Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-12-16

4 TIE League Wonen and slavery.
From The Springfield J, Mass. ubiican-( strona
| hdminsteation paper
The Women's Loyal League, which il
Only the Garrison Anti-slavery Society
under another name, 10 circulating petit.
tions to Congress for . Law to abolish
slavery throughout the Union. Con-
gresa will not, Of course, entertain the
proposition. because there il no member
Of thst body who does not know that
they have no power in the Gaze. Some
how our radical friends, who have been
denouncing the constitution tor the last
| quarter Of . century ~ q covenant with
death and an agreement with hell"
seem to have got the idea that the war
has abolished the constitution. The reb-
els think 20 to. Both are mistaken. The
constitution still lives, and will not only
survive this war, but bids fair to stand
for some blessed centuries of rational
peace and prosperity yet to come. And
it will stand oil the firmer, and be the
more ardently loved aud reverenced for
that it has withs,ood alike the assaults
Of the friends and enemies OF liberty
through this time Of darkness and tenn
pest.
But why do the League women egi-
tate for what they kno~ is impossible !:
Do they suppose that the government,
now that it 10 achieving its final tri-
umph over rebellion, and seeing the con
sequent and inevitable death Of slavery
ct hand by means accordant with consti-
tuition and Law. can be induced to pass
an unconstitution act, that can have no
other effect than to make its authors in
famous! Doubtless these women. and
the men in the plot with them, expect no
such thing. But they have hitherto been
in the van Of progress,.as they suppose,
and now seeing tho object they have only
talked and scolded for accomplished by
the labor and blood Of practical, working
and fighting men, so leaving them with
out an irritating theme, they must even
take what they absurdly call San advanc.
ed position" and demand impossible and
absurd things, so as to keep ahead. They
may be well and beneficiently intention
cd though it is sometimes hard TO see it,
but we must believe that it is this feel
ing that events are taking from them
their stock in trade which leads them to
make new and prepostrous demands
upon the government.
Now, there ia abundance Of healthy,
necessary, patriotic and Christian work
in these times for all genuine reformers.
There are tens OF thousands OF freed ne
roes to be fed, clothed and instructed.
Thorc is work in hospital and field for
our soldiers who are fighting the battles
OF freedom, and doing moro for actual
progress in day than ten thousand
takers in convention can accomplish in
a generation. And this work is grow
ing upon Us. All the maiden phiian-
thropists Of whatever age or sex may
find all the employment they need in
such words of charity and mercy. But
they should also be tod, if they do not
already know it, that by asking the gov
eminent to violate the institution 10 or.
der TO manifest sacred ani,nosity TO |
slavery, they are really doing injury to
the cause Of the Unioo. 1t is of the ut
most Importance that the government
should keep faith with every State Of he
Union, and an attempt to interfere with
the rights Of Kentucky or any other
loyal State could only have the effect to
create hostility and dis.rust, and to JUS
tify these feelings. The border States
will abolish slavery if not upi1ftly inter
Tered with. No man can doubt this who
watches the course of events. The ant
slavery progress in thes States is now
more rapid than it ever was in the tree
States. Let the League women possess
heir souls in patience. then, and be,akc
themselves to such philanthropic work
Is offers itself on every hand. II they
10 this, and have faith as grain of mus
ard seed, they shall live to see slavery
abolished everywhere, and no damage
lone to one word of the constitution,
md no indignity to one State of the In
on.
The shoe trade of Lynn, Mass, is so
risk that fifteen hundred factory girls
rom Lowell and other places, where the
lemand for labor has diminished, have
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