The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-10-17

Wlnch nave referred, tliui hC had neither
the right nor the desire toabulish Il. Again =
ON the day after The battle of Bun Run, I
saw John j. Crittendon present for tho
second time, resolution which, when of
/ iercd few days before that battle. Ind
BEEN laughed out of the House; and ] snW
every mcmher Of that House vote i0rit
except two Republicans. ! voted iuf IL
| bccau-c thought II we were TO hive war
| Il ought to he declared. nj least, u war only
! for HE supremacy of the Consultation and
! the restoration of the Union. remember
| too that IN the several Executive orders
calling for an Increase of the army aud
navy aud in the first message of the PreSi-
! dent to Congress, it was announced that
| the purpose OF the war was TO restore the
Union But remembered that Abraham
| Lincoln was chosen President by sections
| al party-that hc had ayuWcd the ductiip
IUf the rrcprcssihlc conflict. and declared
| that this Union could not endure part
slave and part free. ard J knew that he
never Intended tllat 1t should Joe all slave,
aud was, therefore rceolyed that
lit should le all free. Remembering
these thlngs how could be dc-
! cciyedY Knowing well the charactor
TOT the Republican party, how could 1 he
ImistakCn? ! remembered further, that after
the first Monday in December 1861. the.
! Republican party never had rc-ailimCd the
| Crittcudcn resolution. ! remembered th g.
|
Thirty Congress and throughout
the whole of the Thirty eighth Congress,
| ihHi resolution Ia some form or other " rs
offered by Democrats aud moderate m,is
and regularly laid upon the table by e..
publican mnioritics. ! remCmberpd llti
ihcr, Chat on the 22d ofSeptcmheL lSi2 or
lnbout that time the President issued his
proclamation declaring slavery abolished
| In the United States. | believed, then, thai
| the war was not for the Union nor the on
Islitutiuu, but for the abolition ofsavery. .aud
that this would lead Us to the very question
which is threatening Us to-day with auoth-
er civil war Now. who was right In all
that? Was IL not for the abolition of slave
Try! Has n not set free three or four mtl-
lions of slaves, aud are we not to-day de-
batting the status Of these slaves now irccd-
mcn?
But candor compcl- me to say that, Whiir
right on these two great questions. WAS
was wrong in another. | did not believe
| that even the Whole power of the Federal
IGoverumcut, put forth with such terrible
energy and Carucstncss rs IT. was, aud met.
| to some CNtCnt by corresponding encugN
| land paInestness On the other side could. IN
| any reasonable period of time, break dawn
| the military strength of the South. In That
! WAS absolutely and totally wrong. Butl
could not lorsec that the resources of tru
| Years would have been so wasted away by.
the men la control of the Confederate
Govcrnmcnt. rs TO become exhausted In
four wears hut upon the main propositions.
that war coultl not restore the Union and
that it was for the abolition of slavery.
was right--aud so. too, rs to The other con
sidcralions. | believed that when the south
should hc broken dnNu-if broken down
She could he--thc country would he per
| picked and iaraSscd by que stoHS ten times
more difficult OF adjustment than the
slavery issue itself These are the qnrs-
tions now and to-day before us, As Mr..
I.involn predicted, the identical old qucs-
Itions of terms OF intercourse are again upon
us 81.
Now for the tacts. The President and
with him the National Union or johnson
party, and the whole Democratic party
proclaim that the terms of intercourse he
tween the North and the South shall be the
old Constitution of Madison, Washington,
jefferson. Jackson, Clay and Webster, The
Republican party proclaim that the terms
of intercourse shall be the new or amended
Constitution of Thaddcus Stevens Charles
sumner and Benjamin Wade. That is the
issltc which IL forced upon Us now, di-
lrcctly and plainly stated. But behind all
this lies the question: What shall DC done
with the negro. now free? First, the Re-
publican party proclaim. as part of their