Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-09-11
"The Desperation of the
Shareholders Cause"

!Slarery.
Every honest, conscientious man knows
and tecls that slavery is vile and ours
ed thing.
Every o5sertiny man must see that
the institution OF slavery stands in the
way of tue restitution of the Union.
Every sensible, man says :. let military
law blot it OUT
Read what the " London Times" the
paper which has delighted to say SO
many things against the North says of the
relation of slavery and the Shareholders
to the Union.
IVhatetsr we may think of the individ-
ual actors in the scene, the events of the
American war proceed like the irresistible
march of desting represented in Greek
i tragedies, and every step brings us near
er to the destruction Of the Slave Power
and the liberation Of the slave. Shallow
sentmeutalsts, the ready dupes of the
/ lying organs of the Secession party, made
4 maundering objection to patting arms
into the negro's hands, and yet no more
rational and practical way of redeeming
Southern society could be found than that
of summoning its " hereditary bondsmen"
to " strike the blow by which their own
freedom would be achieved For the
white race on both sides to treat them as
mechanical objects Of its rapacity" or
its bcneyoence could commend itsels to
no sane mind. The grand thing was to
rouse in their own breasts the conscious
ness that they were men, called upon. the
first time in their unhappy lives, to ac-
ccpt responsibilities, perform duties, and
win by toll, intelligence, aud heroism
the noble fruit Of the emancipation Of
thoir race. lIal the condition of the
South permitted, the peaceful missionary
might have gone forth through the green
,sagaunahs, aud along the banks Of mighty
streams, pr0eaiming the great Christian
tl9etrine Of the brotherhood of m4n
but in that wicked land OF stripes aud
03prr,>oa 10 suck voice could reach the
slave. The very ministers Of religion,
a. they themselves have had the audacity
n proclaim, would utter no gospel OF
Heaven for the victims of hideoas ty-
fanny, bat. BY diaboIical peryersion Of
the words of life, they blasphem0usly
claimed the affi Of the Kedeemcr to pre-
vent the redemption of the African race.
Tie Shareholders determined that liberty
should only be heard in the thunder oil
cannon, ami that the light OF Christian
morals and political truth should only
gicam through the worse than Parg4u
darkness Of their country, when the
sabre flashed and the bayonet was leveIled
in deadly fght On the other hand, could
they have helped it, few of the North
ern men would have been thorough in the
work. On both sides, what the ancicnts
termed Fate, and what We recognise as
Providence, has turned and is turning to
GOOD account both the noble and the
contcmntiblc clements which either side
presents, The naughty arrogance of the
mau-stcalm5 planter has blinded him like
hood upon hawk. He has rushed,
Ike wild 5u}i Of the forest, full tilt at
the train OF eiyilisation that alarmed him
By invading his savage plains. \ little
sense to sec where the world was going,
aud would 90, in spite OF his barbarian
desircs-a little touch Of human sympa-
tay to make him feel the bitter wrongs