Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-19
The Northern Democratic Plot to Re-
stO &c the Union.

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An Addition writer In the Journal, styling
himself "Observer," heads ON article In that
oaper thus" Where are we Drifting g2-The
Northern Traitors Flot." By "Northern
the writer means Northern Demo-
crata. for "Traitors" is the epithet which Abo-
litiouis,s bestow upon every Democrat and Con-
man. The point toward which Sob
ssrvern feals that the country is drifting, is the
Union as it existed prior to the rebellion. This
rsstorstion of the old Union the Abolitionists
charge, II not in 80 many words, yet indirectly
and substantially, is Democratic plot, which
they all but swear, and some of them we be-
lieye do actually use profane language In this
connection, that they will crush and prevent its
execution by means of all the Government pow
er, patronage and political and personal intiu'
ence they can WELD
In order to insure defeat to any efforts thai
NAV be hereafter made to reunite the North
and South, as Of old, under one Constitution
and Government, the same old Abolition In
asmmotory rhetoric is kept mp, which has been
preached and printed over and again for the
last twenty or thirty years. The only difference
ia. there ia now little change In terms to suit
the times and warm into fresh activity and
vigor old partisan and sectional prejudices'
Formerly all Shareholders were called "man-
stealers, woman -whippers," and other like de-
lectable names; now, they are all clasaed as
rebels, traitors, etc. So, the Abolition chorus
with slight variations from the old song, now
runs thus when rendered into plain English
| If the old Union is restored, it will be giving
the rebels, that is, the shareholders, cnance
| to rule us as they have done before. The OLD
Abolitionists objected to the continuance OF the
Union under the Constitution, because, as they
falsely asserted, it enabled the Southern slave
holders to rule the North; the modern Repuo
licaus or Abolitionists object to restoration
of the Union under the Constitution for precise
ly the same reason.
II any one will take the trouble to look ~
the newspaper articles, tracts and speeches o.
the Abolitionists OF the GARRISON and WENDELL
PHILLIPS school, published ten and twenty years
ago, he will find that the same arguments and
the same iphsmmstory appeals we're then used
against the continuance of the then existing
Union as are now used by their Republican
successors against the restoration OF that un-
ion. The latter-day saints of the Abolition
church proclaim that, according to the patterns
set them by the old propagators of their faith
that to restore the Union under the Consiitu
tion the Northern people must become the vas
sals of the South; that the rebsls, meaning the
shareholders, must be allowed ~ rule so as Ia
have oil things their own way; that we of the
North must be beaten, crushed, and made
craven slaves, and the free North subjugated II
the slave aristocracy.
If this war was instituted and has been, ant
is still carried on by the authorities at Wash
ington for the purpose of abolishing SLAYER.
and exterminating Shareholders as class, thel
1t is easy to understand why such language a
the above is used by those who uphold such I
war; but if the object of the war on our par
is to restore the constitutional relations be
tween the several states and the National Gov
ernment as they formerly existed, then tn
language and the sentiments referred to ar
IRRESPONSIBLE, as they tend, and the design o
those who promulgste them is, to prevent 4
restoration Of the Union with the constitu
tional rights of all the States and of every
State unimpaired.