The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-07-02
Upton, IOWA, JULY 2, 1868.

How could he think otherwise, when the
leaders of the rebellion, with their aiders
and abettors north and south, cast and
west, preached from all their rostrums
and stumps, and scattered broadcast over
the land in their newspapers and periodi-
Gals, the idea that a black man has no
rights that a white man is bound to re-
spect. Was he not aware that in the
South these respected rights Of the black
man we're also extended to the white Ia
boring man. know he was; for the
Richmond Enquirer repeatedly stated
that "the principle Of slavery is in itself
right and does not depend on difference
of complexion" George Fitzhugh of
Virginia, in his Sociology for the South,
declares: slavery black or white is right
and necessary nature has made the weak
in mind or body for slaves" A leading
political paper of South Carolina, 10 the
same vein, has said, "slavery is the natu.
raj and normal condition Of the laboripg
man white or black" Senator Hammond
Of South Carolina, declared, in the Sen
alto chamber Of the nation, that the la.
boring man everywhere the mudsills Of
society and therefore unfit for self gov.
erDment. Now, sir, how much Of a
scholar, statesman, logician, or philoso,
phcr, does it take to see from these facts
that the object of the rebellion is to ep.
slave the laboring man everywhere? |
answer, Just as much as the humblcst Of
you are irrespective of age or sex. Now
suppose this favorite object of the rebel
lion achieved. How long do you mag
inc the decision of the court affirming
that black man has 10 rights which n
white man is bound to respect would re.
main unchanged? answer, just so long
as it would take to amend it by inserting
laboring instead of the word black and
noble instead of the word white, so that
it would read, when amended, the labor
ing man has no rights which a nobleman
is bound to respect. Did they not go so
far, even both north and south, as to call
Mr.. Lincoln black republican and Mr..
lIamlin mulatto? And SO successful
were they in this, in the interior of the
slave States, that the mass believed it,,
and became SO enraged at the people of
the north that they were read to EXTERN,
mate them They reason among them
selves in this way Lincoln is black
republican, a negro, and Hamlin is mu
latto; the one rail splitter, and the 9TH
er hack driver or something else. Our
lawyers and congressman tell US that to
elect such men is plain, palpable viola
tion of the constitution and laws, for they
poiute dly and clearly declare that black
men have no rights which a white man
is bound to respect. The rights Of white
men are alone to be respected, according
to our constitution and laws. Did euI
hero see the affair 10 this light? Those
who knew him have the best evidence
that he did. But, could he really sus-
pcct the leaders of this rebellion as aim
ing at the overthrow of the government,
and the disfran chisemcnt of the laborine
masses to which he, you and l, belong
l answer, he could with the best of con
science, for he knew that in South Caro-
lima, the hot bed of the rebellion, no mar
no matter how wealthy, how learned Of
respected, could vote for any measure OF
officer except he was the owner of ter
slaves. In Alabama, Senator Clay sale
before that State seeded, "of course w
cannot live in the same government with
this people, (meaning the people of tn,
north) "unlcss we could control it,
) This is it. They wanted to control US a
their slaves with whips, revo!vers, sabres
muskets, cannons and every other eugin.
of war, calculated to keep people in per
,, petual bondage. They began, as did th
serpent in the garden Of Eden, by preach
ing lies and rebellion, and By stealing tn
, property of the government They claim
ed they had constitutional right to Sc
cede and form treaties, alliances and con
federations. This assertion which, i
possible, is palmer and more palpabl
talsekood than that proclaimed by tn
! serpent to our first parents, for the l0tl
section of the 1st article of our nations
, constitution expressly denies this right +
. any OF the States. For it declares n
State shall enter into any treaty, allanc
, or confederation, &c The old publ
functionary, then the chief executive {
g the nation, disagreed with them. II
had his doubts about State having
constitutional right to secede at pleasure
but he agreed with them in the delusiv
: and absurd doctrine of non coercion, fe
q said he in his last annual message to tn
!, Seth Congress, "has the Constitutio
y delegated to Congress the power to coere
State into submission which is attemp
g ing to withdraw or has actually withdraw
from the coufederacy?" He answer
"after much serious reflection / have
9 rived at the con clusion that no such pov
Q er has been delegated to Congress or an
= other department of the Federal Cover,
ment." On the Sd of December, 1866
this sad intelligence was sent by the ele
trio fluid to the remotest bounds of Il
Republic as fast as it dropped. from h
- lips 10 the Capitol of tie nation. Tn
y carriaI farror and fbicL ol,o,,, - ~