The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-07-11
Gen. Rosscnu on the slavery
Question.

We have room to-day only for tho fol-
lowing extract, which will deeply inter-
est the country as the uttcrancc OF 10y
al kcntuckiun aud bravo General scrv-
ing his country, on the slavery question:
wish TO say a word Of the "sluation"
as II is called by the reporters Of the DAY.
| propose to advise nobody. | pretend 10
no extraordinary foresight But desire
to state that this rebellion Is lib from the
beginning. There was never any cause
for ii. To begin and keep UP system
of Wholesale lying was adopted, and is
industriously pursued TO this day. II is
the only stock IN trade they have. They
could teach the devil himself much he
never knew before about lying. Where.
ever the army has gouc il has met this
fell spirit Of folschood
We have taken mono Of their property;
we have excluded their Stoves from our
lines; when needed we have placed
guards of cur soldiers around their houses
to protect thcm--and yet they persist in
calling us aholitionists and ncgro-thicvc.
Aud in spite of our disclaimers and our
soldiers usscverations 20 the contrary.
of our words and our acts, they have in
sisted that our object is to libcratc and
steal their slaves.
And if we fail to restore the Union,
"the everlasting uiCgcr" will be the cause
of the failure. Thry know what they say
is false, yet they never cease repeating il.
Behind aud before us this has been the
pI Itn nt,n,,t,.s .,T L., =
Now, the army of Gen. llallcck is cmi-
ncnty conservative. | believe there is
neither an obolitionist nor ccccss;onist
in It. IL there is one Of either faction,
do not know il.
So orderly, so patriotic, and 80 conscr.
v0tiyc body oC men, | believe. never be-
fore assembled together. That army i'm
its intercourse with the scccssnnists, has
pleaded and is still pleading for peace
under the old Government, offering to our
Southern brethren all they ever had, and
nothing except in common with
them They want to take nothing from
any one, but desire that their Southern
brethren shall cnjoy all their rights unim.
paired.
But the negro is IN the way, in spite Of
all that can be done or said. Standing
before the eye of the sccessonists. the
negro hides all the blessings of our Gov
crnmcnt, throwing black shadow on
the sun itself. 1t IL had been other spc.
cics Of property that stood in tho way
the army, provoked as il has been,
would willingly have seen its destruction.
But the negro they did not wish to inter-
fcrc with in any way. Yet, with all its
conservatism and patriotism, the army
has grown weary OF this insane cry OF ub-
as 4 cause for breaking up the
government.
have warned our Southern friends of
the danger of continuing it much longer;
and | tell you tonight that if this war
year from this day, there will
not bcu slave on this continent. This
great rebellion will take care of ITSELF
the dead will bury its dcod-and those
who are causing all the boodshcd and
desolOtion around us, under the lnlsc pre-
tense that we desire 10 free their negroes,
will. ifthcy persist, one day find slavery
suuiied out as You sruif out n candle
Slavery is not worth our government 1t
is not worth our liberty. 1t is not worth
the tree navigation of the Mississippi riv-
or. No: we must still have our Govern
ment-ii not as il now is, with slavery in
it, still We must have our Government.
We cannot be slaves to JEFF Davis g.
{ ON ,Hny.
We must and will be free. We must
have the free navigation of the MISSISSIPPI
pi river; and if slavery gets in the way of
any o! these rights, why slavery must get
out of the way. That would b. the last
resort, nnd SHOULD he very sorry to have
recourse to it, but om for the Govern
ment Of our fathers against all things and
everybody. Whilst the Liberties of the
people ore secure under it, as they ever
have been, would allow nothing but
death to prevent my upholdng it,
And, 10th as you may be to decide, you
will soon, as believe, be callrd upon to
do so. In spite of your entreatics, Ithe
issue will be cruelty thrust upon you, and
you will be forced to decide between sla-
very and your wives and children. As
for me, um ready for tho responsibility.
A Southern man rs | am, born and
brought up in the South, with all my sym
PATH with the South, would not hes
tate one moment, when the issue is pre-
sented, between the niger and the Cow
ernment of our fathers, | am for the Gov
ernment of the United States against all
rs enemies. | hope and pray that our
Southern friends will not force us to ex-
remcs on this sensitive point. We dep
-ecate such result; for we want our
tights under the Constitution, and we are
all ready to fight for theirs under the good
Did Government. | would to-day most
gird on my sword and fight fer
my right belonging to them, slavery in
,luded; but they must not put slavery be-
.ween me and the Government and laws
IF the United States. | will not consent
% become a slave that the negro may be
Kept slave. will not sacrifice the hap
,iness Of my wife, children and friends,
he welfare OF my beloved State and the
glory of my country, on an altar dedicat-
I'd to an "EboDy IDOL"
When | see placed on one side Gov
formed by the noblest men the
World has ever produced, the legacy OF
Washington to the human race, glori-
Jus country filled with happy and en-
ightened people, and admired or feared
On every spot that troddcn by the foot
If civilized man, and on the other conn
ry rent into insignificant fragments, en-
ragged in continual wars with each other,
zach on its knees begging assis tance from
ome foreign monarch or other against a
ival fragment, an object of contempt to
lin who uses il for his own purposes,
hen ] shall not be long in coming to
Iecision, though negro slavery may be
IN one side and not on the other,
6rFifty rebel officers, prisoners on
Governors Island, were shipped by rail.
Dad from New York to Johnson's Island
,andusky Bay on Friduy. They are ron