The Goodhue volunteer., 1863-01-28

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lash your only means Of enforcing obedience
|Ih -FOUR servants. i leave them peaceful, l..
borious, controlled by the laws Of kindness
and justice. 9os's o.} 10 ;2sgG@Ee 1ssz ssz.sstS4,
/ have demonstrated that the pestilence
can be kept from your borders. @e@a= ~.a....
II have added a million of dollars to your
wealth in the form Of new land from the
battnre Of the Mississippi. as =>y,sa. -.-...
II have cleansed and improved your streets,
canals, and public squares, and opened new
avenues to unoccupied land - 4 .1~s,2 -. :
I have given you freedom Of elections
greater than you have ever enjoyed. " i.
III l have caused justice to be administered
$50 partially that your own advocates have
unanimously %complimented the judges .>of
my appointment. ...-as ~~~~
You have seen, therefore, the benefit of
the laws and justice of the government
against which you have rebelled.
Why, then, will you not return to your
allegiance to the government-not with lip
service, but with the heart?
I conjure you, if you desire ever to see
renewed prosperity, giving business to your
streets and wharfes; if you hope to see
your city become again the part o: the west
ern world, fed by the rivers for more than
three thousand miles, draining the COM
merce of a country greater than 'he mind
of man hath ever contreved-return to your
Allegiance. -" "I:
l: you desire to leave to your children
the inheritence you received Of your fathers
a staple, constitutional goyernment-if you
desire that they should in the future be a
portion Of the greatest empire that the sun
ever shone upon-return to your allie
glance.
There is but one thug that stands in the
way. ..-~.
There is but one thing that at this hour
stands between you and the government,
and that is slavery. ".' s~' ..
The institution, cursed Of God, which has
taken its last refuge here, in His providence
will be rooted out as the tares from the
wheat, although the wheat was torn up
with it. ... t.. Il. ...t
l have given much thought to this sub
Iject. e -.... ~ l>H
came among You by teachings, by habit
Of mind, by political position, by social
affinity, inclined to sustain your domestic
laws, if by possibility they might be with
safety to the Union. a:" "t f..
Months Of experience and observation
have forced the conviction that the existence
of slavery is incompatible with tho safety
either Of yourselves or Of the Union.
As the system has gradually grown to its
present huge dimensions it were best If it
could be gradually removed but it is better
ia: better, that it should bc taken out al
once that it should longer vitate the social
political and family relations Of your country
l am speaking with no philanthropic views
as regardes the slave, but simply Of tn,
effect Of slavery on the master. See 70,
yourselves. ~ d"
Lcok around you and say whether this
saddening, deadening influence has not al
but destroyed the very frame work Of you'
society. -. *'.,~ H. g.
am speaking the farewell words Of one
who has shown his devotion to his country
at the peril Of his life and fortune, who II
these words can have neither hopes nor in
te-est, save the good 0! those whom he ad
dresses !; and let me here repeat, with al
the solemnity Of an appeal to heaven to bea
me witness, that such are the views forcet
upon me by experience lss., s,s. <as5
Come, then, 20 the unconditional supper
Of the government. Take inlo your owl
hands your own institutions; re mode
Them according to the laws of the nation
and Of God, and thus attain that great pros
Perisy assured to you by geographical posi-
lion, only portion Of which was heretofor
yours. I.as.ss 9s.s aef Benz. +. TUTLER.
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