Year: 1862




The Union is the nation. The country for


which We battle is the Union made By the


fathers, on principles which, if rightly appre-


ciated By the people would make it as perma-


nent in duration as the world. If the wal


were over to-day, We should still have in our


body polite the elements of discord. because


We should have enemies of that Union among
US. In seeking for q permanent establishment
OF unity and harmony, We must seek to covert
or eradicate the men who are opposed in prin-
ciple to that Union. 1t is a grand error 10
imagine that the removal of slavery will re-
move all opposition to the Union.


The only basis upon which men can unite in
government is the basis of mutual interest
and mutual yielding. The same is true Of
States, eminently true of large number of
States. banding together TO form one great
nation. The enmity to the Union is rot local.
1t exists at the North and at the South. If
any one doubts that Northern Abolltionism is
the ally of Southern seeessionism, study of
history will remove the doubt and stamp the
truth Of the alliance as an everlasting fact. II
is true that some men, good men too forget
ting 10 the fierce excitement of the present the
whole history of the progress step by step.
which brought Us into the trouble, are disposed
to look with leniency on the Northern disun-
lonists among Us, because they so earnestly
advocate the war against the Southern dis
unioniSts. But We have said, and we repeat,
that no radical Abolitionist is in favor of
war for the old Union, and no candid Abo-
zionist will be found to-day who denies that he
is opposed 10 4 restoration of the Union as it
was. We are living in the midst of a trian-
gular war. Southern rebellion attacks the
Constitution and makes war on its defenders.
Northern Union men and Border States Union
men, by hundreds of thousands, rise to the de-
fense of the Constitution, the old instrument of
sanctfed memory, and world wide influence
for good, while third party, protesting to be
for a Union, are acting with steadfast purpose
against the American Union, and when driven
to the wall, openly confess that they regard
the Union with the adherence of " Roman
criminal chained to a oathsome corpse" and
that they uphold the war only because they
hope to have it effect " what the Constitution
failed to accomplish" We do not use our own
phrase. We quote from the leaders of politi-
cal radicalism We invite any American who
has at heart the true interests OF Union, to
recall few facts in the past, which are too
near forgotten. We shall state nothing that
will be disputed by even the radical men of the
day.


The theory of radical Abolitionism as pro-
pounded by its most eminent leaders was this,
that the Constitution of the United States was
a sinful and, therefore, detestable instrument
They demanded the exodus OF the slave over
the ruins of the American Union. They avow-
ed hostility to the Constitution in all their
meetings and in all their documents The
object of their exertions being the abolition Of
slavery, they recognized no human law, treaty
or compact as of sufficient force to stand IN the
way of efiecting that result. Part of the radi-
cal Abolitionists were opposed to the introduc-
tion of the subject into politcs-others favored
that idea. The result was division of the
ranks, and the formation of an Abolition poiti-
cal party. By gradual but certain progress,
the two elements virtually reunited and radi-
cal Aboitionists became politicians


For ten years they have continued their
disunion labors as politicians. They published
their papers and documents with the memora-
bic words: The Constitution is a league
with death and a covenant with hell" They
abused and villifed the memory of the fathers
We 60 back to one Abolition meeting in
as a specimen of hundreds that
were held throughout the country. A speaker
named Foster thus argued:


Was it not that the only hope for the
slave was over the ruins of this Government
and of the American Church The dissolu-
lion of the Union was the abo oltion of slavery
" Hpt' NnNtls dNuAGSS tuGuStiNtS DldlUlN ~
their work ?"


Another speaker, one Remond, said that


Remembering he was a STAKEHOLDER, he
could SPIT upon Washington. Loud Kisses
and applause.] The hissers, he said, were
shareholders in spirit, and every one would en-
slave him if they had the courage to do it. So
near to Feneul Hall and Bunker HiI. acas he |
not 10 be permitted to say that that scoundrel
George Washington had enslared hts teii0r
man ?"


And Mr.. Wendell Phillips, the Apostle OF
A boitionism, and now the representative of
the conditional Unionism so elegantly illustra-
ted by Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts,
thus, in an apoIogetic manner. intimated that
he conceded in the views concerning the
= scouudrel Washington" and proposed to veil
the statue of the greatest OF men. He said


- He should be 10th to afix to the name of