M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-02-27

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sovereigns with arms in their hands
stand around il!
wish these masters Of the art Of
war, who quote so imappositely aud
irreverently Joshna's writings, but
forget how he won his battles, whose
knowledge of Agamemnon Achilles is
purely poetic, wonld study some of the
useful axoms of H!erO-les, and would
Just 90 to sleep before a looking. glass
to see how handsome they look with
their eyes shut and their mouths
closed. The country would have q il.
bilee over their silence only scond tol
that which greeted the outgoing Of the
late Secretary ot Warl
did intend, Mr., Chairman, TO re-
view some of the bills introduced here
for coufscation and emancipation, and
10 discuss their feasibility and consti. |
tutionality. But am glad to an.
nounce to the country that there is no
hope of such suicidal Legislation pass
ing the present Congress. That an.
nOuncement, which the opinions here
justify, will give relief to our Army
and tn the Union men everywhere.
One ofthe bills of this black batch
pretends to strike out the State OF
Florids. This bill has the paternity
Of my colleague, [Mr. GURLET.l tits
part of his military plan. While
striking for the Union and the flag.
with every star on its folds. he would
blot out the Statehood of Florida
II, would have its everglades and
swamps devoted to the business Of
negro apprenticeship, with the FEEDER.
al agents for taskmasters, and the Re.
public as cotton producer and spec
ulater. Here is the spot where my
colleague would imparadise the Afri.
can. He would have q Federal mas
ter watch the negro apprentice, and
see to it that he produced a living
from that soil, where dying is 80 much
easier. He would have us drop down
the little pickaninnes amidst the
haunts Of the alligator. He thinks he
sees here an opening for the rising
generations of colored children; know.
ing, as my colleague does, that they
will all be saved in the other world,
he is willing to risk their sudden dis
appearance here. / can we'll imagine
the holy horror which will perVade
the infsntile African mind when i'll
comes to understand the coDfscating
character Of my colleagues bill. II
can we'll understand how the gentle.
man from Pennsylvania Mr.. Camp
bell mnst have started the people c'l
his State by bic propositions to ham
all the public plunderers, and thus de-
poPulate 30 terribly his own State
But that was humanity compared to
this scheme of my colleague, which 10
only parallelled in Den Swift's plan to
get rid of Irish children by eating
them. All such schemee are in dero.
garion ofour whole system Of policy.
Their authors seem TO be bent on pry.
ing away mountains Of granite with
levers OF strawi
Such schemes as are here discussed
will do no good TO the blacks nor the
whites, unlees scheme Of forced ex,
patriation be at once 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 pre-.
vent such ruinous and adulterous
mixture Of society, the North will rise
to drive the freed blacks from their
soil. Interest which is stronger in
society, in the end, than philanthropy
will issue ito edict of expatriation, and
no good will accrue to the black or
white. II you would barbaIize the
war, undignify it's object, and indeed,
make it failure in every sense, you
may follow the impractical schemes
Of New England politics, and their
neophytes in the country.
These em ancipation schemes will
divide the North, and create new dis
sention and rebellion in the border
States. 1t will parhyze the efforts of
the army, and make cold and indiff.
erent the now ardent and anxious
friends Of the Union. Already we
have seen that Fremont became the
recruiting officer of Price, and such
camp followers as the member from
Illinois, whose speeches are quoted in
Southern papers, helped to give aid
and comfort to secession. TEis divis.
ion Of the North now, when all are
united by State legislation and Fedral
action to defend our flag and sovereign.
ty, would utterly destroy every hope
which has buoYed US in this great con-
fiict.
1t would be an act of fraud on the
soldiers and officers Of the grand ar.
my Of the Republic. They were call.
ed out by publication Of the Sd Of
May, whose preamble reads thus:
Whereas the existing exigcnces
demand Immediate Immediate and ad.