The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-12-01

Mr.. CAN'T says, affordiug another veiication
Of the fact that every Union man who has yet
risen up At lhs South IS also aoti-slavsry:
IL am asked IL Mr.. Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation will stand. II you continue the
struggle. certainly. He has the physicle force
al his disposal 10 carry It out. II you cease
now. you may save ali in your hsnds, or com.
promise on gradual emancipation. But let, /
beseech you, the negro no longer stapd 10 the
way Of happiness and safety Of friends apd
u v
II have recently talked with Southern slave.
holders from every State. They are tired Of
negro slavery. aud | believe they could make
more clear money, and live more peaceably
without than with it. As for the non-slave-
holder Of the South, honestly thought the
struggle was forhim more than for his wealthy
nsighbor-that to free the negro would reducs
10 comparative slavery the poor white man.
I Low regret that instead Of war TO sustain
slavery, Il had not been struggle at the bal.
lot box 10 colonize it. This will certainly be
the next struggle.
'Let u., fellow citizens, endesvor to be
calm. Let US look these new ideas and our
novel position aquarely 10 the face We fought
for negro slavery. Wo have lost. We may
have to do without il. The inconvenionce
will be great for a while. The loss is heavy.
This, however, is already we'll nigh accom-.
plishsd. Yet, behind this dark cloud is a sill
YER lining, il not Tor us, at least for our chill.
dreu. In the place Of these bondsmen, will
come an immense influx Of people from all
parts Of the world, bringing with them their
wealth, arts and improvements, apd lending
their talents and sinews TO increase our ag'
gregate wealth. Thrift and trade and CON-
mon destiny will bind US together. Machine
ry in the bills of Aakapsas, will reverberate to
the music Of machinery 10 New England, and
tho whir Of Georgia spindes will meet ra
spec,ive echo upon the slopes Of the far of
| Pacific. Protective tariff, il needed, will
stretch in their influences from the Lakes TO
the Gulf and from ocean TO ocean, bearing
alige, al least, equally upon Arkansian and
Vermonter, and upon Georgian and Caforn
ian. Difference Of section and local senti
ment will wear away and be forgotten, and
the next generation will be more homogen
eous and united than any since the days o.
the revolution. And the descendents OF these
bloody times will read, with as much pride
and little a!ousy, Of these baatles Of thei
fathers as the Euglish and Scotch deseen
dapts of the house Of Floddenfeld, read o
lbsir ancestra achievements 10 the glowing
lines of Scott, or, as the descendants Of high
land and Iowland chiefs, illusions TO thei
fathers conflicts in tie simple strains Of rus
tic Burns.
"Let us live in hopes, my grief-strickcl
brothers, that the day is not far distant whe
Arkansas will rise from the ashes Of her desc
latjon, to start on path Of higher destiu,
tba,, with peg slavery, she ever could have
reached; while the reunited Government, free
from this cankering sore, will be more vigc
rops and powerful and more thrifty opul0u
and happy, than tho the scourge Of war ha
never desolated her ields, or made sorrowfu
her hearhstonesI'
Mr.. CAN'T justly declared that eve (th
Soutb) must propose peace, for we ought
know when We have got enough Of the thing.
Az to the mode aud timelessness of peace an
reconstruction, he says:
."Ihe shortest way, 10 my opinion, to re
sumo our relations with the Federal Govern
ment, is TO instruct Hon. w. X. Sebastian
take his seat in the United States Senate.
is by all means desirable that such instruct
ions be SO clear that the u tied States Gov
eminent may be at no loss to see that our pee
pie are loyal, and that Mr.. Sebastian ina
have but one course of conduct left. fe
, sure that he will respond fayoraby lpyo'
wishes.
"Wherever II can be done, meetings sboul
, be held promptly, instructing him to resun
/ his seat 10 the Senate. Where IL cannot
, done, or where citizens cannot attend NEE
iugs, let them get up petitions to that effec
8 The proceedings, and the petitions, il sent
; me at this place, will receive prompt attentio
!. sho'd do all this efore be meeting Of Go
. gress in December. We will have trade op
and get all the other benefits Of q governme
9 that much sooner"
Q Mr.. Sebastian, il mpst be remembered, b
n never given up the old Union.
9 This speech is an era in the downfall Of &
D rebellion, and as bublic attention is attracts
9 to it, il will bc so considered. 1t is me
II powerfuI, at the same timo that it is NOR
!. tensly and unreseryedly loyal, than the artic
d from the Raleigh Standard, that created
i much interest some months ago; but there
Il no doubt that the writer of that article al
=. Mr.. CAN'T are labo rers in the same field, a
o with like glorious reward awaiting the
. Such a man as Mr.. CAN'T would not speak
n he has, il there was not prwer Of the P, oE
a behind him,