Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-15

Whether The recognitiea Of slavery in cur
National Constitution waa Iwpolitic and unjust,
" otherwise, q nos, Or should not be made
question in this momeniOus crisis. Yet there
d q GLASS ofmsn Of large political influence,
Who are psspstually thrustipg that question for.
ward, as though Il vas the only point 70 be do
Dided in this great civil war. These are the
psr,isans Of Abolitlopism, who eilege that our,
father, made grave mistake In admitting
alassry into the Union, and, as GREELEY says,
ehtailed upon ne the bItsersst of legaoies--
Probably. II GRErLEY ponld have the Union re
constructed tomorrow with slavery left out, he
or some reiormer after bis kind would, before
the end Of the week, discover another more
gsievous Asv in,ths Constitution and demand
another red bdsllng Of the Union upon the new
basis. There 10 no end TO the cfotchets Of
+egotistical reformers, and no government was,
|or ever can be made to eausfy them for q
week. tliFs,a sua
II has been the CONSTANT aim Of Abolition
partisans to place Democrats and Conservatives
In q false position az the. defenders Of, and
apolcg cgists. for slavery They have taken no
such position They say, let tho Constitution
be maintained, and the Union be preserved. II,
in legitimate struggle for this great end,
slavery perishss, lot IL perish; II Il survives,
let Il survive " th ell the guarantees the Con-
stitution has thrown around it. Their demand
Is that there shall be no unconstitutional inter.
ference with that or any other State Institution
clearly recognized, or not prohibited BY the Ma.
tiopsl Consultation. s vt.s
Slavery, as Il exists In this country, 10 admit
ted to be a State institution. Whether right or
wrong, and whether beneficial or Injurious, are
questions Of which the people Of the several
States, where II exists, are the sole aud only
judges. Ills one of their constitutional rights
TO tolerate or suppress Il. .s f
A blow struck at this constitutional right is a
blow aimed st the rights Of every other State
uuder the Constitution. There are many things
IN the Constitution and institutions Of evtry
State which, in the eyes of thousand Of reform
ers, are impolitic, unwise, unequal, atrocous
and abominable. These reformers may be qui'
escent now; but II TIE principle is once admit
ted that the National Government may uucon-
slitutionally and iorcibly interfere, upon the
ground of necessity as "War measure" or up
on any other plea, to compel the people Of any
Site to abolish an Institution protected by the
Consultation of the United States and their
State Constitution and State laws, because q
class of reformers, be they in majority or a
minority Of the whole people Of the Union,
think 1t wrong or impolitic, then other States
may be compelled for the same reason to part
with their most cherished Institutions. III,
1t 10 because they refuse TO admit this prin-
ciple Of anarchy and ruin that, Democrats and
Conservatives are hated 90 intensely BY the
Union reforming AbolitiOnists, and are called
by them sncb polite aud courteous names as
copperheads and traitors. What We demand,
fret and last, is the preservation of the Union
under and by the Constitution, and while we
seek not to save slavery at the expense Of the
Union, we say to the radical destuctives: (: You
shall not, for the sake Of destroying slavery,
"foot and br anch, >" violate the Constitution and
destroy the Union. .e