measured
Mr.. Scott would not support him in that
measure, yet would support him in putting
down the rebellion.
asked the question Of the gentleman from
Fairfield in order that we might know what
course the Democracy intend to pureue. II that
party are going to abandon the prosecution OF
the war, we might as we'll at once give mp all
hopes OF suppressing the rebellion.
Mr.. Olds-l shall be more explicit as to the
policy of the Democratic party before l con-
clude my remarks.
Sir, IL is idle, any longer to pretend, that the
party in power desire to bring the rebellious
States back into the Union. Your great leads
or in the House, the Chairman of the "Ways
and Means" committee, openly avows that
such is not his intention. He admits that the
war has become war of conquest. "You
will fnd,' says mir. Stevens, "thRt you must
treat these States now outside Of the Union as
conquered provinces, and settle them with new
men, and drive the present rebels as exiles from
the country; for | tell you they have the pluck
and endurance for which gave them credit
| year and O half ago in o speech which l made,
but which was not relished on this side of the
House, nor by the people Of the free States.
They have such determination, energy and en-
dursnce, that nothing but actual determination,
or ezile, or starvation, will ever induce them to
surrender to this Government If
my views and principles are right, would, as
q necessary war measure, take every particle of
property, real and personal, life estate aud re-
version, of every disloyal man, and sell it for
the benefit OF the nation carrying on the war.
We have such power, and We are to treat them
simply as provinces to be conquered, and as
nation fighting in hostility against US, until we
do conquer them"
| Such, sir, is the programme of this great
leader of your party In the House of Repre-
sentatlves. Such, sir, in the future is to be the
conduct of this war. Is this the kind of war
in which year and half ago you invited the
Democracy to join you? Did you Tell us in the
inception of this war that negro ineurrection
was to be invokedl Did you tell us that "the
sLaues peye TO be presented ioih freedom and
dagger? Did you tell US that this WAS to be
war OF determination? Did you tell us then
that the women and children OF the white cii-
zens of the South were to be delivered over to
indiscrminate butchery, starvation and exile?
Did you tell US that this war was to be war
of conquest, and that the Southern States were
to be held and used as conquered territory?
Can you tell us to-day that this war is to be
continued for the maintenance of the Constitu-
tion and the restoration OF the Union7 No,
sir, you can not. Mr. Stevens is honest enough
to tell US that such is not the fact. In the
same speech from which have already quoted,
he says: "If we are ever TO have Union
again, would not have one with one part
wholly free, and the other part slave. I,oOuLd
not, If could, agree to such Union"
Sir, such sentiments are not only promulgated
in the halls of legislation, but they are taught
by the political preachers In the pulpit. A few
days since, the Rev. (God save the mGrk) DR..
Bellowa, Unitarian preacher in the City OF
New York, in one of his pulpit discourses used
language like this:
1t is no longer war in defsnse Of tae Union. The
Constitution and the enforcement of the Ld1os. II is
war to be carried no longer with the aim OF rees
tablishng the Union and tho Constitution with all their
old compromises. God means not to let us of with any
half way work. am now convinced, and consider 1t
the most humane, the most economical and the most
| statesman like policy, now to take the most radical
grounds possble to assume that this IL WAR FOR
THE sUBJUGATI0N, OR THE DETERMINATION,
OF ALL PERSONS WHO WISH TO MAINTAIN THE
SLAVE P0WHR-a war TO get rid Of slavery and OF
Shareholders, whether 1t be constitutional not.
Could anything equal such cold booded Htroc-
ity7 This clerical wretch not satisfied with the
destruction of tue Constitution and the Union,
calls also for the extermi6stion of the slave
holding people Of the South. But need not
multiply evidence.
Sir, disguise the fact as you may, it 10 now
made manifest, that the Democracy and the
whole county have been wofully deceived-nsy
more, have been grossly cheated into the sup
port of the administration and lie war policy.
Mr.. Speaker, | admit that we ought not tt
have been deceived: the moment that we saw
Republicanism swallowed up by AbOliuonism
we should have known that the war would, IL
the end, be turned into an abolition war.
Washington and Jefferson and Jackson anC
Clay, had warned us in language as strong at
holy writ to beware OF sectional organizations
to beware of the Abolitionists.
II is were not now too late, on my bendel
knees, would invoke you to 60 with me tt
| Mount Vernon-to bow down in reverence anG
awe around the tomb of Washington-to place
| low your ears upon the silent marble that en-
shrines his hslloWed dust, that ou might catch
the spirit sound as 1t comes from the spifi
world.
| My countrymen, frown Indignantly upon every at
tempt to ALLEVIATE any pordon of country from hC
rest. Beware of sectional organizations-o arrayinl
the North against the South, the South against thi
North. In the eud 1t will prove fatal to your liberties
President Harrison in letter to Mr.. Mon
roe, in 1920, says:
am and have been for many years, 80 much oppose,
to slavery that will live In slave State. But
believe that the Constitution has given power to tn
General Government to interfere In this matter, an
that to have slaves no slaves depends upon the peo
pie in each State alone But besides the constitutions
objection, persuaded that the obvious tendency
such interference the part Of the States which hav
no slaves with the property Of their fellow citizens
the Others Is to produce state Of discord and jealous
that will, in the end, prove fatal to the Union. beev
that in no other State such wild and dangerous
timens entertained on this subject as in Ohio.
General Jackson said:
What have you to gain by divisions and dissensiOns