Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-03-02
Times.

Signs of the Times.
As rapidly as the victorious march of
our5armies reduces the area of Confeder-
ate ~usurpation and territorial sway, does
the pluck and audacity of the Northern
sympathizers of ~secessia abate in zeal and
boldnsss. The handwriting of ~iucontro-
vertible facts which daily appears in char
acters of living light upon the myriad
pages of current history, are becoming
legible, and full of portent, to the dull
visions and unbelieving minds of even
the Northern pro-slavery Democracy.-l
They are beginning to realize that the
revolution has gone too far in its progress
i've Influences to admit of a possibility for
retroerade movement. When Slavery,
To save itself, undertook TO lock the
wheels and block the course of the car OF
human progress. it madly and vainly un-
dertook to check an engine Of irresistible
force, the motive power Of which, is the
free, intelligent, philanthropic and ire
prsssible spirit Of the nineteenth century.
The attempt to reverse the progressive
impulses of the age, has proved a fatal err
ror to the cause of American Slavery!
Like all t~yrants, it was cruel grasping
and usurping. But its great mistake was
when it proclaimed its uucompromising
policy to be, rule or ruin. 1t invited the
friends of Constitutional Liberty and
Union TO mortal combat In the dread
ful conflict it has waged for supremacy,
it has inflicted too m lny terrible blows,
caused too much sacrifice and suffering,
made desolste too many homes, and blast
ed too mlny hopes. to have any claim to
our sympathy or moderation. The rebel
leaders nave found it an easier task to
raise a wbirlwind than 10 direct the
storm, the passion of which continually
RACES about them with the awful power
of the dark, sweeping tornado.
The pro slavery conservatives of the
North have been Justify singing the
adeiusively siren song of The Union as it
was, the Constitution IS it IS" Neither
ofthese events are 10 be candidly regarded
as among the probabilities of the future.
Itis too late. Tire fires of civil strife
have consumed too much of the super
Structure Of tie old ten PIE. to slow il
ever to be tensntaile in all It's parts in
its present condition. The Constitution
must and will be amended, and the Gu.
ion will be restored on the more solid ba.
sis of a regeneratei and v~iraliz4d funds-
1891 - T IL, sIorr e&-,sI earVslo
cosArdEy conservative. sny energetic,
purify ing reformatory measures will nc
doubt be as offensive a. the Offer of sosl
and water TO EIropslu llzlroni. Pro sia'
very Democracy has been so long used &c
tne smoky. sooty, cob web realms of pc
litieal fogyism has so long crawled on
its belly in the dust before Southern die
tstion. that to propose TO il moral and
political ablutions, sends a shock through
its debiiitated nervous system, producing
quskings and shiverings that would be
painful to contemplate, were it not SO
supremelY ridiculous to rational minds
as to be amusing. But it cannot escape
its destiny, which is inseparable frum the
doom OF S~llvery. Already several of the
more wary leaders OF the Democracy are
preparing 10 cut loose from the dead
weight of Slavery. Brooks. Of New York
heretofore one other ultras, snnonncedin
Congress last week, that he should no
more attempt 10 save Slavery from its
impending fate. He admitted that all
.k - - --z-z- -
vain. This caused some of the Vallan-
digham ooppsrheads to writhe and hiss
with fury; but their time viii come also,
sooner or later.
The New York FORD is preparing TO
bid IT'S Southern brethren" a final
sdieu, as the subjoined extract from one
of its late issues indicates:
The natural tendency and necessary
consequence of the war is to shake the
institution of slavery to its foundations
So far as its downfall is the natural re
suit of the war, the Democratic party
cannot interpose 10 save it,"
The Boston Post, an old liner of the
thickest and hardest shell persuasion, be-
gins to feel the fire of retribution prepar.
ing for it. and paddles off as follows:
THAT Slavery. as a system. viii be ia.
tally damaged by this war. there Can be
no doubt. In so far as the slave system
is broken down and the system of free la
Dor takes its place. the country will be
prospered. the white man, at least, will
Immediately secure permanent benefit
1t will tend TO unite the North with the
South, to break up the sectional distinc-
tions and political distinctions"
Even the New York Herald is getting
sick of d%enouncing anti slavery, and ex-
presses a willingness to have its idol
demolished and buried under a Constitu-
tional amendment. 1t says:
Strike out boldly for an amendment
of the Constitution which will forever
settle this Troublesome question of sls
very by removing the institution from
the country"
These are some of the signs of the times
pregnant with hopes for the future. The
institution of Slavery has had its day of
rule. henceforth it will only meet with
kicksand blows, stabs and anathemas, and
ere long there will none be found in all
the land 30 low as to do it reverence
God speed the day!