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Daily Ohio Statesman
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
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The New York Tribune publishes a letter from a university president urging unity in the North to avoid division leading to civil war, stressing fidelity to the Federal Constitution over the Abolition programme as the basis for national union.
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The New York Tribune prints a letter from the pen of a President of a University, which contains things that ought to come home to every patriot, for it presents a portion of truth as to the condition of the country. We have already published one extract from the letter, in which the necessity of unity in the North was clearly shown. The following sentence depicts the prospect with a disunited North:
The result of this, if not checked, will be to divide the North into two hostile parties, ending in civil war among themselves. Then will come scenes of bloodshed, anarchy and desolation that will throw the French Revolution into the shade, until a military despotism closes the drama of horrors.
It is certain that, if the Abolition programme is made a test of loyalty, this result will ensue. There is one basis of Union in the North: the Federal Constitution. Fidelity to it will carry the nation majestically through this gigantic struggle. Infidelity to it is producing division at the North, and unless the Administration changes its policy, the terrible result predicted above cannot be avoided.
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potential division into hostile parties, civil war, bloodshed, anarchy, desolation, and military despotism if disunity persists.
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A letter from a university president, published in the New York Tribune, warns that disunity in the North, especially if the Abolition programme becomes a loyalty test, will lead to civil war and horrors surpassing the French Revolution. It advocates fidelity to the Federal Constitution as the unifying basis to navigate the national struggle, criticizing current administration policy for fostering division.