Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-03-27


The worst Southern reheIa - y0nes
gade Yankees. II is war aol Of ssss
but of two adverse conditions Of society.
1t is war natural, necessary, inevitable
not on account Of any hereditary hostility
Of race, but because Of the irreconcilablo
diversity Of social organization and Of
moral ideas. Light and darkness cannot
coexist. Liberty and slavery cannot dwell
side by side in peace. The honest man
AMI the traitor will never agree. The
man who believes that all men are create
ed equal, and the man who believes and
acts OH his belief. that some men do
not possess the inalienable rights to life.
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness, can.
not live in accord under one government.
The war We are engaged in is no new wal.
1t is the old struggle between the defend.
ers of right and the despoiic supporters
of privilege. The cause ef the war lies
in the very depths Of human nature
The South has tampered with its consci-
ence so long that it has lost the power
of distinguishing between good and evil.
1t has como to hate what we Of tho FREQ
States love and to love what we hate.
In this war the North is engaged in
supporting the essential principles Of gov
ernnent and of law. 1t has experienced
the benefits OF free institutions; it has
faith in still greater blessings to flow
from them, and it is now fighting in sup
port of those principles without adherence
to which free institutions are impossible.
The North is engaged not in an "Aboli-
tion crusade" Emancipation is but an
incident in the great war By which it in
tends to establish the principles Of uni
versal justice and humanity. We of the
free States believe in the equal rights Of
man, black or white, to lie, to liberty.
and the pursuit of happiness. The men
of the slave States scott at the objects Of
our faith. 1.-The South" says the Rich.
mond Inquirer, "now maintains that slay-
cry is right, natural and necessary. Tha
principle of slavey is itself right. and
does not depend on difference OF complex
ion." We Of the free States believe that
Christ came to set the captive free and to
break the bonds of them that are op-
pressed. We know that he taught US to
do to others as we would they should do
unto US, and declared that love was tho
fulfilling Of the law. The Bishops Of tho
slave States in council assembled, declare
that "the opinion which seeks for the ulti.
mate abolition of slavery is not only q
hateful but an injfdel opinion" We OF
the free States believe in free democratic
institutions 1--WE have got" says re-
cent Southern paper, Ito hating every
thing with the prefix free" We believe
in union, the South in disunion. We be-
lieve in democracy, in the people, in tho
rights of man as man. The shareholders
believe in oligarchy, in class in the e1-
elusive and cruel privileges Of few.
With such radical difference Of opinion
and faith between the people Of the FREQ
States and the rulers of the Slave States
VAR was inevitable. 1t was not brought
about by any two or three men on oYo
side or the other; Garrison and Wendell
Phillips, James Buchanan and jeff. Davis
did not make the storm; they were but
the conductors which attracted the light
nipg from the clouds. The war is not u
W al iOi VI iSotOiihS5 Shiob, ~ An
war to make Union possible. We mean
to make our ldeas-the ideas Of justice.
right and freedom prevail over injustice,
wrong and slavery We have no terms
to make with those who hate all that We
hold most sacred and most dear. Vhs
War must be fought out till one side Or
the other is triumphant. No compromise
is possible. And yet in these days weak
hearted men are crying for peace, peace.
But peace is not to be had. The end OF
war now would not be peace. A truo
peace can now be made only by the sword
and the cannon, which shall open the way
for the entrance Of the ideas of the Nerta
into the States once slave, hereafter to bo
free, and which shall destroy the genera
ton of those who believe not in the rights
Of man aud the justice Of God.