Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-08-09

OF the art OF war-everythlng depends mere
ly on brains.
The sum of these two facts is very clear,
namely: if the North wants to settle the
slavery question by the edge of the sword .
the North is in very fair way to be graft
fed; and when she gets what she wants, |
there is at least an exceeding grcr' proba-
biity that the North will see reason to change
her mind very materially, as TO the wisdom
Of settling that question.
Moreover, let il not escape your attention
that many circumstances aggravate the con-
duct of the men Of the North, and exasper-
ate the hearts Of the men Of the South, in
this wholesale business: all of them tending
to strengthen us and TO weaked you at every
stage Of the bloody struggle TO which you
are driving the country. For, in the first
place, let slavery be all that you assert it to
be--the time is long past when it was eth
er honest, wise. patriotic for you to take
that ground, even in an argument having
merely ordinary political bearings, much less
in one looking 10 bloodshed and conquest
! All that was settled between us before the
! old confederation was formed; it was SET
| tied again in the common danger and common
glory of great Revolution; it was settled a.
gain in the Federal Constitution. | say
nothing about the unspeakab'e folly OF argu-
ing as statesman, that Slave State and
! Free State cannot tolerate each other in one
confederacy, supposing the question to be
now for the first time considered. What
say is, that it is no longer possible for the
men Of the North TO open that questisn, with
out revolution, and without dislo"alty 10 cv-
oo+, i - e ,oet
history; and what l mean is, that they cam
not do this without so weakening and dis
gracing themselves, and so strengthening
and ennobling us. that God, posterity, for
tune, and the hearts of the combatants must
feel the effects Of the opposite conduct and
position OF the parties. To which we add,
in the second place, that this conduct o. the
men OF the North, besides being base po-
litical after-t thought, is deliberate breach
of faith, ;emented Gy the blood of car faith
ers; an ignoble retraction OF plighted honor
and truth and justice; calculated sacrifice
Of those Of their own race, and lineage, and
house anI blood, for those Of strange kin,
: dred and cline without any new circum.
stance or additional reason, for so atrociou,
perfidy against plghted troth.
G Add again, in the third place, the atrocity
OF the state Of heart in which the Nortl
c presses this bloody arbitrament, under th'
settled belief that she risks nothing thereby
and that we risk everything; and the fer
vor nf that state Of soul to which the South
= reused by so much insult, injustice ard dan
e ger, really docs risk I'll, with sublim
y purpose, TO the last man, 10 win all. Anc
5 then, in the fourth place, add the sort of con
n viction, in which the two parties thus mu
It tually range themselves, in that deadly strife
Il and if you be as wise as You are eloquent
= you may comprehend what as yet you seen
! 10 have wholly ycrooked-namely, Tn
S settled confidence Of the entire slave States
II that they are fully able to make the men o
r the NCrth repc..' lat they ever broke con
d stitutions, aid forgot ancestral ties, and out
e ragged national obligations, in order to ruiz
/, the millions of the most elevated race on tn
= face Of the earth, upon the hazard-it no
g the pretext-of beneiitting the third pat n
It that number, of one of the most degrade
E race in the world. You will have battle
y ana LAT without truce or compromse-an
n that whenever you can reach us--and tha
h until the field is entirely won? For m
/ part, sir, would gladly shun that battl,
gladly give my blood to arrest it, if it wer
r, begun. For whoever lives to sec that bat
l. tie fought, will see one more example adde
Il to the multitudes which already crowd III
s. annals OF mankind, that the who boast then
J. selves when they grid their harness Oh, Al
m apt enough to wall when they come to put
i off.
ID So far then you may perceive, that acco'
le ding TO the fixed and unanimous convictiC
I'd OF the fifteen Commonweaths you propos
le to conquer, your whole North, if it wei
* united as one man, could no moe do th
- deed than it could make world; and th
in unless it were utterly lost 10 every gloriol
" inspiration of the past and every sacred in
~ pulse struggling for birth in all true heart
Id the North would no more think Of maxim
it such an attempt upon such preteXts as yS
q array-evcn ii those preteXts were true al
so real-than it would think of parrcide i'o
it lowed by self-murder. But sir, beg ye
n to consider what | shall add TO show th
Ill these pretexts are neither true or real
ur The very foundation of your discourse,
'iy you distinctly state, is the grand prlncipl
universal, as you assert, is the law oil slav
or nv, that man, created in the image of Gt
ay is divested of his human character, and d
is, clared to be mere chattel. Now, NJ
en- Sumner, you cannot fail TO be aware th
l both parts of this statement are absolute
er untrue, and by consequence your whole pl
ou for our conquest is based on double, pc
. fduous bubble. There is not sing
do slave State in this whole Union whose Law
"a divest the slave of his human character
he There is not single one whose laws d
IT. clare slave TO be mere chattel. Nodou
of many of the rights which believe with y'
ill TO be inherent in human nature, are Who'll
RS: incompatible with any state Of slavery.
to No doubt if slavery exists t. all, the rig
lot Of property thls recognized by the local Ia
he may be made analogous 10 the right one h
IN. TO a chattel, just as it may be 10 the rig
ou one has to fealty. But you have far too mu
Ter sense and knowledge not to know that the
ar are widely different truths from the abon
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