Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-04-28
LErrEN FROM MIR. cnAsr.

LETTER FROM MIR. CHASE.
The following is n correct copy of tho letter
of Mr. Chase to the Loyal National League. in
response to their invitation 10 attend the Sumter
meeting:
"WAsmSGroN, April 9, 1863
Genilcmcn Imperative demands on my |
tune compel me to deny myself the qualification
of attending the meeting to which you kindly |
invite me
You will meet to send words Of cheer to our
brave generals aud soldiers in the field to re
bukc treason in our midst, giving, in the garb OF
peace, aid aud comfort to treason in the panoply
Of war; TO nalntnin iuviOlate tho integrity OF
the national territory AMI the supremacy Of the
national constitution md laws; TO strenrthen
tlic hands and nerve the heart of the President
for the grent work to which God mud the people
have called him For what worlher purposes
eau American citizens now ASSEMBLE
" II is my fixed faith. gentlemen that Col
does not mean that this American republic shall
perish. We are tried as by fire, but our country
will live Notwithstanding nil the violence aud
nil the Vaccinations of traitors and their SYM
pathisers on this or the other side of The Allan
tic, onr country wi live.
"And while our country lives, slavery, the
CHIEF source, mud cause, mud agent of our ills
will die. The friends OF the Union iu the South,
before rebellion, predicted the destruction of
slavery as consequence Of secession, il that
madness should prevail Nothing, in my iudg-
ment is more certain thnn the fulflment of
these predictions Safe in the States, before
rebellion, from nil federal interference. slavery
has come out from its shelter, under STATE con-,
siltuliobs md laws, To assail the national life. -
It will surely die, pierced by its own iangs and
stngs.
What matter now how it dies? Whether
as IA consequence or object of the war what
mattcrf Is this time to split hairs of logic I?
10 ME 1t seems that ProVi lcncc indicated clearly
enough how the end If slavery must come. Ii
comes in rebel slave Stltes by military order
decree or PROCLAMATION; not to he disreenrdel
or cot aside in any event rs nullity, but main
famed and executed with perfect good faith to
all the cnilnuchisrd aud it will come in loyal
slave States by the unconstraincd action of The
people and their legislatures, nded freely and
generously by their brethren of The free States
! may he mistaken in this, but ii | am another
better way will he revealed
" Meanwhile it seems to me very necessary ia
say distinctly what many yet shrink from saying
The American blacks must be called into this
cohlllct not as cattle, not now, even, as contra
bands, Int as men. In the free States md. Inv
the proclamation, in the rebel Stateg. thrv nre
free men The Attorney General, in an opinion
which dimes rtillation, has pronounced these
tFeemen citizens Of the United States Let.
then the example of Andrew jackson, who did
not Hesitate to oppose coOred regiments to Bri-
llsh INVASION be now fearessly followed. Let
these blacks, acclimned, familiar with tue coun
try, capable of great endurance, receive suitn-
Die lniltnry organic alton, aud do their part. We
need their good will, and must make them our
friends by showing ourselves their friends We
must have them for guides, for scouts. for nil
military service in camp or field for which thew
are qualifed Thus employed, from a burden
they VIII become support and the hazards,