The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-06-30

was before, and would take the balance Of
it and dis ribute IL among the volunteer SOL |
diers who have gone the remainder Of the
sentence was drowned IN n tremendous burst
of applause.l And 50 far as / know them,
il we should settle South Carolina with them,
in the course OF few years should be quite
willing 10 receive her back into the Union.-
Renewed applause.
SLAVE ouEsrIoN-ARMING THE NEoRoEs-
WILL THEY FIoHrf
That leads us 10 deal with another PROPOSE
ton: What shall DO done with the slaves -
Here again the laws Of war have long settled,
with clearness and cxactness, that is for the
conqueror, for the government which has
maintained or extended its direction over the
territory, to deal with slaves as it pleascs, to
free them or not as il chooses. II is not for
the conquered to make terms, or to send their
friends into the couquering county TO make
terms upon that subject. (Applause.) Anoth-
or corollary follows from the proposition that
we are fighting with alien enemies, which ro-
lieves us from another difficulty which seems
to trouble some Of my old Democratic friends
and that is in relation to The question of arm.
ipp the negro slaves. II tho States are alien
enemies, is there any objection that you know
Of and il so state it, TO our arming one por-
ton of the foreign country against the other
while thcy are fighting US? (Arplause, aud
cries of "No," No.') Suppose that we
were at war with Eogland. Who would get
mn here in Nsw York and say that we must
not arm the Irish. 10 they should bult some
Of the Euglishl (Applause.) AT one time.
not very far gone, all those Englishmen were
orr crandfathers' brothers. But we are not
soparate nations. Thsre can be no Object on,
for another reason, because there is no inter.
national law or any other law Of governmental
action that know Of which prevents the
country from arming any portion Of its citi
z.ns: and if the slaves do not take part in the
rebellion, they become simply our citiz,us
residing in our territory which is at present
usurped by our enemies. (Applauss. At
this warning hour, do not propose to discuss
but merely to hint at those various subjects.
Cries of " Go on. There is one question
am frequently asked" Why. Gen. Butler,
what is your expericnceG Will the negroes
fightG' To that answer, l have no personal
experience, because l left the D partmcut Of
the Gulf before they were fairly brought into
action. But thoy did fight under Jackson at
Chalmotte. More than that Let Napoleon
III, answer, who has hired them 10 do what
[ @ veterans Of the Crimea cannot do-to
wbip the Mexicans. Let the veterans Of Ma
poleon I, under LeCleve, who were whipped
out from San Domingo, say whether they will
fight or not. What has been the demoraliz-
ing effect upon them as race by their contact
with white men, l kEow not, but cannot
forget that their fathers would not have been
slaves, but that they wore captivos in war.-
Aud if you want to know any more thai that
I can only advise you to Try then. Great
applauso.)
OTHER NATIoNs-NEUTRAL, THEIR DUTY.
Passing to another logical deduction from
the principle that we are carrying on wal
against alien enemies, meet tho question
whether wo thereby give foreign nations an,
greater rights than il we considered them hi
q rebellIous portion Of our country. So far AT
the Rebels are concerned, they are estopped
from denying that they are alisn enemies
and 90 far as foreign nations are concerned
although they are aliens to u, they are upor
our territory, and until We acknowledge thei'
independe nee there is no bctter settled rule ID
: the law Of nations than that foreign recogni
tion of them is an act Of war. And no coun
try is more sternly bound to chat view thar
is England, which held the recognition BY
France Of our own inde pendence 10 be an &C
: of war, aud declared war accordingly. Wha
then is the duty Of neutralsi Let us tako 70
: example the English nation. Thoy have o,
treaty with The rebels, no open relations will
y them. they have treaties Of amity and com
merce with us. A contest arises between U
h and our enemies 10 whom they are strangers
and they claim 10 exercise the same neutralit
!. "a If the contest were between two nation
a with which they had treaties Of amity. Ii
. me illustrate / have two friends who hsv
!. got into fight. am on equally good tern
}, with both, and do not choose 10 take part ]
:, their quarrel. l hold myself neutral. br
q suppose ono Of nv friends is fighting with
;. stranger, Of whom 1 know nothing that
' good; I have seen nothing except that b
!. would fght;is it my duty then to stand pc
IS feclly neutral! 1t is not the part Of a frien
, as between men or between nations. Tt
7 English say we will not sell you arms, b
70 cause We should have to sell the same to u
"a Confederate States. To that answer. Nc
;s have treaties Of commerce with us by wliie
d you agree to trade with US. You have
treaty Of commerce with the Rebels. insi
:, that there is a greater duty to US, considerir
N this as separate nation-an intcrloper tryir
" to get admitted iuto the family Of nations.
10 now THE REBELS CAN RErRAcE THE STEP r.
= KEN WITHOUT CAUSE, WITHOUT RIGHT, Al
WITHOUT GRIEVANCE.
II There is still another logical consequen
"a which in my judgement, follows fIom this vie
ID Of tho case. A great question pa' 10 me b
IN becn: How arc We TO get these men back T.
s. how are we to get this territory hacki-ho
70 are we to reconstruct the Union! thu
es that is much better answered upon this hyp
10 thesis than upon any other. There are b
D. two ways in which this contest can be end'
er One is by revolu,ionizing given portion
's' this country and having them ask to be a
u, mitted into tho Union: tho other Is TO bri
l it back by the triumphal car Of victory
as Whenever any portion ofibe inhabitants
% the South shall become again part Of I
''' Union, and shall erect themselves into Sta
:, and ask us 10 take them back with such
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