Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-01-24
r..r,ow Weed on the Past aad Fntate
nf the Rebellion.

Times, assailing Mr.. Weed oy na'h'
and impuguing both bis logic and 10
,epri,y, that gentleman has produced
an article which is eminentiy worthy
of perussl by every candid Republican
,f,he State. Asit is not to be expected
,h., he nsrrow-contrscted Republican
organ, here shouts will deign to lay thu
article before their readers, We shai
give Republicans the oppo. a'''' :
read i, in spite of the Ordinary sources
who has informed the whole world thai
i. differs from NJ. Weed /; or oil his
Office hurting auxiliary who boosted
tina. he opposed Compromise when
Mr.. Weed wss urging eoncilisioF.
policy . the oalv means by which war
sua the national rain could be aserted.
We copy al tbs, is material OF Mr.
Weeds article
II when the President called for
Seysu...are Thousand Volunteers, be
haa proclaimed that the object OF ,ns
War was 70 E's.dHcipa.e >Idrfs, snn,
woula have been the reiponse onouiu
We puder such a Proclamation, nave
had united North" every man
n,,ber sbouldered his Musket or putting
s.. hand in bis pocket EVERY man,
irrespective OF Party, sustaining the
President
Bu, as the war progressed, twas evi-
dent to all that Slaves were an element
Of strength TO the Confederate armies.
Then-and here is our point-as mil
itary measure, instructions should have
been given to all commanding officers
to receive, feed and clothe, and organ
20 all" able bodied contrabsnds, as
signing them to any duty they were
found fitted for. Such seasonable In
s,ructlons would have obviated the sup.
posed necessity, on the part Of Col
Phelps, Gen. Fremont, &c., DC, OF flash
ing forth ION their own hook, Pro
CARNATIONS which Immediately divided
the public sentiment, and constrainee
the Administration into the" false post
ton" Of disayowing them. Some OF ou'
Generals, were, by education, habit
and prejudice, opposed to receiving III
ptive slaves. Other, and better ludg ing
Generals, cheertully received them
But all were left to act upon the qnes-
ton without express AMI defined orders.
In some instances contrabands' We're
returned to their masters, and IN others
they were repulsed IHiS acdS fatal
error. Every slave escaping from a
LOYAL master should have been paid for,
not remsnded while such as ran from
dlsoyaIlsts should have been welcomed
1t no fugitive who had the intelligence or
the instinct to come within our lines
had been thrust back into slavery, we
should, ere this, have rejoiced in the
sublime spectacle which Senator
Wright so ardeutly and eloqucutly in
vokes, of "on hundred thousand STARE.
holders running one ,cay, and a million
sfaueS running the other.
Our" ogic" teaches that the People,
OF all parties, want Rebellion crushed
and the Union preserved that in the
prosecution of the war, it is our right
and duty to use all the means and en-
ploy all the "bonc and sinew" that
God and Nature" provides to strength
en- ourselves or weaken our enemies
and that if in its attempts to divide the
Union and overthrow the Government
Slavery, as q consequence and penal
ty," kicks the BEAM" 80 much the bet
ter. and Amen.
Oar "logic" further teaches, that
when abolition or Emancipation, is
presented, aiiirmativeIy, as an object or
reason for the war, tie North icW be
dipided /; that when il comes to be un.
derstood, that abolition or Emaneipa-
ton councils prevail in the Adminis,ra-
ton, the Government aoiH lose tie power
10 prosecute the acar and that, finally,
when the policy of those whom the
People ever rejected as Politicians. pre-
dominates in the Administration, our
UNION and GOVERNMENT are lost, and
REBELLION and SLAVERY triumph.
Our distinction is plain one-so
plain that "those who run may read" if
they will. The whole North was united
and mag be reunited in a war 10 crust
rebellion and preserve the Government
The North is not, and cannot be, united
IN prosecuting an AJolitton mar. The
people did not accept or follow "Blind
Guides at politcians-guides who
would not even have slaves free Jy steal
sng them, or enticing them to run away;
and it is certain that the people will
neither accept or follow them in a cru
sade which lie not only to cost us our
Union and our Government but, as is
always the fate Of fan aticism, TO ensure
and precipitate it's own discontinue.
Abohtionlsts were, as Governor Of
North Carolina confessed, the "bes,
friends" of secession. They are now,
practically, the "best friends" OF rebel.
lion.
FIVE have tailed to make ourself up-