Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-24


full Of energy, and inexhaustible in resources.
We have been taught, and nov confess il
openly, that African slavery, iifsteasf oebeinR
source of weskpaas TO the South, is one Of
her main elements of,stgeBgths and hence the
military necessity, We are told Of abolish
ing slavery in order 70 suppress the rebellion.
We have learned, also, that the non-slayehold-
ing white men of the Sonih, imilliona In num-
Der, are immovably attached 10 thetiasttution,s
and are its chief support and .Aboltionists
have foundyo out, TO tkeie infinite surprise and
disgust that the slave is not pantinE for free.
grief over cruelty and oppression inflicted up
on him, buthsppy, c0ntelsd1 gtia6hed deep
ly to his master, an and dnwiiiihls3ss least not
eager--to Acceptable precious boon offreedoR
which they have profered him | appeal to
the President for the proof ] appeal to the
fact thatfewer slaves have escaped, ,evenffoh
Virginia, in now nearly two years, than Arnold
and Cornwallis carried away 10 six months of
invasion in 1881, Finally sir, we have learn
ed, aud the South, too, what the history ofthe
world ages ago, and our own history might
have taught us, that servile insurreetion is the
least of the dangers TO which she 10 exposed.
Hence, in my deliberate Judgement, AfIiean
slavery, US an ins6tatioh, will come out Of this
conflict ftty-fold stronger than when the war
began. DoL 80 ajl14gQl4 Suit1q1ls sal
The South too, sir hes learned most ams
portant lessonsi and among them, that per-
sonal courage is q quality common 70 all sec.
tons, and that in battle, the men Of the Nofths
and especially Of the West, are their eqaalss
Hitherto there has been mutnalo and most
mischievous mistakes upon both sides. The.
South hovervaluedits own personal courage, and
undarvalnad II on1u t,,re eaadiltr
ed but at the same,time she exaggerated tour
strength and resources and under-estimated
her own and wefell into the same error and
hence the original and fatal mistake or vice Of
the military policy of the North, % and (which
has already broken down the war by it's own
weight--the belief that we could ,brnz1 ove4s
whelming numbers and power into the y 6eldl
and upon the sea, and crush out the South OF,
a blow. Bnt twenty months ofDterriblsi hwar.
fare have corrected many errors, and taught
US the wisdom of a oenturygsl Audl now alsir,
every one of these lessons will pro6t ua dor all
ages to come and if we do bat eunite, will
bind us in a closer, frmer ,imors durable union
than ever before. aaI .lu sdi 10 ssA saaui
have now, Mr.. Speaker, finished what5I
desire to say at this time, upon the great ques-
ton Of the reunion of these States sIlhavs
spoken freely and boldly--not wisely, lit, may
be, for the present, or for myself personally,
but most wisely for. the future and for ny
country. Not courtirg censure, yet do not
shrink from it. My own Immediate personal
interests, and my chances gust now dof the
more material rewards OF ambition, l. again
surrender as hostages to that great hereafter,
the echo OF whose footsteps already i hear
along the highway of time. Whoever, hers
or elsewhere, believes that war can restore the
Union OF these States whoeyeri would have
war for the abolition of slavery, or disgnion;
and he who demands southern independence
and hnalseparation, Let him apeak knfJ JAim Z
have offended. Devoted to the Union from
the eginning, l will not desert it now in this
the hour of its soresttrial. = q SAs& "a As
Sir, it was the day-dream Of my boyhood,
the cherished desire of my heart in youth,
chat might live to see the hundredth ahrkl
versary OF our national alindepehdSnceIa and as
orator of the day, exult in the expanding glo-
ries and greatness of the still, United States
That vision fingers yet before my eyes, obscur-
ed indeed by the clouds and thick darkness
and the blood of oiyil Warsb But sir ifilthe.
men of this generation are wise enough ,nto
profit by the hard experience of the past two
years, and will turn their hearts now from,
bloody intents TO the words and artsofs peAneI
thatday will find us again the United States
And if not earlier, as j would desjrevandB Ybe.
lievebat least upon that day Jet the grea& work
of reunion be contaminated that khenneforths
for ages, the States and the psoplasfha shall
fill up this mighty continent unitedCpAder
Consultation, and in one UniOny Rnd dheesme
destiny, shall celebrate il as the birthday both
of Independence ofithe Great Reatoratiounon
\ Sir, repeatiit, we ara in the midat oGIdhss
very crisis of this gregolAti ony If YtbldeyIoYe
secure peace and bAgin the work of genniQn,