The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-02-19
THE PROCLAMATION.
It's Endorsement by the Loyal People
.. ... or St. Louis. ..-.
Speech by Charles d. Drake.
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continued for "the planting aud spread
ing Of Slavery" ifSlavery has become
the golden image" which the South
bows down to, and wars with us because
we will not worship it too; if Slavery
feeds and clothes the armies of the
South; If the Southern heart is envenom-
ed against the North for the sake of
Slavery; if our free institutions, and all
the hopes ofoursolves and our children
are imperiled, that Slavery may be ez-
alted, difTuscd and perpetuatcd, (about
all Of which there is no more room for
doubt than there is to doubt that this
war exists, then is the nation bound to
destroy Slavery, wherever it is in armed
rebellion. Terrific applause. Turn
which way you may, there is no escape
from this alternative, except in coward
ly and ahject submission to the demands
of the South. Ifyou wish peace, it can
be had to morrow by giving up all that
the South exacts; but it would be hol-
low truce of not years duration -
The permanent ACKNOWLEDGMENT of this
couutry is a geographical impossibili-
ty. [Applause.l From every State
west and south Of New England, except
New Jersey, Delaware, South Carolina
and Florida, the Almighty has sent the
waters of this great continent flowing
from myriads of fountains down this
mighty valley, which must forever be-
long to one people, and share one desti
ny. Great applause 1t is impossi-
bic for one people to own the trunk Of
the Mississippi, and hostile people its
mouth. Renewed plaudits.] ] There
Is no room for two disrordant nations
between the great northern lakes and
the Gulf of Mexico. The same politi.
cal institutions must prevail over that
entire region. Cries of good" and
applause While the South was salts
fed ito let Slavery retain its original
character as n mere system of domestic
labor, there was no more necessity for
discord than there is between me, non
STAKEHOLDER, and my neighbor, slave,
holder; but when the South made po-
litical god Of "the peculiar institution u
and determined, ifSlavery could not ex
pand its dominion here, to rive this ma
ton asunder, and take up its line OF
march through devastation and carnage
TO the final suhjugation Of the Western
Hemisphere to that institution, then il
became manifest to rejecting men that
the die was irrevocably cast, and that
upon this generation was dcvolvcd by
an All.wise Providence the dire con.
tlict between Freedom and Slavery, which
is to decide forever the fate of Amer
lea. [Applausc.] Slavery present,
that issue at the point of the sword
LET SLAVERY PERISH BY THE SWORD
[Thundering and long continued ap
plausc. .f .aE
We have long enough struck blow,
as if in dreams at this horrid revolt
and held back the home.thrust at its vi
tai point. We have slain the soldier:
of Slavery by thousands, but bowed
with hat in hand, to Slavery itself
[Cries of "that'S So" Gel We have
braved death in every form for ou
noble country, but found it hard learn.
ing to brave the destruction of her re-
lentless foe. We welded every weapon
against the rebellion but the very on,
that would be fatal to it. We attacke,
armies of white men in front, but lcf
untouched n more numerous army o
black men behind them, without whicl
the rebellion would never have existed
or existing, could not have lived a
month. [Gries of good, aud applause.
While we fight tho rebellion VIC mus
also watch foreign Governments, which
as we arc not the subjects of dynasty
but Republican freemon, have no sym
pathy with our struggle for nationa
lifa; but rather would rejoice at our hu
initiation and ACKNOWLEDGMENT ,evena tn
hands of that Institution, toward which
they and their subjects profess unbound
ed hostility And so it would ver be
as long as we ourselves held SLAYER
too sacred to be assailed, though warrin
for our destruction. But when we lear
to treat Slavery as Constitution break
+ er, traitor, a marauder, a.pirate, and
dsturber of the peace of nations, an
pronounce for its extirpation becaus
il is all these, then We touch the world
: heart, and tho popular voice in otht
lands will be heard, in tones which II