True Democrat., 1863-03-11

ages as Hector and Hannibal and no Iliad or .Enead would ever have been written. But far better say that the negro s the cause of the war; for had there been no negro here, there would be no war just now. What then7 ExterAnate him? W ho demands it9 Colonize him2 Howl Where? When2 At what cost7 Sir, let us. have an end of this folly.
 But slavery Is the cause of the war. Why7 Be- cause the South obstinatey and wickedly refused to restrict abolish it at the demand of the philo sopher5 or fanatics and demagogues of the North and West. Then sir, it abolition, the pur- pose to abolish interfere with and hem in sla- very, which caused dsunion and war. Slavery IS only the subject but abolition the cause, of this civil war. 1t was the persistent and determined agitation in the free States of the question of abo- ishing slavery in the South because of the alleged " irrepressbe conflict" between the forms of labor in the two sections, in the false and mischievous cant of the day, between freedom and slavery, that forced collision Of arms at last. Sir, that con hct was not confined to the territories. It was expressly proclaimed by it's apostles, as between the States aiso against the institution every where. But. assuming the platforms of the republican P3rty the standard, and stating the case most strongly in favor of that party, it the refusal of the South to consent that slavery should be ex- cluded from the terrtoriesthat led to the continu ed agitation, North and South. of that question, and finally, to disunion and civil war.
 Sir. will notbe answered now by the old cla- nor of |" the aggres.ions of tAe slave p0ncr."- That miserable specter, that unreal m0ckery. has been exercised and expelled by debt an'i taxation and blood. If that power did govern this country for the sixty years preceding this terrible rerolu tion, then the sooner this administration and gov ernment return to the principles and policy o south s-atesmanship, tue better for the country; and tiiat sir, is already, soon will be, the judgment of the people. But deny that 1t was the slave power that governed for so many years, and go wisely and we'll" It the democratic party, and it's principles and psicy modea and controlled, indeed, largely by southern statesmen. Neither will be stopped by that other cry of mingled ia naticsm and hypocrisy, about the sin and barbar- ism of African slavery. Sir, see more barbarism and sin, a thousand times, in the continuance of this war, the dissolution of the Union, the break ing up of this government and the enslayement of the white race by debt and taxes and arbitrary power. The day Of the fanatics aAd sophists and enthusiasts, thank God, is gone at last; and though the age of chvalry may not, the age of the prac- tical statesmanshipis is about to return.
 Sir, accept the language and intent Of the ln diana resolution to the fulI-' that in considering terms of settlement we will look only to the vel fare, peace and safety of the white race, without reference to the effect that settlement may have upon the condition of the African" And when we have done this my word for it, the safety, peace and welfare of the African, will have been best secured. Sir, there is fifty-i0ld less antisavery sentiment to- day in the West than there was two years ago; and if this De continued there ~ill be still less.a yeSr hence. The people there begin, at last, to comprehend that domestic slavery in tue South is question, not of morals, or religion, or humanity, but form of labor, perfectly com patbe with the dignity of free white labor in the same community, and with national ylgoG, power and prosperity, and especially, with military strength. They have learned, or begin to learn, that the evils of the system affect the master alone, or the community and State iu which it exists; and that We of the free States partake of all the ma terial benefits of the instution, 1nmixed with any part of it's mschiefs. They believe also in the subordInaton of tie negro race to tho white where they both exist together and that tho condition Of subordInation, established in the South, is far better every way for the negro than the hard ser vtude of poverty degradation and crime, to which he is subjected in the free States. All this, sir, may be pro saveryism," if there be such word. Perhaps it s; but the people of the West begin now to think it wisdom and good sense, We will hot establish slavery in our own midst; neither will ne abolish or interfere with it outside of our own hmts
 Sir, an antislaverg paper in New York <the Fri bune) the most influential, and, therefore, most dangerous of all that class-it would exhibit more of dignity, and command more of influence, if it were al ways to discuss public questions and public men with a decent rcspect-laying aside the epithets of secessiOnist' and '' Iraior,' has re- turned to its ancient political nomenclature. and calls certain members of ths House pro -slavervia Well, sir, in the old sense of the term as applied tp the democratic party, will object. 1 said years ago, and it IS fitting time now to repeat it.
 '' If to love my country to cherish the Union: to revere the Constitution; if to abhor the madness and hate the treason which would lift up a sacre- gious hand against either; if to read that in the past, to behold It in the present, to fOresee it in tie future of this land, which is of more value to us and to the world for ages to come than all the multiplied millions who have inhabited Africa from tl,an H. la, tb; ;t ,z slavery. then in every nerve, fiber, ven bone, ten don, joint and ligament, from the topmost hair of the head to the last extremity of the foot, am all over and altogether pro slavery man."
 And now, sir, come to the great and controll ing question within which the whole issue of un- ion and dsunion is bound ED: is there "an ire pressible conflict" between the slaveholding and non -slav vehoding States2 Must " the cotton and rice fields of south Carolina, and the sugar plan cations of Louisana," in the language of Mir. Seward. be ultimately tiled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become Inarts for le- gitmate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York again be surrendered by their farmers to slave cnl- tufe and the production of slaves and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in She bodies and souls of men7" If 80, then there is An end of all union and forever. You can not abolish slavery by the Sword still less by proca- nations, though the President were to " proclam' every month. Of what possible avail was his pro- clamation of September Did the South submit7 Was she even aarmedl And yet he has now ful minated another "bull against the comet t'--brutun fulmen-and, threatening servile instruction with all it's horrors, has yet cooly appealed to the udg ment of mankind, and invoked the blessing of the God.of peace and love, But declaring it mili tary necessity, an essential measure of war to sub due the rebels. yet with admirable wisdom, he ex. press exeInps from its operation the only-S5tates and parts of States in the South where he has the military power to execute it.
 Neither, sir, can you abolish slavery by argu- rnent. As well attempt to abolish marriage or the maintain it at every hazard and by every sacrifice; part free" it is already and finally dissolved Talk Missouri tramped under the feet of your own sol the destiny ot those States mus. abide the issue of the war. But Kentucky you may find tougher.- And Maryland
 "B'en in her ashes live their wonted hres'
 Nor will Delaware be found wanting in the day of trial.
 But deny the doctrine. It is full of disunion and civil war. It is disunion itself. Whoever first taught it ought to be dealt with not only hostile to the Union, but an enemy of the human race. Sir, the fundamental idea of the consttu- tion is the perfect and eternal compatibility of union of States, part slave and part free,' else the constitution never would have been framed, her the Union founded; and seventy years of suc- ceSsfu experiment have approved the wisdom of the plan. In my deliberate judgment, Confede-