Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-11
The Abolition and Secession Keynote

A correspondent Of the State Journal, writ
ing from Washington, speaks of men, and
leading men, too, In the North, who, he says,
look forward to the time when q reconstruc
tiou Of the Union will place them again in
friendly intercourse at Washington with their
Southern masters, without having lost caste
materially at home"
This is the common slang Of Abolitionists,
and shows the exact amount Of their political
capital or stock ia trade. It is opposition to a
reconstruction or restoration of the Union on
the basis Of the Consttltion as 1t is, to which
Democrats and all conservative men look for
ward with earnest longing, and with faith and
hope. The Abolition Disunionists say that q
restoration Of the Union would place Northern
Democrats and Conservatives In friendly inter-
course again with their Southern mastere.
This talk about Northern Conservatives
(Doughfaces used to be the slang Word) being
ruled BY Southern masters (slavshoIders), is as
old as the time when some thirty years since
the original Dlsunion. bolltlonists, along wi h
theinscFiption on GARRItON's Boston Libeyator--
"The Constitution is q covenant with death
and an agreement with hell"-hoisted that
other motto, "No Union with slsveholders."
The pith Of the aFgumentin the journals and
speeches Of the present Republican or Aboli-
tion party against the restoration of the Union
as II was from the Inauguration of GIoRsE
WAsHneroN to that of ABRAHAM LIsooLN, is
just this-that IL will bring the Northern free
States again under the control of the Southern
slave States. Il is founded upon the false as
sumption that the North was ever under the
control of the South. Every intelligent man,
at ell acquainted with our political history for
the last seventy years, knows that the South
has been as much controlled by the North as
the latter has been BY the South. Sometimes
The one section has carried its favorite measures
and sometimes the other. But even were 1t
true, which Il is not, that either section had by
superior tact and more skillful political man.
agemeut, been able during long series of
years to control public affairs, It would be no
ground for preaching secession or disunion,
and refusing to frsternizs under common
Constitution and Q common Government, "the
best" to quote the Abolitionists themselves,
"the sun ever ahone upon" lA I
The resder cannot fail to mark IL as most
siRnifcant fact that this notion Of one section
having had the political control Of the other is
the keynote of Disunion IN the North ard Of
Secession In the South, The Abolitionists
preached II In the pulpit and press, in highways
and by.ways, until they made large prtion
of the people at the North believe 1t. The re-
suit was the formation Of . Northern sectional
party, which obtained control Of the National
Government, end which was understood by great
numbers Of the Southern people to be . political
organisation designed to make war upon them,
and deprive them Of rights guaranteed by the
National Constitution.
Not long had Northern Disunionists been en-
gagged In promulgating their doctrine that the
people in their section were made subservient
to Southern masters and were likely to continue
10 bs unless they shook off the yoke, before men
were found attic South who took up the same