Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-27
.To Whom 1t May Concern"

"TO Whom 1t May Concern"
1t must now be apparent to every man
the smallest modicum of brains, who vii
cast his horoscope of review over the act
which mark the policy of this Administra
ton, that the restoration of our Republican
Union is not the end and aim of this desc
lating and bloody strife, which convulse'
and consumes the nation. Every motor
made by the President and his instruments
from the outset of his administration, hal
had direct and inevitable tendency anC
effect, not only to widen and extend the
breach of discomfort and revolt; but also tC
uproot and destroy every landmark o
Constitutional Security, of Republican Lib
erty.
1t has been its policy from the beginning,
not only to withhold from the friends oi
the Union in the insurgent States any
recognition of their rights of protection as
citizens of the Republic, but to place every
barrier in the way of communication be-
tween citizens and officials of the two sec
tions, whereby they might exchange views
and feelings and keep alive spirit OF con-
cord and fraternity, essential to any social
or political reunion. Any attempt to COM
pare ideas or views, between the people
North and South of military lines, has
been prevented. 1t would subject the
offender, within his power, to violence,
arrest and incarceration. The fact of
rebellion is made the excuse to separate
and keep asunder the citizens of COM
mon country, and array them nolens UolenS,
n sectional hostility. The war, inaugura-
ted, professedly, to suppress rebellion and
restore the Union, is prosecuted in such a
manner and for avowed purposes, the best
=, calculated to irritate and eXasperate the
sections and consolidate their respective
people in eternal hostility. The test Of 10y
altg as it is called, is spirit of irreconcil-.
able hatred. What an element of Union
Is hatred necessary to friendship? Are love
and harmony ever generated by vindictive
and unrelenting malice? What mockery
and insult to common sense is the mouthing
of s'war for the restoration of the Union,"
when conducted in this spirit and for the
accomplishment of any other purpose
Especially, when that purpose involves
usurpation by the President and the destruc-
ton of State governments! The truth is
apparent, that the war sustained by the
people for patriotic and constitutional pur-
poses, is prosecuted by an imbecile and
usurping Administration against the peo-
pie Of the whole country for the destruction
of its liberties. The war is directed against
the constitutional rights of all the States,
whether slave or free, and every citizen is
treated as public enemy, fit subject for
the sword or dungeon, who dares to raise
his voice against these usurpations.
The most potent means of creating or
keeping alive fraternal feelings among men
and bind them in political Union, is free
and unrestricted commercial intercourse:
yet the first act of the Administration, was
a blockade, both by sea and land, by which
all commercial and social intercourse, has
been cut off and obstructed during the
whole war. If this blockade had been di-
rected simply against military intercourse
and contraband of war, it would have ac-
complished every effective purpose against
the rebellion, while it would have removed
the inducements to that commercial corrup-
tion which has disgraced so many thous-
! ands and saved the northern people from
great sacrifices consequent upon their dis
rupted commerce. 1t is extremely doubt
full whether. the interruption of trade, which
has been the cause ofgreat evils and abuses,
has had any substantial effect on the inter-
ests of the rebellion.
1t is well known that up to the close OF
the first year of the war, great numbers, il
not majority OF the Southern people,
clung to the Union and greeted our armies
with true fraternal feelings, wherever they
penetrated the insurgent territory. AL
these have been chilled and repelled by ex-
asperating proclamations of emancipation
and confiscation, added to rapine and con.
flagrations, directed indiscriminately against
the whole Southern people, exhibiting {
policy of the complete overthrow of theil
State institutions, and the complete subju
cation of their people; while the same pur
pose has been manifested against the peo
pie and States OF the North in the complet
destruction of all their constitutions
rights.
And now, after three and one half year
of miserable bungling in making war;
the worse than useless waste of the grea
resources of the country and the lives an
happiness of its people-the President
his diplomacy with the rebel agents in Car
ada, boldly avows his revolutionary polio
of prostrating the State governments an
the liberties of their people at his feet. T
will have NO UNION, NO PEACE, NO NEGoTI
r1oN OR CANCELLATION, except on the bas
of this policy. With the impudence al
insolence of tyrant, who feels himself a
ready master of the country, he thus throN
in the faces of the whole people the irt
issue-ABRAHAM LINCOLN AGAINST II
PEOPLE: DEsPoTIsM AGAINST THE REPUBLl
s.
CAN 1T BE TRUE?-The New York Ne