manity.

There is one point still remaining of vast importance. It is the
question of Slavery, so far as it yet lingers within our borders.
Without entering upon other aspects of that case, we call attention to
the proposed amendment for the purpose of abolishing Slavery on the
recommendation of Congress and the ratification of three fourths of the
States, as provided in the Federal Constitution. This is recommended by
Mr. Lincoln, and it is a plank in the Baltimore platform. It passed the
Senate by a more than two-thirds vote, but was defeated, _by the
Democrats_, by a vote of 69 to 94, in the House, thus failing to receive
the two-thirds majority of both Houses of Congress as required by the
Constitution. If, as has been heretofore shown, Slavery is the great
enemy of the Union, and was the sole cause of the rebellion, why not
extirpate the _cause_ of the war? Why not remove what may remain of
Slavery after the war is ended, by the proposed amendment, as
recommended by Mr. Lincoln? This is a war and a Union measure,
calculated to crush the rebellion, to maintain the Union, and to prevent
any future effort to effect its overthrow. This measure, which would
settle finally and forever the Slavery question, will succeed at an
early period, if Mr. Lincoln should be reflected. But this measure the
Democrats oppose, and desire to _keep open_ the Slavery question, for no
object that can be perceived, except to renew the old party alliance
between Slavery South and its Northern supporters, with a view to party
triumphs. If General McClellan succeeds, Slavery, so far as it still
exists, will be cherished, maintained, and perpetuated. The viper will
be warmed into life again, and although it might perhaps recoil for the
present, it would only be to strike at some future period with greater
force and venom at the life of the Republic. These men tell us they are
for the _Union as it was_. Are they for the revival of such scenes as
were perpetrated by Brooks in the American Senate? Are they for the
Kansas frauds and murders and forgeries, including the forgery of a
constitution? Are they for the right of secession, or, while they
dispute the right of a State to secede, do they deny with Buchanan and
Pendleton the right of the Government to prevent its secession? Are they
against secession, but against coercion also? Are they against
rebellion, but opposed to its overthrow by force! Throughout the South,
under the Union as it was, t