Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-03-06
Vol. VIII.---No. 80.
From The Chicago Times.
The Terms on which the Abolition
Party supports the War.

That the Abolition party would not
support the war under any than an Abo.
lltion policy, is an acknowledged fact
That the Abolition party will not consent
to any peace which does not involve either
disunion or emancipation, is truth that
has been again and again proclaimed by
its leaders and papers, These are terms
that place the abolition of slavery above
the Union, and are therefore as thorough
ly disloyal as would be proposition from
the Confederate Government to re-estab-
lish the Union upon condition that all the
free States should become slave. Adolf
tionism says we will make the slave States
free or dissolve the Union. Secessionism
would doubtless be Modified by making
free States slave.
Here are opposite interests and opin-
ions fighting for the mastery, but neither
of them is fighting for the reconstruction
of the Government. There is not the
minutest fraction of loyalty in the posi-
ton of either of the parties. There is
all there can be Of treason in both.
1t is to secure the triumph Of one of
these parties that the war is waged.-
Loyal men of all parties deny the right
of any party in any section to wage such
a contest. Aside from the hopelessness
of any other result than disunion arising
from its continuance, are the added evils
of each day while it is prosecuted.
That there may be no question as to the
correctness Of our statement of the posi-
ton of Abolitionism, we quote from tho
New York Times of the 9th instant:
Compromise or peace upon any other
terms than the naked unconditional sur
render of the South would be Just as ia
tai to the Union as if we acknowledged
the Independence of the Confederacy to-
morrow"
To whom or what is to be this naked,
unconditional surrender? To the Consti-
ton and laws, or the officers and present
policies of the Government Are they to
surrender the emancipation proclamation,
the colonization schemes Of Eli Thayer,
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of States, the abro-
CATION of State laws, and the rule Of Mi
litary Governors? We wish to know pre-
cisely what these much-used terms of
- mixed unconditional Surrender mean.
The New York Times has taught that as
soon as the Rebels lay down their arms
they will be again invested with every
constitutional and legal right-that tho
proclamation, being only military meas
ure, becomes imperative when the war
ceased
This may be true as an abstract legal
proposition, but we have already seen tho
amount of respect this Administration
and this Congress have observed for Con-
stitution and laws. If the New York
Times will recall the observations of the
Abolition press when the proclamation
was issued, it will we think, discover,
that its Interpretation of that document
is directly opposed to that of an over
whelming majority of its party.
1t is useless to deceive the people int
belief that the proclamation was intend
ed as means to restore the Union. or
that it can be productive Of such re-
suit II is the end for which the war is
now urged, and to suppose it would BIO
abandoned if the South declared its will
lingness to return under the old status,
is to suppose that the Abolition party in
augurated revolution with the intention
of running itself Itwould be ruin to the
party to accept any such terms.