Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-05-17
9ailg empire.


II was easy to delude patriotic, Union low
ign people into war The Union was the peo-
pls's idol they revered the Constitution as
sacred thing; they gloried in their flag Their
lives, their fortunes, everything but hberty,
they we're prepared to sacrifice for these.
When the Sonthern States seeded, SO strong
was still the sentiment Of uniting both North
aud South that no change in the outward re-
lation of the States appeared Commerce
flowed through its accustomed channels
Bonds Of blood and friendship bound men to
each other on each side of the line No cloud
indicated the appalling storm that aferward
arose, for unity of kindred and interest was
felt so deeply that il was difficult to believe
that our long cherished Union was broken
With the fall of Sumpter came a rude awak-
ening. The people maddened at the down
fall OF their flag, echoed and re-echoed the
cry that the Union must be restored, the Con
stitution must be supported, and the glory Of
the flag must be maintained 1t was to this
cry that the Administration affected to re-
spond; il was on these principles that the
present war was undertaken. Hundreds Of
thousands Of brave men hurried to the field
whence they never we're to return and fierc-
est hate succeeded to our former feelings of
frRternal love. Everything was buried in OBJ
livion save the flag, the Union and the Con.
stimtion. ..
How is it now? The people love their flag
the Union and the Constitution as much as
ever; there is still as fiery martial srdor in
them as in 1861 vet thousand dollar boun-
ties in support of legIons of recruiting officers
scarcely suffice to keep our armies 6lledE
while in all regions of the country there is
growing up, and growing rapidly, an angry
and defiant hatred of the Administration
which has been so blindly trusted and so
generously sustained. Why is this2 1t is
not because the people are discouraged by
defeat They have met disaster after disaster
with unhinching fortitude. 1t is not because
they dread the speedy coming Of financial
ruin. Many Of them do not even see that it
is coming. 1t is simply because the Admin.
istration aud its partisans have dispelled the
beautiful illusion that they thought had served
its turn when it had fooled the people Men
have come now to understand that the seces-
sion of the South was deliberately plotted
here among us at the North. They have
come now TO believe that more than one traitor
in the Democratic camp was sent down in the
pay Of New England Abolitonists to break
up the Charleston Convention, and so insure
Mr. Liucoln's election. They have read Mr..
Chases now celebrated letter. from whi.h we
learn that while Southern gentleman we're
laboring for compromise and union, Mr. Chase
as leader Of the Black Republicans, was
working against compromise and for dsunon
They have learned that the unpar donable in
suit 10 our flag at Sumter was ooolly PLAYED
for as 'point" in the game Of our Secretary
Of State, Mr.. Seward, at the very time when
Southern Commissioners we're waiting at his
door for purposes Of peaceful conference
They understand that Mr. Lincoln knew"
Fort Sumter would fall, and enjoyed the little
joke. They are further given to understand
that the Union as twas is never more to be !;
that the Constitution is "abrogated;" that the
flag is henceforth to be the symbol of not
merely Abolitionism, but negro equality and
miseegenation and that this war is not for
the flag, nor for the Union, nor for the Con-
stitution, but for the emancipation Of four
millions of slaves aud the subjugaton or ex
termination Of eight millions Of free white
persons The negro is not merely equal TO
the white man, he is worth on this calculation
just two white men.
These things have only TO be understood
land they are daily understood more clearly
BY the masses Of the people) to bring curses
loud and deep upon the heads Of those who
lowing, passed at public meeting in Cincin.
natl, have q wsrld OF meaning in them
Resolped, That we cordially approve and
indorse the late speech Of Mr.. Long, and con
cur in the conclusion at which be has arrived,
that there are but two alternatives, and they
are either an acknowledgment Of the indie
pendenee Of the South as an independent ma
tioH, or their complete subjngation and ex-
termination as Q people"
The people Of the North commenced the
var for the Union and the Consti'uiionl Now
that they nnderatsnd that these are not the
! objects Of the war they will demand-ihsy are
demanding--thAt the war shall cease. The
people Of the North do not desire the suhiu.
cation nor exterminstion OF the people of the
Southern States. Still less do they desire to
see the Southern States turned into negro
and mulatto States, sending black and yellow
representatives TO Congress Of white men
Aud least Of all do they intend the subjugaied
South to be training school for military des-
pots, who are aftsrward 70 set their heels up-
on the necks Of free men at the North. That
last point was emphatieAlly settled on q Ger
itan notable occasion in Lowell MAssaehu-
setta II Is only necessary that the people
should understand the simple fact sss forth in
such resolutions as the foregoing 10 make the
cry ring TO the echo, that is rising now from
every quarter ofthe land PEACE PEACEl"
and there will be Peaee.--N Y. NsspA
n6-A letter from Jerusalem, ia the Paris
Monde says "The Duke de Lynes is ex
ploring the Dead Sea, on hoard small steamer
called the Segar, ten metres (thirty three feet
in length, vhieh he got built on purpose a
Toulon. Il was then taken to pieces ant
sent 70 Jada, whence II was conveyed to In,
Dead Sea on the backs Of camels. The Arab