The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-06

crauc party huu lIS principles anu pun
cy, nodded and controlled, indeed, large
ly by southern statesmen. Neither will
! be stopped by that other cry Of min
gled fanaticism and hypocrisy, about the
sin and barbarism of African slavery.
Sir see more of barbsrism and sin a
thousand times, in the continuance Of
this war, the dissolution of the Union,
the breaking up of this Government, and
the enslaYement OF the white race by
debt and taxes and arbitrary power
The day of fanatics and sophists and
enthusiasts, thank God, is gore at last I;
and though the age of chivalry may not,
the age of practical craftsmanship is
about to return. Sir, accept the Ian.
guage and intent of the Indiana resolu-
tion to the full-"tbat in considering
terms of settlement we will look only to
tho welfare, peace, and safety of the
white race, without reference to the ef-
feet that settlement may have upon the
condition of the African" And when
we have done this, my word for it, the
safety, peace, and welfare of the African
will have been best secured. Sir, there
is fftyfold less Of anti-slavery sentiment
to. day in the West than there was two
years ago and if this war be continued,
there will be still less year hence. The
people there begin, at last, to compre-
hend that domestic slavery in the South
is q question, not Of morals, or religion,
or humanity, but form of labor, per.
fectIy compatible with tie dignity oil
free white l!s:.55or in the same community
and with national vigor, power, and
prosperity, and especially with military
strength. They have learned, or begin
to learn, that the evils of the system of.
feet the master alone, or the community
and State in which it exists; and that
NE of the free States partake of all the
material benefits of the institution, M
mixed with any part Of its mischiefs.-
They believe also in the subordinatior
Of the negro race to the white where
they both exist together, and that the
condition Of subordination, as establish
ed in the South, is far better every way
for the negro than the hard serVitude o
poverty, degradation, and crime to which
he Is subjected in the free States. AL
this, sir, may be "pro- -slaveryism," i
there be such word, Perhaps it is
but the people Of the West begin now tt
think it wisdom and good sense. We
will not establish slavery in our owl
midst neither will We abolish or utter
fere with it outside of our own limits.
Sir, an anti-SlaVery paper in New
York, (the Tribune,) the most inauen
tinl, and, therefore, most dangerous o
all OF that class-it would exhibit NOR
Of dignity, and command more Of inau
ence, if it were always to discuss pubIit
questions and public men with decen
rsspect-lsying aside now the epithet
Of "secessionist" and traitor" has re
turned to itS ancient political nomencls
Iure, and calls certain members of thi
House "pro. slavery" Well, sir, in th
old sense of the term as applied to TIL
Democratic party, l will not object.
said years sgo, and it is fitting tim
now to repeat it:
"If to love my country; to cheriS
the Union; to revere the Constitution
if to abhor the madness and hate til
treason which would lift up sacrilegou
hand against either; to read that in tn
past, to behold it in the present, to fort
see it in the future of this land, which
more value to US and to the world fc
ages to come than all the multiple
millions who have inhabited Africa fro,
the creation to this day !--if this is
be pro-slavery, then in every nerve,
, Der. vein, bone, tendon, joint, and lig'
ment, from the topmost hair of the hea
to the last extremity Of the foot, | a
, all over and altogether pro SLAYER
man."
; And now, sir, | come to the grei
and controlling question within whiC
the whole issue of union or disunion
bound up: Is there "an rrepressib
e conflict" between the slaveholding al
1 nor. .slaveholding States? Must "tl
cotton and rice fields of South Carolir
and the sugar plantations Of Louisiana
y in the language of Mr.. Seward, "be Il
u timately titled by free labor, and Cha
e lesion and New Orleans become mar
for legitimate merchandise alone, or ell
u the rye fields and wheat fields of Mass
) chnsetts and New York again be Su
=, rendered, by their farmers, to slave Gu
Ut ture and the production of slaves, oil
le Boston and New York become once mo
:, markets for trade in the bodies and sou
" Of men W If so, then there is an end
j. all union and forever. You cannot
: bolish slavery by the sword; still le
J. by proclamations, though the Preside
were to proclaim" every month.
r, what possible avail was his proclaim
ly ton Of September Did the South su
'l- nit? Was she even alarmed? T? A
RS yet he has now fulmined another "b
tn against the comet"-Lrutum futmen
N, and, threatening serviIe insurrection W
tn all its horrors. has yet coolly appeal
u to the judgment of mankind, and invc
b. ed the blessing of the God of peace a
vii love But declaring it military nee
r. sity, an essential measure of war to 81
he due the rebels, yet, with admirable v
he. dom, he expressly exempts from its o
rs ration the only States and parts of Sta
or in the South where he has the mlit
nd power to execute it,
en Neither, sir, can You abolish slav