The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-04-08

F .o ii-bt i1at Northern black regiment has
cv- .9ue rebel white one, would se rot al
-a..- au- hate. Would lot even the Demo
rsi~: could inieei put % shale some o.
..et OF e-- repeated ard mos. confident pre-
t.c-.o.- ir would take from their harp it-
i- s- Die stri But Democrats son
soul .- TOO patriotic AMI maguaninous ro
,l'ii g.. fo-.ia't YOU?
! -roar r' ttr blacks coming 20 our side Let
-s- ..- .- .,-ri-rs,ood The abolition Of 81
srfv wIl .o, send ihe Soufhern blacks % t'e
NY..a. 1.. 30 viii -erd tte Northern b.ack- ro
i-e -... A genial climate. and still more
masses of fle., race w.u attract them th.taer.
They s.e seek 20 make white lab1r ot the North
jealous %. abolition, Do so very igaorantly or
very aisageuuous!y.
Nus, bring NY speech 10 a close Do you
".t.er ttst J. 30 old and SD radical an a0oG-
a}nst Have expressed in it 10 concern about,
save~' / could NOT express what | DO not
ieeD Since the bemoardiug Of Slmpter I have
'eI concern about slavery-'or 1 couI not
trs- 10 s-s the efectua bonbatdiag of
--.f. As Size war has a3vf-,. 3 7 have been
i-crcasasig confident THAR lhe people would
never consent 10 re-esrabtsh tte cause of al
this hiooc and horror aud deso.atou A. nave
seen tre p.oJsa-hare 0l war PASS through sa
very, tave let more ard mere that tue time
FOR the sfomiu4ton % pass asay lad come,
and nos h-ve ve -sas tlaf the very earth
GGdhes 0f war viii soon be Tending this noun
tain o' oppression and tossing its parts hither
and tnr.er brfold al possibility o- restoration.
Anr-ever. Civilization evefvv here casting
of slavery. and there is reason 20 hope thar even
tl- south sill become 81 far civilized by this
ear es ua iouge- 10 desire slavery Il is indeed
-ti ', has. 10 numrer var amongst the c.vlli-
z'H gents Nevertheless so it is that whilst
r.r i-ion- are on their present low pane-a
Ha.. in TIE case OF some Of them not above the
u't Darsm OF slaveholding-it is hardly extrava-
-a.t ,o ay Of them that "Ntbout The shed
lias blood there is 10 civilization War Is
er'p atically the worst Of all remedies, but the
nations sre still too low and bsrbarous 70 try
tHr better ones.
y e-, tLe slave is soon 10 go free Heavens
,'in- 'nr setting BIN free Is al hand aud earth
a'sa nel cannot prevail against Heaven. he
gees free bv the shedding o. blood. But il is
tne plood Of his common oppFessors both North
and south, instead OF h- oan Woadrous man
iics,auoas # Ills Divine hand. Woudrous ret
buttons of the Divine justice,
But -ho-gh Tam sure that tue innocent slave
shall go free. am not aure that tho guilty Ia
uou shall live. God alone knows what penalty
unrepented crimes against His poor. Perhaps
n IS 70 be destroyed, and 10 be a warning loud
and long against oppression. Nevertheless, a.
though We are TO be submissive to whatever
NAV De in store tor her We are 10 labor Jealous
ly, isoiy and necessarily for her salvation
NJ hearers, We will stand by the Government
viii W not. Although some of Us are Dem
ocrats some Republicans and some Abolition
i-t-, we will nevertheless lock hands as Ameri.
ctus-wi we nos? We viii an OF us uotwith-
standing our party divisions aud party interests,
geuei Ously and patrOiically basd ourselves %
gether o. crush tbs caGseiess aud accurs.d re-
bel.ion-aill we rot2 Would that We might
tins night feel more deeply than ever, thar II is
not by the rebels that se can be conquered. but
only by ourselves Nothiag l. t5uer than that
the life of the rebellion is in disuuion az the
North. Nothing is trger thau that is would fad
it, death ia Union at Jhe North.
Ere taking nv seat let me remind YOU Of our
duty 90 stand oy our aTmy-5y .he brave men
who have gone our from among as 10 suffer ev-
cry hardship ard to face every peril. in ihe high
and holy ~~rs of sapu-c-SirS tfv a.iv-t nuf.riru
ol al couspraces. Bnt the way % stand bv
them s 10 stauG by the ,soverument they serve.
To desert the g0veramens il 20 desert them.
Oar soldiers b-- as sfaad ny the GOgerumeut
They are afflicted that SD many 0i us 10 not.
They are indignant az fac divisions by which We
encourage the foe, and make him ADLER 10 drive
bacs and slaughter our in.uds SUCH heartIe-s-
ue-- towards themselves Is Weh as toward the
country IS rery unlike the reward of S, ,mpa,hv
altitude and love on which they counted whca
taey vent forth 10 fight eur batt e. Our slan
soldiers couli they speaA would bid Us stand by
the Governments. Our tens Of thousands OF
broken families, weeping over those who went
% the ARMY never more 70 return from d, Did "
stand bv Jhc Gov-rnm'ls The enli -hteued
irients 0t freedom and e0usuess the earth over
b us stand by the government. And loud
ABOVE an. comes down he voice OF Heaven .
'Stand 10y the government. Stand by the gov
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