Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-01
The Con'piratbrs Against the Union,
North and South.

NOAth anu 0Outhe
One Of the signs Of the times, tho significance
of which no man can mistake, is that truly pat
riotic Union men, North aud South, who desire
q restoration Of the Union on the basis Of the
Constitution and the consequent cessation Of
this murderous aud desolatiug war, are equally
the objects of ridicule and persecution by the
extreme men in both sections
There are men In the North-ultra Abolition
ists-Who, as JOHN BRcUaH said in speech OF
Cleveland on Saturday evening (see Slate Jour.
nal Of June 3O), declare that "either el4very
must be torn out root and branch, or our Gov
ernment will exist no longer " That is in plain
English saying substantially that the Wag must
be pfOsecu ed for the total abolition Of slavery /;
that there ahal be no cessation Uf hostilites till
tbat object Is attained, and that at all events
the Government which tolerated slavery and
was founded by WASHINGTON and the fathers,
must come to an cnd.
10 like manner In the South the rebel Seces-
siOnIsts repudate The Constitution and Govern.
ment Of the United States as ordained and Cd
tablished more Than seventy years ago, and dc.
clare that the War shall bs prosecuted till the
Independence of the sO.Calcd seeded States is
acknowledged, or in other words, ill the Union
ia finally dissolved.
These extreme men IN tha Sluih--tho rebel
SecsssiODists who constitute the fierce and un-
Condition n! war .rty il that ssciiOn--ienoubce
In III" blltefesi lei ms the NOr,hern men who &c.
sire restoi aLiCr OF the Uuirn as founded by
the fathers and msihtiiaed by JEFFERSON. JAcK-
soH, CLAY aId NEB:TER. Ihese siandsfs the
unoeasiug rdcuj Ohd b tter Iegiiug .; North.
ern Democrats IL GOnse, vAGiVea IN rebel nsWa.
papers are qap,ei aud pa,aied by the ul-
ira Abolition organs "a oyidelce OF The
hatred Of SHIltfr people to Northern
men who aIc !or settling THE terrible
conaics OF arms upon the basis OF the CUnstitu-
tion and itg guarantees TO the eCVerAl States
The rebsIs and The AbOItionsta agree in this,
thar neither deBi the re- lUrs ion Ot IL UuiOn
as II has existed for ever soyeuty Jesrs, and
uOtu pSAoCOutS buS mOt "uO w w
siro ali .bos 70; euch restoration. They arc
in mutual sympathy auj sSDr t. the same end
tho destruction oil tue U1i9u Ani the lyer-
throw OF The Government
The Southern rebels arc determined thai
there stall be DO resL, ration Of tho Unioo, Gnd
that the war shall not cease until they hsvo ef-
tah hlic hpd IN inu dDr IL Is
which they cat rule 10 their own liking. Ia
like manner, the ultTa AbclitioEstu, playing
into their hands, have resolved, ia JOHN BaoUoH
in substance decleree, that the constitutional
G0vefuu ent of these United States shall come
to an eGd, and Bea CoGfedeTacy be ettiblish.
ed upon ita ruins, moulded sud governed by
them after their lkiug.
There is but one way to foil the extremists,
North and South, In theg c0mmon plJt to COM
pass the desiruciiUn o. our National Union and
National Government, and that is, for those
who sincerely and earnestly desire the rrsora
tion and maintenance Of both up)u The old
platform OF the Constitution, TO unite aud place
the politos power 10 the States and Ia Tho gen-
etal Government in toe hands Of euch men as
will honestly and enefgeticslly carry out their
views This can and must be effected at the
ballot. box and unless it is done, the destruction
of our glorious old UnioD and the overthrow of
our Government and free inttltutions by the
combined action OF fierce rebels aud mad ultIa
Aboltionists, is as certain as The rising of the
sun tomorrow morning. A resctOn begun in
the North iD favor of the Union aud Govern.
ment upon the basis OF the Constitution, Eill
be followed by one of similar character and
equally potent in the South.
With the wane Of ultra Abolitionism in the
North, rdbid Seoessi sionism will sink down 10 the
South. The FIRE of rebellion in the latter sec.
tion has been fed and intensified by its Abol-
tion co-workers, who seek to nourish aud keep
It vigorously alive u0til they have "crushed
out" not the rebellion but slavery By means Of
an interminable war of Tavage aud extermina.
sion. This spirit of the Northern radicals the
Southern FIRE eaters like, and help them to make
the war more cruel saDguinary and barbarous
If such men continue to sway both sections,
what the general result will be, il requires no
prophet to foretell, 1t is for the people to say,
at the ballot box, whether the conspirstOrs
against the Union and the freedom, peace and
prosperity, the whole country has heretofore en-
oyed, shall accomplish their mad deeigns
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