Year: 1862

The Abolition Conspiracy Against the


Administration and the Army.


With each succeeding day the evidence still
accumulates upon our hands that our Union
cause is in danger, not SO much from the ragged
regiments of JEFF. Davis as from Northern abo
ttion conspiracy against Mr.. Lincoln's conserva-
tive administration. and the integrity of our
army.


The war policy of the administration is simply
the restoration of our revolted States to the
Union under our federal constitution as they
left it, slavery Misunderstanding less, but
nothing more. In pursuance OF this simple and
patriotic pro gramme, our six hundred and fifty
thousand Union volunteers have entered into
the military service of tho government. The
moral contract between them and the govern
ment is that they are TO fight for the integrity
Of the Union" The administration and the
army so understand it, and hence, from the
Potomac river to the Mississippi, there is the
happiest accord and cooperation between them
in the prosecution Of this war. Thus the slave
State of Maryland, from the gripe Of secession
has been plucked like brand from the fire,
and restored to the Union without any other
armed resistance than that of a despicable Balti-
more mob thus the loyalty of Western Virginia
ard Eastern Tennessee has stood the test of the
sorest trials of savage Confederate despotism;
thus the loyalty of the powerful border slave
State, Kentucky, has proved TO the Union cause
more valuable than an army column of q hundred
thousand men and thus we have been enabled
to hold the ruling hand in the equally important
slaveholding State of Missouri


These advantages and many others we have
gained from President Lincoln's patriotic war
policy, 81 the integrity Of the Union" Its moral
influence has been greater in the border slave
States than would have been all the soldiers we
could have brought to bear against them for
the overthrow of their domestic institutions.
With the advancement of our armies south
ward the same moral influence will bring
us the powerful cooperation of the Union
men of all the other slave States. In coming
among them as soldiers fighting for "the in
tegrity of the Union" our troops will be well
coined by large body Of our Southern Union
citizens as friends and deliverers, and not as
enemies. According to the testimony of some
of our most intelligent soldiers from the prisons
of Richmond, it will only require single de-
feat of the rebels in that State ON large scale
to develope there popular Union reaction
W hich will save us the trouble of any further
fighting to reclaim the "Old Dominion" In
word, we have every reason to hope that upon
this invincible policy, the restoration of the
Union, we have only to leave the President and
the army undisturbed in order to secure the ex-
tinguishment of this beleaguered rebellion be-
fore the return Of spring.


Meantime, however, the administration and
the army are suffering from ga fire in the rear"
from Northern abolition disunion conspiracy,
which if not arrested in season, may bring us to
the dreadful alternative of revolution at
Washington, or the recognition of Southern
confederacy. The war cry of this abolition
holy alliance is emancipation or separation
the abolition of Southern slavery by fire and
sword, or the recognition Of the Davis govern
ment of our rebcllious States. In either event
the abolition fanatic tells US we of the free
States will be relieved of the curse OF slavery;
and, as he denounces the Union under our fede-
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covenant with hell" we cannot doubt that he
prefers dissolution of the Union to its restora-
ton with the institution of slavery. The abo-
lition fanatic assumes: first, that in making this
war q crusade against Southern slavery we
shall at once secure four millions of Union al
lies in the slaves of the South, and that with
these allies this rebellion will speedily be end
ed or, secondly that should this experiment
fail, and should we be finally reduced from ex-
haustion to recognise Southern confederacy,
it would soon come to an end, slavery and ALL
from its own internal convulsions and that thus
our revolted States, relieved, or in order to be
relieved, of the troubles of slavery, would be
rapidly restored to the Union.


Upon this impractcable and preposterous
theory of emancipation or separation" there


is conspiracy at work against the consistent
and conservative war programme Of the admin
istration, and the headquarters of this conspi-
racy are in the two houses of Congress. Hence
the delay of the House of Representatives in
providing suitable remedies for the financial
cmbarrassments of the Treasury and the coun-
try hence the abolition intrigues to break up
&" Honest Abe Lincoln's" Cabinet, and to re-
construct it on the abolition platform hence
those Congressional resolutions and speeches
levelled at General Mcclellan General Halleck,
General Sherman and other army officers prac-
tically carrying out the war programme of the
President hence the abolition war lectures at
Washington of such vagrant emancipation apos-
ties as Dr. Greeley and Dr. Cheever and hence
the unceasng hue and cry Of all our abolition
organs, great and small, against the inactivity
of our army. All these abolition movements
and proceedings are directed to the abolition Of
Southern slavery, even though this work may
require the division Of the United States into
two hostile confederacies, or revolution in our
federal government, and its reconstruction upon
an abolition basis.


But with this abolition faction holding the