Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-04-25
.ailg empire.
George ThompsOn.

Thirty years ago there came 10 the uAhed
States, from England, man whose missiou
il was to consult with the Aboliiionisls If New
England, then a petty handful Of soured dis.
eontented and fanatic Il men His visit was
brief ono. Everywhere that he disclosed
the purposes and projects OF his miserable
faith, the people rose in indignation against
HIM mobs sprang up warningly in his path
the popular disapprobation manifested itself
in towns and cities alike, and the emissary Of
trouble and hate, after sowing the seeds Of sec
tioualism broadcast, destined to grow into
crop whose product was civil strife and ma
tiona ruin, returned again to his OWE coun-
try The character Of the man and the wick.
ednesS of his social and political belief is we'll
conveyed in letter written by him 10 1884, TO
fanatic in Tennessee, John A. Murrill by
name, and found among Murrills papers he
was advising general concert Of action
among the slaves, who were TO rise at given
moment, and, to use his own words, "et loose
the arm Of destruction upon their masters,
and their property, so that the judgment Of
God might be visbly seen and fell" He lays
down another plan in this letter, coolly, calm
ly, deliberately, heudishly, and we quote II
completely the proposed work has been car
1884 He says:
1--WE must reach the tyrant in another way.
We can prepare tho feelings Of most OF the
Northern and Eastern people by lecturing,
The dissolution Of the Union is the object 10
be kept steadily in view. War will result, and
sacking, and pillage, and inSurrection will
follow Their cities, with all the merchan-
disc, may be destroyed their banks plundered
OF specie, their paper discredited so that
thousands Of Eastern capitalists would suffer
great loss, and would honceforth consider a
slave country an unsafe place to make invest
ments This state Of affairs would naturally
diminish the value Of slave property, and dis.
gust even the tyraut with the policy OF slave
ry, while the whole country would be in state
Of anarchy and poverty. Their banking in
stitutionS and credit sunk into disrepute II
would be an easy matter to effect the total
abolition of slavery. Desperate diseases re-
quire desperate remedies"
This was the plan concocted, and most full
ly has II been carried out. Leeturing, Agita-
tion, undermining, persistently working in
season and out OF season, with ore object in
view, aided by British counsel and British gold
have all been thoroughly tried, and We to-day
look upon divided country, a ruined people,
aud such scenes Of horror and blood.uhed as
the world has never known The littls pois-
on has infected the body polite, the weak
band Of sealots has grown to the ruling power
Of the land, administering the government,
overbearing all opposition imprisoning, pun.
ishing, robbing whoever presumes to doubt
their right to beggar the country in the name
ofA false philanthropy
At the end oi thirty years, whils Is heard
on score Of battle.felds the shock Of CON
tending armies Of brethren, who but four
years ago from Maine to Florida, and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, aeknowlsd.
ged the same flag, and "one Constitution and
one destiny while the land is desolAts, and
the people mourn, George Thompson comes
among us once more TO feast his eyes on the
accomplished work. the result OF such teach
ings as his and those OF his oompeers How
is he received As murderer, with loath.
ing and contempt As a criminal, so vile
TINT honest meR avoid hm1 As a monster
stepped in blood, crimsoned with the life-cur
rent Of thousands Of freemen2 No--but with
honors innumerable, with professions, with
music, with sieeches Of welcome and address.
es 6Iled with adultA,ion, with ovations 10 cit.
les, and a succession Of feastings aud rejoic.
ings Boston is enthusiastic over him New
York extends genial ana hearty greeting,
Congress votes the use ofthe Hall OF the House
Of Representatives, at Washington, and Presi-
dent aud Cabinet Senators ahd Represents
lives, Generals aud Judges 60 10 hear and ap-
plaud him. The Viee-Presidsnt introduced
him 10 the Assembiage, and when Mr. Thomp-
son exelAimed-"Thank God, the hour for
compromise is past, enthusiastic applause
broke from President and people alike. The
name Of John Brown ELECTED outbursls Of un.
] al l. -
from his speech which every American should
read with the blush Of shame mantlinR his
cheeks:
George Washington, nearly sigh,y-three
years since, gave she American nation the
boon Of independence In one day Abraham
Lincoln has conferred more eatimAbls bless
ing, by proolaiming the Federal nation the
home OF impartial aud universal freedom"
George Washington, the founder OF Ameri
can liberty, must, according 10 this authority
take lower place in the estimation OF hil
countrymen, when the claims Of Abraham
Lincoln are considered, Washington, by sac
r6ces, hardships, selfdeniAl, years OF patient
endurance, was the chief instrument in thI
hands Of an overriding Providence for the es
tablishment Of a free government for Whits
! men. II seems almost olaaphemous 10 men
; ton the name Of Abraham Lincoln in thi
: same paragraph With that OF Washington Thl
|; one the Father of his Countryside olhs
the destroyer Of great peoples liberties, III,
foe OF constitutional government, and the on
e emy Of civil liberty Yet this Euglsh ianAl
says that be (Lneoln) has conferred NOR
estimsble blessing" on US
The times have indeed sadly changed whsl
such man as George Thompson is wslcom
ed with hosAnDahs; canning among Ne, too, q