Year: 1862

FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 18G2.


TIE SOUTH IN THE UNION


TO conquer the rebellion in the field, to
defeat and disperse the armies Of treason;
to repossess and occupy ali the places, and
territory: ofthe Union; and make all with
in its limits acknowledge and submit toits
autho1ity-important and vital as
such results are, they do not constitute
the whole Of the duty Of the
General Government towards secession.
Tic citizens of the South who have revolt
ed and taken up arms against the Union,
are not only to be compelled to lay down
their weapons, and renew their allegiance
to the Union; but they are Il possible to
be brought to see how great the folly Of
their course has been; how fraugh. with
evil and mischief to themselves; and made
TO feel that the success Of secession
would have been fatal tol their best pros
perity and interest; while in returning
to the Union they are coming back from
wild and mad career Of misery and ruin,
TO the tue and only paths Of safety End
peace Simply to subjugate the followers
Of secession, snd by main force Of arms, to
bind them down and break them into q
sullen and defiant yielding to oyermas!ering
powcr, is not SO desirable; and if attained
would be an end Of such doubtful good, that
all might well shrink from the prospect.
Il there were no hope that our Southern fel- !
low citizens, who have been stimulated to
such fierce and desperate efforts against
the Union; and who hare flung themselves
with such heAdlong and frantic fury against
all the bars and gates that hindered their
breaking forth from the sacred halls of
their fathers house, as from loathsome
and hated dungeon, could be brought back
sare by sheer strength; and we felt that
they must be dragged and forced in again,
and then could only be made to remain by
being chained down and guarded by armed
men, all ofus should feel that the future Of
the Union was gloomy.


Now there Is no real reason for any such
dark and dismal forebodings; but on the
contrary many and cheering Indications
and proofs, that the brethren who have been
so grossly deceived and betrayed, and III
der the evil suggestions Of bad men and
their worst passions, have been carried cap
tiyc into rebellion, Will rejoice in being re-
stored again to the old Union; will escape
from the thraldom Of their willy, treacher-
Gus, snd wicked leaders as from the snares
and power Of their worst and most detestcd
foes; and Will escape within the defenses
of the constitution with an ardor Of patri-
otto loyalty and devotion greatly strength.
encd and aeepened by the terrible suffer.
ings Of their unnatural revolt. Not to sup.
pose this is to believe that all the millions
who dwell in the South arc to be given up
to folly and passion; are to be snittcn
with blindness is with curse, SO that they
cannot see where their true interest lies
or seeing it abandon themselves mad1y tt
The opposite paths Of infamy and des:ruc
ton. Neither is there any good reason 70,
believing that the people Of the Southern
States will not come to approve the Wis
dom Of that policy which designs the abo
1itlon Of Slavery; but on tho contrary
much to prove that they will not only &C
cept, but will come to demand and clamol
for, measures which will secure that end


and secure it in the most speedy and ctFec
tive manner In endeavoring 10 forecast
what the future action Of the slave States
will be on this important subject, We arr
too prone to mistake the noisy and showJ
demonstrations Of the few aristocrats
whoEe social position and political power
have hcen I'll bred up and are nov
drawing their life from Slavery
for the genuine and indisputcd sen
timent Of tie whole people. Bu
facts, and every mans reason, both sI1ov
That this is not so. There is deep seated
widespread, and ever growing public opin
ion S~u;E, That sympathizes and agree
with the whole North, with Ill Europe, an
with all enlightened men the world over, il
the conviction that slavery is an evil, ban
and blight 10 any people; that it mus
be done away with, if any nation that In
~ "SA1N GAc~t-A <@t4A S4A@ SSoAAG4 LAAN UE
ter. The light that this rebellion la
thrown in such blaze on slavery, onl
confirms and Illustrates this conYictio1
For it has shown southern Union men til:
the only real foe Of the Union is slavery
and has brought these men slowly, but {
last surely to the conclusion, that SLAYER
must be given up if the Union would
preserved, and that The Lnion is of intinilel
the most value. The drift Of opinion Sout
is to-day setting strongly towards the +.
storation Of the Union. The people the1
will demand it soon, and so fixed will the
become in that resolve, that siayery or an
other institution, or man, or thing, til.
stands between them and the Union, wi
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