The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-11-02
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| llshed some things which to me- seem en-.
urely too friendly towards those in rebellion
against our halowed government, with all
its traditional aud historical title to our
affection, our patriotism, and the might of
our arm for its preservation.
Presnming upon an acquaintance in other,
and Tess glorious years, feel assured you
will not deny me the use Of column in
winch to sustain the cause Of truth, this war,
and ('though not a Republican nor an Abo,
litionst") this Administration AS a chris
tian believing in the wars against the
Sararens who was desecratnr Gods hoy
shrines, and disseminating falsehoods in the
name of Mahomel, so do believe in this
war against those who have imprisoned the
liberties of four millions of the human race,
and scoffed at, and refused obedience to an
Administration elected by twenty millions
of free, Northern men. No one now doubts
the depressing influence of slavery upon the
intellect of our Southern States, and it is also
established, that whatever Of political i'm
portance, civilization or respectabity those
States have possessed heretofore, was solely
due to their connection with the free States
of this Union. Their wealth has been ac-
quired by the rankest inhumanity towards
a people created in the image of their
maker and thus constituted equal, and equal
ly entitled to the same privileges in the same
free Union. BY the muscle Of four million
slaves those half barbarzed infdes of the
South, thought to control the commerce of
the world and legisla'e oppression upon
future generations. Being npped in these
calculations, they impudenty boast of the
independence and freedom of their confede
ration as if to base the superstructure of a
government upon merchandise in human
souls, and the captivity o. those of whom
Christ said ''restran them not, for Of
such is the kingdom Of heaven" was the
perfection of the government. The free
North have seen how blighling was the curse
of slavery, and have felt the fast gathering
calamity as a sweet punishment for their
own servile submission. They knew the "in
stiution" to be Incompatible with the pro-
gress OF liberal ideas, a sound administration
of government, and the great doctrine "al
men are born free and equal" Slavery in
This beloved Union was prostra,ing the in
tellect. demorazing the affections, snpplant
inc the patriotism and uniting The people
where it prevailed tor the noble duty of self
government. Our NorIh hal become a
laugh no stock for the aions, when to add
to he burden of wears, the South rebelled
agans; the Administration chosen by North
ern lrrenen. Sumter was taken. Minls,
treasures, forts arsena|s an much property
of the North was taken, while the Admins
traion was charged with waging an "unna
turai" war, with "dispostion to extend the
benficent principles upon which it was
elected. over our fair Southern Eeriiage.'-
Well. let traitors rave ON. The sympathy
of the world is with us, and few of our own
great thinkers, or comprehensive statesmen,
men Of mind, like Phillips, Emmerson, Lin
coin, d. S. Dickinson, Seward, Holmes,
Prentice, Curtis, Holt, Garrison, Cameron,
Giddings, Sumner, Latham, Fremont, Nc
Dougall, Beecher Banks, Stanford and Stow,
will regard this as an unnatural" war;
Their ideas are, that tits in exact accordance
with nature, that the ignorant should give
way before the intellectual, the weak before
the strong; and if in the march of events,
their decline he not rapid enough, these far
seeing philanthropsts, scholars and sta;es
men, would be far from Withholding an ad
monitory idge, or think such demonstra
ton an unnatural" display of power
England, in her India possessions, France,
in her African, and America, from Plymouth
Rock to the mouth of the Columbia, have
ever pursued a policy dictated by nature in
its "crushing" attitude towards the feeber
and more ephemeral of its own creations
This then, is not an ''unnatural'' war, or an
unjust war, nor an unexpected war. 1t takes
place in the order arrayed for it by the great
arbiter of human affairs, and is waged to
sustain the great moral element of the free
States, which could no longer brook an in
stitution odious to God, and the sentiment
of Northern philanthropists. If in its pro-
gress it be the means of liberating the mil
lions of race more antique, and Of mental
endowments the equal of the Anglo Saxon.
Then why complain? Let the movement of
civilization be onward let freedom and
christianity abound, let the enlightened
North be the rowers of the good ship, steer
ed by God and Uncle Abe; It's for the in
teress of mankind. The South must be
crushed, their idols broken up, their bonds'
men set free, and currents of an humanizng
intelligence thrust in upon them on the
naked point of the bayonet. Make the
crusade effectual, no false shedding of tears
over ruined fortunes, high taxes, broken
prospects, suspension Of the habAas corpus,
the liberty of the press or the liberty of. free
discussion, with a thousand other interfer-
ences with our personal liberty.
But consider that the struggle is for the
enlargement of the powers of Government,
the destruction of error, the establishment
of truths. and revenge for the burning
wrongs of three fourths Of century. The
conflict would no longer be deferred, the
times were ripe for the wondrous progress
of the are. The end. do not fear, it will be