The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-02-14
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meuded, says the Wheeling Pres,
; to the attention of those citizens who
elect to be called Republicans" 1t
is written by Republican, an old
and true .one, very veteran 10 the
service. Thurlow Weed, of the A.
bany Evening Journal. is the man
we allude to. He, more than any
other in it, carried New York for
Lincoln, 10 1860. He says:
'If when the President called for
Seventy-Five Thousand Volunteers,
he had proclaimed that the object Of
the war was to Emancipate Slares,
what would have been the reponse:
ffBhoala as~s, under auchsa q Peocisms.
Etion, have had . "united North,
every man either shouldering his
musket or putting his hand in his
pocket?-every man, irrespective OF
party, sustaining the President?
But, as the war progressed, it was
evident to all that slaves were an els-
ment of strength to the Confederate
Armies. Then-and here is our
point-as a military measure, in-
structions should have been given to
all commanding officers to receive,
feed, cothe, and organize all able
bodied contra bands, assigning them
to any duty they were found fitted
for. Such seasonable instructions
would have obviated the supposed ne
cessity on the part Of Col. Phelp',
Gen. Fremont, &C., &c., of flashing
forth, 'on their own hook Procla-
nations which Immediately divided
| the public sentiment, and constrain.
ed the Administration into the false
position of disavowing them. Some
Of our Generals were, by education,
habit, and prejudice, opposed to 70:
ceiving fugitive slaves. Other, and
better judging Generals, cheerfully
received them. But all were left to
act upon the question without ex-
press and defined orders. In some
Instances 'contrabands' were return
ed to their masters, and ia others
they were repulsed. THIS teas a fd-
tai error. Every slave escaping from
loyal master should have been paid
for, not remandcd; while such ss ran
from disloyalists should have been
welcomed. If no fugitive who had
the intelligence or the instinct to como
within our lines had been thrust back
into slavery, we should, ere this,
have rejoiced in the sublime specta-
| Gle which Senator Wright SO adroitly
and elegantly invokes, Of 'an hund-
red thousand shareholders running
one way, and million slaves run
ming the other.
"Our logic teaches that the peo-
! pie, 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 employ all the bono and
sinew that God gave and nature pro-
vides, to strengthen ourselves and
weaken our enemies;. and that If 10
it's attempts to divide the Union
and overthrow tho Government, Sla-
very, as consequence and a penal
ty, kicks the beam, 80 much the
better, and Amen.
"Our logic further teaches, that
when Abolition or Emancipation is
presented, affirmatively, as an object
or reason for the war, the North will
be divided; that when it comes to be
understood, that Abolition or Emsn-
cipation councils prevail in the Ad-
ministration, Government ,oiH lose the
power to prosecute the ,oar; and that,
finally, when the policy Of those
whom the people ever rejected as pol
iticians, predominates 10 the Admin
istration, our Union and Government
are lost, and Rebellion and Slavery
triumph.
"Our distinction is a plain one
so plain that those who run may
read,' if they will. The whole North
was united, and may I've reunited in
War to crush Rebellion and pre-.
serve the Government. The North
is not, and cannot he united in pros.
ccuting an Abolition ,oar The peo-
pie did not accept or follow Blind
Guides as Polticiaus-who would
not even have slaves free unless By
stealing them, or enticing them to run
away;-and it is certain that the peo-
pie will neither accept or follow them
in crusade which is not only to cost
US our Union and Government; but,
as is always the fate Of fanaticism, to
ensure and precipitate it's own dis
cemfture. Abolitionists were, ssa
Governor ofSouth Carolins confessed,
the best friends ofSecession. They
are now, practically, the fbest friends
of Rebellion.
ADVERTISING. Some men, business
men We will not call them, are % far
behind the times as to doubt the pol
lev and profit of adyertisiug Three