Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-06-20
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Ps1mitted t. talk - 1He Conltal.

The Hon. N. F. Conway, republican
and Representative 10 the s7th Congress
from the Stats Of Kansas, will Do remeu.
bered As the nan who. =. the late session,
made an elaborate speech u favor Of =
dissolution of,he U"ion end . sscoani.
ton Of the southern confederacy, which
be held had established its independence,
NO matter whether W recognized that
fact or not. Had NJ. Conway been
democrat instead ola repu blicau abolition.
ist, and had he, holding such party rela.
lions, made that spesch, docs any enc
doubt that the administration would have
arrested him for treason and locked
him up IN Fort Lafayette. The most in.
veserate bater Of vallandigham cannot
point 10 . single us,erance OF his tha.
embraces ''siths' Of the treason"
contained in Conveys proposition openly
made Ia, the House Of Reprssenta.iv ss.-
And now upon the heels Of Vallandig.
hams banishmsns across our liass for
simply discussing The policy Of the adj
ADMINISTRATION, The republican Congress.
man, Conway, at the Capital, under the
very eyes Of the President and Captain
s.anson-sswsrd, however, is absent
rei'era.es in the condensed form Of 4
letter to yesterdays Tribune, the substance
Of hit Congressional speech:
10 The Ed!or; Of Ne Eep FORK 7st.
bune :, 49, r,.-.. -, -. .s...s .-
Subtitle reoea. avo~al Of Mr.. Gerr;.
Smith that he 10 in favor Of restoration
OF the Union, even If such restore Gon
should involve renewed power to slavery,
10 q slighs indication Of that counter rev.
olatioa in public sentiment on this cub.
ject which the war is calculated to effect,
and, which political leaders seem determ.
ined through it TO bring about.
The only period in which there was q
ghost Of chance Of giving this war an
anti slavery result was the 6sst two years
Of its existence. Ii it had been taken
hold at Of, tho outset As al instrument of
revolution--to dissolue tie. Union and
constitute the North the nation thus liber.
ating the government from oil constitution.
al obligations to shareholders, and had
then been rushed through will skill and
energy, under wise Ministers and com.
peten: Generals, in manner TO give full
effect to the power Of the North, slavery
would have been swept out Vt existence,
and the seeded States conquered to the
authority Of the Union, aud held a. sub.
jsct provinces. ..-....s ...s.s j..
But this Was not done. On the contrary,
the war was employed ~ meons 10 pre-.
vent revolution aud to maintain the U.ion.
The object was 70 force upon the slsve.
holders the rights guaranteed to thom BY
the Constitution shey discarded. For
nearly two years the most sealous regard
Was, paid thess fright" and military
operations. conducted in = msnnss 70 H.
dace the Southern people 70 return VOL
unfairly 70 their Federal Allegiance. In
Consequence Of this policy, the golden op-
portuhity clipped away --shs South became
asetued aud determined Power Moth
lost the prestige Of victory, and i,s nsrole
wss broken. 49,. yG" ',...:ta '...~.
Thus the war became future and ut
tsrly ceased to bear upon tho question Of
The sntjugation Of the South 10 any man
ner whatsoever; and nosc, srAafsrer mav
DC said TO the contrary. there are few re.
fectiag misds ,ohicA hare not cosse to the
conolusioa that - TIE INDEPEND:
ENCE OF THE SOUTH Is AN ES.
TARLISHED FACT, - ,chetAcr rec
ognize.i or not.
The WAT for the future. therefore. be-
comes simply az instrument in the hands
Of potttca! managers to effect results ia
Uorddle to their oUn personal ends, and
unfarorabte to tho cause Of Freedam.
What matters it that lev regiments Of
negroes, more or lees, under white off
GERS. are sent into the field What matters
il that the President's edict of Emanoi.
patton is printed in Little l. Browns edi
ton Of the U. 8. Statutes at larger Is
Richmond ours Z or aysn Vieksburg -
Docs not the confsderacy still stand firm
and defiant, aad does it not promise to
stand 90 in the future 2 And, above all,
is not the Presidential election approch
ing? .s@n Il ....- = j..
Il is now assumed that the Union 10 IN
object paramount over all others conclu-
sions, and We are told that il must never
be re!inquished. We are asked to adhere
to the war, not because it gives Us success.
full achievements in the field, but for tho
reason simply that otherwise We give up
the Union. We are also told that the in
situation Of slavery, like all other institu-
ton wide the N. Y. Times Of to day. is Of
minor importance one way or the other,
compared with the Union; tha. il mus,
give way Or not give war DO dsairoYed,
Or granted = new ysass 81 llfe, Vii ia.
creased power, just = tho sxigsncies OF
the Union may require. Aud 20 this doc.
trine that lifelong Aboli,ionist, Gerrit
Smith. and that Jealous Republican, Mr..
Raymond, and that eminent Democrat,
John Van Buren,. AL alike assent Since
the deportation of vsllandghau. it is
supposed that this is u DO the nopgrel
Democratic platform for the nex. Presi-
Dental race. ,.-.-..l. .:s<s 800. ~~~4
Now, Mr.. Editor, desire thus publicly
and from the beginning to announce my
emphatic. wish to be counted out Of any
such arrangement ! went into this Anti.
Slavery business earnestly and on the