Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-12
Uncondition Abolitionism and Uncon-
y ~ ditional Submission.

The New York Times Republican Abelition)
says "the agents Of secession who are now Ia
boring at the North for compromise and peace'
profess to be working in the interest Of the
Union" These "agents Of secession" must
be those AbolitIonisis who are now laboring for
compromise by acknowledging the independence
Of the Southern Confederacy If the South
should not DO conquered by May or June next,
and for peace by oonsentlns to dissolution Of
the Union.
The Times says "that compromise or peace
upon any other terms than naked, uncondition-
al submission of the South, would be just as
fatal 10 the Union as If we ACKNOWLEDGED the
Independence of the Confederaoy Tomorrow"
Let NJ understand our Abolition contemporary.
We have had enough Of this kind Of talk In q
general way; let rs know what II means when
boiled down and lie essence extracted.
We have heard much boas.ing about 'uncon.
dItional Union men," The people now know
who are meant by this phrase as used by the
leaders and organs of the dominant party. "Un-
conditional Union men" are 10 their vocabu.
larry unconditional Abolitionists- nothing less
THAD. srrvENs, Of Pennsylvania, Ia specimen
of this clsas--he said In the House In the de-
bate on the West Virginia bill, that he never
would " consent to q Union with slavery In
It." MARTIN F. CONWAY, Of Kansas, is another
precious sample Of the same genus Mr Con-
WAY, in speech on the 9th ult, 10 the House
committee of the Whole, declared be was moi
In favor Of restoring the constitutional rela'
d tions Of the Shareholders to the Union-he wat
In favor Of recognizing what he called the loyal
States as the American nation and as constitu
ting the Uriop, and as distinct public body
He would have free Northern Union with nc
slavery In IL, and let the South 90 as an inde
pendent people or natio1--in one word, he wat
for an immediate dissolution Of the Union. H'
was only little ahead Of bis Abolition breth
rem In .. oclaiming their aim and object. HI
told them plainly they would come up to hif
stand point after the 4th of March next.
Such Is the naked, unconditional Union
ism Of Abolitlonists. Now, what do they mean
by the "naked, unconditional submission OF
the South 7"-mind, they do not say of the
rebels, but "of the South" They mean pre-
oisely the same thing that they do BY their
unconditional Unionism"--an unconditional
submission by all the Southern people as well
90 ell the Northern people to their policy Of
negro freedom and negro equality The more
willy and subtle demagogues among them see
elessly that this Ia q demand that never can
and never will be complied with; out they are
determined to persevere in making 1t for the
sake of binding the people in the North with
such phrases es unconditional Unionism" ant
"the naked, unconditional submission of the
South" while they really mean and are aim
ing at what CONWAY said 10 the speech referred
& o, the loyal States, as he called them, already
constituted an "Americsn nation based on the
principle Of freedom for all, without distinction
Of race, color or condition"
This means, II it means anything, the conati-
tuting out Of the ruins Of the American Union
an Independent Northern American nation Of
which no slaveholding community shalFform q
part. Abolisionlsts who are not in the secret
Of the leaders by whom they are guided and
led on step by step from one folly to another
and from pretended Unionism TO practical Dis
unionism, may question that this ultimatuu
viii be reached. Bot what then, We ask sober
cool, rejecting men, can possibly be reached IN
der On unconditional Abolition policy7 Eithel
Democrats, and conservative men united will
them, must save the Union by requiring An nm
conditional submission to the Constitution, ant
nothing less or more, or else the Abolitionisti
will continue TO make war, not upon the rebels
but upon the constitutional rights of the people
North and South, until the result will be, what
they are already preparing for, dissolution Of
the Union, and the establishment Of military
dsspotism In the North.
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