Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-26
No Restoration of the Union Possible
under the Present Abolition War
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under the Present Abolition War
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The Aboliticnists will not reetore the Union
under their present war policy, and cannot II
they would, The difficulties which they have
thrown end are throwing In the way OF such
restoration win become insupsrable ii they are
permitted to remain. one Of the bsrriers they
have set up to the return of the so called re-
yolted States to the Union is this G /,
They have created new term of rebellion
or given new definition to the word "rebel."
At the beginning Of the war and for some time
after, rebel was universally understood to be
one VI no resisted by force the execution of the
Federal laws then existing, and sought to estlb-
lish within the jurisdiction Of the United States
another and an independent Government. A
man might defend the Constitution and laws of
his State aud its social inStitulions-all these
as they existed prior to November, 1850, with
out being considered in any proper or legal sense
a ds!oyalist, much less q rebel or traitor.
But Abolitionism became power In the Ad-
ministration and changed this definition by
Congressional enaotments and Executive proc
lamations. It declared slavery totally abolish
ed and all the slaves free in the Southeastern
Atlantic States and in the Gulf States, incIud
ing Texas and Arkansas. This abolishment Of
slavery and this freedom of9the slaves are to be
maintained by the army and navy otths United
States. One of the objects the Administration
must, in accordance with this policy, have in
declared free, and ssigs gi slSn their I ss COASTS and
upon their rivera, must be to maintain the ne.
groes in their freedom against the effSus OF
their masters or owners to regain or retain
them as slaves. Resistance, then, to the en-
forcemert of this policy Of negro freedom, even
II man has been all his life as loyal to the
Consultation and laws Of bis country as was
GEORGE WAsHIEaToE or AnDREw JACKSON, con-
stitutes him In the Abolition sense rebel and
a traitor Thus, the definition Of rebellion and
treason is now changed by these factionists aud
made TO consist simply in opposition to their
negro freeing policy. rsH 7e,l
1t is easy to see how this, like all departures
from justice and right under the Constitution,
has introduced confusion and perplexisy, where
all before was plain and Straightforward A
short time since q rebel was one who made
armed resistance, or aided and abetted such re. |
sistance to Government bound under the Con- |
stitutian to maintain unimpaired the rights of
all the Siates-that of holding slaves among
The rest; now, this is reversed or sought to be
BY the Abotionists, who practically declare
hat he is q rebel who maintains that any citi-I
ZEN, loyal or dialoysl, in certain States, has q |
right to hold slaves, and pro-
louncs him traitor it he seeks to maintain |
hat right. They demand that the loyal peo-
,le shall unite with them 10 this crusade against
lavery and slaveholders, and denounce those
yho hesitate or refuse, as ssecessionists, rebels
md traitors.
II comes to this, that the rebellion which the
Abolitionists are clamoring for crushing out is
rebellion against their partisan wholesale
policy. They threaten its oppo
ents in the South with the armies and fleets
f the United States; they threaten to turn the
ayonets Of our soldiers in the field against
aoso who oppose 1t in the North This ia the
evolution they have inaugurated or are about
iaugurating. 1t is uniting the South against
hem and against the National Government
'hich they are supposed 70 control; Il 10 scvgl