The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-06-19

y. j. MORION,
! Governor Of Indiana
! From tho Nashville Union.l
The Object of the Wmr Unchan. ed.
! All are agreed that the object OF the war.
nth the rebels. is 10 establish Slave Con
j federacy. This proposition none will con-
| trovert it is universally admitted.
/ But all are not agreed as 10 the object Of
the war. as prosecuted by the Admnistra-
ton. President Lincoln has assorted again
and again that the purpose of the war is TO
crush out the rebellion and restore the
authority and supremacy of the Federal
Union; aud say all loyal men without
respect to their old or present party associ-
ations.
Bat there are some. protesting to be 10y
al. who assert that the Admins, ration has
changed the object of the war altogether
They assert positively that the abolition OF
negro slavery is the primary object Of the
war, while the restoration OF the Union is a
secondary matter. Indeed, some of the in :
temper ate opponents of the Administration
assert that it is not seeking no" to restore
the Union.
These accusations are absurd and mis- :
chievous propositions, and destitute OF q
vestige of evidence. We deny that the
| Administration his changed the object of
the war. or abandoned its original plrpose.
suppose that the property Of rebels has
been confiscsted by law that the Admins
tration is enli>ling negro soliiers /; that the
au hority OF rebel masters over slaves is not
Recognized; apd that Kentucky. by a sweep
iny act of her Legislature. has ji.franchised
| her whole brood of traitors does ali this
prove that the object OF tn. war has been
changed by thu administration Not at
all. Inere has been a change of poiicy-a
change OF the means used by the Admins
traiion, In some respects. To coerce the
reb-l-. The iastrumentuIities have been
increased. bat the result 10 be attained ire
mains most asslreilv the same Who ever
thou. ht tha. a change of means was equiv
aient to a chang of th- end 10 he attained :?
Nobody supposed that General Grant had
ahaadoned his ori gina purpose of taking
Vlcssbarg because he stopped dig .ing
caaals. and marched upon the city.
, The policy advocated by the Conser.
satIves. or, more properly. the " Destruc
tives. was tried for the first eighteen months
of the war with poor success. aud to the
great discouray cement Of the Nation. Gloom
settled on all loyal c,un,enances. and trail
tors were exultsn, and fu!l of hope :" Lit
tie Mac" the King OF Spades. :. reviewed"
his troops "1uie,ly" on the Potomac. the
Missouri Republican denounced the lament.
ed General Lyon for bresking up the trail
tors den at Camp Jackson. and self>
politicians proclaimed the doctrine of " arm
ed neutrality in X .ntucky, aud actually
refused the gallsn Il ,sssau a camp gro nd
on the Southern Bank Of the Ohio River,
for his recruits for the National army
Loyal men everywhere saw that war.
waged in his miserable manner would soon
re ult in the establishment OF the Richmond
dynasty, aud that cIqre of Conservative
pplitic,l gamblers in Kentucky. Maryland,
and perhaps Delaware aud Missouri, were
only awaiting the hour Of the nations utter
exhaustion, bv the suction Of the " Conser
vatise" Vampire. to sell and barter their
States ais to JET Davis just as their CO.
adjutors. Henry, Totten and Barrow, sold
out the State Of Tennessee. The cry Of the
people went up like thunder for the adop.
tIon OF seyerer war measures, and more
vigorous prosecution of the war. The con-
servative. conciiatory. compromising war
policy had been thoroughly tried, aud found
not only worthless. but positively pernicious.
Common sense and experience taught US
that loyal men must be as earnest, as vigor-
ou-. 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.
But the object of the war is precisely
what it was when Mr.. Lincoln called for
$4,000 men in the Spring of 1861, for
H. =
terms by those Conservative organs-the
Louisville Demoeratand Journal; especially
the latter. Suppose that Congress has p,s--
ed coniisca,ion act is not the p-ualty o.
treason 10 all countries death. and is i,
worse to take properly than lsfss Suppose
the Government has freed the slaves of
rebels, and even invited them to fl, to its
lines and enlist is not tina, a means of
weakening the rebels. and attaining the
ori -inal object of the war Suppose MIR
Liucoln has eaIis,ed negro soldiers 10 defend
the Union against rebels ; did not General
Jackson enlist negro soldiers to defend the
Union against foreign inva.ion? Suppose
Governor Johnson has levied comparatively
light assessments upon leading. " athy
rebels. for the benefit Of the poor is it no,
Just that a few hundred fam lies retiuc. 10
starvation. by the y elk edness Of rich re b, L.,
should receive a piiiance. oy laying tax
on .iieir destroyers Has this s.s,,nent
tais most just. righteous, and benevolent,
deed of humanity. changed the object OF the
war? Suppose spies. and malignant ,rai
tors bave been sent be, ond our lines. in
ste ii Of being shot or hung dos this
cnange the objec, Of the war. or is il the
duty of the Government to harbor. and
shield deceitiul horde who would stab it
To the heart? None OF all these measures
have, in the least. changed the object of the
var. II is still. pree seIy what It VS. in
April, 1S6I-raE PREsERvATIpN OF THE
FEDEsAL USroN. The multiplication of the
means used tn preserve the Union has not,
and cannot alter. in any sense. the grand
t,nrnoxa Of The war IL l. clsaxlx .nd an.