Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-15

been no slavery In the South, would there hav
been sny war;" l answer him thus: SLAYER,
was In tie South under the guarantee OF th
Constitution. Your intermeddling was guaran
teed neither by common honesty, nor by th'
Constitution either r That's good"1 n
slavery WIS the cause Of the war, then Il would
not have required an Aboiitionist party 10 have
brought the war about. illustrate this by the
common facts Of history, to show you that these
AbolitIOnists rise up and think they say greeI
thing; but the truth Of the business Is, that they
have had 'uoh luck Of plllage and persecution
Of the people. that they have become utterly
Incapable of reasoning about the common sffaira
of life. They think they make great case BY
repeating the question and making the declara-
tion Of slavery being the cause Of the war
therefore, slavery must be exterminated before
they can have peace. Now for these historical
lr6mipiscencea.
Every msn knows that there have been great
wars about religion. In all parts OF the world
these wars have existed more or less extensive
| iY, and more or less frequently. Not Iong since
there we're thirty years OF war 10 Europe
about what7 About religion. W a, now, ac-
co, ding 20 the Abolitionists, religion ought to
be exterminated In order to have got rid Of the
war. Laughter Religion being the cause
of the war, one way Of getting rid Of religion
was by cutting the throat Of every man who
ptoies5ed H., By getting q decree pronounced
by some person like Abraham Lincoln, that the
Bih.e Is all false, and Its teachers all liars, and
therefore having been the cause of the war, ii
ought TO be exterminated in order to get peace.
lCheers,] But, my friends, this would be un-
il t, and IL would have been uDjus: to Felieion
to say that religion has been the cauae of the
war. II has been the oauae of wars In no other
sense than that It has afforded pretext to In
tsrpose on the opinions OF others. Did you ever
hear any talk about war In the United States
about religion? i answer you, never. Because
theI greet many religions here, and @
greaY laany parts where there is no religion at
all. there are Jews aud Mohammedsns; there
are Catholics and Pro.estants, and these Pro-
testants are divided up into half dozen differ
ent denominations, and they are composed OF
foreigners and natives-those who nave taken
the oath Of allegiance and those who have not
all men from all climes have been living here
under our Constitution for sevsnty-four years,
aud no civil war about religion. Why so7 Be-
cause our forefathers, seeing that religion bad
been made q pretext for civil war, did not
declare that there should be in the United
States no religion. They did not undertake
to ex,etminate religion. What they did was
TO put into the organic law protection TO re.
liglopN de- ominations and sects of all kinds
pnd descriptions, so that we could not cut tho
throsts of one another. BY toleratipg all opln-
ions, by protecting all men in their rights,
there has been no quarrel. These people have
had 1t In their own way to argue; they have
sweat about IL, and used greet deal Of ink In
tbeir religious controversies, but no blood. The
very moment they attempted 10 shed each 9TH
ers blood We ehould not have sent General
Burnside's spies, we should have sent the Sheriff
Of the county, end, If the Sheriff Is not stroDg
enough, he calls out the farmers Of the county
to help him; and II no be Jew, infidel, atheist
or the devil himself, they will take him. If q
man knock out the brains of another, he can
not escape by saying that the man whose brains
he knocked out was Catholic, and that this ID
Protestant country. No matter whose bfsins
he knocked out, he had no right TO knock them
out, and the man who lost thom, had right 10
keep them. If be should come before Judge
with such Q plea, the Judge would reply, at 10
no reason because you are in Protestant conn
Try that you should kill Catholic. The Law
knowe nothing of Pfoisstants and Catholics /;
1t knows only citizens" But the prisoners
attorney might reply: "But the man who taus.
dered this fellow is o most excellent Pfotess.
sut, and your Honor being Deacon Of Pro
testant Church, hope You will take these
things into consideration and let this man off. .
The Judge would cry, "Sllence; what right
have you to talk of religion, when the question
is the yights OF man? II this man was Cath
olio, he had q right to hls opinion, and to live
In free country, over which the Constitution
ofthe United States prevails, and by ID his
| right 10 be Catholic is solemnly guaranteed.
Now suppose We say that this mans religion ID
the cause of the war, therefore exterminate
itf say religion 10 not the cause of the war,
but the cause Of the war has always been the
attempt of one set OF men TO coerce and brow
beat another ont Of their rights. Did you ever
hear Of any mischief occurring In your neigh
borhoods, among your farmersf Did you ever
find yourselves In suits, or mischief Of any
other kind, without there being some mischief.
maker at the bottom Of III Did you ever hear
Of people having q fight without there having
been an attempt of one man to tread upon the
toes of another7 This law of personal right
is one of the first terms our children are taught
to pronounce. They come into existence In q
country where they hear Of the rights Of man,
of the rights Of States, and rights of the peo-
pie, repeated over and over and over again, %
though IL was the intention OF tho trainers of
the Constitution to sink 1t deep Into the heart
Of every one of .heir posterity. Why, si,,
this word has become 90 strongly imprinted
upon the hearts and brains Of the peop.s
that il is like an instance have heard of where
three men were TO be hung on the same ecaf.
fold. The hour came, and they all arranged In
ldue order to meet their doom. One was finely
dressed, was Of good blood, being born Of good
family; one was more Of common-pla man,
and but III clad; while the third was poor un-
educated fellow who had spent all his life in
driving t-ay. The hour arrived, and In ar
raging the.nl9lves on the scafold, the poor
fellow with dirty clothes got too near the fue
gentleman, and rubbed against him, upcu which
the fne gentleman alnohed, and dems aed why
he thus discommoded him7 "l viii stand
where please" replied the poor man. IL
have 90 much right to be here as you have. y
Loud Ia, Isbter] J r,rI s,..7,g
cay, then, that il was not religion, II was moi
slavery that was the cause of the war, but che
intermeddling of one set of men With another
! it We the intermeddlirg Of the Northern fanat
les with the rights and opinions and property oi
She people OF the South rCries of "That d
SOL Nov, my friends, .ell you that never
iustiiied this resort To arms, because have be,
lieved that If one more appeal had been made
i to sne public sense, the Democratic party would
have acquired sufficient strength to have pre-
vented this terrible disaster. Since the begin
| ming of the world nc greater misfortune hal
OCCUR to mankind, than letting these rogueI
and srers in the Administration uf Oh,