Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-10
National Courtesy Extended TO n
g1ff "a Public Enemy. ~


BY vote of the House Of Representa-
tives at Washington, the use of their Hall
was granted for lecture to the notorious
English Abolitionist, GEORGE THOMPSON,
on the evening Of the 9Th inst. Thirty
years ago this same man came to this coun-
try, and was vigilant in sowing the seeds Of
dissension and civil war. He made his
boast at that time, like GARRISON and
PHILLIps, that he was the enemy of the
Union as It then existed, and was laboring
for its destruction. In his opening speech
on his recent arrival at Boston, he declared
that he was unchanged, and congratulated
himself and our country upon the TACT that
the doctripes for which he was once pro-
scribed, have now become those of the rul-
ing political party in this nation. The
war now wasting and dyeing in blood this
fairest portion of the earth, he views with
grim and fiend-like satisfaction, and justly
claims it as in part the fruit of his own
teachings. It-was his purpose on his former
visit to our shores, then often openly ex-
pressed, to involve our country in such
deadly struggle as the present. How well
he and his aiders and abettors have succeed
ed, every one knows and feels.
At his lecture in Washington the other
evening. taking his cue from his beloved
friends, the high dignitaries of the present
Administration, and the leaders of its party,
Mr.. THOMPSON undertook to palm off upon
the public the falsehood that he has ever
been, and Is the steadfast friend Of the
American Union, challenging proof that he
had ever said the dissolution of the Union
must be kept steadily in view. That proof
is contained in letter published in the
Congressional Globe, and cited in the very
Hall which he defiled the other evening by
his presence. 1t was written by this noto-
rious foreign intermeddler in 1885 to a con-
spirator named MURRELI, of Tennessee,
who at the time was reasonably engaged
IN endeayoring to bring about slave in
surrcction at the South. That the friend
and abettor of the land pirate, MURRELI,
should now be the eulogist of the traitor,
JoHN BRowS, Is not strange; but that his
praises Of the latter should be applauded
by President Of the United States is evil
dence that the Union of these States Is of as
little value In the eyes Of the men who now
control public affairs, as it was in those of
the domestic traitor JOHN BROWN, or is in
those Of the foreign incendiary, GEORGE
THoMrsoN. The following is the letter al
ludcd to above: 3 ~
sDEkn SIE;-Your favor of the 4th has
come to hand, and its contents have been
carefully observed. think you can count
upon the aid you demand, with tolerable
certainty by the time you name. Iapproye
of your arrangements, and can perceive
abundant Justification Of your VIEWS
Could the blacks effect general concert OF
action, and let loose the arm of destruction
upon their masters, and their property, so
that the judgment Of God might be visibly
seen and felt It would reach the flinty
heart. We must reach the tyrant in anotli-
er way. We can prepare the feelings of
most OF the Northern and Eastern people by
lecturing. The dissolution Of the Union is aie
object % be kept sfeadily IN uieao. WAR WILL
RESULT, AND sAcKING AND PILLAGE AND M
sURRxCTroN WILL FOLLOW. Their cities,
with all the merchandise, may be destroyed,
their banks plundered Of specie, their paper
jdiscredited, so that thousands of Eastern
capitalists would suffer great loss, and
would henceforth consider slave country
an unsafe place TO make investments. This
state Of affairs would naturally diminish
the value Of slave property, and disgust
even the tyrant with the policy of slavery,
while the whole country would be thus In
. state Of anarchy and poverty. Their
banking institutions and credit sunk into
disrepute II would be an easy matter to
eject total abolition of slavery. Desper-
ate diseases require desperate remedies.s
And this Is the man, as the Buffalo oo,r-
rier remarks, TO whom by a party-vote Con
Rress accorded anational courtesy. This
is the man whom the people, through their
misrepresentation, are to be understood
as taking TO their embrace and not endors-
ing only, but publicly visiting with Their
gratitude and fayor We cannot imagine
smorc faithless, scandalous act being per.
petrated on the safe side Of actual treason
Toontertain JKFT. DAVIS asa national CUES
would scarcely be more outrageous. wiz
not1he people be driven tothink how oues
tionably their cause Is .championed bv
parft which Thus delights 10 honor ou,s q
the oldest and most mischievous Of tn
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