The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-04-01


written uponihe Massachusetts, mind, es
pecially and exclusively there written, that
slavery il against the laws of God, nc
matter what may he written iu the Con.
stitutiou or in the laws Of war, or what
may be the rights of propertyao And we
have been now long living under that
y y *st*
II is, therefore, the white mans liber-
ty, not the negro's liberty, that hereafter
is to interest me in the discussions before
this House. The spirit of Massachusetts,
has done in two or three years only, wha,
Christ, or the Church of Christ, was twelve
or fifteen hundred years in accomplishing
in the Roman empire. The Saviour him
self struck not off the chains of the slaves
when he addressed them from the Mount
of Olives - .-.... l.@s
Nor did the Apostle Paul, in his ad.
dress on Mars Hill, in front of Athens,
strike off the chains of the slave in mo-
ment or an hour. But he inculcated
principles, he sowed the seed, which was
twelve or fifteen hundred years in ripon-
ing, but which in the end brought about
the desired end, without war or the violent
loss of life. But here in two or three
years we have madly attempted the libe-
ration of the negro, and at what cost
A million of men have been drawn from
their households and 6resides into the ar
my, and million more are to be sacrificed
in the hospitals by diseases, whilst at the
same time debt is to be fastened upon us
of thousands of millions of dollars. Before
we have flushed the war the debt will be
four thousand millions-a huge, mon
strous, and crushing debt-which will in
tict upon posterity, upon my children,
your children, and their children hereafter
for hundreds of years, taxation under
which they will sroan as negro slaves have
never groaued under the white master a
taxation of thirty cents on the day la,
borer's dollar x
Go on, then, conscript the negro, re en-
slave the negro. 1t is the best thing you
can do in humanity and philanthropy to
the negro to re-ensave him and doom him
to the army. You have made this a me-
gro abolition war. You have changed its
original purpose, and therefore the negroes
should be called out, aud should fight the
battles of the party which has taken them
into their keeping l do not, for one, in
tend to resist your movements in that re-
spect any longer.
Mr. Speaker, two States have in the
main governed this vast country since the
Declaration of Independence in 1776, and
those have been Massachusetts and Vir.
ginia. Massachusetts and Virginia, from
1776 and 1877 on to the end of Wash
ington's Administration, co-operated to-
gether in most beautiful administration of
this government. From 1896 to 1900,
there reigned the Administration of John
Adams. 1t was reign of terror from be-
ginning to end; it was reign of tyranny,
too, as we'll as terror throug hout the coun-
try. Newspapers were silenced, the courts
were overawed, the alien and sedition laws
we're passed, and it was such reign Of VIC.
lence that in 1900 there was civil revo.
luton, and Massachusetts was thrown out
of power, and kept out of power from
1900 till 1860. ....s.
During that long period of time never
did any country prosper as this country
has prospered. The South took its COL
umns of emigration over the Chattahoochee
to the Coosa and the Tallapoosa, beyond
the Mississippi, on to the Neuces and the
R.o Grande, and created au agriculture
which subjected to it all the civilized ma
tons of the earth. No more beautiful
spectacle of cooperative industry was ever
presented. The North presented an
equally beautiful spectacle. The columns
of emigration marched out beyond the
Lakes to Minnesota, to Iowa, to Wiscon.
sin, and to the Rocky Mountains. Dur.
ing all that tune Virginia and Massachus-
etts combined together in the spirit OF
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and the
elder Hamilton. n. t..
BY the secession of the South in 1860
the reign from 1896 to 1900 was restored,
and Massachusetts became ascendeut IN
this government again. Every path OF
hers is traced now in blood, and the mon
umenls Of her destructiveness are to be
found on hundreds Of battle-felds North
and South. A million of human beings
sacrificed unnecessarily is the holocaust OF
that administration. Four thousand mil
lions of debt upon us and our posterity, lis
the legacy of that administration.
How long this war is to exist know
not, but in Gods name let me implore
those men who now have the control of
this Government to take the reins and
end it as suon as possible.
Cease to make it war for politics. II
you will make it war for the Union,
make it a war for the restoration Of peace
as soon as possible. lu the name OF phil.
anthropby, in the name Of Prince of Peace,
| appeal to yoa to exert the powers which
you have, immediately to end this war
Protract it not beyond the Presidential
election for political purposes. Enter not
upon such a system of settlement aud ny
riculture as this.