The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-04-25
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fanatic, as 10 seek to stay and prop Il nm.
Ihero is not man living that dares arise
here and say that he does not know that
slavery is utterly all wrong. Nor can a
man hero be found that will say that he
does not believe that IL is some time 10
end nor, when that end B reached, il NAV
not be through convulsion, anarchy and
blood. Bet yet now, whom that fearful end
draws nigh, through these fearful par
oxysms, which can neither be mistaken nor
denied, men, whose dearest interests are
most involved, stand with their sllios in
bhud iniatuation, and raee their parnlytic
hands to push the calamity by, will not be-
llevc Il is upon them, and hold those TO be
thor bltterest foes who implore and be-
soech them to care for and provide for their
own and the common welfare. a
Like tgress, stealing upon her urey.
and falling into the hunters tolls, that. in her
great agony, whelps there hor Young tbs
Slavery, overwhelmed in its progress.
spawned into the world this atrociouu rebel.
lion and war. And those, ber offspring. like
Millions bell.hounds, born of sin, turn ever
to tear and devour the hsg that gave them
birth. And these men and their allies would
lull and hush this bowling brood to peace
aud quiet, that that they might again nurse
the dam.
Itmstters nothing what we say, anu little
what we do, This war, without compro.
mise or cessation, will go forward till its
beneiiceni end is accomplished through it's
own appointed means. Every day of its
continuance, and every delay, every dragging
moment, makes this end the more inevitable.
Every step on slave soil, every battle fought.
no matter with what temporar result eyery
muskot fred, every sword brandisbed, eyery
soldier that suffers, and every heart that
mourns, but makes this result the more alb.
solute. Our early disasters, Bull Run and
Balls Bluff, the death Of Lyon and the re-
moval of Fremont, shall all bear rich fruits;
and the breeze that mourn.ully lifts the flag
oil the drowned Cumberland. where the Bit
ter salt sea quencbed the noblest hearts that
ever burned with American heroism, shall
yet bear to earths ends the legend of con-
tinent made free.
Does any man dare wish that the battle
holds that bave drunk the blood of our
brave and beautiful ones should ever again
be printed with n fettered foot ? Think of
slaves tilliDg the valley of Bull Run or the
freight field where Baker fell of their
turning up and grinpiug at the bones Of the
young heroes of the North around Donelson.
Fancy the taskmaster lashing bis bondmen
TO toll on the nameless plains of the far-off
Tennessee, gorged with the red, rich, free,
proud, bounding blood of the Northwest q
spot to rank among the battle-felds of the
world, who're was lost and won great des-
tiny, which shall forever bear the footprint
OF great nation in its forward march.
DO gent'fmen trpect 10 see siores hoeing
corn therea
1t is most fitting that, while the army
marches to the restoration of the national
power, over the form of fallen slavery, and
tramps its lifo out, that the solemn lustra-
tion of the nations capital should be per-
formed by our hands that the letters should
dissolve in our breath; so that, when our
country again confronts her sister nations,
though her feet should still be ensanguinod
With tho mingled blood of her fiial and
parricidal children, she may present her
couDtonance in cloudless though saddened
beauty, purged of its bideous deformity by
bcr own uDconstrained hand.
There could be no momont so propitious
for this great benefcence as this, preceded,
as 1t is, by the prophetic voice of the Exccu-
tive, whose calm and serene utterapce has
more startled the world than the great con-
vulsion from whose bosom he spoke. Make
haste to complete this great act, and II shall
proclaim itself to the waiting and oppressed
OF the earth as the realized gospel of de-
liverance. The yollow waves Of tho Poto-
mac, in thoir downward flow to tho sea,
shall whisper in liquid nurmurs to the
great sleeper on its banks, that the city
that bears his name is now worthy of it.