The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-07
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Confederacy. This proposition none Will
controvert; it is universally admitted.
But all arc not agreed as to the object
of the war, as prosecuted by the Admin
istration. President Lincoln has assert
ed again and again that the purpose oil
the war is to crush out the rebellion ana
restore the authority and supremacy OF
the Federal Union; and so say all loyal
men without respect to their old or pres
emit party associations.
But there are some, protesting to be
loyal, who assert that the Administrs-
ton has changed the object of the war
altogether. They assert positively that
the abolition Of negro slavery is the pri-
mary object of the war, while the resto-
ration of the Union is secondary
matter. Indeed, some of the Incorporate
opponents of the Administration assert
that il is not seeking now to restore the
Union.
These accusations are absurd and mis-
ebiovous propositions, and destitute of
yestieo of evidence. We deny that the
Administration has changed the object
of the war, or abandoned its original
purpose. Suppose that the property OF
rebels has been conhscated by law that
the Administration is enlisting negro SOL
diers; that the authority Of rebel mas
ters over slaves is not recognized; and
that kentucky, by a sweeping act OF her
Legislature, has disfranchised her whole
brood of traitors; does all this prove that
the object of the war has been changed
by the Administration Not at all
There has been O change of policy-s
change of tho means used by the Admin
istration, in some respects, TO coerce the
rebels. The instrumetahtie8 have been
increased, but the result to be attained
remains most assuredly the same. Who
ever thought that change Of means was
equivalent to change of the end to be at
tanned? Nobody supposed that General
Grant had abandoned his original purpose
OF taking Vicksburg because he stopped
digging canals, and marched upon the
city.
The policy advocated by the "Con-
servatives," or, more properly, the De-
struotives," was tried for the first eighteen
months of the war with poor success, and
to the great encouragement of the Ma
ton. Gloom settled on all loyal coun-
tenances, and traitors were exultant and
full of hope. Little Mac" the King of
Spades, reviewed" his troops "quietly"
on the Potomac, the Missouri Republican
denounced the lamented General Lyon
for breaking up the traitors den at Camp
Jackson, and selfish politicians pro-
claimed the doctrine of EARNED neutral
ity" in Kentucky, and actually re fused
the gallant Rousseau camp ground on
the Southern bank of the Ohio River, for
his recruits for the National army. Loyal
men everywhere saw that.a war, waged
in this miserable manner, would soon
result in the establishment of the Rich
mond dynasty, and that a clique of Con-
servative political gamblers in Kentucky,
Maryland, and perhaps Delaware and
Missouri, were only awaiting the hour of
the nations utter exhaustion, by the
suction Of the Conservative Vampire, to
sell and barter their States also to jeff.
Davis; just as their coadjutOrs, Henry,
Totten and Barrow, sold out the State of
Tennessee. The cry of the people went
up like thunder for the adoption of Sc
yerer war measures, and more vigorous
prosecution of the war The conserva
tive, conciliatory, compromising war
policy had been thoroughly tried, and
found not only worthless, but positively
pernicious. Common sense and expert
once taught US that loyal men must be as
earnest, IS vigorous, as unsparing in the
use of means, to support the Government,
as the rebels were to destroy it. A more
vigorous policy was gradually adopted,
and from that hour the Union cause has
fourished, prospered and advanced.
Blu. the object Of tho war is precisely
what il was when Mr.. Lincoln called foI
10000 men in the Spring of 1861, fol
which no was denounced in the bitterest
terms by those Conservative organs-thC
Louisville Democrat and Joaaaf es-
especially the latter. Suppose tina
Congress has passed con1scstior
ton act; 10 not the penalty OF
treason in all countries death, and is il
worse TO take property than lief Suppose
the Government has freed the slaves OF
rebels, and even United them to fly to
its lines and enlist; is not that a means
of weakening the rebels, and attaining
the original object of the war? Suppose
Mr.. Lincoln has enlisted negro soldiers
to defend the Union against rebels; did
not Gen. jackson enlist negro soldiers to
defend the Union against foreign in
vasion? Suppose Governor johnson has
levied comparatively light assessments
upon leading, wealthy rebels, for the
benefit Of the poor; is il not Just that a
few hundred families reduced TO starya-
ton, by the wiokodnoss of rich rebels
should receive appliance, by laying n tax