The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-02-19
1hr Opposition nud Slavery.

w or The rebel army, but now thpr
ough Union man, declared in his
speech Mt Cincinnati, that the people
rArkansas "turn from Slavery Will
loathing indcscribablc,' and will
great Indignation adverted 10 th'
f'ct that "while we who arc so mucl
Interested pray for delivornnco from
this curse, there Is q sneaking part,
in the North who would force us t.
keep the curse with us 1t is in
decd astonishing that men In thu
North, who never saw n slave, anC
have not dollars worth Of intcrcs
in the institution, arc so much NOR,
concerned for the fate of Slavery
than they in whose social system !
had closely interviewer itself. anc
who had property in it to the cxtcn
Of hundreds OF millions.
The chief stimulus OF the opposi
tion party of the North against Tho
Administration, is its Slavery
war policy. 1t is the Emancipation
Proclamation, and the other measures
connected with it, that form thcil
great grievance They pretend that
these acts Of the President are Tho
great barriers to the speedy termina-
ton Of the war, pcaceahle restoration
Of the Union. They insist upon this
though they arc constantly confront
ell with new manifestations of direct.
ly the opposite feeling upon the part
OF the reyiving Unionism of the
South. Hardly day elapscs that We
do not get tidines of new acccssious
TO the Union cause in somo parts oI
the South within our limos, But there
has been hardly single instance oi
a Southern man of any character
thus converted. who has borne testi-
mony that the Anti Slavery acts OF
the Administrator are standing in
the way OF the restoration of the
Union. On the other hand. they all
bear witness that slavery is the great.
est of all barriers to any such rcstor.
alton, and they are the most impa-
tient of all men for its summary ami
hilation. Gen. CAN'T tells the Gin
cilnsti people: "Yor would think
il you visited us, that the seat Of Alb
olitionism had been transferred from
New England to Arkansas The
whole development Of Unionism ev.
crywhcrc tends to just that form.
Now, We should like to see this
accounted far on any theory consist.
ent with the assertion OF the Anti
Administration party of the North,
that President Lincoln's policy to
ward slavery has been bad policy for
the Union. Are not these Union men
Of the South better acquainted than
they, with the Southern disposition:
Having lived in the midst Of the
rebellion for many months, and ma
nv Of them, in fact, almost mp to the
present time, can it he said that they
don't understand. MS we'll as those
five hundred or thoussnd miles
away, where its vulnerable point lies,
and what the best way to reach it:--
Or are these mon hypocritcs? Do
they pretend TO be Union men when
in fact they are not? And do they
thus advocate the EXTREMIST nti.Sla
very policy, not as they say to re
slore thcUnion. but the surest of all
methods to make m end of it forcv-
er? The surposition is monstrous.
No men it the country hate the re.
bclliOn so intensely, or have so great
reason to hate it. II has subjected
them to losses and to suf'erings i'm
measurably beyond anything known
here in the North. Their love for tho
Union is not. "a with us, II mere sent
iment; it is n passion, ncrcely inham.
ed by sense Of personal wrong.
The reaction against the rebellion
will be all the greater the longer and
harder the rebellion is pressed. If
the sufferings inAicte by the REBEL
ion in Tennessee, Louisiana and Ark
ansas have wrought there such hos
tility to slavery, its cause. the suffer
ings in Mississippi, Alabama, and
Georgia, far more prolonged. and
therefore far seycrer. must generate
n still intcnscr hatred Of it in these
States. Our Northern -"Conserya-
tives,' as they style themselves, will
find that the interval between them
and the Southern Unionlsts will he
continually growing wider as terrific
tory is redeemed from the "Confed-
cracy." They will find that they will
have to change their ground in spite
of themselves, or else become the