The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-11-24

and was weight upon the South. If,
at this point, its disappearance could
have clearly commenced, what untold
suffering aud sorrow might have been
avoidedl
It's existence had become incompatible
4 with the existence Of the Government.
For while il had stood as wall, damn
ing up the current and holding back the
people and laborers of the North, it had,
by thus precluding free intercourse be.
tween the sections, produced marked
change in their manners, customs and
sentiments. And the two sections were
growing more divergent every day. This
wall or the Government one, must give
way The shock came which was TO
settle the question. l thought that the
Government was divided, and negro
slavery established forever. erred.
The Government was stronger than
slavery. AS l have said, the mission Of
the latter is accomplished. And, as his
happiness must always be subordinate to
that Of the white man, he must, ere long,
depart on the foot prints Of the Red man,
whose mission being accomplished, is
fast fading from our midst.
While think the mission OF the negro
is accomplished here, l am clearly Of the
opinion that the time will come when
civilization and learning shall light up
the dark abodes of the four hundred
million people in India, and when their
wants and necessities will put the patient
and hardy negro to toiling, and opening
up the great valley Of the fertile but
miasmatic Amazon. But such specula-
tions are out of place here.
Let us, fellow citizens, endeavor to be
calm Let US look these new ideas, and
our novel position, squarely in the face
We fought for negro slavery. We have
lost. We may have to do without it.
The inconvenience will be great for a
while. The loss heavy. This, however,
is already wellnigh accomplished. Yet,
behind this dark cloud is a silver lining
If not for us, at least for our children.
In the place of these bondsmen will come
an immense influx of people from all
parts of the world, bringing with them
their wealth, arts and improvements, and
lending their talents and sinews TO in.
crease eur aggregate wealth Thrift
and trade aud common destiny will
bind us together. Machinery in the hills
i Of Arkansas will reverberate 10 the music
Of machinery in New England, and the
whirr of Georgia spindles will meet re-
sponsive echo upon the slopes OF the far
off Pacific. Protective tariffs, If needed
will stretch in their influences from the
Lakes to the Gulf. and from ocean TO
ocean, bearing alike, at least, equally
upon Arkansan and Vermonter, and up.
on Georgian and Californian. Difference
of section and local sentiment will wear
away and be forgotten, and the next gen
GRAFTON be more homogeneous and united
than any since the days of the Revolu-
ton. And the descendants of these
bloody times will read. with as much
pride and as little jealousy, of these
battles of their fathers, as the English
and Scotch descendants OF the heroes OF
Flodden field, read of their ancestral
achievements in the glowing lines OF
Scott, or, as the descendants Of highland
and lowland chiefs, illusions 10 their
fathers conflicts in the simple strains Of
the rustic Burns.
Let us live in hope, my grief.s,ricken
brothers, that the day is not far distant,
when Arkansas will rise from the ashes
Of her desolalioH, 10 start on path OF
higher destiny than, with negro slavery,
she ever could have reached while the
re united Government, freed from the
hankering sore, will be more vigorous
and powerful, and more thrifty. opulert
and happy, than though the scourge o
war had never desoloted her fields. oil
made sorrowful her hearthstonesf
The sooner we lay down our arms
and quit this hopeless struggle. the
sooner our days of prosperity will return
WHY / HEsITATED-rHE sIrUArIoN-THE
REMEDY.
l hesitated long. my fellow citizens
before l determined TO issue this address
dislike to be abused and slandered
But, more than ALL dislike to live under
a cloud with those friends who have moi
yet reached my stand point. And, be.
sides, all possess is in the Confederate
lines Their leaders will deprive my
my family of slaves, home, property
debts due me-in word, reduce them
from competency and ease TO penury
Aside from what | have insi lie The Con
! federate lines, could not pay for th,
: paper this address is written upon. Blu
il may all GO. Did | desire future pro
motion, and could bring my conscience
TO it, would do like the Johusons. safe
} from bullets and hardships themselves
} they assist in holding you on 10 this
, hopeless and ruinous struggle, and, a
the end of the conflict. will come bacl
and say "a I sfaia Nth you 20 the iasti'
Honor me and mine - God deliver M,
3 trom such traitors 10 humanity, and Il
the interests of our bleeding people II
! me, the path of duty is plain. 1t is Il
lend my feeble aid to stop this useless
eifusion of blood And, though it beg
> gar my family. and leave me no ray o
hope for The future, shall follow il.
E l have witnessed & desolatiou OF tn
q Southern States from one end TO the 9th