The Southern Press

What the Union has to say on Ohio Abolitionism.

We stated the other day the fact that the Ohio Democratic Convention had passed strong Abolition resolutions, declaring "slavery an evil which ought to be eradicated, and its extension prevented by all lawful means," &c. We were curious to see what course the Union would take in relation to this matter, and find it to be in conformity with its abandonment of States Rights, surrendering everything to preserve the unity of the party.

Not content with thus insulting the Southern members of the Democratic party, by putting them in communion with this body, reeking with the odor of Abolition, it even exults over the silence of the governor's message on the theme as a thing to be grateful for, and thus unequivocally fraternizes with the men who have placed themselves on the platform of Senator Chase, their true exponent.

Bold and open as has been the Union's abandonment of the principles and interests of the Southern portion of this confederacy, we had not supposed that it would have dared thus to coalesce with open and avowed Abolitionists.

Here is the endorsement:

Ohio. From the telegraphic statement of the proceedings of the Ohio Democratic State convention recently in session, we infer that, after approving the new constitution, that body has substantially reaffirmed the resolutions on which the State was carried by the Democracy for the principle of non-intervention in 1848. The legislature of the State has also assembled, and Gov. Wood has sent in his annual message. It will be remembered that, in his message of last year, the governor took some exception to the fugitive slave law. Nothing of the kind appears in the present document, which makes no reference to federal politics; and this, we presume, must be regarded as a pregnant indication of the determination of the Democracy of Ohio-- with its immense majority in the State--to place itself in line with the Democracy of the country on the platform of acquiescence in and maintenance of the compromise as the only basis of united action on which the time-honored Democratic policy can be restored to its well-deserved ascendency in the federal government.

The question is not whether slavery is an evil or not, but whether, as an institution recognised by the Constitution, and the subject of a compact, without which, the Southern States would not have entered into the Union, it is to be left to the exclusive control of the States where it exists, and is to be disturbed or weakened by that insane spirit which imagines that either the State or the federal government is at liberty, in the pursuit of an abstract view of morality or philanthropy, to disregard the sacred provisions of constitutional law. This question we understand to be answered correctly by the Ohio Democracy--that is, in favor of maintaining the Constitution as it is, and not as the Abolitionists would wish it to be.

This is what the Union, in reply to the Republican's inquiry, has to state on the subject of Ohio politics, so far as they are involved in the proceedings of the recent State convention concerning the nominations to the next Presidency.