Year: 1862

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struggle of the Nation for life, which is
review OF the Presidents Message We
make the following extract, which con-
tains much truth and good sense:


The Government must be in the Interest
Of Libery-We tell the President. and
we desire to do so with all possible respect,
that even the restoration of the Uuion on
policy shaped expressly to conciliate
" Old kentuck or the slaYeholding inter
est OF any of the border States would
now, if possible, not be worth effecting-
Why have we of the loyal States placed
him in has present elevated position2 No
man better than himself knows that we
voted for him at the risk of civil war and
the dissolution of the Union, because we
were determined that the slave interest
sh uld no longer shape the policy and
govern the councils of the nation. 1t was
the determination on the part of the free
men of the East, the North and the West
that took Mr. Lincoln from his law -offic ce
and made him President He was not
elected to preserve slavery, nor to abolish
slavery but he was elected q emancipate
the administration and the Republic itself
from the domination of the slave interest
and we protest, therefore, in the name of
those who elected him, against the perpet-
uation of that denomination. even though
confined to the slave interest oil MARYLAND,
Kentucky and Missouri Slavery NAV or
may not continue to exist. but we insist
that the Government shall cease to be
administered in its interest or under its
dlctation The Government must be ad-
mlnlstered in the interest of freedom nd
loyalty. If not, better yield to the seces-
slOnlsts at once, and take jefferson Davis
for our President We will not pour out
our blood and our treasure, we will not
send the flower Of our youth and the glory
OF our manhood to rot in camp, die on the
battlefield, or languish in Southern dun
geOns, for the sake of bringing the Union
again under the domination of Southern
Shareholders, and of exposing ourselves to
be again insulted and bullied or cheated
ont of our rights and our manhood by the
Davises, the Tombses. the Hammonds. the
NasOns and the Slidels We have resolved
thatour Government shall be emancipated,
whatever becomes of slavery and its wor-
shippers. This is what we beg the Admin
istration to bear in mind We should be
glad to believe that the President has not
forgotten it, and that he is prepared to
assert his own independence of the slave
power, and that of the Government. for
we tell him never will there, and never
can there, be a reunion of the separated
States under the domination Of the slave
interest


We have no concessions to make to
Kentucky or to any other border slave
State. The Shareholders have rebelled
against the Union, and by so doing have
absolyed the Union from all obligations to
protect slavery, in either loyal or d;sloyal
States. If Kentucky, the native State of
the President, will not remain in the Union
unless permitted TO dictate its policy and
make her slave interest its law, then let
her be treated as a rebel State, and coerccd
as we are coer"ing the other rebel States
into loyalty. We VIII no more consent 10
allow Kentucky than South Carolina or
Georgia to impose her slave policy upon
the Government


We of the Free States intend to assert
and IT aintain our own freedom our own
rights and dignity, and to be something
else hereafter in the Govcrnn ent of the
country than the mere lackeys f Southern
Shareholders Weare fighting to vindicate
our own rights, and our Governme mt must
recollect that in this contest it Is bound
TO take our rights, the rights of freemen,
into the account We wish the Admins
tration to consider that we of the Free
States have accepted the issue rendered
US, and that we will spend our last dollar
and our last lif- before we will suffer this
| Mon to be sacrificed in the vain endeavor
to preserve the infamous institution of
negro slavery. and before the slave inter
est shall e-er again shape the policy of
the Government or dominate on Its coun-
ellis. If Mr. Lincoln has not learned this
vet, he viii, perhaps, learn 1t before the
close of the present session of Congress.
We have been in b ndage TO the capital
invested in slaves long enough We have
long enough covered and crouched under
the lash Of slaveholding dictators, afraid
even TO say our souls are our own, lest we
should endanger the peace and safety of
the Union, We will do it no longer.


Events march, as we said three months
ago, and they are marching with fearful
rapidity. We are carried along with
them. To many of US what six months
ago seemed the extreme of rashness now
appears timid, tame and cowardly. The
Government, if it would guide events,
must mGrch with them. The President,
we perceive marches-slowlv, indeed, but
nevertheless. he marches nd his Mes
sage proves that he Is at least some steps
in advance of where he was at the close
of the extra session of Congress. He will
probably march at a more rapid pace by
and by. and perhaps catch up with public
opinion.


We do not want the war waged or pros
ecuted for the abolition of slavery; but
we do insist that it shall not be waged or
prosecuted for the protection of slavery
and its reinstatement in power. Slavety
has rebelled, and let 1t pay the forfeit =
+ We have no confidence in the wisdom, we
had almost said in the loyalty, of the
statesman who insists that the Govern
meut has any further obligation toward ii
now than to brush it aside if found in Its


Wv.


- Forgiveness. the noblest of all self
denial. is a virtue, which he alone who
can practice in himself, can Willingly


believe in another


Learn in childhood, that happiness


is not outside, but inside. A good hear