Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-04
The RuInOus POIICy OF AboIi
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natics FROM the inception oil their party
thirty years ago, that their success would
be fatal to the peace and perpetuity Of the
Union, and they scoiled at us as croakers,
or pretcnders who had aparty purpose to
serve by our warnings. We have warn
ed them from time to time, that it was inn
possible to preserve political fellowship
with proud, sensitive and intelligent
people Of our own race, while holding
their institutions up to the seorn of the
world as "relics OF barbarism," and them
selves as robbers, man-stealers, and slave
breeders, making merchandise of their own
flesh and blood [; denying them social
and political equality and religious fellow
ship in ous churches. If they were what
they were represented in Abolition
speeches, sermons and circulars, or even
in the official documents of the Abolition
party, we ought to have no political Union
with them if these representations were
not true, then they were well calculated To-
destroy the Union, for no political consid-
eratons will ever hold people long to-
gether under one Government, where one
portion are thus scorned and insulted by
the other The Abolitionists derided our
warnings, and assured us that 'the South
could not be kicked out Of the Union"
Well, they have been kicked out, and now
the same party have undertaken the task
Of kicking them back again, making kicks
the sole motive to return.
We warned this party at the beginning
of this war, that fighting alone would not
restore the Union, that the history of the
world did not furnish an example of the
unconditional subjugation of S,000,000 of
people of the Caucasian race united and
determined to be independent. Our warn
ing was attributed to sympathy with re-
bellion," and we were assured that the
federal Government was strong enough "to
drive every secessionist into the gulf in
ninety days" We can say for one, that
we have no interest or political or personal
affinity with any government but that we
now and have ever lived under Our feal-
ty is due and has ever been cheerfully and
proudly rendered to the Uni ed States; its
glory is our glory, its shame is our shame;
its humiliation is our modification. We
belive that we speak the sentiments Of al
most every democrat in the land when we
say we would see the war continue for the
balance of our natural life before we would
consent to disgraceiul terms of peace. But
the policy spon which the war is now con-
Quoted offers us neither restoration of the
Union, nor peace. The administration
will propose no terms nor accept any, and
to close every avenue to compromise, Con
gress has passed acts confscatng the prop
erty and disfranchising all who have taken
part or service in the Confederacy They
can only return as beggars and outlaws,
degraded below their own negroes, who
are made their masters by the President 5
proclamation, Is there any intelligent
man living who believes such submission
possible, or that the war will ever end on
such terms so long as one drop of their
blood runsin the veins of any living being.
Take all their cities, desolate their homes
and their fields, hunt them with negroes
and blood hounds, make the entire south
human hunting ground for the next fifty
years and then the war will not be ended
unless other terms can be offered than those
proposed by the administration and its par
ty. Because we cannot reject all the
teachings of history, the inspirations drawn
from our own aspirations for freedom, our
knowledge of human nature, and settled
convictions offacts, and accept the dogmas OF
fanatic party which has falsifed all its
promises and failed in all its predictions,
we in common with all who do not accept
abolition policy as the perfection of human
reason, are denounced as eopperheads and
traitors. Let this be the test-fnd us a
dozen responsible Abolitionists in any one
community in this State, who will, upon
their honors, declare themselves willing to
accept peace upon the condition of resto-
ration of the Union as our fathers formed
IL. and a dozen equally responsible demo-