The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-06-25
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want ~ Seltle lillh war Dy diplomacy,
acknowledge these fellows, and take
their debt Of eight hundred millions,
and pay it also. J think, however,
that would not be a good financial
operation think there would be
something made in this respect by fight
ing it tout, and Mississippi fashion, re
pudiating their debt a soldier :
That just what we soldiers in Mis-
sjissippi $ say.l The soldiers are right,
If there is any thing in this war be.
sides the shedding ofblood and the in
crease of taxation, that requires we
should stop It by accepting a dishonor-
able peace. = don't know Of It. Is the
country suffering in any great degree?
Have We not the sunshine and shower?
Do we not receive the fruits Of labor in
due season. Onr taxes, you say, are
heavy. and so they are but our produce
is better, and money is plenty and as
good as we eyerhad, and the world is
free to our commerce Is this war opa
pres3ivs to US who stay st, home, in any
injurious way? No, we have seen it is
not But you want the war stopped
Shall | not ask YOU whether there. Is not
lurking in your :::ind, behind all this
special pleading this idea, that there is
little doubt about our being able to
whip these men with the forces We have
there, and that yovmay have to leave
the comforts Of home, and the prosper
ity Of. f.busincss, to help finish the work?
! fyou entertain this notion, all ] have
to say is, that the moment YOU make
dishonorable peace, that moment this
great fabric OF Ofgovernment, under which
We enjoy all tllisprosperity, is swept a.
way like the baselcss fabric of vision
and you would soon fnd. yourselves re-
duced to poverty, as well as disgrace
There il nothing that calls to an hon
orable peace but the arbitrament ofthe
sword ; and he who clamors for anv
other. docs not understand the position
which wc occupy, or is actlated by
motive which ldislike llere to name.
Well. YOU want to know what is 90
ing to be the tnture ofthis contest; you
want to know what will be the state of
things when We subdue the rebels-for
] have a reasonable belief that we are
going TO whip them after while.--
Some one is troubled for fear there will
be vast number of negroes turned
loose. who will come up and interfere
with Northern labor { A voice-"Therc
have heen n good rnas4e- hvrc long
time. } Yes, there Were some here be-
fore left, thirty Years ago. and there
is no use TO argue on this question, for
where they will go, or what they will
do, we must leave for ths.future to de-
termine. There may be a portion of
the blacks that will scatter throughout
the North, but a. small portion for eli
mate, and the character of the labor
will drive them away. The probable
result will be that the political charact-
cr Of the institution having been de-
stroyed, emancipation in some form
will permit them to remain where they
are. But, for fear such Il result may.
not come to pass, are you prepared to
take the other alternative and 90
down on your knees and sue for peace?
Are you ready to let them take all
this territory of the West and cover
it with slaves, shutting out your
brothers and Your sons from obtaining
homes for themselves and their child
rem after them, in order to Keep them
away from us2 Are you prepared to
say that YOU will yield to them again
the political power of the nation? If
that is your way of thinking, it is not
mine.
You may as well take the results ofthe
war as.thev conc, for be assured that
I'VE will find a way to dispose of these
difficulties as they spring up in our
midst. Let us trust that in the end
we will be found rs true to the great
interests of the country, and succeed as
well in disposing of them as we have
done with the difficulties of the past. 10
Ny main desire, my friends, to-day
has been to satisfy you that there was
but one duty or obligation for every
man to take upon himself and fulfill in
the state of the county at the present
time. l may have failed, and if so, let
me make suggestion to my political
friends as to party, and l wish you to
bear it in mind Go back to the record
forit, and take care that you do not
make the same mistake. tits that no
party ever made opposition to a war
that was not rent in twain and torn to
pieces thereby; and you can not blot the
record out; you may try it, but it will
stick to you, and / am not going along
with you in your opposition now. The
old tories to the ,revolution--they are
all gone now, but their records remain,
and the odium belonging to them attach
es even to their descendants. The old
mem bers of the Hartford Convention
are hardly spoken of with decent re-
spect, and / know of one case, where
the obloquy, though less than that
which should result under present cir
cumstapces, descended to the individual
of the second generation, keeping from
places ofhonorand trustsimply because
his father was a member Of that Con-
vention; the disgrace clung to him like
the shirt of Nassus, In the war with
Mexico we Democrats proclaimed it to
be the .dnty of every man to stand up
for it whether we believed it right or
wrong. did so, for ] printed the Gin
cinnati Enquirer about that time. A
voice II wish you printed it now. ]
Well, don't, ifit advocated the same