Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-11-19
Slavery the Rebellion.

No impartial observer can fail to see
that slavery is the root, and life, and soul
of this rebellion. IF the rebellion could
be suppressed to- morrow and slavery pre-
served, we should have the planted seed
and quick growing harvest of another re-
bellion For slavery is perpetual out
rage upon all right-an open defiance Of
all law. 1t meets humanity at every
righteous enactment, and contlavenes it
And it substitutes, for the humane pre-
cepts of love and good will, the law Of
brute force Not sin is denounced in
the decalogue, not crime is hedged
against by human enactmentss which Is
not embodied in the law and practice Of
Slavery. How then, can Slavery, de-
nying and defying the very object OF
government-justice and right between
man and man-and warning upon all the
principles Of free government, be 10y
al to that government ? The very es-
sence of slaveholding is to rule, not to
be ruled-to command not to obey
How then can the shareholders be the
loyal and obedient subjects of a free and
equal government? They never haze
been, and the moment they could not
rule, they rebelled. They never aeill
be,-this they themselves affirm and
the very nature and practice of slave
holding forbids it. They never can be
for every Shareholder is a despot at heart,
and no despot can be the willing sub
ject of just and equal laws, nor the 10y
al citizen of a free Republic. Hence
the determined shareholders Of this coun-
try are all rebels to our free Constitu-
ton and government-ecery oneof them.
And this is war-pure and simple
between Slavery and Aristocracy and
Democracy. And in waging this war
the Aristocracy-the Shareholders
make use of their chattle slaves in the
South, and their political slaves-the
copperheads-in the North. And the
copperheads object to the governments
using. either them or their allies-the
slaves--in conquering their rebellious
masters. The slaves having become
tired of the rebels, are ready 10 volun-
teer to defend the government. But
the copperheads, from love to their
southern masters, refusing to aid the
government. have to be conscripted and
compelled to do their duty.
Look all over the rebel South and
through the border Slave States, and you
will find the prevalence and strength Of
rebel sentiments uniformly proportional
to the prevalence and strength Of slavery
Every blow, therefore, struck at slavery
is blow struck at the v;tals of the re-
bellion. And every effort to shield and
preserve slavery--as has been done by
the President in excepting the border
slave states for the Emancipation Proc,
Ilamation, and in his recent siding with
the proslayery party, and continuing
the pro-slavery rule in Missouri-weak
ems the Union cause and strengthens the
rebels.
Let no loyal man hope to end the re.
bellion, without putting an end to slav-
cry. For slavery is the rebellion, and
the rebellion is nothing but a gigantic
and organized effort of the slave power
to subject the government to its rule
and make slavery universal and perpetu
al. And in waging this war upon {
| free government, slavery but obeys the
law of its being. And when the gov
eminent and people of the North learr
and fully appreciate this truth-anc
they are fast learning, but have not ye
learned 1.-THE rebellion will have shor
thriving, for the rebellion and SLAYER,
! will perish together and have common
sepClchsr. And how many more dis
asters are needed to teach US this truth
will depend on the slowness of our heart
to believe and to slearn.-Daily Life
WA Democratic exchange comes to n
with notice that Truth" is crowded on
of this Issue. This is almost IS bad as tn
up country editor who said: "For the evi
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