Smyrna times., 1862-09-04
o. A Brownson on the War.

Washington correspondent furnishes the fol-
lowing synopsis of the remarks of DR.. o. A. Brown
son, the we'll known Roman Catholic editor of
Brownsons ReUieD. at a ssrenade rendered him on
Tuesday evening last, at Wizards Hotel.
His chief points that emancipation is a war
measure and colonization peace measure, and that
as long as the is conducted as in the past and
the present, the contest is unequal That the draft
is necessity an evidence of the power of the
government, and won't be- submitted to as an e1hi-
btion of nationality. That timid towards are
weakness. lie said he did not appear before his
hearers either an abolitionists or an anti-aboli
tionsts, but as an American citizen He loved this
country as his country. and wished to die when the
nation died.
He was against letting the rebels have the advan-
tage of tho labor of four millions of slaves to til
their soil and raise their various products while the
masters were engaged in the destruction of this
government What he desired was to take these
slaves from them, thus compelling them to 70 home
and attend to their own plantations.
! He cared not whether these slaves rendered us
positive service not. He wanted the rebels dc.
pIVed Of their assistance. He knew there was great
hestancy about it, and people talked of the Const
tuition, and the horrors of San Domingo. When the
agitation of the question Of slavery threatened the
Union Of the States, he opposed it; but now wheI
the Union was threatened from slavery: and slavery
was the main support Of its fees, and AZ it was i'm
possible to preserve both Union and slavery he sale
down with slavery. Loud applause.]
Let every slave 60 free, but let the Union be saved
Uuless the government was prepared to say this thu
dangers which threatened US would not be diminish
ed. The first gun fred at Sumter knocked off tn,
letters of every slave in this land.
Slavery was doomed, and, therefore, as an anti
slavery man. he felt little interest in it. What h
wanted was liberty with Union, and Union will
liberty There were two question before the public
the slavery question and the niger question.
On the slavery question nine-tenths of the peopl
, OF the whole Union were anti-savery; but on tn
niger question about nne-tenths were anti.niggel
y and the great difficulty in this question was tia
= whenever the freedom Of the slaves was spoken Of
host Of PettifoggerE cried out, Yos are going
have Aigger equality" "Do you mean to give tn
negro an equal footing with the white man and hav
them live side by sidsl"
For himself he did not profess 10 be any ore,
niger lover He believed the nsgso to be a ma
sprung from the same race as himself, having n
same natural rights but he was not willing that
should have the social political, and civil RICH
in the same community with himself.
He did not wish that, did he think it wou
;. follow from their emancipation. He desired Il
). two races to be separated. He favored the colon
: zaton scheme Of the President. The only poll
wherein he differed with him was that he did m
make emancipation depend ON colonization
: lie demanded emancipation as a war measure.
- preventive of failure rebelons Colonization won
of answer in time of peace. when the war was ovs
\ He heartily approved of the draft, which he regard
as the highest evidences of the national majesty.
T. He wanted thOrOsgh-going men, men of exsrer
views, to be placed at the head Of our civil and mi
- tary affairs. Conservative men, who had lived
and by the past among the tombs, were not the nj
for this great occasion