The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-07-09

OppOSSu lnelT COuulIg Ut l(S OONeIH-
ment in the stern peril Of war, fell, or
their country fell We know our
brethren too well to believe they de-
sire the downfall Of their country, but
the treason of our officials from the
South brings admonitions that their
affiliated party leaders in the North,
pampered by the spoils ofofice, sworn
to build up kindred aristocracy Of
office hunting and wealth by party or
ganizations in ruin Of the free institu-
tions Of their country. Wherever our
army has traverscd heSouth they have
found the politicians rich landholders
and Shareholders in secession and trea-
son. We find similar affiliations in
tile North Are tiiese types Of Democ-
racy? ..I
When our fathers changed English
doctrine Of life, liberty and property,
to life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness, they broke the aristocratic
idol of property, and the loyalty Of the
poor, though kept in comparative igno-
rance in Western Virginia, Eastern
Tennessee, Northern Alabama, and
throughout the South, again instructs
us that " you cannot worship God and
Mammon.
| Are our volunteers willing to pass
by the rich fields. harvests and gangs
Of slaves owned by the slaveholding
traitor, and know that the granaries
gathered by those slaves are to sup-
port. the armies of the rebellion? Are
they to toll on and witness the ruin
of the cabins and hOmesteads of the
loyal poor of the South, driven into the
rebel army, or cXiled by II sweeping
conscription over the white laborer,
and sparing the traitorous owner Of
twenty slaves, and guard the mansions
and slaves of the wealthy, to = foster
the Southern rights ofrcbellion? Do
they not demand confscation Of the
property including slaves ofthe rebels,
as due to their sufterings and pcrils,
and to their country's cause?
Confscation was a necessity, and all
history and former precedent sanction
it. The captured slave yet owes duty
to the country, and his condition re-
quircs control and subjccti0n, Our
volunteers should be spared the druid
gerry ofcamps, exposure to inhosptable
climates and the dangers of the field.
! DO they not require the services Of the
negro for camp duty building Of for
tifications, bitches. and alLother drudg-
ing and exposure that the African, ac-
customed to the climate and exposure
can perform with less risk Of health ol
life? Who would expose his relation
friend or follow citizen to the hazards
: of battle sooner than a negro? 1Lav,
the sympathizcrs of slavery become sf
fond OF the negro as to expose the lilC
of the white free man sooner thanthell
cherished chattel slave? Men have
become so dcludcd and estranged by
party, that their sympathics show out
, more strongly for the chattle Negro
than the free white man?' Yet tho
| outcry and reproach Of equality il
, made. Is the negro. subjected to whit'
managers and officers, in working par
ties, or, in regimental organizations
+ placed in any social equality with til,
I whites of other regiments and com
mands? Then General Washington il
the Revolution, and General jackson
at New Orleans, introduced negro
! equality, and the precedent resulted ii
no harm there, and we may from thai
feel assured it will not now. More
: than one hundred thousand Of our tel
f low citizens have fallen in sicknes
| and in battle from this war. The blooc
f of those fallen in battle yet stains tn,
field. Tens of thousands more mus
! undoubtedly fall. Are we so lost t.
: sympathy for our patriotic volunteer
| as to be unwilling for negro to stanC
, in their places and fall in their stead
5 Our farms and workshops are requi
: ring labor Cannot the negro be pla
{ ccd in The field to permit our men t
| return home? The demands of the wa
required a draft to cqualize the drain
5 for the service and supply the void o
5 the expired term of service2 Whit
{ the outcry goes forth that New Eng
| land. the Eastern States, have not fur
! nishcd their proper quotas. the Con
c script law is condemned although i
S cqualizcs the quotas While the Con
f script law is resisted, the organization
ofnegro regiments to spare its cXecr
, tion is bitterly denounced.
An overwhelming love Of Constitu
f. ton and law is professed, and the Law
A to fill the ranks of the army resisted t.
: the murder of officers appointed to en-
roll under it. The laws of the lanC
must be executed. We required tn
f same of the fugitive slave law, overri
S ding the higher law doctrine ofsain
/ and sinner We febAked with bitter
G ness and trampled under foot a secrc
{ society tending to deprive the f0reigl
$ born and Roman Catholic of the right
' given by law. We mathematical al
1 secret political societies History jus
g tilted us. They had been the bane o
: Democratic republics and regulated
e civil liberty from the illuminate o
0 Germany, the Jacobins of France, tn
# Carbonari of Italy, to the Know Moth
r ing or Native American Societies O
# the United States of America. .
s Yet, while the echo of this denuncia
3 ton has scarce died upon our lips,
n secret political organization to encour
: age and protect deserters from th
r army, resist the draft, conscription anc
Y the laws, has been disseminated b,
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