The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-02-26
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lions Of blacks 50 taentiy talked OF IN this
Chamber. --t @,.i ..-.-.---
Why. do not thsss extreme gentlemen.
know that they are, in some part, responsible |
for this war; Does nay colleague, fram I
Cleveland, want me 10 prove it by his own I
speechT They are only fshtips what We
advised them would come by their action /
We Democrats, with Mcclellan at our head, !
are helping hem; aud how are we met by |
these ipgrates? Nc, they are not fighting ,t; !
but they think they are moving the wheels, !
WHEN they only sii on the axle and buzz their |
murmurs about Mcclellan and the forces
which move the chariot Of war.
What good comes OF this sort Of debate
here and now? Talk about milking a he.
goat in sieye-and il is sense to this.
Now, there is little smack Of propriety
In this latter idea; but what can we say OF
this exhibition in deliberate body. whose
only duty is to increase the Army and the
revenue; discussing the disposition OF the
slaves bsfoTe We Get them, and the movements
OF General Mcclellan, with the blankeSt in
capacity TO understand them. It ia too
ridiculous for serious controversy. Ii can
only be riiiculed Yet we have these civil
warriors, whose only fight is logomachy,
barking at General Mcclellan; and lon what?
Because he does not proclaim liberty through
out all the land and to all the inhabitants
thereof All, there is tho trouble! Can you
wonder that Wendell Phillips, whose speech
es arc hailed so rapturously by this class de-
clared that he should deplore a victory by
Mcclellan, because the sore would be salyed
over, and il would only ba the victory OF
slave Union; and that be thanked Beauregard
Tor marshaling his army before Washington,
because it con erred upon Congress the con-
stitutional power to abolish slavery? Nor
would | wonder 10 see my colleague from
the Cleveland district, who lectured US on our
duty to the Union upon the slavery question,
rehearsing again his contempt for the Union,
which he expressed in his printed speech
made at Cleveland on the day of John
Browns obseques, whom he said that no pur-
er spirit than j ohm Browns had ever entered
Paradise for the past Thousand years; and
that he would rend the Union to destroy
slavery, though hedged round by the
triple bars oil the national compact, and tho
thirty three crowned sovereigns with arms in
their hands stand around it! N,
/ wish these masters Of the art Of war,
who quote so inappositeIy and irrevently
Joshua's writings, but forget how he woa
his battles, whose knowledge OF Agamemnon
and Achilles is purely poetic, would study
some Of the useful axioms Of Hierocles, and
would Just go to sleep before looking glass
TO see how handsome they look with their
eyes shut and mouths closed The country
would have jubilee over their silence only
second to that which greeted the outgoing Of
the late Secretary OF Wsrl
did intend, Mr.. Chairman, to review
some OF the bills introduced here for confs-
cation and emancipation, and to discuss their
feasibility and constitutionality. But | am
glad 10 announce to the country that there is
no hope oil such suicidal legislation passing
the present Congress. That announcement,
which the opinions here justify, will give re-
lief to oar Army and 70 the Uaion meu eve.
Tywhere.
Ono OF the bills OF this black batch pretends
TO strike out the State Of Florida. This bill
has the paternity Of my colleague, Mr.. CUR
LEY 1t is part OF his military plan
While striking for the Union ard the flag
with every star on its folds, he would blot
out the Statehood Of Florida. He would
have its everglades and swamps devoted 10
the business Of negro apprenticeship with
the Federal agents for taskmakers, and the
Republic as a cotton producer and specula
tor. Here is the spot whore my colleagu,
would imparadise the African He would
have Federal master watch the negro ap
prentice, and see to it that he produced q
living from that soil, where dying is SO much
easier He would have US drop down the
little pickaninnies amidst tho haunts Of the
alligator He thinks he sees here an opening
for the rising generations ofcolored children;
knowing, as my colleague does, that the; will
all be saved in the other world, he is will
ing to risk their sudden disappearance here.
/ can well imagine the holy horror whica
will peryade the nfantie mind when 1t comes
to understand the confiscating character OF
my colleagues bill. | can well understand
how the gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr..
CAMPBELL must have startled the people OF
his State by his proposition to hang all the
public plunderers, and thus depopulate 30
terribly his own State. But that was hu
manlty comparable this scheme Of my col
league, which is only paraleled in Dean
Swllt's plan to get rid of Irish children by
eating them. Suicidal absurdity can go no
further than this! Al such schemes are in
derogation OF our whole system OF polty.--
Their authors seem to be bent ou prying
away mountains of gratite with levers OF
straw! q ~ fteE -@TEF
Such schemes as are here discussed will do
no good to the backs nor the whites, unless
scheme Of forced expatriation be at oncs
started; and that is attended with formidable
obstacles. The North will become in turn
the worse than masters Of the slaves. For
very self. protection and TO prevent such a
ruiaous and adulterous mixture Of society,
the North will rise to drive the freed blacks
Hum theirs Interest, which is stronger
the end, than philanthropy, will issue it's
iedict OF expatriation, and no good will accrue
to the black or white Ifyou would barbar
ize the war, undignify its object and, indeed
make it failure in every s!use, you may
follow the impractical schemes OF New Eng
land politics, and their neophytes in The
country. ,,.., .-...
Those emancipation schemes will divide
che North, and create now dissention and
rebellion in the border States. 1t will para
lyga the efforts 0! the Army, and make cold
and indifferent the now anxious friends OF
the Union. Already we have seen that Fre-
mont became the recruiting officer Of Price,
and such camp followers as the member from
Illinois, whose speeches are quoted in south
ern papers, helped to give aid and comfort to
secession. This division oil tho North now,
Wuon All aIe uuiteu ny Dlaio leRtSIalioH auu
Federal action to defend our flg AID SOW
ersignty, would utterly destroy every hope
which has buoyed US in this great conflict.
1t would be an act OF fraud on the soldiers
and officers Of the grand Army OF the Repub
Lie. They were called out by prociama-
sion Of the Sd Of May, whose preamble reads
thus: D
whereas, the existing exigencies demand i'm.
mediate and adequate measures for the protection
of the National Constitution, and the preservation
Of the national Union, by the suppression of the
insurfeetionary combinations now existing in sew.
eraI States for opposing the laws of the Union
and obstrncting the execution thereof, to which,
end military force, in addition to those called
forth by my proclamation Of the 18th day Of A.
pril in the present year, appears to beindipensa'