Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-05-31
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our men who have gone to the Geld onlv I1
defense of our glorious institutions. am
strongly tempted to make the appe al aud
say TO your bondsmen: Siaudfortb invested
In tbe rights wherewi,h God Almigh hath
clothed you: come TO our side; helJ TO ieht
ine battle of freedom, and you shall be free
IL would only he a righteous retribntiou 10
those who have held them against common
right. Suppose we should do il what wonId
become of this rebellion9 Where would
traitors be2 Talk to us Of prosecn,iso tho
war in vindiclive spirit! They nav thank
your God that we have been as forbearins
as we have
But, Sir, was diverted from the course
Of argument / intended to pursue. say
these reflections ill me with wonder that
sagacious honorable men of the Southern
States do not Of their own accord arise and
pat down en- Institution that so weakena
aud emasculates them, and which places
them in the power of the free States around
them whenever they sh1ll think best to put
them down. My Border State friends
might as well look this subject square ia the
face. am not an abolitiooist in The sense ia
which they speak of abolitioni but am going
TO announce the plain fact
l have said that in the progress Of na.
tions after a certain advance in civilization
and the arts, slavery becomes impossible.
Deeply rooted as this institution Of slnvery
is, every invention of useful character for a
thousand years has tended to make it i'm.
possible. Once yOu might work the galley.
slave with profit Warlike nations former.
ly put slaves aboard Of their armed ships az
a motive power TO propel them against the
enemy, and nude them labor in that wav.
Could that system be continued now p.
Slavery might then I've useful in war when
nobody knew any better, and when the
ualiOn having the most slaves TO man it's
galleys was The strongest aud most power
full. How is it when you put the galley
slave against the steam engine Was it
an abolilionist that argued down the in.
Can you work naked savage
or negro against a steam engiue If you
cannot, your system is at an end Eevery
Ia abor-ssving machine is an abolitionist.-
Every puff Of the engine upon railroad ia
an abolition sermon, more potent aud more
effective than was ever preached by month
of aGoliionist. Can you work q slave.
carrying his buadle on bis back, against
Ihe tremendous power aud energy Of the
locomotive on your railroads ? Can you
put the one against the other ? How is il
with the reaper we have introduced into
our fields to harvest our grain, the tremeu.
douS power of our moving machines power
looms, and spinning jennies | might
count over from now till tomorrow the in.
strumentalties that renderedyour systemiab-
Solulely impossIHe aud yet against the
laws Of Gnd and nature, you are hanging
on with impotent periinaciiy to system
that has passed away, and can never again
be renewed.
Sir, am not very solieitous about II. Il
IS very rare that you hear me speak on
this subject of slavery; bet when gentle
men rise here 10 day and talk about the
ItJect OF this war, whether it be for tho
ierpeiuatlon Of slavery or freedom, / think
best to take cOmmon-sense vw of the
uhjrct and see how it stands. am so
ntIrely convinced of its impotency. its
uiInre to answer the requisitions of the
ta'e Of cIviliz ltion TO which we have
approached, that have no
ears Of it. Sir it viii pass away.
+ every man in this Senate, il every man
II this Congress, stood forth as an advocate
or perpetual aud eternal slavery it would
'nly be the poor insrrumen, alities of man
ighling against God. God and nature have
determined the question, aud we shall not
fleet it much either way. But throw
'ut these hints 10 these gentlemen who
eem TO believe that The world will not go
'ound when slavery is abolished. As the
Almighty sometimes oyerrules the wicked
ness OF man 10 perfect a gorions end, So
His providence was never mole obvious
than in this rebellion. Slavery might have
staggered along against the Improvement
Of the age. against the common consent of
a scoff and a bY.word on the
Ungue Of all civilized nations for q great
many years, but this rebellion has sealed its
ate aud auttd ted ils dom. You cannot
Escape from this war without the emanci-
'ariOu OF your negroes. Il will not be
ecause l announce il it will not be be-
auSe | ain going TO move anything in that
lrectun bul il is because | see the hand
# God hiking hold of yonr own delinquency
. oVerrule Tor good what your rulers
n ant, for evil. Pro slavery men seem
. suppose that the Ruler OF the universe
5 pro-Savery being but if have not
mistaken Him greatly, He is at least a
gradual emaucipationist. Laughter
This war, you say, should not be prOsecu-
ed for the purpose of abolshing slayery--
jraut il. Sui, after the war was thrust
ipou US without cause, in Sell.defense, We
luo right TO prosecute With as much
every as We pleased and il does not
ame well from the mouths of traitors to
harge us with severity.
know that slavery has received .its
lesth.blow, whatever may be our views ia
Prosecuting the war. | warned gentlemen .
Il II III that fsmOus committee Of thirteen.
was member Of that committee which
ontaiued almost every high officer OF
he So called Southern Coufederacy, with
dr. Davis al their head Month after
month We discussed this principle. / told
hose gentlemen, al rely infinitely more
pou you to abolish slavery ihaHl upon all
he GArrironians aud Fosters and PhillpseS
u earth. They are theorists tbsy are
Ight IN Theory, but they never vii harm o
air OF your bead but you aiempt this
ecesslon, and the hrs' blast of civil 80.
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