Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-09-17
Abolition Insincerity.

Their orators assume as much whenever
they address the people. According to
them, the great Democratic party is a
reasonable organization, whose purpose
it is. not simply to aid or encourage the
rebels, but to transfer the entire Federal
Government into the handSof DAVIS and
his co-adiutors IL these Abolitionists
are sincere in their professions Of devotion
to the Union, we cannot see that they
should seriously abuse the Democratic
party, even granting the truthlulness of
the charge thus made against it. These
gentlemen, it will be remembered, pro-
claim themselves, with stentorian voice,
unconditional Union men. Then why
should they complain Of any mode which
the Democracy may select by which to re-
store the Union? Why should they vii
lify and curse Democrats as traitors, even
if JEFFERSON DAVIS be made President of
a Union to which they are uneondtionatiy
devoted? But these blatant demagogues
are not unconditional Union men. They
are simply unconditional" A6oitionists;
and to carry out their long cherished, but
fatal, scheme, they are ready to bankrupt
the Government in the prosecution OF a
deplorable war for the destruction of AT
riean slavery. They hate the Union of
these States now with the same bitterness
with which for twenty years they have de-
claimed against it.
The Abolitionists denounce the Demo-
Gratis as traitors because, being national
party, sincerely devoted to the Consttu-
ton and the Union, they refuse 10 villify,
IN unmeasured terms, the people Of the Sc
ceded States, with whom they hope to
live some day in the bonds Of national
brotherhood. Democrats believe the peo-
pie of the South to be still entitled to the
constitutional guarantees established by
our fathers, and they are laboring now to
restore the Union upon the basis of those
manency and harmony of the Union.
Democrats are called traitors because they
desire speedy cessation Of this war and
the return of the rebellious Sta.es to their
allegiance upon terms which shall make
them, in the future as in the past, worthy
members of the American confederation.
Great revolutions, though unjustifable,
are not necessarily disgraceful. Good
and brave men are often identified with
them, and any attempt to disgrace them
leads but TO that martyrdom which histo-
ry has ever praised for its sincerity, how
ever imprudent This is the way we
Democrats think about the Southern rev.
olution. We do not want to disgrace the
people, nor destroy the institutions of the
South, and, therefore, we are called trait
Ors.
The Abolitionists assume to be the only
Union men in the country. Union-witl
what? Are they ready to unite their pure
hands with the besmeared, treason-stainet
clutches of Southern rebels? Are they
ready to join their destiny with people
whom they regard as infamous, and as de
serving OF eXtermination? No! it canno
be possible.
If Democrats, who are always true t
their professions, believed the Southen
people to be so far sunk in barbarism, 5,
stepped in vllainy, as these Abolitionist
make out, they would indeed, be disun
ionists-they wouldn't associate with sucl
filthy bastards of humanity. But Demo
crats do not believe that way, and there
fore, they labor for the Union, on accoun
of its blessings and its genial brotherhood
they labor for the Constitution, on accoun
of its dignity, sacredness and importance
The Habeas Corpus.
The great rebellion in England, il
which MILToN fired the nations heart, an
for which HAMDEN bed, resulted in tn
destruction of the Star Chamber, an
upon its ruins arose the most sacred of al
personal rights-ths right Of rights-th
sole defense against tyrants-the freeman
( divine prerogative-the HaJeas Corpu,
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