Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-07-08

AZ ACdSOHtDlc anu lliJuSJ Ill one case us
IS the other. You won't support the A
K ministration in this war because it is
% Whig Administration. Brother Den
d crat, that will not do. You cOmpla
e that we have been so slow and tard
d that the rebellion should have been p
y down long ago, and If the Democrats h;
J. had hold of it. it would have been. Y,
n forget the difficulties that the Admin
I tration had to encounter at the cor
e mencement of the struggle; and that
I we have not accomplished everything Y
e would have accomplished, there may
1 reasons which we are ignorant Of. 81
Is 1t the duty of prudent man to stop
p argue on this point? Now brother Den
:. ocrats, | will make a bargain with you.-
: You go on heart and hand in support IL
S of the Administration, and if, at the en-
they shall not have put down the rebe
lion and you will show me a Democr;
r who will make cleaner sweep, | wi
ground my arms, and enter upon th
stump for his election. Loud Cheering
1t will take time, but if the work is dom
good patriot can afford to wait 1t ma
be that some small politicians may spo
Lefore that time. but we hadbetter sacr
flee few of them. than sacrifice tn
country. Laughter.
DON'T LIKE ABoLITIoNTsTS
But you don't like the Abolitionists il
this war. Aha. that's the corn on tn
toe. Laughter Now, so far as tn
propriety or policy is concerned, | thinl
myself that Mr.. Lincoln was not very wis
in issuing his proclamation. / differe,
with him on that point, but 1 am no
sure but that he is going TO beat me yet
| said the moment that was done it woulC
start every political cqviler in the land
who would create parties and dissensions
and if the same thing could have beer
done some other way it would have beer
better. Then believe good deal in the
letter of Gen. Ben. Butler from Annapo
lis, that proposed to treat the blacks a!
oontraband of war. Applause. But we
VIII leave the policy aside at present.
THE RIGHT TO USE SLAVERY To PUT DowN
THE REBELLION.
The only question that comes up al
this time is, should the Northern people.
or Northern Government employ the in
stitution of Slavery as a means of putting
down this rebellion? If YOU call that
abolitionizing this war, it is a species OF
Abolitionism which | have not learned
heretofore. Does any man put himself
upon the ground that it is unconstitution-
al to use every means either in the hands
of our enemy or in our own to put down
this rebellion? If the army marching
through the enemy's country, find a hun
dred horses or mules he needs, marches
in and takes them and drives them away.
that is all right. The doctrine of Slavery
Is, that the Slave is but a chattel, mere
animal. But | put it upon broader
ground that every man working upon a
plantation of the enemy is equal TO two
men IN the rebel army engaged in shoot
ing down men in the Union army. The
negro is raising produce to feed the army,
and raising taxes to pay them. The ne
gro on the plantation who hoes his corn
Is just as effective a man as if he were in
the army, and more so, for though he
fights well in our army, doubt whether
he would in theirs. Do you say we shall
not take him and lead him to fight his
own master and oppressor? Do you want
any more OF our own race TO be slaugh-
tered than we can aviod? Do You want
them to cripple us all the more bv the
means OF their employment? If you say
30, you are opposed to the progress of the
war, and there is very little hope for your
redemption. This you call abolitionizing
the war.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION CONSIDERED.
Your orators are talking about this a
good deal in various sections of the State
and claim that it Is unconditional to in
terfere with Slavery in the Southern
States. | should ike to know what those
chaps down there have had to do with
he Constitution since they fired on Sum
Ter. Years ago, long before they had
ormed Constitution of their own, if you
lad gone there, and said YOU were there
% protect them by the Constitution, they
would have put you in the dungeon.
would like to know what Constitutional
lights they have? They have the Constitu-
ional right to.be whipped if we can do it,
md | think we can. Voice: I'VE
yill!' | don't choose to go into the
question whether the Constitution ever
ave them any rights in regard to Slave
Y, The word Slave is not in the Consti- |
ution. 1t is true it says something about
from labor, and that's all the
power it ever held under the Constitu-
ion
SLAVERY DOOMED.
l tell you, ,friends,set your minds at rest /
Ipon the subject. make the prediction /
lere to-day, land am not the first man
Tho has made it, that in so far as the polit-
'aL character Of Slavery is concerned Il perish
aoih the sound Of the first gl0l IN Charles
IN hGrbor. Loud applause. 1t is utter
y and totally dead. 1t cannot be reviv-
d, and for that one reason, if for no 9th
r, the Northern people can never admit
hat institution into the country, even
pom an adjustment of the present diff
ulties, which could hereafter and at any
noment plunge them into another civil
,ar. Applause. You never will settle
his contest, whether by arms or diploma
y, but you remove the cause that pro-
uced it. If you do you are not worthy
he institutions of your fathers. Zap
lause.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
But you have another objection to this
ar, and that is this matter of arbitrary
rrest of some men who have not been
ontent with thinking treason. but have
cen talking it rather loud. There's been
bout halt a dozen men taken down to
t. Lafayette-perhaps there is one in
like now Laughter, You say these
len have been arbitrarily taken without
'arrant in the Constitution. Some legal
louser has sat down and conned it over
nd has not found anything to Justify it.
lie has found that they never expected
ny such state of things, and therefore
nre was nothing put into the Constitu-
on to meet it Treason shall consist of
q overt act-talking is not an overt act.
We must not forget the fundamental
rinciples of all governments on earth
laees large discretionary power in the
ands of the rulers of the land for cases
this kind. The old legal maxim is,
nat the laws are silent in the presence of
rms. You have very little cause to COM
lain here-if you had been down south
think you would have had much more.
he GOVERNMENT HAS POWER TO PROTECT 1T
SELF. ,