Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-11-10

The Northern people are about to pro.
nouoce in favor u continuing The war on the
present scale Of msgniiul le, aHd in the pres.
ent spirit Of conquest and vindietivs en-
nifty. The reelection Of Lincoln will be an
approval OF bis policy in every part and fea
ture and it will be popular decree ia Ia.
vor of continuing the war for tbe ample OBJ
Iect OF emancipation, subjugaton and terri.
torlal integrity the election OF Mcclellan,
while II would be declaration in favor Of pre-.
serving the original limits OF the Union, by
var It necessary, would nevertheless be a die.
approval Of ldncoln's policy il many partic.
ulars, mere especially in regard to his meas.
ures with respect to the negroes, to the malg
nant spirit and conduct nf his armies, aud 10
the enormous system OF corruption at home
by which be secures bis control Ct public op.
Ia on,sud suppiSs OF all domest remoustranes
agaiuet his arbitrary aud despotic proceedings
II is not difficult to express in a few words
the distinction between the objects proposed
by the Lincoln party and those proposed BY
The supporters oi Mcclellan Both parties
profess 10 siui at the common object of pre-.
serving tue Union in It's original territorial
limits Tot ths Lincoln party insists upon ef.
ieetns this by abolition, subiugation aud con
hacattoni while their opponents propose to
employ military coercion only after the fail
nre OF peaceful aDd coBciliatory Insasures
One faction offers the sword alone the
other holds out the olive branch aud the
sword
The respective attitudes OF these two fac
tlons With regard TO the South is not fortui
tous und accidental Their position is in
strict consistency with their historial anleeed.
ens, and has direct reference to their respec-
tive interests and intentions 10 the future. If
the seceded States should be brought back in.
to the Union on the old foo ing of qual "
and with their original rights, the Democratic
party would Immediately regain the asceu-
dant, aud resume the Administration of Ihe
Federal Government They lost this sscen-
deney in 1860, chiefly by the silly refusal of
the Wings Of the South to cooperate with
them after their own old allies at the North
had become abOlitioDzed aud partly
through tie ambitious coadGct OF the half
abohtonized faction ol their own party who
went of to the independent support of Doug
lse. With the restoration OF the Union these
two ioliles would not bs repeated aud The
political vote OF the South, opposed possibly
by lew Southern Abolltionists, would be
given in strict alliance with the Democratic
vote in the other section OF course, there
fore, the present policy of the democratic par
conviction oftbe necessity OF securing an un
divided Southern support to their own organ.
lzallon in the event Of re-establishiug the
Union.
The policy of the abolition party is dictated
by precisely the opposite conviction These
Abolitionsts know that ifthe South is rsstor
ed TO the uniou on its old footing OF eousti.
luiional equality, the unanimous Southern
vote would he thrown against hem for all fu-
ture time, and would reduce them to a mi
norltJ faction. While, therefore, they profess
to be violently in favor OF restoring the Union,
they will never consent to receive the secad.
ing States IN any other character than as sub.
Jugated and dependent provinces. II, indeed,
they could extermiDaie the present population
aud repeople the eCuntry with Yankee Alto
hhonists, freed negroes, and hybrid race of
mulattoes, whose votes in their own favor could
be counted upon with absolute certainty, then
they would freely consent to the readmission
Of these States, clothed with the constitution
al powers attaching to them as States but
until the population shall thus be changed
and reduced TO absolute subserViency, their
policy toward the South will continue to bs di.
reoted 10 the dissolution Of ;be country and
the determination of its present white inhabl-
ants. The reason OF this policy is perfectly
obvious They feel pretty sure of their ability
to retain popular asdendency at the North;
but they are much more certain that they
would lose this asoendeney ia the Union the
moment that the Southern vote should be add
ed to that OF the Northern Democrats They
are in favor OF re.establishing the Union but
only after every vestige of the political insti-
tutions of the South and the entire race of
citizens who enjoyed them shall have been
eXtermnated.
That this is a correct representation of the
relations in which the two Northern factions,
now contending Tor the Federal power, stand
with reference to the war and to the South, IL
too plain to admit Of doubt or question: and,
in this view of their respective interests and
aims il is not difficult for the South to form
an opinion, and to cherish preference be.
tween them. While our people can not help
entertaining q far higher respect for the Dem.
ocratic than for the Abolitonist faction, on
many grounds wh eh need not be reeapiiula-
ted, yet is quite plain that our national an.
terests and objects are likely 10 be promoted
by the success of the AbOHlioRists, and 10 be
defeated by that of the Democrats.
And this is so chiefly because the Abolition.
ist is essentially dsunion party Up to the
inauguration OF Lincoln they we're avowedly
So They never protsssed to be otherwise
until they had succeeded in brow. beating the
Northern Democrats into supporting the war;
and, by thus uniting the North in war upon
the South, began to conceive the proieot of
subjngation. So long as they shall believe
our subjugatioR probable, they will continue
to profess violent attachment to the Union;
but when, after shedding rivers of blood and
filling the whole continent with mourning,
they shall discover that conquest and oxter.
mination are impossible, they, aud they only,
are the party who, reverting to their old dis,
union pariiaIties, will be ready to acceds to
terms OF permanent separation Meantime,
they will conduct the war in such a spirit OF
malignant ferocity as will compel the South,