Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-11
The true object OF the war.

IL is subject Of great astonishmeDt to us
that the so-called Conservatives OF the North
do not see, at glance, the real object Of this
most unnatural war They surely had warn
ings enough Of the coming storm before it
burst upon them; and it certainly requires no
miraculous vision now to see amid the fierce
rage OF the tempest that is upon us the demon
shapes that are directing 1t II was fore
shadowed in the speeches Of Mr.. Abraham
Lincoln and his premier, Mr. VIM H. Seward,
before the last Presidential election, when
they declared "that this country could not re-
main much longer half slave and half free"
The very time when the irrepressibe conflict
should secure II all for freedom was definitely
fixed by the last mentioned individual 10 the
following significant sentence from one Of his
campaign speeches;
"The next Administration will determine
the question as to whether freedom or slavery
is to prevail, and that in way to settle the
question forever"
The Republican press and orators now do
not hesitate to proclaim that the overthrow of
slavery is the object Of the war. They do not
hesitate TO declare everywhere that it is high
time our statesmen began to understand that
this result OF emancipation is inevitable, and
prepare to meet the emergency. "TeD me
the company man keeps, and will tell you
what manner of man he is, is a truthful prov
erb. The Administration from the first has
taken into its councils such leading Abolition
lists as Mr.. Horace Greeley, Senator Sumner,
Governor Andrew, Governors Dennison and
Banks, the Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher, and
Francis L. Blair. These men are continually
to be found at Washington, and have ever
been honored with a seat at the Cabinet Board
fho ,,f tk,t L. n. N
ters of pressing moment, both before and since
the commencement Of the war, they have been
consulted and have projected; movements OF
the War Department have been submitted to
them for their approval or dsapproval The
official iavors of the Administration have been
lavished, too, upon the extremists of this class
with no sparing hand To mention but one
instance That arch Abolitionist, Mr. Gid
dings, to-day holds the place of Consul Gener-
al in Canada the very outlet of the former
underground railway he labored so hard TO
construct, and of which he was the superin-
lendent for many years.
Some wrller has very eloquently said
"The Roman republic was overthrown not by
Caesar aud Pompey, but by the condition of
things that made Caesar and Pompey posi-.
BILE. And so some future historian may have
to say as he mourns over the ruins of this re-
public, that it was destroye by the condition
of affairs that permitted such insane fanatics
as we have named to become a power in the
State. The Abolition power now in the as
cendancy at Washington, and that has precpi-
tated the country into all the fearful evils of
civil war cannot be despised as It was a few
years ago, The cloud, so small when it rose,
now hangs like pail over the very dome Of
the Capitol itself Out Of that cload proceed
from time to time forked lightnings, that are
striking down one by one all the monuments
of our former greatness, and threatening to
involve the whole republic in one terrible and
destructive conflagration. The little band,
whose name was q bye-word and reproach,
has now grown to be the party in power mus.
tering its hundreds Of thousands, and enlist.
ing all the remorseess energies of New Eng
land fanaticism
1t was this power that like the deaf adder
stopped its ears to the voice Of the charmer
pleading for peace in the last Gongess. 1t is
this power to day, that under the pretense Of
saving the Union, is enforcing Its fanatical de-
signs in the abolition of slavery, and promises
to involve both North and,South in a common
ruin.-Nep York Nelps.