The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-04-28

servatives.
THAT OLD TRAP.
Let me warn you again against that
trap. Conservative and traitor mean
the same thing. My christian friends,
what construction would you put on
it, if you were to hear man saw he
was a conservative Christian? You
would at once understand that he was
follower of the devil!
ENLISTMENT OF NEGROES.
One Of our Congressman denounced
the enlistment of negroes as highway
robbery. That was very unfortu-
nate word for slave owner to use, for
the whole system of slavery is a rob-
berry. Look at some of Kentucky's
law on the subject. The negro catch
ers are watching every avenue for ne
groes who have been emancipated and
left the South. They catch them, en-,
tomb them in dungeons for SO many
days where they cannot be heard, and
if by given time they do not prove
their freedom, it is taken for granted
that they are slaves, and they are sold;
and the negro-catcher and the State
are partners in that nice little job!
"Coming events cast their shadows
before" 1t is not worth while, trait
ors, for you to attempt to prevent the
drafting Of slaves into the army; it
will be done; there is a power and
strength that has not yet been called
upon to help us out of this struggle
That power is the slaves of Kentucky.
They understand this war and are 10y
al to the back-bon They have moro
sense and Judgment than the very
best of the conservative traitors. They
cannot see why they are held to be so
much better than our own sons. They
cannot be gulled into the belief that it
is better for them. to be kept in chains
and slavery, uneducated, tasked with
ont pay, scourgcd without process Of
law, degraded, debased, and made q
trembling, cringing supplicant TO q
usurping traitor to his country. No,
no. Thirty thousand bodied,
hardy negroes are now asking leave to
'join the dredful revclry."
No one, as general rule, but trait
ors are objecting to the drafting ofne-
groes. The loyal men of Kentucky
want them to resist; we want to see
who loves negro slavery more than he
does his country. The people are right
and will sustain the Government
Tho conservative leaders are traitors,
and have tried again and again to en-
trap and lead the people into the arms
of the Southern thieves. But the peo-
pie wont be trapped. They have Of
ten whipped these hypocritical scoun-
drels into the traces, and will do it
again. The order for drafting negroes
is by the authority of the law Of Con-
gress, and not by Lincoln's law, as
some of our smart orators have of late
attempted to make you believe. 1t is
the law Of the land, let our State au-
thorities dare to resist it, and they will
find that they are not the United
States, and they will be treated exact
ly ars all other rebels. The States that
are IN rebellion brought on this war by
resisting the execution of the laws of
the General Government, and if our
State authorities put themselves in bad
company, they will be treated as poor
Tray was. 1hehearts Of the people are
right. Gee
THE TEST OF LOYALTY.
The loyal men of Kentucky arc will
ling to give the Government every
thing that can help her out of this
dreadful war, while the traitors throw
every stumbling-block in the way. 1t
is not because they really fear negro
equality, or that they consider their
right to negro any more sacred than
their right to their money, or corn, or
cattle; but because the negro can fight
can pull triger-and help the Gov
ernment moro than the other property
can. All who would array themselves
on the side of the rebels, and give, as a
reason that it was because the Gov
ernment took negroes into her army,
have been at heart always against us
This is not the first time that negroes
have fought in our army. Tho tyrant
C) lincoln is not the originator
Washington the tyrant % and Jackson
the tyrant (D both used negroes in the
army, and had them set free, too, fol
their services. The horrid old Aboli
ZIONIST, Patrick Henry, said in speech
that the Constitution gave the Govern
ment the undoubted right to draft ne
groes into hcrarmy wheucver necessity
required it.
The slavery aristocratssay that eve
ry move that our legal authorities have
made to defend us against their armed
cut-throats, is unconstitutional. lftht
construction is the document that these
traitors and oonservators say it is
then, that is thomost potent argument
why we should speedily changeit. Ii
it possible, my friends, that there is 6
man in the State so ignorant as to en-
tertain for one moment, the absurd
idea that our forefothers were so foolish
SO ignorant, such false friends to thiI
Government that they had just estab
lish by sailing through seas of BLOOD
and carnage, that they would, by tina
instrument, tic our hands and opel
{ wide the gates to any army and adver
tiee to the world that we had no powe
or right to defend ourselvesP Th
liars do not believe such nonsens