Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-04-16
mr.. chasess Exposition cf the Policy 0
the Administration.

1862" and is addressed to "Hon. GRoRGE Or.
DYKE, GEORGE GRiswoLD, Esq, and others, Com
mittee Loyal National League, New York"
We make the following extract from that let
ter as we And II published In the Cincinnati
Commercial Of April IA, and In other papers,:
And while our country lives, slavery, the
chief source and cause and agent Of our lila.
will die. The friends Of the Union In the South
before the rebellion, predicted the destruction
OF slavery as consequence OF accession, II
that madness should prevail Nothing, in my
Judgment, ia more certain than the fulflment
of these predictions. Safe in the States before
the rebellion from all Federal interference,
slavery hos come out from its shelter under
State constitutions and laws to assail the ma
tional life. 1. will surely die, pierced by its
own faDgs and stiDgs.
What matter now how It des7 Whether as a
consequence or object Of the var, what matter 2
Is this time to split hairs Of flogic7 To me It
seems that Providence indicates clearly enough
how the end ofslavery must come. II comes IN
rebel slave States by military order, decree, or
proclamation, not 10 be dsregarded or set aside
10 any event as nullity, but maintained and
executed with perfect good faith to all the en-
franohised, and 1t will comein loyal slave States
by the uuconstrained action Of the people aud
their Legislators, aided freely aud generously by
their brethren of the free States. may be mis-
taken in this, but ii am another better way
will be revealed. r'
Meantlmeit seems to me very necessary to
say distinctly what many yet shrink from say
ing. The American blacks must be called into
this conflict, not 40 cattle, not now even as con-
trabands, but as men, In the free States, and
i hu NJ. ;n rahal Htatna. elGV
are free men.
Mr.. CHASE 10 understood to be an aspiIant Tor
the Presidency. Having, by the recent action
Of Congress, obtained control, not merely over
the finances of the country, but over its none
tary and property interests, he feels strong 10
his position. As he is ambitious aud cunning
his influence In the Abolition party snd with
the ADMINISTRATION is probably superior to that
Of any other man. We are, therefore, Justified
in taking him as an exponent OF the policy oil
the Administration and Of the Abolition party,
in the further prosecution Of the war,
That policy Mr.. CHASE distinctly shadows
forth in the extract we have given above from
bis letter to the New York meeting. One
prominent feature Of that policy, as thus de.
veloped, is The death or final extinction OF sla'
very as consequences or object Of the war
Slavery, Mr.. CHASE says, will surely die, and
II mAtters not whether it dies as consequence
or as an object of the war. Great IS Mr..
CHASE is in the eyes Of his worehipers, we
submit that in the common Judgment OF man
kind, there is q wide and papable difference
between the destruction Of slave or any other
property as an unavoidable consequence and
result of war, and making war for the, total
destruction of that or any other species Of prop
erty. But Mr.. CHAsE oan see no differ
ence and thinks this is not the time TO-
split logical hairs. Consequently, in bis
view the war may with propriety be called an
"Abolition war" or war carried on directly
for the total abolishment Of slavery. He argues
that, since slavery must be totally abolished-|
position he lays down as not admitting of dis.
pute-its total abolshment may as we'll be said
to be an object as consequences of the war,
Shall we take the Secretary at bis Wofd and
assert that such is the object of the Admins
tration in the prosecution of the war7
We advise the radical press before rsiteratiDg
their charges against Democrats Of calling this
an "Abolitiou war;" to look well after Secre-
tary CHASE. He in effect endeavors 10 prove
that II may as well be called by that as any
other name. We take it for granted that his