Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-18
The Rebellion the Joint Work Of
AbOIitiOnists and SecessiOnists.
IFrom the louisville Journal.l

[From the Louisville Journal
The fact that the rebellion is the joint
work of the Abolitionists and the Secession
lists has been proclaimed, sometimes by ABB
olitionists, sometimes by Secessionists, and
sometimes by the enemies of both. The
annual message of Gov. Bramlette furnishes
an instance of the latter kind. 1.-THE vicious
ambition of the Southern men," says the
Governor, ''and the bigoted fanaticism Of
the men of the North, in giving and accept
ing sectional puarrel about a local insti-
tuition, have forced upon us the most ground
less, cruel wicked, inexcusable warfare
that ever afflicted any people of the earth" !"
But the same truth has just be proclaimed
by one of the parties themselves. The other
day, at Philadelphia, on the anniversary or
the third decade of the American Anti
Slavery Society,"" at which nearly all the
shining lights of Abolitionism of these thiry
years of the slavery agitation were assem-
bled, William Lloyd Garrison, President OF
the society, made the opening speech. In
the course of his speech, he said, and he
said exultingly, that upon this question OF
slavery ''the tire-eaters of the South and the
abolitionists of the North had had one bond
of union;r that ''the latter undertook to
kindle the Northern heart, forgetting that
they would also fire the Southern heart !"
and that ''the former undertook to fire the
Southern heart, but little thought what a
tremendous firing they would give the
Northern heart. The only difference was
that the abolition fire was borrowed from
Heaven, and that of the fire-eaters from
another unmentionable place."
But this difference is not material to the
issue. Here, as a contemporary says, we
have the fact boastingly presented by the
head and front of the American Anti-Sla-
very Society that the Secessionists of the
South and the Abolition fanatics of the
North are the parties who may rtghtfully
claim all the honors, such as they are, of in
volving the two sections in this fearful, eX-
hausting and destructive civil war. The Alb
Olitionists of the one section produced the
Secessionists in the other; the two factions
thus brought out although in antagonism to
each other commenced and continued to
play into each others hands until they split
up, on the line of slavery, several ofour most
extensive church organizations; and then,
after demolishing the old national Wing
party, and next dividing the old national
Democratic party, the Secessionists plunged
into this crazy rebellion, and the AbOli-
tionists, with this invitation, advanced their
standard to the national capital.
The results are before us in the costs and
consequences of this disastrous war. The
AbolitiOnists are rejoicing over their work.
They see nothing before them but the-eX-
tirpation of Southern slavery, and care to
see nothing else. The secessionists, with
all the waste and ruin which this war has
brought upon them, accepting it as war
of determination, are fighting with the
stubborness and blindness of despair. We
can only watch and pray and labor for u
change of measures and of men.