ody and relentless masters, the millions of loyal
people of the South, to whom we have given the most sacred pledge of the
protection of the Union? And, last of all, are the two millions of
slaves, as Jefferson Davis complains, who have been emancipated by the
constitutional war proclamation of President Lincoln, are they to be
remanded to Slavery, including the thousands who have so gallantly
fought in our defence? And as to Slavery, or what, if any, may be left
of it, when the war is over, are we to abandon the unquestionable right
to abolish it, as Mr. Lincoln and his friends propose, by a
constitutional amendment? Is Jefferson Davis to come back again as
Senator from Mississippi? Are the traitors Cobb and Thompson to take
their places in the McClellan Cabinet? Is Toombs, of Georgia, (as he
boasted) to call the roll of his slaves on the Boston Common? Slavery,
we know, was the sole cause of the war. It was Slavery that fired the
first gun at Sumter, and demanded to rule or ruin the country. It was in
the name of Slavery that the South seceded; and it was to extend and
perpetuate Slavery, as a blessed and divine institution, that they
avowedly framed the Confederate constitution. In the debates of Congress
of 1860-'61, in the proceedings of the Committee of 1833, in the acts of
the Peace Congress, in the various secession ordinances, by the very
terms of the Confederate constitution, Slavery was the sole cause of
this war upon the Government. Slavery was and is our great enemy, and
shall we not destroy it? Slavery was the sole cause of the war, and
shall it not be eradicated? When the patient calls for a physician, he
seeks for the source of the disease, so as not merely to alleviate
present pain, but to remove the cause, and prevent relapses or
successive attacks. If he deals only with palliatives, to assuage for a
brief period the present suffering, when he can remove the cause, and
restore the patient to permanent and perfect health, he is but a quack
and an impostor.

The party supporting Mr. Lincoln is composed of men of all the old
parties. Its candidate for the Presidency is from the North, and
belonged to the late Republican party. Its candidate for the Vice
Presidency, a brave, loyal, Union-loving man, is from the South, and
belonged (like myself) to the old Democratic party. But the Baltimore
Convention, in the spirit of true nationality and patriotism, discarded
all old party names or issues. It acted only