Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-01-31
Prem Harper's Weekly
Slavery BIoekading the Way.

@FA'G4J oAOS1Aau4AAS l44S way
: Two Christian knights brothers, in the great
. army which had undertaken to wrest the sep
ulchre of Christ out of the hands OF the iufiJel
departed from their tent early one morning in
, search of dimond Of rare beauty and great
price, which they knew 10 be concealed in a
|, neighboriug castle and which these pieus bro
5 thers had promised to their mother as a token
OF filial love. As they rode along they began
TO discuss the setting of the jewel, The cider
would have it set in plain massive gold, but the
younger insisted upon its being surrounded by
4 Chain of fine pearls. As neither would yield
and each waxed hotter and hotter as the debate
was prolonged, they finally came TO blows, and
both soon lay PROSTATE, fcint and bleeding, at
the gate of the castle. An Arab, passing that
way, humanely dressed their wounds and in
quiring the cause ofquarrel, bade them cease
their strife. That dimond is mine, and now,
lest it should give rise to further quarrels, /
will take it with me at onpe to Damascus
SO saying he departed leaving the helpless bro
thcrs crest-lallen.
1t would seem that these Christian brothers
must have been the lineal ancestors OF some OF
our politicians and statesmen The record oil
| Congressional debates at the present time cOn-
tains little else than never ending quarrel be-
tween enaneirationists ard others with regard
to the disposal Of slaves whom we haven't got
and whom we are not likely to get very so0I,
! from present appearances. One honorable mem
/ Der proposes to emancipalG all The slaves III
the South at a blow. leaving the ultimate qGes
tion Of their disposal to be d, cdcd hereafter.
| Another is for transporting them - Africa
A third demands that Nicaragua Or some other
tropical region be ucIuired. aud the negroes
sent thther to build up great tropical empire.
y fourth insists that they be taken into Gov
| crnmcnt service. All this time, be it remem- !
bcred, the Saves about whom these gentlemen |
arc lighting are calmly picking cotton and shell I
ling corn on their masters Plantations and we
can no more get at them tlan We can at the III /
haLi ants of Jupiter.
Then, on the other side, we have another
practical party which is furious with every !
body who doesn't fall down and worship The
divine institution Of slavery. The Legislature
ol Kentucky which has been 80 long on the
r.nce lhat il requires an cf1,Jrt to LelicYc thai
il is now fairly on the loyal sid, demands thai
DO enemy Of slavery he allowed 10 remain in the
Cabinet The Legislature Of Mary land, reek-
ing with treason, protests against the least III
terlercncc with the splendid institution. News
papers hire aud there below daily that tie rss
cally ahOtioniSts are the cause of all the trou-
Die; that Wendell Phillips seized Sumter and
Lloyd Garrison founded the Confederate States.
The tc!egraphic dispatches from Washington
tecm with accounts OF "-bollionist coaspira-
cies." II they are 10 be believed, unr repre-
scntatives are on the point Of cutting each
H. - Il, H..
count 0l minor differences OF opinion touching
the disposal Of questions which can only arise
when The rebellion has been fairly crushed /
ont.
1t is not good to be Jealous OF ProYidence.-
1t is we'll that We should take every possible
care, and exercise every possible IUrethought i'll
our daily travail; but something may safely,
nay must Always be left to Providence. Hon
orab!e members and gallant gcaeruls are very
wise, III doubt But Providence is 4 good
engineer too. This slavery question is just the
sort Of problem which Provd-rc is apt 10 solve
well. In the Revolutionary war Providence
took care Of one or two things which our lead
crs had neglected, and ihcy were not the least
important OF the war. Let US trust the same
power now.
idCAltutIN, AuClCNti OuI dilllito tiIlh eAiCC
slavery will disappear. Generals may order
the return of fugitive slaves. bat the rank and
lie won't cxec4te the command, because they
Luyc no interest in doing so. Proc umaticus
may be issued protecting slavery; tut the SLAVES
won't pay mach attention to them, and the
masters will not have the power, nor tho troops
the tiue to epiorca them. To t]Iri5h, or even
to exist, slavery requires perfect peace, an.i th1
most strict and through cXecu:;o:: Vi mqnici-
pal law; it can no more thrive in tic midst oi
il civil war than gunp0wdcr can Oe manuiact-
uIcd II backsmith's shop. This implies no
abUlitiunism among officers OF our army. Cen
cral Sherman, at Port Royal, made his debut
with Il proclamation which, so far as slavery
was concerned, suited the stomach Of tie
Charleston Mercury. Yet neither Garrison nor
Philips nor all the abutionists together, ever
dealt 50 deadly a stab at The Institution as
Sbcrnan did when he directed that sea island
cotton be picked by free negro labor, and tie
negro paid a penny pound for all they
brought in. lie could not help himself Oilers
will do the same. Men may go cut at the
head Of our armies with prccpEcevcd opinions
on the slavery question that would be rciishcl
by Spratt aud lancy; set thom in the field, I
and II they know their trade aS.sOd'efS, lhty |
become active aboiiIionists by the necessity oil
the case.
The people Of the nerth have al abiding faith
in The power Of the Government TO crush out
this rybtiou and an uus!Iuku5le resolve thd:
ii shall bc done, through slavery and a dozen
other Southern institutions be crushed out
with it. When slavery goes TO The wall NJ
tears will be shed from Northern eyes Bur
the people hear with anxiety and annoyance
these eternal discussions in Congress about the
disposal of negroes: because it is idle TO quarrel
ever the disposition OF that which we havcut got |
and likewise because it is widely felt that nUlh
ing can prevent our ultimate success except d.
vision among ourselves such as these Discus
sions seem calculated to provoke.