Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-08
VOL. 10.---N0. 4f.

! its flag was assailed-into two insignificant.
wrangling, and hostile nationalities, they
rose above local prejudices and State policy
and personal interest, and said to anti-sla
very men and patriotic men everywhere, we
! VIII JOIN you to save our country, TO over
| throw the rebellion, and to break into frag-
ments the stone upon which it is built. For
the present eXtinguish the great conhagra-
ton ; for the future remove the inflamma-
BILE material from which it was kindled.
| For the present seize the mad revolutionists
OF the South; for the future destroy the vi
rus that poisoned their blood.
In the debate here few DAYS ago. the
consistency of some gentlemen from the loy-
al slave States who were said TO be moder-
ate emanclpationists many years ago, and
are only moderately SO now, was contracted
with the alleged changes of their more radi-
cal colleagues. Gentleman who boast oe
their consistency seem often to forget that
there Is such thing as being upon different
sides of the same question at different times
ana each time right The question itself
often changes sides. | can very well under
stand how citizen of a slave State MANY
years ago, giving little attention to the NOR
alIty Of the institution, might fall in with
the settled policy OF his section and decline TO
disturb the harmony of his neighborhood by
What might seem TO him then the unneces-
sary or untlmey Introduction of abolition a.
citation, and yet now become an earnest and
honest emanclpatIonists In the belief that O.
Emancipation alone could preserve the unity
OF the country. There is such thing as be-
ing right IN the wrong time and wrong in
the right time. do not say that those who
introduced emancipation in the slave States
many years ago were RICH tin the wrong time
but sure | am that all such gentlemen who
retard emancipation now are wrong in the
right time. But this plan of Union does
not necessarily involve immediate emanci-
PATTON, and ! therefore hail all whose labors
tend, however slow, to- the general result as
co-Workers for voluntary and peaceful re-
union of all the States.
In these remarks L have confined myself
to a single point, the presentation of slavery
as an element of discord and disunion. and
as such asked its removal. | have waived
Its mhumanity To the slave, its corruption
OF the master, Its injustice to white labor,
Its impoverishment of the soil, its intoler
ance IN politics.. Its despotism in govern
ment, It's inconsistency lE all things Ad-
vocating State sovereignty, it blots out all
divisions OF Its empire, molds all its States
into a single power, and calls it the South
PROCESSING llberallity, it yet proscribes from
the lowest Office the most exalted patriotism,
the most brilliant abilities, the highest learn
ing, and the purest integrity, if found blend
ed with the slightest tcompasSion for the slave.
Claiming TO be law-abiding, the mob. the
bowie knife and the bludgeon are its chief
OF justice. Protesting to be colt-
stitutional, 1t suspends the great writ of lib
erty In time OF peace, tramples down the
trial by jury when found in its way, con-
tracts freedom OF speech to the right to ad-
vocate Its unchristian cause, revives con-
ire and a1,,l,
ton, and Kansas indicts of that high crime
citizens who spoke too rudely of
It's traffic IN men. All this, and much more.
have omitted because they were not in the
Inc OF my present purpose.
And now call upon those gentlemen who
,hInk there are some concessions within the
range Of possibility which if made would
;onciliate the slave power, and restore the
Union without the necessity Of resorting to
emancipation to point out what they are.
Name the items. Of course you will not
mention the proclamation, coniiscation and
what you call the unconstitutional acts of
he Administration, for the rebellion prece-
led all these. On the territorial question
here was nothing left to concede. The
" llmot proviso had been voted down, the
Missouri compromise repealed, and the
)red Scott opinion ordered and obtained.
lven James Buchanan, SO gifted in abase-
nent, could find nothing more in the shape
# theory to give them, and in It's stead ten
ercd them the low villainly of Lecompton.
he tugative act of 1850, with its slave
unting officers, the posse cossitatus the
onclusive affidavit of the master, habeas
01pus and trial by jury abolished, and the
United States to foot the bill, left nothing
lore to be conceded here
Concession exhausted and Cancellation still
failure Hereafter let all concession be
? favor of freedom and in all our legisla
ION let us approximate, as rapidly as the
interests of the two races VIII permit the
omogeneity of universal emancipation, and
pom that basis make the Union perpetual.
An Irish guide told DIR. James johnson.
-ho wished for reason WHY Echo ,rar al