Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-06-13
fraudulent change Of that holy cause, into sucI

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have been determined TO discuss the causes OF
this rebellion. One would have supposed that
prudence on that theme would have sealed
them into silence. Slavery, they ssy, is the
only cause, and their logic is, eradicate the
cause, and the war will stop. Slavery is the oc.
casion, but not the cause. Slavery has existed
nearly seventy years, and the United States
prospeEed in its unity. Slavery agitation, North
and South, 10 the cause, and IL has been oar.
ried on by both abolition and secession. II
takes two millstoneS to grind the grist From
the beginning OF secession | denounced H. I
believe, in view OF all its conseauencees, that Il
Is the worst crime since the scene on Calvary.
But, sir, am OF as great o loss how to appoE-
tion the guilt between secession and the aboli-
tion which begat it, ss | would be to apporton
the guilt Of the cruciAxion between Judas and
the Roman aolders. II there is any difference,
1t is in favor Of the bold parricide, and against
the insidious betrayer.
And now, as the climax of this aboIitionism,
we find the Governor of Massachusetts, when
called on to send more troops to the aid Of the
Government, laying down conditions -condl.
tions to his loyalty. He 10 willing for his people
to crowd the roads with recruits, If only the
blacks are TO be freed by the war, and Hunters
proclamation is left untouched by the President.
But II this DO not done, 1t will be heavy draft
on the patriotism Of Massachusetts,. If the
blacks are to be freed; " slavery is to be up
rooted. Shakespeare says, "your If 10 q great
peacemaker" This abolition "iE" sir, Is an
infamous traitor. / could name members on
the other side of this House who, though few in
number, have kept their faith without ambigui-
ty. But the body Of them are led by another
class of unmistakable hue, who are ready to
follow the conditional loyalty of the Massa
chusetts Governor, and to free negroes, regard.
less of constitutional limitations and consequen.
ces,
These destruelives, however they profess,
when they come to vote, like the hues In prism,
melt imperceptbly into each other. Though
we imagine that we see a difference between
them, yet they altogether make up that light
which is to guide ua In our troubles. God help
US when such light leads! Such friends are like
those In the rebel army who approach our sol
diers with white flags, crying "don't FIRE. we
are Union men; don't fire." and at the very
moment of our confidence, they iDflict their
deadly treaehery upon our flag!
But II Ia ever thus. History shows IL. Ex-
trene men drag the moderate men with them.
The devil, II Is said, holds bis own by hair.
He has entered into this majority as be entered
into the swine; and they will, by diabolic i'm
pulse, be driven at last into the sea. At last
but when is that time to comet When the
country is ruiped7 Must these northern fanat-
les be Hated with negtoes, taxes and blood, with
division north and devastation south, and peril
to constitutional liberty everywhere, before re-
lief shall Gomez They will not halt until the cir
darling schemes are contaminated.
| History tells us that such zealots do not and
cannot go backward. Robespierre, the gentle
Judge of Arras, in 1883, resigned rather than
condemn criminal to death. In ten years af-
ter, filled with the enthusiasm of Rosseau, he
claimed for the blacks in the French colonies a
participation in political rights, and exclaimed,
not unlike members here, "Let the colonies
perish, rather than principle!" Bot he was
the same Robespierre who led the Jacobins to
demand the Kings head in 1892, who estab-
lshed the reign OF terror, and whose motto
was, "that to live was @ crime" He could
take no step backward. Onward, onward, from
excess to excess, until his name became the OBJ.
loquy Of the world. Only his own death, BY
the same terrorism, ended bis terrible rule.
The same result took place at Rome, in the
time Of Gracious. Il is 50 everywhere wher
passion 10 driven to excess.
Our only safety now lies In moderate and pat
riotic counsels, not rash and Vindictive action
Libegfstsnl In me yeQniro, non in peytinaciG, So
4 XubNbW UtvecI oteVhc EteNoW pbtoOVs uVEs 0p6hk
er, do not think overstste these perils from
the extreme men of this House and the coun
try. Have not our best men, like Clay ant
Douglas, warned US of this timer Does mo-
the venerable statesman of Kentucky Mr.
CrittendeDl continue to warn--in vsin7 Your
records are crowded with remonstrances Of the
great and good men of the Republic against
this sectional warfare against social system tc
result in war OF ruin. L appeal to you now
as did more than year ago, to the extreme
men Of the South, to halt, to consider, before II
is entirely too late.
One thing is sure, that out of this ambiguity
the tendency Of legislative action here is &c
free the slaves Of the South and hurl them II
hordes upon the North. Events, says Phillips
are grinding out the freedom of the negro; and
these abolition bills are events. The conhsca.
tion bill passed last week, and the emancipation
bill resufrected by majority of four after III
temporary death, have this meaning They
would never have been urged here bus for thil
object. They will not aid to pay the expenses
Of the war. That part Of the title of the ,on
fscation bill which so afirms 10 o hypocritica
falsehood. The gentleman from Missouri Mr.
Phelps has demonstrated that. Even Wendell
Phillips laughs at such bills--"you might sG
well, ," he says, ''call upon the poorhouse to pay
the expenses Vi inc to"n' lake away tns
slaves, and they have not enough LETT to pay
one montns expenses Oh tne war; Inc IN
| buRe sneers at such conhscatlony and with more
than its usual sense, when it says, that the,
/ on,ourt N no,hiny that vnu yrust frat cat ~.
,s ~ -. -. .n.S .LNSe eos 'n'
Iaho anu tne nesroes, anu 'hat tnen tue expense
| OF conhsoation and the general amnesty whicl
must follow to all but the leaders, will rende
J"uA V".sSs"eVA
0uch Dills are nOt consuSutlOnal. lnat wa
| shown c0ncluaively by the learned jurlHt INF
Thomasl from Massa achusetts. as we'll AZ bs IN,
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