The mountain Democrat., 1864-04-16

When the slaves are all emancipated by
the Federal arms, Q constant military 10.
tervention will be needed TO keep than
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southern States. Peace has no place IN
their platform. It proclaims cOnBscation
and abolition as the objects Of the war,
and the southern leader catches up the
words to stimulate his followers to 6ght
to the last. 1t is not to the interest Of
Pennsylvania that fanatical faction shall
pervert and protract the war for ruinous,
perhaps unattainable ends. What the
North needs is the return of the South,
with its people, its territory, its staples,
to complete the integrity of our common
country. This, and not mere devastation
and social confusion, would be the aim of
patriots and statesmen. The abolition
policy promises US nothing better than q
southern Poland, ruled by northern deS.
potism. -.
E The reunion of the States can alone
give them their old security at home, and
power and dignity abroad. This end can
never be reached upon the principles Of
the party in power. Their principles are
radically false, and can never lead to q
good conclusion. Their hope OF setting
up the negro into the place Of the white
man, runs counter'to the laws Of race, the
laws of nature. Their craftsmanship has
been weighed in the balance and found
wanting; their little blood letting hes
proved deluge. Their interference with
our armies has often frustrated and never
aided their success, till i has become
military proverb, that the best thing for
General is TO be out Of reach of Washing.
ton. The party was founded upon the
political and moral hcresy Of opposition to
compromise, which is the only means of
union among States, and Of peace and
good will on earth among men.
Early in the contest North Carolina,
one Of the old thirteen, exhibited desire
to return to the Onion. But the majority
in Congress made haste to show that abo-
lihon, not reunion, was their aim. In
moment of depression, on the 22d of July,
1861, being the day after the battle Of Bull
Run, they allowed the passage Of a reso-
luton offered by Crittenden, defining a
policy for the restoration Of the Union
But they soon rallied, and filled their stat
ute books with acts Of confscation. aboli
tion, and emancipation, against the re.
monstrances Of eminent jurists, and con-
servative men of all parties. Mr.. Lincoln,
too, yielding, he said, to pressure put
his proclamation in place Of the conStitu-
tion and the laws. Thus every interest
and sentiment of the southern people were
enlisted on the side Of resistance, by the
policy Of the party, &hich, as Mr.. Stevens
said. will not consent to a restoration Of
the Union with the constitution as it is.
1t is this policy that has protracted the
war, and is now the greatest obstacle to
its termination
The necessarily restricted limits of this
paper will not permit US to array any
considerable portion Of the evidence, by
which conviction has been forced upon
every man, that this war has been per.
verted to the mcrest partisan purposes,
in shameless violation Of written constitu,
tions, and the plninest maxims Of interna-
tional law. To convict the President and
advisers Of perfidy to the nation, however,
is not voluminons task. In his inaugu-
raj message, Mr.. Lincoln said:
Il have no purpose, directly or indirect
~, to interfere with the institution of
slavery, in the States where it exists.
believe have no lawful right to do SO,
and have no inclination to do so.'
, In his emancipation proclamation, be
also said:
4 order and declare, that all persons
held as slaves in said designated States
and PARTS of States, are, and hereafter
shall be, free-AND TIE ARMY AND NAVY
OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE USED TO
MAINTAIN THEIR ACTUAL FREEDOM
Again, Mr.. Lincoln approved the Crit
tenden Resolution, wherein it is declared
that:
This war is not waged on our part in
any spirit Of oppression, or for any pur-
pose Of conquest or subjugation, or pur.
pose Of overthrowing or interfering with
the rights or established institutions oil
those States, but to defend and maintain
the supremacy Of the constitution, and to
preserve the Union, with all the dignity,
equality. and rights Of the several States
unimpaired; and that, as soon as these
objects are accomplished, the war ought
to cease
And in his recent letter to the people
Of Louisiana, who asked to return to the
Union, he, in effect, tells them that he
will upt stop the war against them until
they shall, under his compulsion, amend
their State constitution
There is no reconciling these several
positions. Mr.. Lincoln has abandoned
the cause of the Union, and embraced the
cause of abolitionism. We waste not Q
J word upon the miserable, exploded pre-
/ text Of military necessity for the trans
) parent falsehoOd is too contemplate fol
criticism.
There are two ideas in this connection
to which we desire to give prominence.
The one is. that ell the subterfugeS- j.
and their number is legion-which have
been heretofore employed, will no Longer
avail to conceal from the people the grea
/ fact that the Federal government has fair
E ly launched itself upon crusade to ex
D tirpate, by force, not merely in the seced
ed States, but everywhere, the State insti
, tuition Of negro servitude. The mask ha
D fallen. It is, at last, avowed by President
S Cabinet and COngress-it has been re
I corded for the first time in the UniteC
! States statutes at large 1T figures
9 prominently in shoal Of 'procIamaticns
t and military orders never to be modified
3 or set aside according to Mr.. Secretary
s Cnase-it illuminates the remarkable of
= fetal stump speeches Of Adjutant Gener
D al Thomas, to the army. in behalf of ne
gro regiments-it has become part of th'
4 United States rules and articles of war
=, it is fought for by United States army
y and navy-it is clamored for by 'republi
n can politicians of the northern States
: who fatten upon the garbage Of govern
;, ment' patronage and plunder-it is nov
e the 6xed policy which all loyalists mus
e swear by, or suffer disfranchisement an.