Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-06-02
sIaIor-General n osecrans on slavery.

For some weeks PAST controversy has
been going on between The Catholic Tel
graph Of Cincinnati, edited by Very Rev.
+. Purcell, brother of the distinguished
Archbishop of Cincinnati, and other Pro-
Slavery Catholic journals of that city. The
learned editor of Tie Telegraph insists and
proves that the Catholic Church and Slav-
cry have never got along well together; that
the Church abolished that peculiar institn-
ton wherever she came in contact with It,
and that it is only in America Catholics
have ever been found advocating Slavery.
The controversy has called forth the follow
ing letter from Maior-Gen. Rosecrans, who
is Catholic, which appears in late num-
Der Of The Telegraph. The editor says;
"He (Rosecrans) has never been an Adolf
zionist, and has, like ourselves, stood up for
the Democracy"
Murfreesboro, April o., 1868.
Ny DEAR FATHER EDWARD: The rebels
grabbed the last letter | wrote you, but
they will draw very little consolation from
its contents. | am happy to
see the splendid stand you took in The
Telegraph against Slavery, with its horrors,
barbarities, and base immoralities. Slay-
cry is dead. Nothing can resuscitate it,
To learn this fact fully, you should pay us
visit. There is not Niger in the South
who does not know he is free. Around
here they have squatted on the plantations,
and refuse to work for any one but them
selves. They have sown little crops of their
own. and the masters have ceased to exer-
else any control over them.
AS an indication. / will cite a strong
case. The lady of the house where am
staying attempted to punish one of her
negro women this morning. l had to step
in to save the mistress from being badly
used up, as the darkev was belaborng
her with the stick intended for her own
punishment. "EG uno disco omnes." 1t
is needless for me to say that | applaud
every sentiment you have expressed in
The Telegraph. Your course is that Of
the prudent navigator, who, watching the
black speck on the horizon, sees it expand
into portentous storm, and call up his
crew to take in sail and prepare for a contest
with the elements. The storm viii pass
away and you will be found sailing under
full sail, while those who took not heed will
be scattered by the gale. = =
| am heart and hand with you in this
cause Slavery is doomed, and those who
would now uphold it will be held up in a
very short time 10 odium and execraton.
No statesman will yindicate it, no friend of
human progress will stretch forth hand
to break its fall, no lover of humanity and
religion will grieve for its overthrow. /
have lived long enough South to see its
workings, its disgusting features, debasing
the higher principles Of our nature, warning
with religion. and patronizing vice and in.
morality. Almighty God has certainly
ordained its destruction in this county,
where it his been more offensive and i'm
moral than in any other, and until it is ut
terly extinct, this war cannot, from the
nature Of things, cease. am in favor OF a
cessation of hostilitics at as early day as
possible; therefore, am in favor of the
Presidents Proclamation. This State was
made for white people and free labor and
when Slavery no longer blTghts its borders
we may expect to see the church and the
school-house take the place Of the slave-pen
and market.