, 1864-02-16
SLAVERY PKoIIIRIT1oy,

L" The attempt to clIneh the eradication Of
Slavery T1lish is now going on in the South,
is fully inaugurated in Congress, by the agree
mont. Of the Judiciary Committee in the
House, to report the resolution of Nj. VIII
son, OF 1owa, which would amend the Con
sttiution Of the United stntes, SO as to pro-
hiblt It forever. This is declared to be tue
first prohibition Of the kind ever brought
forward in either House Of Congress. Moth
Ing could more clearly mark the change In
The times Than the fact that such q resolution
can find one TO offer It. Those who have 20
litical memories which run back for period
Of thirty years, can scarcely realize that this
Us The country, and this the Congress, which
adopted the compromises" repealed the
Missouri enactment, and set up the fugitive
: slave law. There must be many head which
such prodigfous turns in affairs caunot fail
to set whirling. Abolish Slavery In the Uni
ted States! alter the Constitution so as
to prohibit it forever! Many think it cannot
be done. With them Slavery il like the mar
1iagc relation, m ordinance of God, aud des-
tined TO last forever! To abolish it IS to
fight the Divine arrangements, and to pluck
down swift destruction npon Ill concerned
Have they not 20 read in the Southern pa-
pe1s, and SO heard from the Southern orators
dor.thcsc past ten or twenty yearss Well,
4tthe times change and We change with
tl,cm,'. said old Roman Horuce. Il 1t was
true so long. ago rs that, we ought not
to be greatly disturbed now. The South
e1n papers and orators were mistaken, as
Southern ofators md papers are now begia.
ming themselves to tell us. Slavery must
die; and who shall bury Its old, fntid car
cassy Ought not the Congress Of the nation
to provide for It's funeral and administer the
csfatc? -
Yet We need not be too sanguine. It will
not be likely to 60 through with o rusb. This
Congress has In It o herd Of Copperleads !.
some Of them having stolen in by fraud,
some Of them put there by discourasemcnt,
and few Of them, In the hight Of late elec-'
tions, having any business there. Yet there
They are. And a. Copperhead will stick to
, elayery a. the odor Of skunk will stick to
wo6len cloth. Every man Of them will hold
on to this tpecl1taI institution as IL It were
the essenee Of al good. And the road Of re-
!. .PelIs crooked, long and difficult. Three
:, fourthe of, the States must acquiescc in it, by
!: their legislatures; or convention of the
Sfates must decree it-and all this takes
time, and is Liable to interruption BY new
waves Of sentiment. -
q, But It Is destined to come in time And
tho part Of wisdom is evidently now to exped
:xp;and naoi1 sur Of erery inch eJ' gsoana that
isadined to freedom. We have seen enough
Of public affairs to know that the tide docs
mot always run in one direction. It has ita
Gibbs as we'll as its flows. The free soillnove-
meut afteq the Mexican var, was succeeded
by the !Fugitive slaye Law Of 1850. The Eu-
ropean' revolution Of lS48 drew after it the
"dcspotIsms Of two years later. Let us clinch
the nails as Inst Is VIC drive them. Rebels
and, Coppeihe4ds are now COMPOUNDED by
their reye.ses Of Inst fall, in the field and at
tho. ballot box, and now only whine and snarl.
But they are thinking, and feeling about for
= new onset, and coon We shall have to beat
them down again. Our policy is to make
their work -hopelcss as fast as. we can md
nothing SO surely takes the very Life out OF
them, rs to cripple and kill slavery. ALLOW
at slavery is two blows for the war. 1t takes
out the underpinning, and lets the super
. structure topple down. So crowd up the
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