Year: 1862







ang.


The abolition party asks the endorsement ol
the people at the coming elections II does not
and dare not ask this endorsesnent openly, hon
estly and frankly. On the contrary. 1t seeks to
disguise aud conceal this issue beneath the
flimsy wells Of other questions, such ~ those In
regard to the prosecution of the war and tho
support Of the President. The sophistry of this
begging the real issue il apparent All parties
agree in desiring vigorous prosecution Of the
war; and how, therefore, can this be . question
at the pollss All parties unite in supporting
the President; and how. therefore, oan this sup
port be affected by the result of the elections
Be not deceived by such weak attempts to cover
up the real designs of the abolition leaders. If
they can by any means trick the people into
giving them majority at the approaching elec-
tions the radical abolitionists will triumphanty
interpret this victory into = cordial endorse
mont Of their dangerous policy. The honest
voters may not and will not intend that their
votes shall be thus misrepresented; but this
fact will not at all Affect those arrogant radicals
who, only short time ago, impudently pre-
tended to be the representatives Of twenty mil
lions Of people. The freemea Of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana understood the real issue, In
spite Of the contsmptible endeavors to obscure
It, and voted accordingly. Let not the freemen
who vote in November be deceived aad-dss-
luded. A &an


The question for every voter to consider d,
whether or not he thoroughly approves Of the
radical abolition policy. Candidates, be they
good bad or indifferent, are Of ne importance
whatever in these elections. Great principles
are at stake. The future policy Of the nation is
to be decided. The constitution is to be main
tanned as the supreme law Of the land or thrown
aside as useless bit of paper. The Union is
to be restored in six months or forever lost in
the tremendous convulsions of twenty years
war. JEFF Davis despotism is to be condemned
or justified in the minds Of his oppressed sub
jects. The outraged and tyrannized people Of
the South are to be encouraged to return to the
Union, or the door of reconciliation and reunion
is to be shut and barred in their faces. never
again to be opened until the negroes remain the
only inhabitants of the seeded States. Our
soldiers are to be Loyalty supported in their bat
ties for the Union, or betrayed at the polls and
forced to become assistants at slave insurrec-
tions and accomplices in the horrors of murders
and massacres, rapes and rapine, committed by
brutal and infuriated negroes upon the women
and children of the South. In fine, the.antago-
nistic policies Of the conservatives aud the radi
calls, Of those who desire the Union with or
without slavery, and those who desire the aboli-
ton of slavery with or without the Union are
now arrayed against each other in these elec-
tions, and the voters Of the North are called
upon to indicate a the ballot box which of the
two they desire 10 be adopted and sustained.
If every man could and would understand this
fact the elections would be almost unanimously
conservative. As it is, however, we hope that
enough will understand it to make the con-
servative majorites in November almost unprc-
cedented.


The radical abolition policy is unconstitu-
tional and the radical abolition leaders have
repeatedly acknowledged its unconstitutional
ty. Therefore, before this war began, they de-
liberateIy and avowedly aimed to destroy the
constitution in order to destroy slavery
Therefore, also, whom the first slave State
seeded, the radical abolitionists from the plat
form and in the Tribune, sympsthizsd with the
secession leaders and gloried in the ida thsta
the constitution was rent in twain and tho
Union dissolved. Now, however, they have
changed their tactics and desire, first, to use the
constitution to call out the military power of
the North, and then to throw aside the constitu-
ton in order to use that military power to
abolish slavery. But this making use Of the
constitution In order to abuse it is . most trans
perent trick. If the constitution be still in
force, then we must abide by its provisions and
reject the abolition policy. If, on the other
hand, the abolition dogma that this rebellion has
superseded the constitution be correct, then we
are without . government, without q national
existence, without any but State and local laws,
and in a condition Of deplorable anarchy; and
the President has right to call for troops, to
command our armies, or to exercise any Of the
prerogatives granted by, dependent upon and
abrogated with tho constellation Thus, whether
or not the constitution still remains our su-
preme law, the doctrines of the abolitionists
are absurd. But they are more than absurd
they are destructive both to the North aad tho
South. They will involve US in war of at
least twenty years duration conducted at an
enormous expense and with terrible loss Of
life, and ending, not in reunion, but in the inau-
gurstion Of q series Of insane experiments, on
gigantic scale, in regard to amalgsmation and
mulatto republic At the South they viii
justify every statement made by JEFF. Davis, and
rivet more strongly the chains by which he
binds the masses Of the people to his throne
and drags them to destruction. just SO long
as we maintain the Union and The constitution
we have good cause and fair prospect of
success. The moment we supersede the constitu-
ton and transform the Union into an abolition