The Shasta courier., 1862-10-04
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n . gsniIeaden, well knownsthroughout
the Jnitsd States as Catholic writer Of
gredg ability, spoke in Washington on Au-
gust 26th, and in the course Of his remarks
MADE this observation:
g You know as well as do, that we need
the whole population of a country; that not
all the able bodied men of the country can
be expected to take up arms and fight, be-
cause your armies must he sIbsisted, your
families must be supported, the industry of
the country must 60 on, or else the armies
cannot be sustained. If you glance at your
enemy in these times you will find that he
has q alaboring people. He has four millions of
population-laborers, and those, with the
character of Southern industry, are sufficient
to sustain the whole population of those
States and leave the whites free to fight
us.
mics, by these 1000, 600 laborers, it would
North to perform the same duty, with the
HRiCdtlOuo vi lNOTtucTL iuuuStFy, tuht
OOo,0 900 can perform at the South. How,
then, are We to meet this crisis? Leaving
them 6,000, 900, after drawing their 900,
GOV and us only 6,OOo, ,OOO How are We
to meet this We can do itonf; by taking
away from them the support they derive
from these 4, 600, 900 of laborers. Loud ap-
plause.
am not here as an Abolitionist Applause
or an anti -Abolitionist. Renewed applause.
| stand here, gentlemen, as an American cit
izen. Cries of good, and applause. +
stand here in love with the Union that we
hare hitherto called the United States.-
csWe do yst,f] / love it as nation, as a
country; | love it as my country { Good,
god, and applause and as yours and |
am here, and wherever l am, for the coun-
try-the nation first, the nation second, the
nation last, (applause) and to die wien
the natior. itself dies. Good,' and ap-
phuse.
/ have asked not for abolition s sake, yet
tell you there are from 10000 to 200, 900
men within the radius of fifty miles of you all
armed to the teeth ready to cut our throats !;
and shy are they there? Beca,ssa they have
the slave laborers at home to raise their
bread, corn, and wheat, and to take care Of
their plantations. Now, what want to do,
is to take away from them these same slaves,
so that they shall have to go home and raise
their own bread, and attend to their own
plantations. and protect their own families.
Applause. l do not want them here to
cut your throats or mine, and the way not
to have them here is to provide for them
work at home. Laughter.
SO far, am in favor of abolitionism.
am in favor of detaching those slaves in al
tie rebellious States from their masters, and
depriving them of their service. care not
whether they render us any positive service
or not; but i say if we can take away their
services from their masters, their owners, or
from the Southern cause. we have added
equal to 5000 900 to oyr own population
Applause. l know there is great hesitan-
cy about it. Many people talk of constitu
tions, of the horrors of San Domingo, and all
these things. l understand perfectly we'll
what the Constitution says. When the agi
tation Of the question of: slavery threatened
to endahger the Union of the States opposed
it. Applause.
| said, Down with agitation [Cheers.
When now the Union is threatened from
another cause, and slavery is the main thing
which can sustain the party opposed to the
existence Of this government when it is in
my judgement, impossible to preserve both
the Union and slavery, say down with sla-
very. Vociferous applause. Let every
slave 60 free, but let the country be saved
Renewed applause. And unless we are
prepared to say that to it very soon, and to
say it, not as am saying it, private indi-
vidual from the platform, but until we are
prepared to say it from the Capitol and from
the White House in tones that will ring
throughout the whole civilized world the
dangers which threaten us will not be dimin-
ished. Applause, and cries Of That's
SOL
l do not stand here to find fault with the
Government. There are many things, no
doubt, remiss in its actions; many things
which l would like to have had different !;
many things which, if l had been the Gov
ernment, would have done diferently.-
IAbplause.] But then am not the Gov
ernment. Voice-'I wish you were and
laughter.] We must sustain the Govern
ment we have [applausel, only praying
God that the 'Governnent may always prove
equal to the wants of the country. tCries of
that's So and applause know there
are many difficulties about it. Many men
look only at the obstacles and the little OBJ
,ections which may be brought against this
or that measure.
. Why, there was never a measure proposed
in khis world against which you could not
bring objections enough to overwhelm every
little mind that contemplated it; but the
men fitted for the time never dwell on these
objections. They look at the great positive
reasons for the measures, the positive gain
that is to be derived from it, and they seize
upon that and present it before the people to
electrify the whole connry and to carry it
with them. Applause. That is the only
way we can act in times like these.
In order to overcome these difficulties.
these little technicalities or obstacles which
may be in the way, or petty attorneys may
imagine or bring up or cavil at-things OF
that sort-we must stand up like men and
say the country is first, and if there are any
of these little difficulties in the way, let them
90 the way of all the earth-sweep them
away with one strong, determined blow
Applause do not ask, as l said before,
abolition for abolition's sake. So far as the
abolition of slavery is concerned, feel not
the slightest uneasiness. The shot that
was fred at Sumter knocked off the fetters
of every slave in the land Applause
Let this war terminate as it will, either