The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-06-05
Communication.
NrwrrELp, Nav %, 1868.


introduce myself to you by enclosing the
amount required to pay for the Union and
Journal one year, and while i am about
writing ask the privilege Of touching upon
few questions that agitate the public mind.
l am now passed what is termed the ago OF
man, (thrcc score and ten ycars) and can re-
member distinctly the beginning and closing
up Of two wars in which the United States
were engaged, viz: the war with England
and the war with Mexico. They were ,oars
but they bore no comparison with our pres
ent war-the father against the son and
the son against the father.
If We inquire into the causes, one will
charge it upon the abOiitionist-another will
bestow his anathcma upon the ministers,
while Others will set up q hue and cry against
our personal liberty laws But very few are
disposed to charge it upon the right cause.
The cause Of the war according to my i'm.
preston founded on what / have seen and
heard. may DO seen in the fact that We have
strong party in both sections, North and
South, who are anxious that the laws OF tho
slave plantations should become the laws OF
the land-that the protector Of business
should be the lord, and the operative his me-
NAL slave. There is the cause, and in my
opinion the principal cause. A design UNI
der profession Of veneration for the Consti-
tuition, to charge its most vital parts. II We
want the evidence We shall find it in the pa
pers that are scattered through the land and
tho language of the people expressing SYM
pathy with the rebellion, and pleasure ut the
disasters that fall upon tho national armies.
The sympathizcrs of the rebellion seem to DO
constantly visited by the ghosts of the eng
gers" They seem to be alarmed lest the
niggers should be set FREQ, showing plainly
that they believe that one class was made Tor
masters and the other for slaves.
These sympathizers for tho rebellion pre-
tend to be great supporters of the Constitu-
ton, but they forget or never knew that the
Constitution strictly prohibits any State from
entering into any treaty, alliance, confedera-
ton, or agreement with another State or
foreign power. (Sec Article ], Sec. 10, Of
the Constitution of the United States.)
Tyrants, and those who aspire to unlimit-
cd power, have, in oil ages labored to keep in
telligcnce from the common people; hence it
was that at tho commencement of the rebel
lion that Georgia Senator (lverson) pro-
claimed in his seat, that tho slave States
could never live in peace with the North 80
long as the pulpit and the school.house were
held indispensable by tho people of the North.
In the campaign Of 1860 we were entertain
ed in this vicinity by lecturers from tho
slave states. Their repeated admonitions
were to "kccp an eye on the niger" and tho
symplthizcrs with the rebellion have been
true to the charge.
1t was but recently that the professcd
democrats pretended great sympathy for the
niger, and uttered violent denunciation
against England for cutailing slavery upon
us. Now the same people pretend that God
in his wisdom created tho "nigger" for q
servant Of the superior race. But | have not
been informed by this superior race how they
explain tho DEGREES Of God in relation to the
progeny that is raised up between the mas.
ter and owner Of the plantation and his TO-
male slaves.
II was the mixed race that made Hayti an
independent nation, and it is the children OF
the planters and oversecrs, by slaves, that have
done much in producing our national trou-
blcs. Let any party improve its time in
making fugitive slave laws-let our courts
call all their faculties into action to twist
the laws to uphold slavery, yet when tho quad
room slave gets q chance to escape from his
master, he will improve it,and the ympathies
of the people will 60 with him. Why then
should the nation waste its best blood in
strife brought about by the slave holders who
are only fragment Of tho people even in
the slave States?
Slavery and tho rebellion are like the
Siamese twins, they cannot DO separated
without death-and il the democratic party
lays its foundation on them it must share its
fate. II the Administration keep in power
the advocates Of slavery. they afford life to
the rebellion. and Of course must stand or
fall with the sympathizers OF slavery. What
then shall we do? If we cooperate with
the democratic party we have no evidence Of
making the cause any better. The leaders OF
hat party are agreed among themselves only
in one thing-sympathy with tho rebellion
Ind abuse of tho Administration. They are
ike an earthquake, they can throw down a
but show no capacity to raise u
better one. Take for example tho campaign
IF 1860. The country is indebted to them
for agitating tho "nigscr" question. The
leaders met in convention ut
and quarrcllcd about the "nig.
,crs," ten days, and broke up in row with
,ut coming to any conclusion. They then
net in convention at Baltimore and wrangled
'ix days about the "niggcrs" and closed up
With two sets Of candidates for President and
Vice President-and the same division was
,arricd out at tho Polls. Now suppose the