Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-12
Reflections 81 the present Con-
dItlOm OF the United states.

aIANNkN vi HA hNNH ~ 1VANNN NAAANH
is a %perilous and tremendous moment. 1t Is
not . time for sdqlatloH THE smoothness of
Of hatterry cannot save US in this rugged and
awful crisis.
1t is time that Truth was once told. We
must if possible dispel the decisions and
darkness which envelop &c AND display in its
full danger and genuine colors the ruin and
desolation Of our country, and the enormity
of our debt Can we still oexpect sympathy
and support from foreign nations in our iDfat-
uation2 Can our Congress- be &c" dead to It's
dignity and duty, as 10 give, support TO meas
ures so ultra and unwarrantable, as chhrae-
terized its last session ? e
Measures which have reduced this late pros.
porous and happy country TO scorn and con
tempt But yesterday land the United States
might have stood against the worldInow
none so poor to do her reverence The
South we at FIRST d~espised as rebels, but
whom we now acknowledge as enemies, are
abetted against you supplied with military
stores, land Uncle Sam has been one Of the
agents. and their ambassadors entertained
by Foreign Powers and our Ministers do not
and dare not rintefposerw with dignity and ef-
feet. Z Phe demuralization Of our army
Caused by the issuing of Negro Proclama-
tons and Imbecile Commanders is only in
phfb huOWus ~ ufebA tLhb ndNU Dtcut udl
number by thousands, and the bones of those
brave men are bleaching on a Southern soil.
But yesterday that 10000 as brave and well
disciplined soldiers as ever marched to battle
was slain in a single day, under Burnside at
Fredericksburg, gand7theP blood makes the
water OF the Rappabannock crimson. Oh,
what tales Of horror, blood and c~arnagewill
History reveal to posterity. No man more
highly esteems and honors the Union soldiers
than | do, | know their spirit and valor, /
know that they can achieve anything except
impossibilIties, and / know that the eradica-
cation Of Slavery or the ~subjugation of the
South are impossibilities. You cannot whip
them back into the Union, What is our pres
emit situation 2 1--WE do not knowfthe worst
But we know that there has been raging a
civil war in our land for two years, and that
we have done nothing, but suffered much.
You may swell your expense to IS, 600, 900
Git being now 50, 000, 000,) a day and strain eve
ry effort, accumulate every assistance, free
the slave, and urge those yet in bondage to
insurrection, rapine, fire and murder, and
your attempt TO bring these people (the
South) back into the Union, will be vain and
impotent, doRbly so indeed from the Negro
aid on which you would rely, for it irritates to
an incurable resentment the minds of your
huYeTSuTlbS 10 ONeTTun tuem Win negro saw
ages goaded on by their white allies to com
nit acts of rapine, murder and plumber, de-
voting them and their possessions TO the
rapacity of savage cruelty, to delegate to
the negro the right to wage the horrors of a
barbarous war against our brethren to have q
second ST. Domingo.
My cOuntrymen these enormities cry aloud
for redress, punishment and rebuke, familiar
ICES our soldiers to the horrid scenes Of an in
surrection our army could no longer boast
of the noble and generous principle which
dignifed a soldier. No longer would the feel.
ing awake to the pride, pomp and circum-
stance Of glorious Ddr." But the sense Of
honor degraded into a vile spirit of plumber
and the systematic practice Of murder. From
the long connection between the North and
South both sections derived the most import
ant advantage. When united we we're mighty
powerful SOealthy prosperous and a happy
nation 1t is not q band of ~ruffians whom we
oppose. The resistance of the South accord
ing to the idea is made to secure to them their
peculiar institutions and their property. Let
MS then seize with eagerness the first oppor-
tunity for peace, reconciliation and restoration
Of the Old Union on a basis Of compromise
honorable to both sections. Let us give them
the assurance that we DC not wish TO interfere
Nitu 'hoh iuohtubioho' luhN We W -pLuSSlTt
to rob them Of their property. There are men
Of the South who have not yet finally given
up all hopes of the restoration Of the Union
made by our fathers.
There yet remains a possibility of escape
from the fatal affect Of our decisions in
this complicated crisis of danger, weakness
and calamity. a.-t -t4
Where is the man who will venture to aatter
us with the hope of success from the persever-
ance in measures productive Of these dire
effects. You cannot conciliate the South by
your present measures. You cannot subdue
her by your present or any measures.
What can you do; you cannot conquer, you
cannot gain but you can address the people.
Yes my countrymen since our Congress
have neither sagacity to f%orsee, nor justice
nor humanity TO shun these ealamities-since
not even bitter experience can make them
feel, nor the imminent ruin of their country
awaken them from their stupifaction the
guardian care Of the Democratic Party must
interpose and the result will be The Constitu-
ton as it is and The Union as it was. L
The Philadelphia Journal suggests the idea
OF colonizing the Abolitionists instead Of the
negroes.