M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-08-21

the General Governmentl | give
You the substance OF that vote. nji
| With this declaration, after the un'
fortunate affair Of Bull Run, we ap.
pealed to the patriotism OF the people
for an army to carry out these prinei-
pies, with the assurance that when
those principles had been vindicated
the war was to cease. Was not that
the language addressed to you when
you were called upon TO give up your
brothers and sons and neighbors and
friends to go forth with their lives in
their hands, upon the field Of battle
| Did any man then dare to intimate
I that this war should not cease until
every slave in the United States was
emancipated : Now we have that as
the watch. word of the A bolition par
ty. ] say the abolition party !
mean to do no injury to any man. !
do not know how the matter stands
with You here, but in Congress, and in
the high places Of party, the Abolition
party has swallowed the Republican
neck and heels. They may have
come to you and talked about the
Orittenden resolution. 1t is very well
TO talk, but however we'll they may
have talked, if they ever had any pa.
triotism they did not keep the faith,
for when called upon TO vote, like a
flock OF genuine sheep, they all follow,
ed their leader. | put them to the
record for the truth of what say.
And when we who called ourselves
conservative men loyal Democrats
and Wings, Bell and Breckenridge
men, were called upon to come to our
aid and prosecute the war upon the
principles upon which they had de
clared it, like Billy Bopeep's sheep
they did not come mp. We lost quite
a number Of our friends just at this
point, and some of them from tue
State of Indiana. How very soon
those meu forgot the Crittenden res
olutiJnl When Mr. Holman, Of
your own State, invited these gentle
men to vote upon these questions,
how did they vote2 | am sorry that
| have not the ayes and noes here so
that | could show you how they stood
when it came to the test.
Yet these men can come here and
incorporate these very principles, for
which they refused to vote, into their
platform. They tell you they are for
the Crittenden resolution for the
carrying on of the war for the restora-
ton of the Union as it was and the
Constitution as it is, giving their
original rights to each State, and when
that is done the army Is to be dis.
missed. Yes, and until the October
election they will talk so-until the
people in their majesty shall say, we
are for the prosecution Of this war to
sustain the Constitution, restore the
Union and invoke the blessing Of God
that the past may be torgotten--that
we may once more embrace each 9TH
er as brethren and be once more ar
united, free and happy people.
They sey, as a reason for the posi-.
ton they take that slaverV was the
cause of this rebellion. The argu-
ment is. that, as slavery caused the
war we can not have peace until it'll
is destroyed, and that the war must
necessarily continue unless both OF
these two events shall take place. In
our community where we see our
friends and brothers brought home
from the battle field manned and Grip.
tled, many Of them to be inferred in
the grave of honor, our feelings are
necessarily and easily excited and our
condemnation Of the course of the
North is not unjus:ly incensed. And
for myself, | feel sometimes that, sol
help me God ! if | could | would call
forth from the party which has been
the source of this trouble the leaders
of that party and inflict upon them
the punishment which their ofanses
80 richly merit.
But while was doing that would
like to have for every one Of them
an Aboliticnist upon the other end OF
the rope.
But these men say slavery was the
cause. Of this rebellion. Yes, Sir, it
was the cause, just about as much as
the tea which was poured into Boston
harbor was the cause of the rebellion
of 1776. 1t was the unhallowed am
bition Of the representative men of
the South, who saw the septer de
parting from Judah, and the Aboll
tionists Of the North combined, that
brought on this rebellion. | have
the evidence before me to prove that
assertion. Dates and facts are i'm
portant things when you want the
truth. / hold in my hand the record
and resolutions passed at the Aboli.
ton Conventioni in New York In 1859
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