The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-04-04
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Emerson Eiheridge IN bis late
s,sscA ~ Nsshviils used shs follow
iss Language. 'at ntavA''" .
ME- Sess desired 70 ten the peo.
pls b, NsshsItte , plain uuih-lyou
hsss gss TO live In the Union --witi,
your nixesrG Il you wlI--~i,huut
shsm u yos will. The Union ID
worth mere than all tho secession
len snd uisgtrs 10 the world. Al
the beginning ot THE rebellion, Presi
dent Lincoln. asked yon to Icy down
yoor asms. cYon refused. lie call.
cd fof 10000 men to enforce the
laws, .nd csn,vsfy to the Consthu
tiou, you forced an alliance with the
traitory. IN al'ud ny to slavery he
iniimatcd that no VIVA MT cert In
Tsnnee.e co fright not desiie io ace {,
abolish. 4. "The whole civilized
world denounced i, long ago."
Horace Maynard. = .r-on Brown
low, Andy Jplnson, In tact every
one o. the loyal u on of the South
ere equoliv plain srokeu on this
question. With them II 10 the
GOVERNMENT FIRST. all oher
questions being secondary.
There men are oil slavc holders,
and dip city interested in tho pro
lection and msutAlosncs Of that Ia
sti,otion.4 T6cy otcn negroes, own
land, that these negroes till, and il
any ones are. judgss Of the relative
vslu Of the Onion and slavery these
arc the meu.a They place the
Union aroys slavery and asser,
openly that u alsyery stsnds in the
way oftbs' restoration Of the Union
II mus. be destroy cd. But mp here
In Ohio We have another style ol
Union men. They are for the
Union, with Q dozen "ifs" the mosl
promioeat Of which 10 that slavery
must bepreserved through the strug
gle, unframed and invioIAte. lfthe
Union cannot be restored without
harniug slavery, then the Union
must 60. They arc tender upou
this poin', more so than unon any
other. They know that withou,
the iour millions Of slaves In the
Southern States the rebellion conld
not last . month. They know that
these very slaves built the iortifica'
tions at Manassas, at Donelson, at
Columbns and at Island No, 10
ir I'm behind which death was rain
ed upon the brave men who assault
Cd them, and they know full well
that without these slaves these tor
tiflcstions could never have been
built. They know also that not on.
ly the labor Of the fortifying is done
by the negroes, but that the rebel or
mice are iod and clothed By ,heirla
Dor. aud that every negro in the
South is "a good-yes better-thsI
. soldicr In their armies. The mum
ler that are left At home furnish the
food for those In the armies, allowing
slmnsl the endre white pnbulaiion
to,take tho field. But knowing oil
tnis The Institution must be held "a,
cred snd even those that fee from
their MASTERS and offer their strong
hands to tho Union cause must b.
driven back 10 tho service Of the On
eMy. Out npon such Unionisml
While the people sre groaning m,
der the burden Of taxes. while there
are widows and Orphans in every
town, whose husbands and fathers
ars stask upnn bloo,ly bsstle fell,
in the South, whils the Nation il
swsatips drops Of blood, these Unlor
men holi brck the hsnd raised t'
stslke ths, root ofihe reballion. and
sonfce from which II draws N
strength. ~ as thank God tha
their numbers arc getting so few
that their y, ser for evil 10 bu, tri
fling. ,Lst 81 - is3a .I 49li g"
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