Year: 1863

class Of journals run into the widest extreme in
this regard, and denounce with much violence of
expression all parties and all men who do not
come fully up to their standard of belief Thus,
if man is persistent in his advocacy of prose-
cutting the war to put down rebellion, endorses
and is wiling to sustain the Administration in all
Constitutional measures by word and action, but
does not believe in making the abolition Of sla-
very the object Of the war, he is at once dubbed
"secesh" If he believes in preserving the Union
at all hazards come veal or woe, but is firm in
the option that the Administration is pursuing a
course which can never restore it, he is put down
as a rank secessionist In short, let him be as
devoted to the Union as he may, if he has not
endorsed wholly, every act Of the Administration
from It's inception down to the present time-if
he does not see that black is white, or if not
white, that it ought to be whtewashed and made
so-if his soul is not marching on" to the tune
of old John Brown, in perfect unison with 'Abra-
hams bosom and all nggerdom besides, he is
traitor and hanging wouldn't near nfict the
punishment he deserves.


Our views as to what constitutes a secessionist
may be somewhat conservative but nevertheless
we viii give them just as frankly to the public
as if they were of the most ultra type. A Sc
cessionist is one who actually believes that the
Southern States had perfect ght to secede-
He sympathizes with the Southern Confederacy,
and if he is true secessionst, is willing to peril
his life in the cause. He has an utter abhor-
ence Of the federal Government prosecuting this
war to put down rebellion, and thinks the South
should be allowed to secede in peace. That char
acter, to our mind, is seoessionist to the back
| bone, and that whether he lives in the sunry
south or the extreme north.


There are other classes of secessioniss of a
more dangerous type than the one spoken of
abore-that class we know where to find, for they
are outspoken and may be conquered by the
sword. The insidious and subtle type who worm
themselves into place and power by hypocritical
professions of loyalty to the Government and
who secretly work for jeff Davis and his coad-
tutors, are the ones we have most to fear There
is another class who aid the cause of secession by
advocating extreme yiews-not wiiully, but
blindly. We mean the aboitonists! Those
who urge abolition as a war measure-who urge
it as a "higher law measure and lower law
necessty-who spout it in their harangues to the
exclusion of almost everything ese--who preach


it in the pulpit and nurse it in all the social rela-
tions Of private life as the only thing worthy of
any serious consideration. This sect, fanatical
and bigoted, claim to be THE Union party par
ercellence Yet, start not reader they are
Union ,0ih proUiso If the Union cannot be
restored by the abolition of slavery, they want
no Union. Ever welded to a falacy' they
will urge abolition to the verge of ruin and then
say let the South 60 the Union cannot be re-
stored They will then be secessionists And
what will then follow in the wake of that seces-
sion 4? Why other divisions, of course. The
country will be PROSTATE, bankrupt, tired and
perfectly disguised with war--split up into fac
tions, twill be an easy conquest for foreign pow
ers 10 come in and "gobble up" in pieces the
fragments of a once great and prospectus repub-
lie. This faction, in our humble opinion, is an
element which if allowed to run riot. unrebuked,
and with uninterrupted sway, that will drench the


land with raternal blood and work the final sep
aration of States. 1t is not because we hate the
institution of human slavery less, that we
speak thus of the abolition party, but because we


love the Union more, and fear by their policy its
dismemberment, and the final destruction of the
liberty of the white race in this country-there-
by blasting the cherished hopes of con6ding
world in the principles Of self government


The doctrine of secession is dangerous in any
form-whether openly avowed, secretly adyoca-
ted, or indirectly leading to it; and it is unques-
tonably the duty Of all who are loyal to the fed
eral government to fight it in whatever form it
appears, as an implacable foe to the genius of
liberty and the best government erected by man.
Union men should stand by the Constitution in
this crisis and see it strictly guarded and upheld.
It is the bulvarI Of the nations strength-the
main pillar of all our greatness and our shield of
freedom. Undermine it, and down topples the
fair fabric of a republican government about our
heads-away goes our former boasted greatness
and the hopes of good men for prosperous fu-
ture But the Union will yet be saved-saved
in spite of disunion factions of every grade and
hue-in spite of sectional prejadices and fanatical
dogmas-saved by the great conservative Consti-
tutioual party rising up in the North.


NEUTRALITY. We notice a paragraph
in one of our exchanges to the effect that
the STATESMAN has abandoned its "neu-
tral' ground and come out in favor Of
George E. Cole for Congress.


In reply to this we have to say the
STATESMAN has never been a neutral" pa
per. In the outset we commenced it as
an independent journal, and such we have
endeavared to make it advocating always
whenever we deemed our opinions called
for) what we believed to be the right, un-
biassed by political prejudices, and ungov-
erned by personal aims. In endorsing the
nomination of George e. Cole for delegate
to Congress, we do SO because we know
him to be a sound Constitutional Union
man; because the doctrines which he ad-
vocates are synonymous with our own views
and we believe with those of the majorityof
our readers and of the people of the Terri
tory because we believe him to be the
only candidate in the field who is conr...S5oe-
tent to, and who will faithfully represent
the interests Of the people of the Territory
in Congress; because we believe that his