Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-02-04
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Who nre for the UnIOn1

who Rre for tho UnIOn1
Tho following extract is from late speech
in the United States Senate by Hon Rovcrdy
johnson, of Md:
"Did we want the States baek2 Did we
want the war terminated and this slaughter
10 ceaBe1 Did we want sound fraternal rela-
tons to be restored, and our former prosper-
" secured, and our nation 10 be placed In the
front rank Of tho nations Of the earth2 Who
would not say yes2 Can we get the secedcd
States back by measures 10 keen them out2--
Was It the purpose of this net Of July 2, To
to say to the people Of the Scuth--men, wo-
men and children--you nre out of the Union
now and forever, and that they should be
slaughtered on their own heartbsionas unless
they came in2 This was not the view taken
in 1862, when the act was passed"
Speaking of the prospect Of the return OF
the seeded States to the Union, he says
"Does not every man who has heart in
his bosom wish them back to be again as they
were in the past-our brothers--to have the
same destiny and 10 partake of the greater
glory to which this nation will arise during
all timer As was once said by statesman
now no more, whose majestic intellect STAMP
ed itself upon our history-who was native
OF New Hampshire aud citizen Of Massa
chusetts, "Our country is not a consolidated
but united one
In similar spirit, tho venerable cores.
pondent of the Constitutional Union, in his
first letter, over the signature of "Andrew
Jackson, makes the pertinent inquiry, Are
we TO have the old Union Of The United States,
constructed by Washington and his compatri
OTIS, based on the sulIrages OF the people as
regulated by the StatesG
Let the Republican eadera answer
Vicc-Presdent Hamln tells Democrats who
want "the Union restored as Il was that "thry
cannot have IT." that chose who plead Tor
the restoration of the Union as il was, are
demngogues" and that the idea OF "restoring
the Union under tho Constitution ms it is, 10
nonsense, and bad nonsense at that"
Senator jim Lane says ~ nm ready TO
see any Kansas man shot down who favors
the Union as it was
In war meeting held at Springfield, Ohio,
September 18th, 1862, Rev Mr.. Childs made
the following declaration: "Tbe man who
desires to have the Union MS il was ought TO
be hanged up by the heels until he be dead
dead, dead and the wolves and ravens ought
TO eat the flesh from his carcass"
On Monday January 9th, tho Hon John
L. Dawson, Of Pa, offered in tho House oC
Representatives Of the United States, the fol
lowing resolution, which was rejected
"Resolped, That the President be requested
70 make known by public proclamation or
otherwise, to all the country, that whenever
any State now in insurrection shall submit
itself to the Federal Government, as defined
in the Constitution, all hostities against hor
shall cease, and such State shall be protected
from all external interference with her local
laws and institutions, and her people shall be-
guaranteed in the full enjoyment Of all those
rights which the Federal Constitution gave
them"
OF the treatment this resolution receives,
we maybe permitted say, with slight varia-
ton, in the language Of an ardent Union man:
"This is the spirit Of the abolition party now in
power. 1t irolies in this terrible civil war -
IL "thanks God for the war" and ioyfully
wados up TO its chin in blood. 1t has en-
boweled humanity, and driven the voices of
mercy and peace from the affairs Of religion
IL screams out "traitOr' TO all who want TO
save the Union, 1t proposes to chang" every
man who does not willingly assent to the
treacherousi bloody programme II says out
right, this war is not 10 save tho Union; we
will have no more OF tho Union; we will have
an end Of the Union. Then let the people
say, we will have an end of tho war, aud the
abolition party. We will furnish no more
means 10 carry out measures 'subversive of
tho Constitution aud fatal TO the white mans
liberty" or to get up another edition Of the
"Union of all the Russias, in which the rights
Of provinces and persons shall be held nj the
mercy OF Gar. called the President" II
the war is not for the Union, stop IT, II we
are TO have nothing TO show for all our sacri.
fees but the blood and tho debt, stop il 1t
white men are 10 be enslaved 10 free negroes,
stop IT. What better is n Northern war for
I IL. "a
What better is Northern disunonism, than
Southern disunioEism2 What better is Sum.
ner than Toombs2-fIamlin than Wigfalll--
Lane than Quautrel7--Rey. Mr.. Childs than
Gen Bishop Polk2 What better is Federal
Congress that refuses to receive returning
seeded State, than Confederate Congress
that refuses TO return under any eonsidera
tion2