Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21

the Nlrelnlans THAT ne nad not eingle 40
olitionist among all his men, aud that they
bad only come TO find whether they had q
country or not.p This represented pretty
fairly the spirit in which the whole country
entered this conflict; il was voyage to dis
cover their country, and not to abolish
slavery But the commander at Fortress
Monroe, and those like him throughout the
land, may find things change as they voyage
farther on these unaccustomed waters. They
may, and will find, that their country can
only be found and reached over the dead
body of human bondage And when fairly
before the American people is presented q
plea between those who, having received
every beDeft which this country could be.
stow, have betrayed and sought to destroy
that country on the one part; and on the
other those, who, having suffered nothing
but injury from this country, have never in
iured IT who, having had every excuse for
betraying it, have not betrayed it, but borne
their chains patiently; l, for one, am not
afraid that the people will give their verdict
in favor of traitors and enslavers. They
may be cunningly entangled into it by red
tape; they will never do it on a fair and
square issue. Mean.tim If the course thus
far pursued of bringing the old party house
HOLDS to cripple us in this holy war for lib
erty and man be continued; if the flower of
every home in America is to be sent into
danger and death TO help the masters of
Virginia and Maryland bind their slaves
faster ard "re-possess" them, as God lives,
the retributioD of our nation will be swift
and terrible Once let the Southern slaves
fully understand that we are more their foes
than foes of their mssters-and this is what
each one, returned at Pensacola or Monroe,
hss 10 say, and We have added four million
blacks to the Southern enemy Those slaves
disappointed and enraged, will turn to fight
us with blows heavier than any their effemi-
nate masters can WELD; and it will be the
just retribution of Heaven upon our heads
Thus, these Democratic politicians who lead
in the military posts Of the South, with one
eye on the rebels, and the other on their
party household, bid fair to teach this land
fearful lesson of household foes, con-
vinced, as they are, that war of freedom
has nothing, whatever, to do with slavery.
But whatever the ruling authorities may
do in these great times, each of US, my friends
| is called upon to act the part of man-and
to meet the foes of a man. There is no power
can bind you back from that Daniel Webster
said, "The last end which can happen to a
man never comes too soon if he fall in de-
| tense of the law and the liberty of his coun-
try Hold yourself always ready for that
! for it is the work of man. But warn you
! that mans foes are not chiefly the open
| foes who come with bayonets at his breast,
but they are the foes of the household who
come with kind and gentle persuasions to
win him from the right and true. We have
already referred to the political households,
seeking TO divide the forces of freedom, set
ting the interests of party above the well
fare of commonwealth or a race. See how
coIfuptiDg are the interests of sectarian
| bouseholdl All for the church, nothing for the
mani You know that there are in this city
d. some ten or twelve church newspapers; now,
1 having attended carefully to these publica-
! tions for long time, l confidently declare
/ that with one strong exception, aud one or
] two mild ones, these organs of religious
households have not since the war began,
published one word that might not have
been just as safely published in Charleston.
| 1t is much as you can do to discover from
them that there is any war; but when you
get an intimation of the kind it is such as
Talleyrand would have given. OF course no
one expects any thing else of the New Church
Herald; but is i. not something to make all
liberal Christians blush that the Universalist
organ, the Star Of the West, should have not
one word of courage for struggling human
ityP Is IL 80 occupied in saying men from
fictitious hell of the future, that it has no
word to cave him from the real hell of the
present? And there is the Israelite, organ of
people whose one glory upon earth was
long and persistent, and ultimately success
ful revolution for liberty, has never yet ut
tered one word for liberty, and stands to-
day apathetic before the grandest struggle
the world ever saw. No one could tell
from it that right and wrong were in deadly,
! final grip. For shame, brethren. o for
shame Why should you make your
religions households narrow prisons Why
should you not also feel the flow of
! Gods great springtide, and burst your seed
shells; why not become that which is more
than Universalist, greater than an Israel
ite-A MAN This is the same selfish, petty
spirit which actuated those officers, judges,
&c, who, when called on to decide between
their country and their States, adhered to
the latter-the representative Of their own
personal interests and ties. These we call
traitors; and how much better are they that
| set the harmony of their little sect against
the victory of humanity on earth2 -. "a
IL is the spirit of those who, seeing their
neighbors house on FIRE, would make no
effort to save it, but use the fire to make
their pots boil. Self when all things
call for selfsacrifce.
i Because dreading the foes of the household
we do not underate- the friends of the house
hold. These are just as strong for good as
the others for evil. Glorious pictures have
been seen in every town and hamlet of this
country, of mothers and sisters and aged
fathers offering up those dearer than life,
j for the salvation of their country |; scenes
A which start tears to the eyes, and quicken
1 The heart with pufer blood. A mans best
friends shall be they of the household. 1t
I is the sacred privilege of household infu-
I esto enlarge and purify the heart, and
\ teach 1t the highest lesson of that brother
4 hood which the household foes seek to uu-
teach. Happy the man whose home does
not grow about bis humanity like hard
shell, confning and petrifying his relations
to others; but who learns by bis own house
hold the sanctity of all other households; !;
H. -
! TO oppose the wrongs which lay human
affections in ruins. The foe of the house,
: hold would persuade him who has hisown
fIeside and interests safe, TO lay up his
treasures there's and care not for what be.
falls others the household friend will re-.
mind him, when he presses his child 70 his
; heart, of others whose children are torn from
their parents hearts for the auction block.
When W. l.. Garrison, the pioneer Aboh
tlonist first went TO Europe he called upon
. Fowell Buxton, NJ. p, andwhen Mr.. Buxton
entered the room gave him his letter Of iu-
troduction.i "WhatlN exclaimed Mr. B.,
"you Mr.. Garrisonp Upon my word al.
ways Thought you were black man y
II was the noblest compliment l eveI
heard of a mans receiving. The En.
glishman had never imagined that any bu
one Of the African household could so laith
fully, 50 pnweariedly. have given bis Who'll,
life to their Gapse. There stood before hiu
one, a white, blue eyed Saxon, who haC
reiEsmbsIed those in bonds, as hound viii
them soWell as 10 be an outcast in his owl
eopmunity and household, for fidelity to th'
rights OF Others, uIa fI8tI e.ri 1g-t g3yf.
sin conclusion, let me remind you that tn,
danger Of the household foes is the gentle.
ness Of their strength. They are not th,
sngry foes that rouse the blood and nerve the
arm to resistance bus the loving and mild
powers that would, uneohsciously, reduce
the stern fortress of resolves in yourh heart
Ties to persons, TO societies. 10 churches
which call you " Brother and "Sister,,
which, upknowibgly, pervert clear judgment
with sweet brides Of affection, these are the