Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-07-21
Volume AAIX
The Cncinnati

uOuuCCu cuS SRCStiOuS VI GohNiAlittS
3 and compromise as untimely and in
beetle, and told its readers that
: the work Of restoration of the Uniol
they must 'srely wholly upon til
sword, that tufts of grass ha
failed, and now.the time hal come {
try stones. 80
Party spirit has changed al
this. The war is daily and hour
ly declared Dy men wbo;do not con
ceive themselves to be traitors. or un
friendly to their country in any res
pect, to have been Commenced b,
Abolitionists, and to have been un
constitutional in Its character from
the first, and to have been perverted
into a war for the negro. Even ex
Senator Allen goes about asking
whether there would have been any
war II there had been no Abolition
lists, and the thick pated butternut:
clamor joyfully at the interrogatory,
and repeat it as if it was the kernel
of the whole matter, unanswerable,
and the end of controversy. 1t is 8
good time to rechr 20 the facts in the
case-to the documents. a -l7;1 %
CONCERNING ANTI SLAVERY AGITA.
J. a7iH aro1 TiUN. sali13a -i6
/ 1t has been asserted that the anti
slavery agitation in this country was
injurious to the South, injured slave
property, and provoked the Southern
people into an ungovernable rage
What is Southern testimony on this
point2 10
From the Speech of Senator Hammond. Of
South Carolina. October "a. 1858.
"And what then (IS33) was the
state of opinion in the South2 Wash
ington had emancipated his slaves
Jefferson had bitterly denounced the
system, and had done all that he
could to destroy it. Our Clays, Mar
shalls, Crawfords, and many other
prominent Southern men, led off in
the colonization scheme The in
evitable effect in the Sou.h was that
she believed slavery to be an evil,
weakpess, disgraceful--nay, a sin
she shrank from the discussion on it.
She covered under every threat =
She attempted to apologize and ex-
cuse herself under the plea that Eng
land had forced it upon her; an |, in
fear and trembling, she awaited
doom that she believed to he newt
able
why, it would be difficult to ind,
now, S puthern man who feels the
system to he the slightest burden to
his conscience, who does not. in fact,
regard it as an equsl advantage to
the master and the slale e, elevasing
botn; as wealth, strength, en- | power.
and, as one Of the main pillars and
controlling Influences of moiern
civilization. and who is now pre-
pared to maintain it at every hazarL
Such have been the happy results of
this abolition discussion. =
"For quarter of century it
(slavery) has borne the brunt of a
hurricane as fierce and pitiless as
ever ragged. At the North and in
Europe they could have even let
loose upon us all the dogs of war
And how stands it nov? Why, in
this very quarter of century our
slaves have doubled in numbers. and
each slave has more than doubled in
value"
I Frum speech by A. e. Steph ~. of G~orgia,
July, ls59. on retiring las he then sup
Posei himself to be dOing) from public
life
"Nor am I of the number of those
who believe that we have sustained
any injury by those agitations 1t
is true, we were not responsible for
them. We were not the aggressors. |
We acted on the defensive. We re- |
PEELED assault, calumny, and asper-
sion, by argument, by reason and
truth. But so far from the institu
ton OF, African slavery in our sec
tion being weakened or rendered less
secure by the discussion, my deliber
ate judgment is, Il at it has been
greatly strengthened and fortified
strengthened and fortified not only
to the opinions, convictions, and con
sciences of men, but by the action of
the Government"
THE PROPOSED CON- |
PROMISE AFTER THE ELECTION
or LINCOLN. a-rrc91-
fFrum speech of Mr. Iverson, Senator from
c Georgia December 5. 1861. Congressional
4. Gloi'e, Session ls6 i, part /. commencing
on page l0I
''Sir, before the 4th of March, be-
fore You inaugurate your President.
there will be certainly five States, if
not eight of them, that will be out
Of the Union and have framed a
Constitution and form of Govern
NEXT for themselves.
You talk about concessions. You
talk about repeating the Personal
Liberty Bills as a concession to the
South. Repeal them all to morrow,
sir, sir. and it would not stop this
revolution. Nor do
We suppose there viii be any overt
acts on the part of Mr.. Lincoln
For one, / do not dread there overt
acts. do not propose TO wait for
them" ~
From a speech Of Robert Toombs, in the
Senate of the Unit-d States January 7,
1861. Congressional Globe. part /. second
session. Ihirty-sixth Congress, page 267,
thir'l cnlumn of the page = lt-.5
"The Union, sir, is dissolted.-