The mountain Democrat., 1864-04-16

The conclusion is irresistible that the ex
tinction Of slavery in the seeded States
should be made condition q their read
mission into the WiSN,'--Waahiagtor
chronicle.
But there can be no readmission o.
North Carolina into the Union with slave.
ry, because in North Carolina, As in the
other rebel States, slavery has already
been abolished by the proclamation. m
Y. Post, Aug. 1s.
Senator Wilkinson, Of Minnesota, de.
clared in a speech at St Paul, on the Goth
Of August, as follows:
Il He had conversed with the President
recently, and had asked him If he ever in.
tended to withdraw his negso proclama.
tion for the sake Of restoring the Union,
and that the President answered in very
decided terms, Mr. Wilkinson, there Is
not the slightest probability that l ever
shall.''
How much longer can twenty thousand
men in Iowa-say ,as they have been in the
habit Of saying: l am Republican, but
never was and never will be a political
abolitioniSt'P
Such evidence could be accumulated ad
infinitum. Our space and its needlessness
forbid. We content ourselves with the
single remark of the New York World:
If it is calumny on the President to
suppose he will continue the war merely
to free the slaves, his own friends are the
calumniatOrs, not we. Writings letter,
Forney's editorials, Wilson's speeches, the
whole tone and tenor Of republican utter.
ances, and the whole drift Of republican
action concur in conveying the impress.
ion that the restoration Of the Union is to
be STAYED off until the institution of slave.
ry is overthrown, and the South acqui,
esces in its extinction. And according to
the Chronicle, approval Of this perfidy is
soon to be made the test Of loyalty We
shall soon see, then. how many will bow
the knee to Baal.'
This monstrous perversion Of the war
to the behrsts of political abolitionisn,
which contemplates servile insurrection
and wholesale murder. rape, arson, infan-
ticide and robbery, has involved the ad-
miniStration in thousand contradictions;
has cost US the lives of two hundred thou
sand men and will cost a million more
has squandered a thousand millions dol
lars and will demand other bilions-has
needlessly prolonged the contest by years
and, il persisted in, will protract it beyond
the life Of this generation n-has consolida
ted the South to invincible desperation
and distracted the North, almost to oper
revolt has broken down the American
system Of volunteering, and inaugurated
All Austrian system Of conscription-ha:
neutralized all the victories we have won
and made the presence of federal power
detested instead Of welcomed by the en-
tire Southern peOple-has suspended thu
amenities, such as they are, of civilized
warfare, and furnished the pretext fol
arrning savage negroes, whereby the un
utterable atrocities of barbaric insurrec
tion and q war OF embittcred races are t
be added to the other horrid cruelties o
this vindictive contest.
In the name Of humanity, and justice
and civilization. of the constitution and o
the honor Of our country, we ask The
people Of Iowa, rising above party, tc
protest against this Jacobinism Of the fed
eral administration and to demand o
them an end Of this vacillation. Let u;
demand Of the President and his Cabinet
as they regard the honor and the welfare
of their country, and upon their manhood
and their official oathS. that they assume
unequivocally, one or the other of thest
positions, namely: either to treat tht
Southern people as individual rebels, to bt
Subdued, tried, and punished, accordins
to the laws of the land, or as belligeren
States, entitled to the usages OF civilized
warfare and in either event. to gram
them peace, upon the single condition o.
Submission to rightful federal jurisdic
ton according to the constitution, with
out waiting for the arming Of hundred
thousand brutal negroes. In other words
we ask the people Of Iowa, through
their ballot boxes, to demand Of the fede
raj administration q war for the UnioT
under the constitution only, and cessa
tion of these crazy partisan hostilities-!
redemption of their early pledges, wher
calling formen and money-and M aban
donment Of their revolutionary attempts
to abolitionize, with gun, powder, and
steel, the people and the Statutes Of the
Southern States, by misused federal pow
err We desire tat this demand shall bt
made and made effectively, because w
see no other satisfactory, or even safe, SO
luton Of the difficulties into which they
have plunged us-becauSe We seek I
speedy termination Of the unhappy con
test-and because, when il shall come t
an end. We wish to live, as we have here
tofore lived, and as we have right to liv,
hereafter, in political fraternity with tn
white people Of the Southern States, q
coequal citizens of the Republic, and no
as aliens or bondmen, holding their right
Of life, liberty, property, and representa-
ton, if any shall be left them, at the i'm
perial will Of a centralized autocracy
whose iron heel may, upon some baseles
pretext, be placed upon PROSTATE necks
as it shall have been placed upon theirs.
These views aud aspirations, we arr
glad to See, are shared with our brethrel
in good old Pennsylvania. from who's
address We copy, and heartily endorse, th
following sentiments
The aim Of men not blindfolded b,
fanaticism and party spirit would be t
reap the best fruits from the victorie
achieved by our gallant armies--the bcs
fruit would be peace and re restoration
Of the Union. Such is not the aim OF tn
party in power. Dominated by its mos
bigoted members, 1t urges war for tn
negro, and not for the Union. 1t avow
the design to p~otract the war until slave
ry shall be abolished in ell the souther
States; ia the language OF one Of its pam
phleteers, how can man, hoping an
praying for the destruction of slavery
desire that the war shalt be q short one
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens, the Republica
leader in the last House Of Represents
tives, declared, The Union shall nevel
with my consent, be restored under tn
constitution as IL is. with slavery to b