The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-02-12

be designed. This is far from being the
only ground Of exception 10 the anti sla
very principles and policy of those Safe
papers--as as we regret TO be obliged to
point out"
And here is another passage. with
which those who claTgo he Abolilionisls
exclusively with The responsibility Of the
war, are not likely to he pleased:
Few impartia men will deny that the
administration Of Mr. Buchanan was by
far the most disastrous lbat the nation
had ever endured. Its mistakes and lis
misdeeds with regard 10 the.slave interest
alone, were, beyond measure. shocking
and iuinous; and the concentrated
folly and venom Of the Influence from that
quarter, under which it fell, might al
most extenuate q portion Of the frantic
violence of the reaction against it. Its
conduct could hardly have been worse,
if Mr. Buckanah had purchased the Pre-.
sidency from the most extreme party Of
the South, at the price Of pIostitutiDg it
to the maintenance Of the most preposIer
Gus claims it was possible for the S)u,h to
make;nor could it well have been more IA.
tai if he had expressly sell cted, ,asihe o.:
gan Of Southern desires and opinion. men
whose special object it wns to make an in
durable breach between the No th and the
South, and then tear the nation in pieces
Mr.. Lincoln is the successor OF Mr.. .Buch.
anan-and whatever else his election ms y
he thought to signify, we have already
=, said it was y protest of the American ppo-
; pie against the extreme pro slavery doc
trine and policy Which eliminated under
Mr.. Buohanan's administration, and alb
sorbed the National Government as tho
t roughly in a national attempt to extend
slavery, as there is manifest danger oI
Q its being now absoIb bed in national at
Tempt 10 abolish it. We are in the midsi
Of the eXtr, me reaction Of the nation
against the conspiracy 10 make the Ma
q tional Government a special organ for ht
maintenance and extension of slavery
and for tho destruction of this nation anC
the erection Of n new nation if the con
conspiracy should fail The conspiracy
3. exploded, and we are now measuring ou
" strength with the cousprators on the ques
Is tion Of The new nation. But does il fol
lie low that we must fly to extremes as vic
!. lent on one side, as those conspirator
s. rushed to on the other? Must we sub
D, vert and ahuse the Constitution in on
n, direction, because they snbverted an,
a. abused it in tie opposite direction? Be
r cause they chose to see no just, wise an
or safe condition except that in which sl'
ne very predominated, shall we refuse to Sc
n any such condition except where SLAYER
d. no longer exists?"
to DR.. Brvckinridge Is of the opinion til,
- - The proclamation announced on the 22
n. Of September, was taking step over cor
stilutional limitations, and in advance
as pu' lie opinion. The Doctor says of til
r. action Of the Presiden.
w " "Whal be had done, independent
~ y; his proclamation of September 22d, il
:, volved the most immense change in II
-. -" principles, policy and the relations of Il
,' I Government TO slavery, as they all soC
NC NC at the close of Mr.. Buchanan's Admlni
70, 70, tration. A new direction was given
- =" every thing many things were set
:: rest, which it was Of the least cons
:, quence to quiet in some way
rs, AS to that "immense change" the do
W. tor says:
VII "The abolition Of slavery in the distri
lot OF Columbia was completely within t
co competence Of Congress-was not sci
ol ously Objectionable in the mode adopt
CO. was a concession proper 10 be made
the slaveholding States to the principI
ges and wishes of a vast majority Of the Al
to eIican people and Was all act proper
be done, in any fair and national view
y it the subject. Whatever has BEEN done
the the matter of the Suppression Of the sla
ind trade, and with regard to the black !
in public of Liberia-so far as we are
re, ormed--seems TO us 10 be worthy of
we. wise and Just men. AS 10 the use to
rti made of slaves by the military forces
of the nation, and the protection given
all fugitive slaves, within the lines of tn,
on. forces. we think great error was at Fl
the committed in dealing with weak leui
and cy with the property--iucudiDg sla'
eve of rebels IN arms against the Cove
all ment and that. afterward. line Of !
ton icy has been adopted, conlo ndng 10y
and ty with dsloyslty, in manner at ol
pre-. cru-l and insulting, and having much
de. pearance tf being designed rather agai
,uld slavery than against traitors
ing On the question of emancipation
4; TU Breckinridge has much to say for wi
hat. 1t is impossible for us to find room
nkly give few sentences in which the {
and lines of bis views are clearly present
QUO 1--WE considered Missouri to be
wei condition to adopt a system Of graf
ncur emancipation. and that it would be '
any for her to do it. We have the St
US opinion concerning Maryland and a
M .ne Delaware, we suppose that the slave
'he terest there is 50 small, and in a co
nav, nave ton SO peculiar that it offers no spe
oJec' obstacle 20 any action the State m
are think desirable at any time. Yves
,g o' Virginia, if admitted as a separate S
Eas laes as it seems probable it will be, ma!
levt' % considered virtually a free State"
! the DR.. Breckenridge has "always thou!
.hout Kentucky was wrong in refusing to
icate any step looking toward emaDcipaiio
citi. - A. l., ,;oL. La ham