Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-14
slavery Agitatfon--POlicy Of the
si31.sff Addition Party.

T Abolition Party.
It Is announced that ABRAHAM LINCOLN
seriously intends to recommend in his next
message to Congress the adoption of law
forever prohibiting slavery in the United
States, or rather the Southern States Of the
old Union. 1t would appear from this that
notwithstanding the several proclamations
of the President, which were said to have
killed slavery, and despite the oft-repeated
declarations of the Administration that the
institution was buried and was no longer
question in our politics-like celebrated
character, it "still lives" to bother the
President and keep New England in n
philanthropic sweat. Or is it only the
ghost of the institution which haunts the
pillows and populates the dreams of those
who have grown fat upon it and sailed
smoothly into office by agitating the vexed
question? Is It possible that they have
''scotched the snake, not killed it?"-
Slavery must have more lives than a cat,
more heads than the hydra to be so often
killed and still survive to frighten and tor
.ture those whose only claim upon the respect
ofposterity is that they have been its execu-
tioners. Either President LINCOLN does not
believe i'm his own brlls against the comet,
or he has deliberately determined to keep
up the agitation of the slavery question for
the benefit of the party which elevated him
to Office.
It is certain that the conduct Of the war,
the restoration of the Union, and even the
very existence Of the people have all been
made subordinate to the interests OF party
under this Administration. Is 1t therefore
improbable that the slavery agitation will
be continued in order to subserve the in
terest of party? There is one more certain
ty connected with this business-conceded
to be a certainty by the ablest leaders Of
the Abolition party-that without slavery
there will beno Republican party. Slavery
created and nourished Abolitionism. When
slavery is once effectually killed-either by
an executive bull or an act of Congress
there is an end to the Abolition party.
That destructive and execrable ism de-
Serves nothing and will receive nothing in
the way of reward from the people OF this
country in the future. Its leaders will be
consigned to neglect and infamy. The Alb
aolition Is narrow minded, fanatical, intol-
Grant and anti-Amerieanp party, with but one
idea as its base, one dogma as its creed. Its
administration of the Government has been
ruinous, because the party is a aconglomera-
tion Of discordant elements, united but upon
. the one idea, divided upon every one of the
thousand other questions which must arise
and be met by an American administration.
When the one idea is exhausted, the fiimsy
string which binds these antagonistic ele-
ments together will be broken and the par
twill fall pieces. The Democratic party
is the natural political organization of this
country. Born with the Constitution,
growing with the country, guiding |
and controlling its destinies from |
infancy to maturity-broad and lib |
eral in its creed-simple in its policies
infused with vigorous, vital, an intense |
nationality-unconque imperishable,
bound together by fellowship of immu-
table principles-magnanimou in sue
cess--heroic in disaster-the Democratic
party is the natural guardian of free insti-
tutions, the natural friend of the people,
and the only Legitimate expounder OF their
views. 1t will never perish while rem
nant of civil freedom, while one frag-
ment of the old Republic is left; and it is
perforce the heir to the Government, when
ever the exotic parties of one idea or or
'ganizations maintained by speciality, fall |
to pieces from their own inherent want of |
stable principles or sound policies. There
fore, the Democratic party is Just as certain |
TO survive the Abolition party as that chris |
tianity viii survive paganism.
Knowing this to be true, and knowing
the very existence of his party to depend
upon the agitation of the slavery question,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, with view topromote
his own power, to perpetuate that Of his
party, and to establish a government of
the few instead of the many, will continue
the slavery agitation as the only means to
effect these ends. Therefore he will recon-
mend the total abolition of slavery in the
next Congress, in the next and in all the
Congresses he addresses. He knows his
proclamation did not kill slavery, though
all his party echoes swore it did; he knows
Congressional Legislation will never kill it,
though fifty times repeated; he knows, or
thinks he knows, that by perpetually keep
ing before the people the raw head aud
bloody bones Of slavery, he guarantees the
life of his party and secures the cohesion of
the discordant elements which constitute its |
force. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, therefore, will |
abolish slavery two or three times year
during all his terms OF office--or just as
often as he thinks it necessary to maintain |
the unity Of his party, orjustify his lawless |
,usurpations.
Death of NEr. n. m. BucIxfneharn. |
A very numerous connection Of relatives
and friends were poignantly distressed last
week, TO learn that Mr.. B. III. BucKrNaHAm,
of Putnam, Ohio, had died at Madison, New
Jersey, on the 7th inst. He was a son of
Mr.. ALvAH BUcKINGHAM, now residing in,
Chicago; and brother-in-law of Hon. s.