Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-15

1t has long since become reasonable to
advocate the Union as it was-that is, ac-
cording to the Administration standard of
loyalty. The old measure of patriotism
to which Jackson and Polk, WEBSTER
and CLAY sought to adapt themselves, has
been set aside, and new and indefnable
one substituted by the more modern class
of statesmen, such as HANNIBAL HAMLIS,
BgN. BUrLER, wendell PHILLIPS and
SALMON p. CHASE. We enter upon new
era in our political history, when Constitu-
tions and laws are nothing aud when the
visionary theories of crack Drained politi-
clans hav c usurped all the established
forms and principles of the Government.
We are now required to fight for the Union
that is to bean indiscribable something
which the Abolition fanatics have caught
aglimpso of through the bloody mazes of
battle and desolation. On the evening of
the seth ult., Hon. HANNIBAL HAMLIN,
Vice President of the United States, de-
livered speech in Cooper Institute, New
York, since reported in the New York
World, which discusses the Union as it
was as a thing of the past whose restOra-
ton is neither possible nor desirable. lie
said:
Well, we have class Of men who very
much want the Constitution as it is, the Union
as it was. Laughter. Have you got them
here2 found them all around Well l am
very sorry, indeed am they cannot have it,
There is no probable way in which they can
have it. 1t is mere demagoguesm. 1t is
mere clap trap 1t is nonsence, and it aim
very good nonsense, Why, the Union as it
was That means bring back the States in
States in precisely the same condition they
were when the rebellion was inanguorated
Well, how are you, going to get Missouri back2
The people of that State have naugurated
system of measures unsolicited and unnter-
iered with, for the emancipation Of slaves from
their State. What are you going to do with
that little hew State of Western Virginia, aud
which has also adopted a system of measures
which is to rid that State from slavery How
are you going to get it back2 | should like to
know. know they mourn over IT, and re.
gret their inability to bring back the Union
as it was. Ii there are any men in your
goodly city of New York who have any tears
To shed over such state of facts, | half in
cline to think they must be crocodile tears
But If they wish the Union as it was, brief
sketch for n painter might be given. Place
in the foreground colored mau with his
manaces stricken eff, wearing the uniform of
Uncle Sam, aud musket in his hands, in fa-
upr nf an 5tai NJ tbo
aud stripes waving over his head And in
the remote background place a modern Demo-
crat, with ters rolling out OF his eyes big as
turnps that he could not have the Union as il
was. And If you could find modern CoIp
perhead woman, would put her in the back-
ground, in the act of reaching him with
crash towel to wipe away his tears. Laugh.
ter
How humiliating to every honest lover
of the county are such declarations as the
above, comingfrom the next highest officer
in the Government How encouraging (?)
they must be to the thousands of gallant
men who enlisted in this war with sim
cere purpose to re-estabish the integrity
of the Union and the Constituti0a
Vice-Presideut HAMLlS, in the speech
wehaye quoted, wilfully seeks to deceive
the people, He knows that the people Of
Missouri have not "tnsoliestea and uaia-
terfersd ,oith" inaugurated measures ''for the
emancipation Of slaves fromtheir State. 4"
He knows that those measures have been
inaugurated by the force of Federal bayo-
nets and contrary to the popular will. He
knows that the Administration party in
Missouri, backed by Federal treasure and
an armed soldiery, have been laboring
for two years past to reyolutionizs the
Constitution of that State, robbing the peo-
pie of their rights and liberties. He knows
too that West Virginia is not legitimatey
a State but that it has been organized by
an act which in the language of Attorney
General Bates was Fan open act Of revo-
lution.H He knows tina. when the Con
stitution of West Virginia was originally