Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-23


ton, as established in the South, is far better
every way fot the negro than the hard servi-
tude Of poverty, degradation and crime, to
which ke-is subjected in the free Stafes All
this, sir, may be 'p-o.slaveryism," II there be
snch Fofd.S Perhaps il is but the people
bf the Weat begin now 10 think Il wisdom
and goodssnse, We will not establish slavery
in our own midst neither will we abolish or
interfere with It outside Of our own limits
Sir, an antislavery paper in New York (the
7fibgRe,) the most influential, and, therefore,
most dangerous Of all tuat class--it would
exhibit more Of dignity, and command more
OF influence, II il were always to discuss pub.
| lie questions aud public men with a decent
respect--laying aside now the epithets of
"Seeessionist" and Traitor" has returned 10
its ancient political nomenclature and calls
certain members of this House 'pro slavery"
Well, sir, In the old sense of the term as APP
piled 10 the Democratic party, / will not OBJ
ject | said years ago, and il is fitting time
now to repeatit;
"Ifto love my country; TO cherish the Union
TO revere the Constitution; If to abhor the
madness and hate the treason which would
liftiup saerilegious hand against either; if to
read that in the past TO behold it in the pres
ent, to foresee it in the future Of this land
which is Of more value to as aud TO the world
for ages to come than all the multiplied millions
who have inhabited Africa from the creation
to this day l-if this it is to be pro-slayery,
then in every nerve, fiber, vein, bone, tendon,
Joint and ligament, from the topmost hair of
the head to the last extremity of the foot,
am all over and altogether q pro.slavery
man."
And now, sir, come to the great and con-
trolling question within which the whole issue
of union or disunon is bound up: Is there
ian irrepressble conflict" between the slave
holding and non-slayeholding States Must
'the cotton and ricefelds Of South Carolina,
and the sugar plantations of Louisiana" in
the language of Mr. Seward, "be ultimately
TILED by free labor, and Charleston and New
Orleans become marts for legitimate merchan-
disc alone, or else the rye fields and wheat
helds OF Massachusetts, and New York again
be surrendered by their farmers to slave cul-
ture and the production oil slaves, and Bos.
ton and New York become once more mar
kets for trade in the bodies and souls of
menY' II so, then there is an end of all
union and forever. You cannot abolish sla-
very by the sword; still less by proclamations
though the President we're to proclaim" eve
~ month Of what possible avail was his
proclamation of September Did the South
submit Was she even alarmed2 And yet
he has now Illuminated another "bull against
the comet, "--brutum fulmen--and threat
ening servile insurrection with all its horrors,
has yet coolly appealed to the judgment of
mankind, and invoked the blessing of the
God of peace and lovel But declaring it a
military necessity, an essential measure of
war TO snbdue the rebels yet, with an admi-
rable wisdom, he expressly exempts from its
operation the only States and parts of States
in the South where he has the military pow.
Ier to execute it, 4
Neither, sir, can you abolish slavery by ar
gument AS well nltempt to abolish mar
rlage or the relation of paternity, The South
ia resolved 10 mainfain . =. rF