The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-07-04


Congress from Ohio. writes from Wash
ington to the Toledo (Ohio) Blade as
follows:
"In my Judgment the war ought to
Be viewed in q three fold aspect:
81. The moral and historical aspect;
''2. The political aspect; and
"3. The military aspect.
CT have named them in the order in
which Iregard their Importance. The
FIRST duty of this government is to make
this a moral and historical epoch in the
history Of this nation-that when it
aids in the advancement of true Chris
tisnity it will also elevate and dignity
us in history as people.
"The political aspect of the question
Il so plain that it need only De stated
to be admitted. 1t requires the party,
rs an organization which has been ele-
waited to power by the people because
of its protested devotion to the princi-
pies of freedom, that it shall not in the
first hour of its triumph prove false TO
its pledges.
The military aspect Of the question
I am disposed to leave to military men.
But to my mind it seems that to secure
success our army should sweep before
its triumphant march every armed
traitor from the Potomac to the Gulf,
and hold and occupy the rebellious
states a. provinces, if necessary, until
reconstruction by Union and patriotic
men il mad possible. The mode and
manner Of reconstructing, I endeavored
to point out last winter in Congress and
have seen no Their plan suggested.
"Since / became of age and was
charged by the laws and constitution
of my country with the duty Of an
elector, / have made the subject matter
of this conspiracy and rebellion my
study, and think l fully comprehended
it long before it developed itself, and
openly attempted the destruc-
ton of the government. Hence,
I was prepared for it, and the man who
does not grasp all the aspects of this
rebellion and still hesitates to demand
q settlement which political tricksters
and aspiring demagogues cannot dis
turb, is not only an unsafe leader but
does not rise to the dignity of true
statesman, and is but type of the un-
scrupulous schemers and weak backed
eompromisers of tho past thirty years,
who had by their repeated oowardly
submissions to the dishonorable de-
mands of small privileged class so
demoralized the people and strength
ened the slave power, through which
they have been enabled almost to over
throw the government. \ r
"The first duty, then, of a statesman
IS to comprehend the three points !
have named as one, for they cover the
whole ground. When these are dis
posed Of, the war will have been ended.
IF they are disposed of, as / trust they
will be, another war about slavery will
be impossible. If they are disposed of
by diplomacy and trickery, usually
called compromise" another war is
as sure to follow as that q civilized and
Christian people will demand the abo-
ltion and Punishment from their midst
of barbarism, which demoralizes the
people and weakens the government.
=" To make our government and peo-
pie homogeneous is in my judgment
the first duty of the statesman. To
this end, if necessary all the power of
the government must be directed, and
if, after careful examination of the field,
it shall be decided to make an end of
human slavery and of the privileged
class which it creates, let it be done,
and effectually done. For as long as
there is an oligarchy in the republic
there will be irreconciliable interests at
war with the government of the people,
and while slavery remains and is pro-
tected, fostered and strengthened by
the government, the oligarchy will exist
and in the mai, control the govern
ment, as they have done for their own
selfish ends. And if the people should
again take the government out of their
hands as they did in electing Mr..
Lincoln, they will again rebel as they
are now doing. So that our only hope
for safety and peace in the future is now
to put away forever from among US the
cause of this rebellion. .f.-,a. u.-y5
i" Shall it be done If the people de-
mand it. I know the government will
obey. But they must first demand it,
and demand it earnestly and unitedly,
before men who are constitutionally
timid and unfit to be leaders in great
revolutions will take the responsibility"