M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-04-03

Iiat IL VIII end IN ninety Gays or q
year. But believe that the war 10
no mans fault, that it is the work of
neither section. It will not end in our
day, ana it will be a fortunate Provi.
dence if our children can look around
upon a clear sky and a united coun.
try.
u believe the war to be the result Of
sseyenty years struggle with one idea.
II comes TO US as duty. which God
lays upon this generation. Two or
three questions spring out Of the pres.
cut state OF things. How long will
the war last What will become Of
saveryi What will become OF the
Uhionl In regard to the first ques.
eion none can answer. We ere enter.
iilg upon the great struggle which no
people have ever avoided-a etrug gle
between the few and the mauy-a
| a'strruggle between aristocracy and
democracy. The North representa- a
democracy, founded on industry,
brains and money /; the South an aris-
tocracy, founded on slave labor-an
aristocracy whose right hand is negro
slavery, and whose lett is the ignorant
white man.
AT this point heavy bowlder was
thrown from the third tier of boxes
It tstruck few feet from the speaker.
II came crashing among the foot hghtS
like a cannon shot. Simultane ously
9ith the bo Elder came q couple If
eggs, that burst like bombs, dispehs.
| ing perfume more potent than fra
grant One of these odprous misse!s
slruck the speaker. The eggs were
thrown from the left OF the second
tier, and were accompanied by SER
les Of yells, like nothing unless it be
the war-whoop OF score Of infur;tated
| Indians: "Down with the traitor" "
"Egg the nigger Phillips" and q dOz.
en- other opprobr!ous epithets. 1t is
due TO Mr.. Phillips to say that he
stood calm and collected, without
moving q muscle or flinching an inch.
When tae-- -tnnnlt had -aomaWhai
subsidcd, the speaker resumed his dis
course. Allow me one word more. -
| do not know what that fellow.man
meant who sent that stone, but
meant NO insult to the non .slavehold-
ing white man of the South. sym.
pathise with them, for they snffer
from despotism whose right hand is
power and whose left hand is ignor.
ance. IF South Carolina ever sees
the utmost exaltation of her masses,
il will be when the stars and stripes
\ guarantee freedom to every member
Of the thiIty-Iour States. There are
many things which American citizens
can not do, and one thing which |
know they can not do, and that is to
prevent this belt OF the American con.
tineDt from being, in seventy years or
less time, one couutry, governed by
one people, indissoluble as granite
For thirty years have been an Aboli-
tion;sts, and nothing else. [The his.
ses which had been intermittent, here
became like a perfect hurricane.
| As soon as his voice became audi.
BE, Mr.. Phillips retorted.
Before we Yankees went to the
Roanoke and Potomac we tutored
ourselves to respect free speech, and
| know that You will grant it to me.
For sixteen years | have been a Dis.
pnionist. At this word the row be-
came general; eggs were thrown ad
| ibitum, and the stage was odorous
with their disgusting fragrance
Sulphurated.h hydrogen was the popu.
lar perfume, and it was long before
Mr.. Phillips could gain hearing
When he attempted 10 explain the
obnoxious phrase, he waa so inaudi-
bic amid the general tumult that we
| could not report his words.
He resumed: To-day the contest
takes the form of battle. The war is
nothing to me as an Abolitionist. II
has no more interest to me as such
than q novel has to You after you
1 have found the hero and heroine hap
pily married on the last page. What
ever your opininiOn may be, mine il
that slavery las receei!-;ee99 It; ;ts deatt
blow in the house of its friends. The
American people have opened thai
page of their history which will record
| the death of slavery. In due time
and after q reasonable interval slavery
will die. The cry has been "Cottor
lis King" South Carolina draggsC
Lyons and Lancaster to her feet, an(
said, "Bsbies, keep quiet" She ha;
| starved them for eleven months, bu
at las, acaouAts they were doing quite
we'll.
] Another idea was that the Nortt
would not fight. South Caroljns