American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-10-12

on thelr lnarcn t01reedOm, born In chains,
now rejoicing in liberty, you may call it
Military Necessity, Emancipation or Abo-
lition, it is scene over which Angels
might weep for joy. In Maryland and
Virginia, you will find some free negroes,
and always in circumstances that will
compare lavorably with the poor whites
1t is perversion of facts to say the me-
gro is incapable of taking care of him
self and will become vagrant if set free.
The negro has always been accustomed to
labor, although he never got the laborers
hire, the only class we have to fear will
become a nuisance is the chivalry who
never did work, and the officers of
our army who have forgotten how. |
knew a negro in Montgomery county, Md.
who paid twelve hundred dollars for him
telf, and five hundred for his wife, has
sent three sons to the army, and is the
owner of small farm, lives in freedom
aud is now preaching a free gospel, it
would do Democrats good to listen to p
Well, two hundred thousand of these ne
groes who were once slaves, are now in the
government employ. One hundred thou
sand armed This Gen. Mcclellan aud
the Democratic party says is wrong, and
they proposed to disarm them, and return
them to slavery Mcclellan condemns
the Emancipation policy in his letter of
acceptance, and now we must have cesa-
ton of hostlities, that you may say to
them; take off these belts, lay down these
arms, put on these charms, go back to
your master. | am aware you are pro
lessedly christian people, and as such
you ought to be able to pray for anything
you are able to vote for. Now if you will
appoint a day, will come to hear you
pray after this wise: 80, LORD, hear us,
Que hundred thousand black men fighting
for our Union, they have left their chains
and are fighting toprotect us from bar
barous fce) o! Lord, we pray thee to
grant, that these men may be speedily dis
armed, and again made to cear their chains,
and o, Lord, enable their masters to pun
ish them effectually for having left their
chains all this we would ask for the
sake Of Him who died that all might be
FREE! Whenever you can endorse this
prayer as a christian, you can vote for
Mcclellan. For my part, | believe the
negro is a man, with black skin and a
soul and a right to himself, and that God
will punish any nation which deprives him
of that right further believd that the
negro was stolen from the coast of Afrl-
ca, and we owe them transportation as a
race, to their native land. believe they
have right tp,vote, and hold Office. and
enjoy all the privileges of republican
government, but in a country erciusiceIy
their olrn.
COMPROMISE.
We are told by the Democracy, that
the times demand Cancellation and cont
promise, that the Constitution was framed
in this way, and therefore we should be-
come half traitors and compromise with
treason--this may not be much of down
fall for Democrats, but it is more humilia-
ton than we can ever see. True our
lorefathers compromised with slavery and
to- day we see its fruits in all the miseres
by which we are surrounded. Can you
point to any example in history where
the Compromise of the right has finally
been productive of good First we gave
a license of twenty years to the slave trade,
gave representation to the stakeholder
for all the Africans he could steal, and
agreed if they ran off we would return
| them-still the nation carefully guarded
her territories against this institution but
encouraged by privileges gained by form
cr compromises, she received for her
threats a compromise in 1920 which gave
Missouri to slavery. In 1886 she gained
by compromise, seven counties more add
ed to Missouri. In 1854 you comprOmis-
ed yourselves ont Of the compromise line
of 1920, and received instead Squatter
Sovereignty. In 1856 you formed a
Squatters Sovereignty Platform at Gin
cinnati, and on this the hermit of Wheat
land sat during the incubation of this re-
bellion. You went to Charlestonin 1860,
thought you would have nothing to do
but nominate Stephen \. Douglass, but
YOU found the monsterwhich for 40 years
you had given link after link still demand
ed another. Squatter Sovereignty was
no longer solid ground for slavery, it de-
manded you to say that territorial legis-
lature had no right to exclude slavery
from a territory, this You refused to do,
YES, the Northern Democracy, for once