The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-11-05
r Cause and the Cause of universai JUS
tice.


tice.
. lin this war the American people have
hlized the truth that the destinies OF
b human race are so bound together
at all must suffer for the injuries of any
Irtion. In this country we made our
, Ives accessories to slavehold'ng, the
eatest crime against humanity. All
oral and religious sentiment was debaS'
to make this sum of all wrongs sa.
ed. Even Northern politicians talked
if the Bible was only slavery ordl-
hnce, and the Constitution only thing
tr perpetuating slavery. For it the right
Fhabea corpus, trial by jury, liberty OF
beech and Of the press, and the freedom
f the public mails were suppressed. For
the citizens of the North submitted to
pe deprived of all protection of law in the
south. For it our courts and legal prin-
,iples were degraded, and slavery became
the end and supreme object of all law
For it the people of the free States SUB,
mitted to be deprived Of their equai
rights in the Government, and to hold
subordinate places in it upon condition
of putting their necks in the pro-slavery
yoke. For it no Northern man was per-
mitted to hold any position in the Gov.
ernment, at home or abroad, civil or mil
itary, unless he was an avowed supporter
Of slavery.
We thought that another race we're the
ouly suTtieIs 10y this wrong, aud We were
in conceding their souls
and bodies, and in putting them beyond
the pale of human sympa,hies. We call
ed our Indifference to the freedom of an
other people praiseworthy regard for
the Constitution. But the crime which
we have abetted against an inferior race
has in the mean time robbed us of our
political rights, and at last has plunged
us into this bloody war. The serpent we
have rourlshed has turned to sting the
nation to death.
1t is vain to think that crime can be
at peace. 1t is at war with all mankind,
and it is a necessity that it should forti-
fy itself by more crimes. Slavery recog
nizes in every human right an enemy,
and declares war with it, To strength
en- its hold on the blacks, it demands ab-
solutc political power over the whites
Nor could it stop there. 1t regards cv-
cry free laboring man as an accusing ene-
my, and declares war against him.
We have tried to live at peace with
this wrong by debasing our Constitution,
laws and administrations, and by con-
ceding to it our political rights. So lorg
as it controlled our elections, it permit
ted US to 90 through the forms of voting.
But at length it has been defeated by the
popular vote, and now it has plainly de-
clared that it has hitherto tolerated popu
lar government only because the slave
power controlled it, and that because the
Slave power has lost the control, the Gev'
eminent shall exist no longer.
Why should the people Of the free
States hesitate to meet the issue thus
forced upon them! Should they not wei
come it, and rejoice that in fighting for
their own political rights, and for con-
stitutional Government, they carry with
them the cause of universal justice; and
that in putting down crime against our
own race, we are delivering another from
the most monstrous crime known to hu-
manity.- Gin. Gazette.