The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-12-18

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Deechev On the OBJ Get Of the War
Henry Ward Beecher, in a late speech a
the Academy of Music. New York. said O
the object Of the war;
1T was also constantly alleged that III
North did not 90 to war for Emancipation
bat simply for Union. To that responded
erus. true. The peculiar construction of on
nation forbids one State to meddle, and th,
National Government to meddle with tn,
strictly internal municipal affairs of any 9th
or State. And 1, who have been ranked
il not among abolitionists. yet among anti
slavery men. all my life. held myself to be
. compstsnt witness to those mea who have
fought the anti slavery battle for twenty five
years; aud bore witness that il never was
our intention to interfere by violence in the
internal affairs OF Slave States. Our hope
OF Emancipation was based upon the per-
pstual use of moral influences, the action of
great commercial laws. the nature OF polit-
zeal economy, and above all. the non -exlen-
sion Of slavery. We held that if the Slave
States might cease TO be made. If they that
were slready ereated were compelled to
stand and bear the evil a. we'll as the good
of their own system. it would be a question
only Of time when they would emanci pate.
but We never proposed to put the hard of
government into those States and violate
those institutions. and We did not when the
war broke out; and therefore, whom il was
alleged that We did not 60 to war for the
purpose OF emancipation. said amen: we
did not. We went 70 war for the maintain.
sncs of ofnationalisy. (Applause) Bot then
il. was . nationality which had been re-
generated and brought back to its original
idea Of liberty. 1t vas Union that car
RED with it from this time forth the idea Of
freedom: and We had no doubt that Uuion
was to be the indirect instrument of Eman
oipation. { Applause. And when We
went for the Union and for the nation, it
WAS not . mere idol. but an intelligent per-
csption that the spirit Of liberty was so srrong
that if We had only time for its influence
Uaion would bring liberty in its train. But
when the immense moral support which
they derived from England swelled this war
into suoh monstrous proportions. this nation
vas lifted out of its peace powers into bigh-
er sphere-the war power; the North came
to this conclusion; that whereas we begun
war for Union, the way to carry it on and
end it is to destroy slavery to its very roots.
--(Grsat applauss.) We were couscien
tiously constitutional in the beginning. be
isving that in time Of peace We had no
power to meddle with this institution; and
We are just as constitutional now when the
war gives US the power to destroy rebellion
where rebellion lives in its slave institutions.
(Applause And said that there had a
change passed over the spirit Of this people
more than had passed over any people on
was set and fixed upon this. This war.
though begun merely for the Union. has
been carried TO that extent when We are obi
slavery, and slavery shall be dsstroyed."-
loud and enthusiastic spplsuse.)
He then spoke of his efforts to develops
American ideas in England. and to correct
false impressions. We quote few passages
from this part Of his speech:
THE VIOLENT NATURE OF SLAVERY.
IL found . very general impression in
England, sssiduously cultivated on the part
of some. and iguorantly received by others.
that this was q nation peculiarly, from the
very nature Of its institu lions and the char
acter OF its people, to mobs. We are sup
posed TO be vain. boastful, lswless. arrogant.
unscrupulous; and one reason has been that
the hand Of this nation has been southern
for the last fifty years. (ApplAuse) l
was obliged 70 say that it was not the North
that wanted Cuba; it was not the North that
organised 6illibustering expeditions to Gen.
trail Americs, il was not the North that
quarrelled with Mexico; il was not the
North that has led any Of the conquers for
the last fifty years; for the North is essen
TALLY peaceful. able to make war, but loving
peace: and it is the nature Of slavery to
maintain violence, because il is settled on
brute violence, and rejects moral principle
to start with. aud is obliged in all the moods
aud lenses TO rely upon physical force for
the maintenance Of that unjust aud unchr;s
tian sys,en.
Thus the aspect Of America has been un-
favorable in Europe, has arisen not from the
characteristic ideas Of free society but from
the Characteristic manners of society. ZAP
plauss.) Even such one ss Harry Brough
am Was pleased in my presence-for among
the trials that Providence put me to was thai
Of listening to his address--( laughter ito
style the American people 'ths American
mob" had never expected to think so
we'll Of mob. had never supposed it
would be my duty to say to gentlemen IN
Europe '.you ought to be ashamed that a
mob behaves better than . people; you are
people and We are the mob. and we behave
better than you do" Yet thst feeling.
vague aud unreasouing with some. pref
udice with others, . wish With many, was
that republican government Was 50 loose
iointed. 80 lax. % irresponsible. so breed
ing shs passions aud not the moral sent,
ments Of the ci,isens. that we were like q
vineyard upon the side of . volcano. h.bl+
every year OF two to IN eruption that burns
au before it.''