Year: 1862




disunionists. The open avowals Of the more
ultra oil this class of men, and the position of
others at the dawn of this rebellion, are proof
enough. Let the South go, was the tone at
first. Seeing that the country was not ready
for that, these disunionists shifted sails and
became the most clamorous for war. 1t oc-
CURED 10 these Abolitionists that war on
those they hated would be sweet revenge at
least, and might accomplish the long cher
ished purpose. Some may think it unreas
enable or uncharitable to charge men with
the design to do what the measures they
propose have tendency to producer but we
have seen too much of politicians, of late
years, to trust their professions, and conclude
charitably that they don't intend what their
measures will produce. These men South
did not intend dissolution of the Union in
the last Presidential contest They protested
they did not; but their conduct could lead to
nothing else.


= These Abolitionists are now pursuing a
similar course. Their measures can end ia
nothing butts revolution of the Government.
They propose to confiscate all the property
of the rebels in the seeded States; rather
they propose to announce that intention
upon their success and to make the law now
SO as to advertise the purpose to the Conted.
crate States. At present they have no power
TO put the law into execution, and its effect





men who are already in rebellion. 1t gives
them more to fight for. If they fail, all is
lost to them.


To abolish slavery in the States by the
Federal Government is unconstitutional
There is nothing better settled than that. IT.
however, these men can con6scate all the
property in slaves, then emancipation fol-
lows. Thus, indirectly, the Federal G )vern-
ment is to do what it has confessedly no
power to do directly.


The object of the war is not to abolish
slavery. OBJ, no, the object is to put down
rebellion, and emancipation or cOnfiscation,
which ends in abolition, is the means to &C.
complish the end. A convenient juggle
that. The Union would be radically changed
by this policy. Fifteen slave States belong
to this Union. The institution of African
slavery is under their exclusive control. No
power has right to interfere with it. This
is one of the points never disputed. That
this right should be overridden and destroyed
to put down a rebellion was never contem-
plated. The right to do it in this indirect
way can never be conceded. Any State
right may be swept away under the same
pretext. 1t would be the act of power with
out right and could be nothing less than
revolution.


Some of these Aboltionists 60 further, or
rather they proceed more boldly to the same
end. They propose to reduce the Southern
States to colonies and govern them as SUCH
claiming, of course, power over the instita
tions OF them all, at the discretion of Con-
gress.


Now, between these and the Secessionists
there is little to choose; both are revolu.
tionists; both destroy the Government we
have had. The success of such q policy
would not he the success of the Union and
the Constitution, nor would it be the exeou.
tion of the laws. 1t would be revolution
radical change of the Government. To
such changed government no loyal man
owes any thing. This would not be war to
execute the laws and put down rebellion,
on the part of the Federal Government; it
would be war of revolution, no better than
the war waged by the Confederate States.


Now it is not likely that these Abolition
lists believe in the possibility of success in
this movement To construct society at all,
with four millions of negroes and more white
people, on any theory, would be task that
no power or skill could accomplish. They
know 1t as we'll as we do. A failure they
foresee, and separation of the Union is to
be the result


We can't credit their hearts at the expense
of their heads, by supposing that they expect
success in their plan. Their professions are
the most profound hypocrisy, and the Presi.
dent will find it out before he is through
with them. Fanaticsm aud hypocrisy are
twin.sisters. The. end justiies the means,
however atrocious. They have efficient
allies in long list of politicians, who look
to a Northern Confederacy that they can
govern, when they must subside in united
country.


The President evidently doesn't suit these
Northern disunionists. He will find them
his implacable enemies. Policy restrains
them little now, but this forbearance will
not last long. Their wrath is but ill. sup.
pressed at present. When they see their
cherished hopes blasted they will have their
revenge