Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-11

up great OppoSinoh P"ieJt "i '"iN"b"
the Northern States within the short space
Of two years-one year are might say ?
Why this marvellous change among the
people of the adhering States, so suddenly
and startlingy manifested everywhere ?
7 There can be but one answer, The Ad-
minisuation and the Abolition party have
deceived the people. The people support
ed the war for the purposes first announced
by Congress and Mr.. LINcoLN's cabinet
They solemnly declared the object of the
war to be the restora ton of the Union and
the preservation Of the Constitution. This
was the solemn pledge upon which the peo-
pie, with q unanimity never before wit
messed in any country, rallied to the sup
port of Mr. LiNcoLS's administration.
They supported tho administration be-
canso they approval of its war policy. The
administration changed its policy. The
Emancipation Proclamation was issued,
and the war converted into an abolition
war, and war against the rights OF the
States under the Constitution. The peo-
pie have not changed. They have simply
refused to change with Mr.. LINCOLN and
his party. The purpose now seems to be
to coerce them to'change their princi pies to
correspond with the change that has taken
place in the Federal cabinet and Congress
If the President and his advisers had adj
hercd honestly to the policy first pro-
claimed, they might still have contin ued to
enjoy the confidence and support OF the
people. There would have been no great
and powerful Democratic party organized
throughout the North--the object of so
much terror to Mr.. LINCOLN and his fol-
lowers. There would have been no oc-
casion for the suppression of free speech
and the freedom of the press. There
wonld have been no occasion for the arrest
and imprisonment of Democratic leaders.
There would have been no necessity for u
cruel and relentless conscription law to
enable the administration to support the
war As it is, the Emancipation Procla-
nation and other abolition measures,
which Mr.. LINCOLN says he will not re-
tract or modify, has divided our people,
and our superior power aud resources are
not likely to benefit us. With one-half
of our population arrayed against the
other, we will be weaker than the enemy.
And all this the result of LlNcoLN's abo-
lition policy, which he declares his intcn-
ton to adhere to.
MIR. LINCOLN appends document to his
message, which he styles Proclamation,
an after thought, doubtless. In this he of
fers pardon to certain class of people in
the rebellious States, provided they will
take an oath to support, protect and de-
lend the Constitution of the United States,
and the Union under it, and abide by and
support all laws of Congress, and all
proclamations relative to slavery. In re-
quiring Of them pledge to support
the Constitution, he asks them to do that
which he himself has not done, although
under oath to do so. Asking them to take
an oath to support all his
Proclamations, is to say the least, a piece
Of absurdity. II they swear to support
the Constitution, they cannot support his
Proclamations without violation of theiI
oath and if they take an oath to support
his Proclamations, they swear against the
Constitution. Most, if not every one o.
his Proclamations against slavery are il
violation of the Constitution, and an oatl
to support the Constitution and his Proc
lamation in violation thereof, destroys it.
self, The effect Of this, his last Proclama
ton, viii be to embitter, unite and concen
trate the whole people of the South, ever
more so than his Emancipation Proclama
tion. Subjugation and humiliation an
the yokes under which they must pass t,
the condition of citizens of the Unitet
States, They cannot, and will not, ac
cept it. No brave, liberty-loving peopl
would. And thus, through Abolition ia
naticism and hatred the war will he pro
longed until ruin, utter and irretrievabl