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Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
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An 1861 editorial critiques Republican journalists' threats to immediately free and arm slaves as a war measure, mocks the New York World's ridicule of radicals followed by calls for gradual emancipation, and observes the intra-Republican dispute between Lincoln and Cameron factions over control of Civil War policy.
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"These are, as everybody knows," words of Lord Byron
but so abused so at such cool 2dr Bs:
"and for joy singing nothing. We know of no act against their radical brethren, "which would
do more than the threats of certain Republican journals abiding in the current position of the day more
Immediately free and arm the negroes. At the
same time, these seemingly rabid journalists
admit that the Government may be desired, or
become so excited and impatient over the prospect
of necessity, to adopt this radical policy, and they
know whereof most Abolitionists quake. saai-4 b..
with The New York World, which has by all
•x" 113 ,, champion of President Lincoln, is a sample of
cr bt in own accord. assumed to be the
act this change of papers; In one breath, it ridicules
and abuses the Abolitionists "most unmercifully,
and pronounces in doom on this continent
and in the next, denounces slavery on high, and
proclaims (forever in consequence) of the rebellion
Is Below, is the first paragraph in its article,
101: headed "A Craven Cry in the World of the
13th inst.-Dear God, etc., reader, see if a more
X. is jumble of unsparing ridicule and withering
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Yonw. The outcry. Francis:. Can it be believed that there are Ameri. cans upon nigger in the Tee: 4) (freedom dastardly enough to raise a cry like that. There is not a day we do not hear it. It is hurled at every point of the compass, 'ead z.y: ; comes down ; So us from even 30: military,Docemaity,: In effect, " we are at the capital-, They demand," For the six millions of the, South--that Ram 88... doomed to defeat,--unless we get the help of "Just in this style, but it amounts to exactly that. black;mas.. They do not, like to have it put in:l , under the war power the baldest pretext and say that a viler insult ; was never , by southern slave-drivers does not equal its, H favor, and with the noblest cause that ever ap- 1salaves; it must look to.. the poor, blind, a: creeping African to help vindicate our birth- right and stay us up in our,extremity, then let ,cannot court, the alliance of slaves, without ,There• be ) Ln do word of sword too low for us. , We recorded, we "are'f'mndsillt" indeed, proving that we are ourselves. At to be"nlaves. It is our heritage that is assailed, 'not theirs: and if our own good right arm, with all the ; advantages they have, cannot protect it,'we may as well Zi once advertise our degeneracy to the world, and prepare to take, our place it under: linge, Emancipation is a military necessity! A Military :xxcruity! , If, emancipation must be, for the honor of our fathers, for our own independence, for the prospects of our children, for the good name of free government, and for the dignity of the, white "race, let it take any shape but that, . : ,.i1 : tsmo) In the very next paragraph, the World turns round and gives slavery "fit" in the following style, a la GARRISON: Now we will yield to none in hatred of slavery as the instigator of this heinous rebellion. Whatever its character before, its crime here is inexpiable. There is not, and never will be, rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash clear its parricidal hand. Cursed be he who shall intercede for it. Let it die the death! But there need be no fear of its escape. It is doomed beyond recall. It is to perish inch by inch, and therein its retribution will be all the more terrible. There is reason why it should not be struck down suddenly. It has its hold upon too many civil and social interests for this to be done safely. To prostrate it at once is to lay in ruin much which cannot be spared. Not for its own sake would we stay the avenging blow for an instant, but for the good of the nation, for the order of society, for the welfare of the poor slave himself, we would give it a slower exit. The difference between the World and its more radical contemporaries is simply this--that the latter are in favor of immediate, and the former of gradual emancipation. But both agree that universal emancipation is to be accomplished through the instrumentality of the Federal Government, and is to follow as a necessary result of the war. The World, like a fond but petulant mother, first boxes the ears of its Abolition pets, and then gives them a sugar-plum, as witness the following sentences near the close of the article alluded to: There need be no apprehension that slavery will not suffer sufficiently for its agency in this rebellion.Every discerning man sees,every thoughtful man knows, that it has drawn consequences upon itself that are as fatal to its existence as would have been the annihilating bolts of heaven. The War of the Lincolnites and the Cameronians. As a pleasant interlude in the tragedy now enacting on the Union borders, we may notice the conflict now raging between the rival Houses Of Lincoln and Cameron. The point in dispute is, whether the President or Congress should prescribe the policy or conduct of the war. The Lincolnites contend that when Congress has unloosed the purse-strings of the nation to a liberal extent,and provided on a large scale for raising land and naval forces, it has done its whole duty, and should immediately adjourn, leaving the entire management and control of the war in the hands of the Executive and his military subordinates. The Cameronians, on the other hand, insist that all the President has to do is to carry out the measures which Congress may adopt, with all his ability. His business is, they say, not to dictate, but simply to execute the acts of Congress. They would have Congress prescribe the general policy of the war, and the President follow it out. The quarrel has waxed quite hot within the past week, and bids fair to become somewhat fierce and protracted. It may originate two hostile feuds, causing the expulsion of Simon from the Cabinet, and lasting during the remainder of Abraham's reign, or possibly it may end in a compromise, It is simply-and solely a struggle for power between the rival Houses. It will afford some diversion for those that can be diverted in the midst of great national calamities.
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Criticism Of Emancipation Threats And Republican Factionalism In Civil War Policy
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Mocking Of Abolitionist Inconsistencies And Critical Of Radical Measures; Observational On Power Struggles
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