Year: 1862

drubbing, and proved ourselves the better


men. Then they will respect us, and con-


sent to live in peace ard brotherhood with


US IHey take every advantage of US, and


we Eust take every advantage of them,


ana force them by the damage we do them
into submission. Nothing else remains for


us. They will not submit unless forced to
submit; but when forced into submission


aud fully convinced that further resistance


IS vain, they will, We doubt not, with fur


less difficulty than many imagine, become


recOnclicd to national union with US. They


haze great respect tor power, and worship


force aS god. With them as with all


men of their stage of civilization, perhaps
even in ours, the stronger is the better
man, aud to real superiority they will deem
it no cishonor to Weld


''lf the contest end favorablv to us, as
1t certainly will, unless we throw away our
advantages, we shall lag behind no one IN
our efforts to make the terms of reconcile
alton easy but we urge now the prosecu-
ton OF the war with all of wars severity,
and with all the energy of free govern
ment and brave and heroic people. Es-
pecially do we prOtestagainst any compro-
mise II we are beaten, as we may be
tor the race is rot always to the swift, nor
the battle to the strong-we will submit to
The victor and take what comes. But we
INSIST on preserving our dignity as men,
our honor rs States, aud fall, if fall we
must, with our principles. Let no man
dare breathe the word !compromise' The
day for compromise has gone by. The
man, be he President, or Secretary, or
Senator, or General, who shall propose
and effect compromise, will stand brand
ed III history us an infamous traitor to his
country and to humanity.


THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE IN TIE INTEREST


OF LIBERTY.


"We tell the President, and we desire 10
do so with all possible respect, that even
the restoration OF the Union Cn n policy
shaped expressly to conciiate sOle Kentuc.
or the slavehOlding interest of any of the
Border States, would now, if possible, not
be worth cffectirg, Why was he elected
to the Presidency? Why have we of the
loyal States placed him in this elevated
position? 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
intcres. should no longer shape the policy
and govern tue councils of the nation. 1t
was this determination on the part of the
freemen Of the East. the North and the
west that took Mr.. Lincoln from his law
office and made him President. lie was
not elected 20 preserve slavery, nor to aboI-
ish slavery; but he was elected to cmnnci-
pate the administration and the republic
itself from the domination of the slave in
tercst and we protest, therefore, IN the
name of those who elected him, against
the perpetuation of that domna On, even
though confined to the slave interest oE
Mary lnnd Kentucky and Missouri Slavery
may or may not continue to exist, but
we insist that the government shall cease
to be administered in its Interest or under
its dictation. The government must be
administered in the interest of freedomaud
loyalty. If not, better yield to the seccs-
sionists Mt 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 tue Union
again under the domination of southern
Shareholders, and of exposing ourselves to
be again insulted and bulied, or cheated
ont of our rights and our manhood by the
Davises, the Toombscs, the IIammonds, the
MasouS and the Slidells. We have re-
solved that our government shall be cmau-
cipated, whatever becomes of slavery aud
lLS "OISl liHtsCIS. us IS Wu'lL we DS3 llle
Administration to bear in mind We
should be glad to believe that the Prcsi-
dent has not forgotten it, aud that he is
prepared to assert his own independence of
the slave power, and that of the govern
ment, for we tell him never will there and
never can there be reunion of the sepa-
rated States under the domination of the
slave interest.


ave have no concessions to make to
Kentucky or to any other border slave
state. The Shareholders have rebclled
against the Union, and by so doing have
absolvcd the Union from all obligations 10
protect slavery in either loyal or disloyal
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 interests its law, then let
her be treated as IL rebel state, and coerced |
into loyalty. We will no more consent to
allow Kentucky than South Carolina or
Georgia to impose her slave policy upon
the government. We of the free states in
tend to assert and maintain our own free
dom, our own rights and dignity, aud to be
something else hereafter in the government
of the country than the mere lackeys of
southern shareholders. We are fighting to
vindic0tc our own rights, and our gov
ernmcnt must recollect that in this contest
1t is bouHd to take our rights, the rights
of freemen, into the account. We wish
the Administration to consider that we of
the free States have accepted the issue ten
dered us, and that we will spend our last
dollar and our last life before we will suf-
fer this Union to be sacrificed in the vain
endeavor to preserve the infamous institu-
tior of negro slavery, and before the slave
interest shall ever again shape the policy of