The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-30


The copperhead oracle Orour city thus modestly
propOuBds -
We reqG'st Mr. Greeley to tell the cou ntry, explicitly
EFFORT tOwa ards disUn On" 80
Ansioer-No, Sir lis that plain?
We were first mpeIed to make an effort to
bring about a conference between authorized
representatives of the respective belligerents by
learning, through various channels, that certain
distinguished Cont, dtrates, then and now in
Canada, were holding cut 10 the LEADING Demo-
Gratis, who flocked over he river to confer with
them, that Pence might be had on q basis, not of
Disunion, but Of Union.
We heard, more specifically, that Hon. c. C.
Clay hsd agreed, III der certain circumstances or
conditions, 10 write letter In this spirit 10 be
read at the Democratic Natl maj Convention. at
Chicago. Mr.. Sanders published despatch. fore
shadowng peace on n basis advantageous and
acceptable to "6oth sections," also pointed plainly
70 Union Peace. Hence our ACTON
We canbot be buliied nor slandered into an
proval or r. lection Of hypothetical terms of con-
cilauon. Inc business OF negotiation Is deyOlyed
by the constitution on the President and Senate
OF lhC Unitrd states, and TO them we leave it,
But we may as well observe right here that
there IS ne grave mater which no diplomacy
can effect, and no Government bargain away,
and That Is the inaenable right of freemeu TO
love liberty and hate opp essuIl-th right of the
just and the generous 70 struggle for the extrna.
tion OF slavery and all kindred viilanies from off
the face of the earh. IL is we'll to have this
clearly understood, so that II may never az lln be
preieDded, as II too long and TOO balefnily has
been, that the people of he free States are Under
some constitutional or moral obligation % con-
nlye at the atrocities and uphold the perpetuatiOn
of human bondage
There is not u syllable of support for this mon
strous assumption 10 be extracted from tle Con-
sutultcn; and IL were just as rational 10 assert
that the Souih was prec uded from faVorin9 the
Temperance Reformation 10y the fact that New
Ebsiand, when the Constitution was formed, was
largely engaged ia the manufa ture OF rum, as
thAt the N rth was es,opped on like grounds
from hating slavery and striving IN abolish It.
NO man eau lind u sentence In the Federal
Constitution which pledges the North to COM
p!icity, or even acqniescence, In such crimes as
those whereby slavery was planted aud firmly
established In Texas; no one can wrench from
that instrument any obligation assumed by the
free States to concur in the legalizatiOn of
4 slavery over the area of vast territore, pre-
Viously { eei yet these have been cOo'ly as
sum'd d, and any res stance thereto stigmAtizod as
inhdelhy TO constitutional duty, Ivy Northern
Demo rats well ~ Southern slaveholders IL
must b. distinctly understood this time that there
are no tacit pledges, binding the North to part
neTship in wrO' & anu infamy; and, il il be not
understood, the fiult shall not be ours.
For an age prior to the outbreak OF the Slave
holders Rebellion, the relations between the
North aud the South were based on arrogance on
one eide and seryility on the other No luth-
eineT coming North, or trading with the North,
ever imrgin, himself under the smallest oDligt-
tion 30 discover and proclaim the superiority of
Northern over Southern institutions; while tho
Northern man wishing the South was expected,
and generally constrained, 10 find and pronounce
slavery bt nign aud admirable arrangement for
the benefit, especially, of The slaves.
No Northern man going South 70 teach, or
trade or practice, had the ghost of chance (un-
less It were to be ynched) until he had discerned
and admiringly noted the happiness, content
ment, and general well being of the slaves. He
who grew cotton thus insisted on prescribing the
spectacles through which Southern peculiarites
should be regarded the debtor dictated his Opin-
ions to his creditor; the cottonseller before the
counter to the cotton buyer behind ii.
The Difference was all on one side nobody ex-
pected its reciprocatlon. Southern statesmen and
orators demonstrated, In their way, the rottenness
of Northern society, the imminence of It's crash,
the certainty that the "mudsills" would subVert
the entire ediioe; bat nobody found or fAncisd
IN this an excuse for rebellion or disunion, or
aught more serious than laughter. Yet any long
bearded ranter who chose TO make anti-slavery
harangues In the district school houses OF Maine
stoned by half the inhabitants, and utterly unre-
garded by most of the residue was strangely
represented to the South as a defer OF conshtu-
tional guarantees and guaranteed rights. What
ever may be In store for us, there must be no
more of this fOoery,
Should slavery survive our present struggle,
the Democracy OF the North will be mainly
responsible for the calamity. They confidently
proclaim that the Rebels are fighting, not for dis
union, but for slavery; they insist that, with
slavery duly fortified, the secessionists would
gladly como back. We neither afirm nor deny
this but we warn those who hope TO carry che
presidential election on the platform OF a pro-
slavery Reconstruction" not 10 give pledges
which cannot, In the nature Of things, be re-
deemed. Even should they TO establish slavery
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