The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-02-12
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in addition to this the coniuSons ofThc
Under. paper published in London un-
der the influence of the secession agents
there phich sho,o that the dirty y,ars of
| preparations did aos pass icithcat Europeaa
aid aud assistance. In its issue Of De.
cember Alh, last, that sheet contains an
article, extracts from which wo 6nd in
the Baltimore Apleyicoa. which arc writ.
ten by one who seems 10 have been in
the confidence of the lnte Sir William
Napier. We have not the entire com.
muncation, hut after stutiag dat many
$ nee Me soeesigR StatN Of Me .Sopfk
had uRaltr0bly rtso!rea 10 ssecde from
he Union, dte."
! II is not very rational superslilion
that a plot so long formed and folly
mamred. depended ON the operations of
an anti.Slayery party, for its mauifesta.
ton.
We condemn the statemen! OF tho
journal, because it looks like an abond-
onment of the strongest position OF tho
Union porly, to, Wit: that the war for tho
preservation Of the Union is war for
the perpetuation of free government and
that tho arimus of tho rebellion. is IN.
position 20 Democratic institutions, md
not to aholilionism. Here is proposi.
ton which all can comprehend, which
is easy TO be established, and which is
universal 10 its application. Why wes.
ken tho force Of such war.club by idle
camors against the bug.b bear Of onti-sla.
very, as iithc crime Of destroying The
nation was no greater than the crime Of
destroying slavery, or as if tho national
cause could bo helped bytaking half tho
odium of treason from the shoulders Of
jeff. Davis, and placing il upon tho
shoulders Of the snli.slayory mem Let
tho important fact be procloimed to The
country, that this Southern conspiracy
is the work Of an intolerant selfish and
despotic faction, which. TO use the roroi.
bic language Of rebel ionrnal the Raj.
ogh Standard, "as il broke mn the oil
government, because /, could no longer
control it, 80 it Is ready to break up the
Southern Confederacy for the same rea.
SON" Mr. Calhoun and his satanic as.
sociatcs did not beIieyein the fundamen.
tai PRINCIPLES on which Washington and
Jefferson crested our Government, nor
do their Disciples who arc now in armed
rebellion against Il believe N them; they
are infdels to tho gospel OF human free.
dom. We must also consider that thu
anti slavery is the legitimate oilsnring
Of the system OF slavery, and the areres.
sive and despotic spirit Of slavery, aud
that without slavery there could be no
abolition party. The moSt earnest oppo-
uents Of the system 81 compulsory labor
were the Southern Statesmen Of the Ree.
olution or'76 Hon A. II. Stephens
said in his noted Savannah speech
"zHe prerailing ideas entertained By
him (Jeferso) and moa Lla leadipq statcs-
men al he time oftle t5rmatioa Of Mc oM
Conaitutioa 10 70, that Tic easltroaem Of
Tie african uas IN vtolattoa oftte tara of
nature; that IL toos ,Srong Il. pri,eiple, so.
cia9y, morally and poiaicaiN
Om ncw qorsrnmeat Is 6maed mon es.
aeRy opposite IDEAS lis foundations are
lqto, is co,nsr.s,one rests upon the great
truth that the negro is the equal Of the
white man; that slapery Is lis natural and
moral condition."
Perhans "moral condition" is a mis-.
print fJr normal condition, but this is Of
little consequence. We shall not at
present quote the opinions Of the illus.
trious fathers of ths Rev olution OF '7G,
who lived in the South, upon the voxed
questions of slavery; sufIi .s il to say tha.