The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-09-25

even make d proposition They never
offered, they never pretended to have the
right to Interfere with slavery. Now,
you will observe that the tendency of
the population of this country has been
regulated by climate. The great fact
that the two races exist upon the conti-
neut, is fact that existed before the
Government. In the course of time it
was found that the Northern people pre-.
ferred white labor, and in order to make
way they sent their slaves South and
sold them. The South was willing, to
receive black labor, and thus both par.
ties were gratited, one making his choice
of white and the other of black labor. -
Now suppose there had been no South
to send those negroes to. As q. matter
of course, these negroes would have been
among them, and the places now occu-
pied by million white laborers would
have been occupied by million of free
negroes Now, it is curious want to
reverse this state Of things, They have
seized upon this war as the instru-
mentality by which they can just re.
verse this order of things. Now, what
do they want to do? They want to
bring the negro back to the North, to
make room for him, to send as many
white men of our people as they can to
the war to be killed, Now, my friends,
| never justified this rebellion, nor did
ever justify the intermeddling spirit that
gave being to this rebellion. These Alb
olitionists say slavery is the cause of the
war; | say it is not They say slavery
ought to be exterminated; say it ought
not. [Cheers.
Slavery is Not the Cause or the
l..... .... War. .r
Slavery is not the cause of the
war it is the intermeddling of some
men with other mems business. -
If any fellows should come here and IN.
dertake to disperse this crowd this even.
ing, and should happen to get hurt, they
could not say that this meeting was the
cause of it. [Cbeers. The cause of
it would be that they tried to break the
meeting up. asked the question on
a former occasion, and no Abolilionst
has ever been found that had sense
enough to answer it. Laughter ! If
there had been NO Abolitionists in the
North, should we ever have had this war
in the South! Cries of 'Neyer'7 One
newspaper edited by wise Abolition.
lst, thought he was answering my ques.
tion-he must be a wise man-by adopt.
ing the Yankee logic of asking another
question. He asked: "If there had been
no slavery in the South, would there
have been any war?" | answer him thus:
Slavery was in the South under the guar.
antces of the Constitution. Your inter.
meddling was guaranteed neither by
common honesty, nor by the Conslitu
tion either. That's good."] If sla.
very was the cause of the war, then it
would not have required an Abolition
party to have brought the war about. -
| illustrate this by the common facts of
history, to show you that these Aboli.
tionisls rise up and think they say a great
thing; but the truth of the business is,
that they have had such luck of pill.
lage and persecution Of the people, that
that they have become utterly incapable
of reasoning about the common affairs
of life. They think they make a great
case by repeating the question, and ma
king the declaration of slavery being
the cause of the war Therefore slavery
must be extermnated before they can
have peace. Now for these historical
"reminiscences.
The Cause Ofthc War
Everybody knows there have been
great wars about religion. In all parts
of the world these wars have existed
more or less extensively aud more or less
frequently. Not long since there were
thirty years of war in Europe-about
whatY About religion Well, now, &C.
cording to the Abolitionists, religion
/ oughttobe exterminated in order to have
got rid of the war Laughter Re.
ligion being the cause, the only way of
getting rid iof it was by cutting the
! throat of every nau who professed it. -
1 By getting adeeree pronounced by some
person like Abraham Lincoln, that the
Bible is all false, and its teachers oil Ii.
ars, and therefore having been the cause
Of the war, it ought to extcrm,nated in
order to get peace. Cheers. But,
my friends, this would be unjust, and it
would have been unjust to say thatrelig,
ion has been the cause Of the war 1t
has been the cause of war in no other
sense tnap that it has afforded pretext
to interpose on the opinions of others.
Did you ever hear any talk about war
in the United States about religiop2 I
answer, never. BecAuse there are great
many religions here, and a great many
parts where there is no religion at all.
There are Jews aud Mohammedans;
there are Catholics and Protestants; and
these Protestants are divided up iuto
I 'halfa dosendilfsrent denominations, and
theynare composed of foreigners and ma!
btives--those who have taken The oath Of
d allegiance and those who have hot-all
; men from all cline have beenliving here
d under our Constitution for seventy four
{. years, and no civil war about religion.
4 WhyosoH ~ Because our forefathers, see
I ing that religion had been made pre-
Z text for civil war, did not declare that
there should bein the United States no
religion. They did not undertake to
ezterminate religion. What they did
was to put into the organic law pro-
! itectionfto religious denOmiuations and
sects Of oil kinds and descriptions, SO