Year: 1863




:: 1t would be well for all candid and reflect
ing politicians to examine into the cause Q
our present deplorable war. No doubt
l was decided in the closeted councils OF tn
Abolition Sacbems, long anterior to the frs
ppearance of the first germ of rebellion


long before rebellious idea found an -echt
an the minds of the most ultra extremist IL
, the South, that the South was to be goadet
with gibes and ieers until spirit OF restless
ness was kindled and al attempt to oper
resistance was manifested. Indeed it Il
plain to every seeker of the truth, as he
takes retrospective view of the history o
half century, and traces the early foot
prints Of the willy Abolitionists on through
their labyrinthian and fanatica operations
up to the breaking out of this terrible rebel
lion, that there was concealed ..and-deter
mined purpose on the part Of these vision,
arv and medlesome politicians, to create a
disruption of these States, bound together
by most solemn compact and united by
the mingled blood Of the Revolutionary
martyrs.


Such ideas were clearly entertained in
the early days of this Republic. The aboli
tion of slavery was the beau ideal Of these
self-righteous and bypocritical ran
ters. 1t was avered by the younger Adams
| that the only means to effect the abolition
of slavery, wa. to inaugurate war and by
its instrumentality the great desideratum
could be accomplished. Once precipitate
the North and South into civil war, and
then, as military necessity" the abolition
of slavery would follow as natural sc
quence Such was tho early schemes--
War was the only means by which their
unholy purposes could be consummated.-
1t was unhoy because it was to be war
upon the constituted rights Of portion of
the Union.


The rise and progress of this crusadiug
party against the South too plainly estab-
fishes the fact that its votaries have acted
in accordance with the ideas of the Puritan
schemers. Therefore, studying the impet-
uous impulses of the Southern people, this
party sought to so intiame the passions Of
| the Southerners as to inaugurate war
Knowing their clinging tenacity to their own
State institutions and their absolute devo-
ton to State Rights, the leaders of the Alb.
clifton party strove to incte them to some
overt act by which the power of the Gen.
eral Government might be brought in con.
tact with that of the States.


Thus the success of these schemes culmi-
mated in the rebellion, so wickedly planned
but so much desired. The country is in
volved in a disgraceful and momentous
war. At first it was necessary, in order to
draw the Union loving Democrats into the
vortex of the devouring whirlpool Of war,
to falsely declare that the object was for a
preservation of the Union The deception
was so complete that the Abolition leaders
| became dizzy with their success, and incau-
tiously threw off their mask. The object
was boldly avowed to be the abolition OF
slavery. 1t was necessary, however, for the
ultimate success of the party in power, to
manufacture the army into kind OF autom-
atom, to be governed by one will and i'm
bued with one sentiment. Hence COM
manders whose patriotism and high sense OF
duty compelled them to spurn such dogmas
as were promulged for the guidance Of the
war, were dismissed from service, and 9th
ers whose gr9veing servility was notorious
were put in their places All measures
which would conduce to the furtherance OF
their unhallowed schemes, were adopted as
military necessity" and party bchest:
absorbed what little of patriotism was left
| The war must be prosecuted for party ends
and party fealty must become test Of 10y
atty and patriotism.


The legitimate cause and the real object
of the war being plain, it seems fully as
plain to trace it TO its wicked and damnable
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lnoraized and miserable people were the
only unhappy effects, there might be some
glimmering of hope discovered through the
J dark and gloomy clouds which lower over
| this convulsed and tottering Republic. A
long series of years of uninterrupted in.
dustry might mantle the earth with the re-
appearance of prosperity. Well regulated
laws might reclaim the vicious, and re-es
tablish virtue and happiness. But when
the foundations of our liberties are broken
up and the frame work of our Republic de
stroyed, the heart OF the honest patriot
sinks within him as he contempiates the
wreck before and around him Laws set al
dcfiance-ths Constitution ignored loyalty
measured by blind devotion to party and
to the policy of the Administration-wal
waged only for party purposes, and impris
onment or death to all who dare question
the right of the party in power to do as
they please. Such are some of tho effects
of this demoralizing war. If it is to be
continued governed by the same policy that
now marks it's imbecile and cruel course
what may be the winding up is beyond the
power OF imagination to conjecture.


The States will be swallowed up by the
consolidated and centralized power dow
being inaugurated-law and order will ret
fograde into anarchy and confusion-mo
rality and intelligence lapse into vice anG
ignorance, and the happy condition in which
t society existed anterior to this deluge o
blood and carnage will merge into the say
age state of early nations. This may be ar
over-wrought picture of the terrible effects
of this war, but it seems as though there j:
an acme of advancement among nations
from which, after il is attained, they dc
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