The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-10-17


them and their children forever the S1teS of
I free citizens, are more than hundred mIu
taken from the forces OF the cncCf,y and
| twice that number added to our own; Cor
they would not only compel tho rebels to
keep large force that might otherwise hc
employed at home. to protect their own
wives and children, hut would deprive them
Of greater portion of that labor hy which
! theynow subsist their armies. Now slavery
is to them II source of strength; II would
| then bc To them n source oG weakness. Its
abolition would, in our Judgment, be strik-
ing the enemy at his most vulnerable point,
precisely where we can best suudor the
siuews of his strength and deal him the
most fatal blow,
Moreover IL would not only bring to thc
assistance of the Federal arms the co-opero-
ton of the whole colored race in the Union,
but would assure us, what we now lack, the
sympathy and the moral aid of the whole
civilized world. and remove all danger of
coming into conflict with either France or
England. The war would be seen then
likely to effect II result with which English
men and Frcnchmen could sympathize, and,
instead of wishing for the success of the
Southern Contcdcracy, they would wish
with all their hearts for the success of the
| Federal arms. Ii would do more than this.
1t would bring to the aid of our volunteer
forces from one hundred to two hundred
thousand brave and stalwart volunteers
from tho free States-ayc, and even many
from the slave States thcmSelves---who will
not and cannot be induced to volunteer their
service in war which even if successful,
promise to leave the institution of slavery,
not only existing but more firmly establish
cd than ever. Everybody knows that slavery
is at the bottom of the whole controversy,
and that the real object of the Southern
leaders is not simply to protect slavery IL
gainst abolition movements where it exists
but to extend it over the whole Union, and
make the American Republic n slaveholdng
republic. And there are men in large mum
bers amongst us, men who have laid nc
sympathy with aboltiouists who see and
understand very well that, even were We
successful iii putting down the present re
bellion, no real Union between the Nortl
and the South could be restored, and that
no durable peace between them could be re
established, il slavery continued to exist
; These men will not enter heartily into tho
war, unless they see clearly and feel fully
assured that it wiil result in the final ant
total extinction of slavery throughout th,
Union, and all the territory it may nov
possess or hereafter acquire.
SLAVE LABOR AND FREE LABOR.
The present rebellion proves, what thought
full and far seeing men in all sections OF tn
Union lave long seen and said, that the pres
' eryation OF the Union with the slave system
of labor extending over one half of it, an'
the free labor systcm over the other half, is
!, in the ordinary course of human events, n
! impossiblitY Senator Seward. or r0thc
L., nf.t,,bInply IN l,N\IpW N
fore him, was right in saying there is a
"rrcprcsblc conflict between the tw
systems. They cannot long co-eXist togct
y er in peace and harmony; there is an irrC
: pressible tendency in each to exclude tn
other; and no possible wisdom or prudcnc
> on the part of any administration can hal
monHc their co-cAistaucc under one and tn
> same government. Gou must make yor
y election between the systems, and ad0l
i for the whole county either the slave BY
. tcm on the ircc-abor system; and the re;
v si1nlioaucc of the contest in which We AZ
! now engaged is, rs % which of those sy;
tens shall bc the American system.
! However homogeneous in race or chara'
ter, habits or manners, may bc the people
II country in the outset they separate al
- grow gra lulily into two distinct people
= with almost entirely different IDEAS, habi
|
/ section adopt the slave system, and II
4 other. the iree-labor system. We hav
{ already in the United States, notwithstant
4 ing our common origin, our common Lang,
f age the similarity Of ou laws, and our h
q bituai intercourse grown almost into tW
+ distinct nations. The Coniederatcs III
y Americans, indeed, for they have been Dor
> and bred on American soil; but they II
! longer retain the original American chara
l. ted; while in the tree States, batting VI
= alterations effected by foreign cmigrato
n that character is substantially preserves
IS We of the North are the same people th
n made the Revolution, won American Ind
!. pendence, and established the Federal Go
NJ ernmont. This divergence showed itso
i even at the time of the Revolution; and
# has been growing greater and greater fro
IS the beginning of the present century; and
r. the two systems of labor are continue
e American soil, ii must continue to gro
70 still greater and greater, till the people
$ the two sections grow mp into two absolut
@ ly distinct and mutually hostile nation
4 no longer capable, but by the subjugatiC
, by the one of The other, of existing und,
70 one and the same government. The ON
=. way this divergence can be checked II
,f unity and homogeneOusness of the who
q American people recovered and preserve,
d is by the assimilation of the labor system
: the North and the South.
!. We Of the North cannot and ought not
l. accept the labor system of the South. 81
# the slave States, by their unprovoked +
:. bellion have given us an opportunity {
o. performing an act Of long delayed justice
!, the negro population of the Union, and
"a assimating the Southern labor system
: ours. This assimilation is the bottom
y the Southern rebellion, and the South III
r risen in arms against the Union chiefly fC
4 the purpoes of extending her labor systel
h over all the free States. In doing so ST.
% gives us the right, in our own self defenc
i to extend our free labor system over all I'll
q slave States-a right which, but for her r.
N bcllion, we would not have had under I'll
Constitution.
THE GAIN OF LIBERTY.
IS If this prove disadvantage to the Soutl
it ern States, owing to the peculiar charactC
Il of their laboring population, they have L
e right to complain, for it is dsadvantag
i only as compared with rs of the North: f
D it will be better for the South herself
e have her negro population free lahorel
g. than it is to have them slaves. countin
q the population of the South, we must com
re not merely her white, but also her blac
is and colored population. The moral, spir
if tual and material well being of her fou
a millions of black and colored people mu
4 n IL.