Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-12
The New Abolition Dodge.


JeaN VAN RpRFs appears ust now to be the
man whom the AbolItlonlsts delight to honor y
Their jourpaIs publish his recent speech at the
Cooper Institute, New York, or copious extracts
from 1t, with fulsome adulatIon. They eyident'
ly want " Prince JoHN's" help to give their par.
ty popularity among the masses, which It is
fast losing c1tf tt ttp.
Not many months ago. the more radical pa.
pers abused JOHN VAN BulEn with the vilest
slsndsr and the feroest billingsgate, denouncing
him as traitor and proposing his seizure and
confinement In Fort Lafayette. Now, they ore
all honey and moasses toward hir, because
they hope to make political csSiital out of him
and by means Of bis inapsnce to draw the un-
sophisticated into ,.saolr spiders web.
But there ..s anotner view of the case equal
ly just. The radicals see that their men and
raeasures are becOmi ng more and more unpop
ular, and that they are in imminent danger OF
losing their power. Their secret scheme is,
therefore, to thrust their most obno xiouS rat
tlesnake politicians into the background, or
at least to keep their rattles quiet for season,
and in the mean time to supply their places
with such men as can be coaxed by any artifce
or trick into their service from the Democratic
ranks, Having gotten their measures, or
some of the worst of them, under full headway
for intermicably prolonging the war and ulti-
mately destroying The Union and the Constitu-
ton, they can afford to refrain awhile from the
open and strenuous advocacy OF these obnox
ious measures and appear to favor Democratic
measures and principles.
| All this is transparent hypocricy designed to
answer the Temporary purpose OF currying favor
with the masses Of the people, 10 order to pave
the way for the original Abolition programme
Of new Union uDder new Constitution The
Abolition leaders do not propose-msrk i!-to
recede from or repeal any of the measures they
have embodied in Presidential edicts or acts OF
Congress-these are to take their course aud do
their work Of mischief-but appeals 60 the peo-
pie to support them are not nov 10 be made;
the garb of Democracy must nov be assumed
for time for the purpose OF nfnsing into the
veins oil AbolitioDism, which is already growing
old ana feeble, new life aud vigor.
Accordingly we iud leading radicals In New
York city getting up and engineering, gu FIJI
dsy evening, March 6, meeting at The Cooper
Institute, and inviting Democratic speakers,
conspicuous among whom wac JoHa VAN BUREN,
to participate, and actually el.borstely prepar-
Ing beforehand series of resolutions, 30 art.
fully worded as, apparently at least, to adopt
the very doctrine aud principles which have
been inwoven into recent Democratic platforms,
and for which Democrats have, by the same
radicals, been denounced ss ButterDuLs, Cop
perhesds, Secessionists aId Traitors
Take a sample: o0e of the resolutions
sdouted at the Cooper Institute meeting reads
as follows;
Resolped. That 1t ia the duty OF every citizen
| tn mite in all proper Efforts to preserve ana
nerpetuate THE UNION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
/ CONSTITUTION
Another resolution pledges the meeting to
can unconditional support of the Govern
mept IN ALL ITS CONSTITUTIONAL
EFFORTS to suppress the rebellion"
Who believes that the Abolitionists are sin-
cere in giving their adhesion to Democratic
principles like these7 The knowing ones
among them understand it as mere sham
trick, to get Democratic votes. Contrast the
aboye declarations with suoh utterauces as
these made last winter by THAD. STEVENS, the
Abolition leader in the House of Represents
tives:
This talk Of restoring the Union as it was
under the Constitution as ID is, s one of the ab,
surdities which have heard repeated until
have become about sick of it. The Union can
never be restored as 1t was. There are many
things which render such an event impossible.
This Union never shall, with my consent, be re-
stored under the Constitution as II is, with
aIaveFy 10 be protected by It, g