Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-29
heed 10 the Presidents classification, sad meaalsts

heed 10 the Presidents classification, sad modalsts
their phraseology accordingly, lest they should
come under the suspicion of trying to be more loyal
than the President, as in England it is sometimes
found there are those who undertake to be more
loyal than the King
While we concur entirely with the President in
the enumeration he has made of four different
in the matter of slavery, and who as the result of
such differences, will prefer different way Of sus-
tanning the Union, we think there is still another
class so distinct from these that it constituents will
not even concurin the statement that the question
in this case is perplexing compound of Union and
slavery" In point of fact this duplex aspect Of
the case has obtained with very many, but it was
not at the beginning Of the war, and it is not
to-day with any who have kept their eye single to
the true issue of the war 1t is because the vision
Of men has been COMPOUNDED by division of objects
and ends in the prosecution of the war that dis
cord has stolen into our councils aud It'll precisely
in view of the result acknowledged by the Presi-
dent that we have earnestly and consistently Of
posed any duplication Of issues even in appearance,
and have soughtto uphold the banner Of the Union
without turning to the right hand to the left for
the purpose of either protecting or assailing
slavery, for we saw that the avowed attempt to
protect or to assa it wonld be the fruitful parent
of distractions. And hence every reader will un-
derstand the bearing of remark made by Re-
publican Senator from Ohio, 1--WE alude to Mr..
John Sherman when he recently remarked:
a great deal said about the Presidents emancipa
ton proclamation My idea Of it is that this would
have bern prosecuted successfully the President
had not said any thing about The negro
This is precisely our view Of the matter, and our
observation day after day adds only new force to
the opinion avowed by this intelligent adherent Of
the Administration, whose testimony we have
cited as representative of the class to which, on
this subject, we profess to belong-the class Of
those who, in war for the Union, are for the
Union, not only with or without slavery, but fol-
the Union pure and simple, without regard to
either the protection or destruction of slavery.
Whosoever is more than this comes Of evil.
This does not mean that while the war is in
progress should ignore the existence of slavery,
much less that we should abstain from using the
ces of the military service but it does mean that
the destruction of slavery or the preservation Of
slavery cannot be rightfully or expcdienty-the
one any more than the other-embraoed among
the paramount or ultimate ends Of the war, which
is simply war for the Union. We believe the
President has full perception of this great fact,
and if it has been observed in the eyes of some of
his political friends by the exaggerated place they
give to anti-slavery Issues and objects, he has
made it plain, by his answer to the Missouri Radi-
GALS that he has part nor lot with them in their
distorted and intolerant views Of public policy.
And if we would learn how his decision in the
premises is regarded by the Conservatives in Mis-
souri, We have only to read the words of the st.
Louis Republican in announcing that decision.
1t says:
"God bless Abraham Lincoln He has routed the
Jacobns' horse, foot and Dragons His backbone is
self to be overrdden coerced by the Inscriptions;
yrannizng revoutouists who la ely vexed him with their
uncertainties spar1ns shir professions Of exclusive
denuncistons by acting like honest just and deter
mined All true patriots, all lovers of social odyr
will honor him for bis fmn aud his clear appreciation
OF the poll ical situation in ii Is State"
ii we would learn now the Tresioents decision
is likely to be garded by the Radicals in Missouri
and elsewhere, We have only to heed what the New
York Tribune said in advance of that decision:
Every rebel at heart, every midnight assassin every
scoundre who applies the midnight torch TO barns, aud
crops and houses in Governor CANDLES rule and
trusts that the Government may still be persuaded to let
him end bis military subordinates alone"
1t follows, therefore, according to the Tribune,
that the President has sided with every rebel at
heart, every midnight assassin, Ond every scoun-
drel who applies the midnight torch to barns,
crops, and houses" The radical spirit finds APP
propriate and congenial expression in just such
sweeping accusations, though the fuenoy with
which such accusations are uttered against any
body, from the President downwards, who does not
always speak in the dialect of fanaticsm, has come
greatly to impair their force