Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-05
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Here we have Mr.. LINCOLN declaring
most emphatieally against any intention
or right to interfere with slavery where il.
rests. We now quote Mr. sEwARb against
the proclamation and The Abolition policy.
1t will be seen that he is equally enphat-
ic in the condemnation of the measure
After reading what he says, the reader
will be surprised to learn that il has been
only a few months since Mr.. SEWARD held
and expressed such views. The extract is
taken from an official dispatch addressed
by Secretary SEWARD to Mr.. DAYTON, our
Minister to France, dated the 26th Of last
April, and accompanying the annual mes
sage OF President LINCOLN
1.-THE condition of slavery in the several
States will remain just the same, whether 1t
succeed or fail. There is not even apretext
for the complaint that the disaffected States
are to be conquered by the United States if
the revolution fail, for the rights of the States,
and the condition Of every human being in
them, will remain subject to exactly the same
laws and forms of administration, whether the
revolution shall succeed or whether it shall
fail. In the one case the States would be
federally connected with the new confederacy ;
in the other, they would, as nov, be members
of the United States. But their Constitutions
and laws, customs, habits and institutions, in
either case will remain the same. 1t is hardly
necessary to add to this incontestible state
ment the further fact that the new President,
as well as the citizens through whose safIrages
he has come into the administration, has al
ways repudiated all designs whatever and
wherever imputed to him and them, Of dis
turbing the system OF slavery rs it is existing
under the Constitution and laws. The case,
however, would not be fully presented if
were to omit to say that any such effort on
his part would be unconstitutional, and all his
actions in the premises would be prevented
by the judicial authority ever though they
were assenIed to by Congress and the people
Here we have Mr.. LINCOLN and his Sec
rotary of State, both declaring most EN-
phatically against the unconstitutionality
Of his Emancipation Proclamation. And
but a few days before he issued it, Mr..
LINCOLN, in his letter to the Chicago
preachers, took even stronger grounds
against it.
Now Mr.. LINCOLN has issued the sup.
| Elementary to that proclamation, and de-
clares it the law of the land. He asks thr
: people to sanction a barbarous and infa
I nous measure, which he has himself de
} nounced and declared unconstitutional
We said in the beginning this was IN Alb
! clifton war. The policy of the party il
|, power is now developed. 1t is the Abo
! lition of slavery-the subjugation of tn
slave States-the destruction of the whit
race where slavery exists by %servile insur
/, rections. In a war for the restoration q
the Union, prosecuted according to civil
5 zed modes, we would willingly lay dow
a our life, if necessary. In this war for tn
y negro, under the proclamation, we vii
take no part. We will have nothing t
n do with it. We wash our hands Of
0 all connection with it. Let those VIII
have more love for the negro han tn
white men, women and children of tn
South-blood of our blood and bone o.
our bone-urge on the hell-hounds of wa
for their destruction we are not of tia
class. But if the negroes of the South
e now rise up in servile instruction, we vii
y not turn a deaf ear to the cries for help Z
the defenceless women and children VIII
h may be placed at their mercy. Perhap
this is treason. Let MIR. LINcoLS and h
blood-thirsty minions make the most
se it.