Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-01

Southern population, and the infusion of a
more stringent policy, had the proper ef-
feet on the army. Instead of treating the
Southerners as misguided friends to be won
back to an old love, they were instructed
to treat them as enemies, for such they were
to the great principles of freedom, il not to
the Union itself. Hence it is that wherever
our armies marched they have made enemies
of those whom they found to be friends
Take the case of Tennessee, for example,
When our troops first entered Nashville,
and, still later, Knoxville, the Unionists in
the State gave rapturOus welcome to the
dear old flag and the men under whose pro-
lection it had been borne to their State
How changed is all this now! They who
under the rule of JEFF. Davis and his crew
sighed for the return of the old Union, and
waited long and patiently for the CLEAN of
Federal bayonets, enduring meanwhile a
system of oppression that beggars descrip-
tion-these men and women are to-day the
bitterest rebels in the South. JEFF. Davis
has now no warmer allies than these peO-
pie. And il a rebel invasion of East len
nessee should ever be practicable, it is safe
to predict that the old unconditional Union
lists, and followers of Andy johnson and
Parson Brownlow, would give the Confed-
crate troops welcome warmer than that
which they gave our soldiers at the first.
The Shenandoah valley is another case to
the point. Gentlemen who accompanied
General Banks on the first expedition up
the valley state that the inhabitants, as a
general thing, were not hostile to the Union;
the active young men were mostly rebels,
but the great majority Of the residents were
either Indifferent as to the result of the
contest, or warmly devoted to the cause of
the Union. To-day it is doubtful whether
a or ha nf
Winchester, and so bitterly hostile are the
people that it is impossible for any but a
very large army to march any distance
without being utterly destroyed by the res
ident farmers in the guise of guerrillas.-
Even on the road from Washington to Rich
mond, which our armies have traversed
again and again, there is the same state of
affairs. The two hundred thousand Union
braves who have made the soil of Virginia
more sacred than it ever was before they
sacrificed their lives to rescue it from the
grasp of secession, are no protection to the
opponents of rebeldom. Not a spot but is
army move before the rebel fiends appear
in its rear to murder whom they can. do
not call this Union sentiment.
Now, my friend, what is the result of all
this? Shall we give up the war? BY no
means. Shall we change our policy? That
is no longer possible. Shall we surrender
the Government to the pro-slavery Demo-
Gratis? Forbid it, Heaven! We have had
enough of slavery and slave hunters
What, then, is the course that we mast
adopt? | answer deliberately, and in full
view of all the facts before me, that we
must adopt the policy that Cromwell pro-
posed for Ireland, and which would have
saved that unhappy country from years o.
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adult population Of the South. Cromwell
wanted to depopulate Ireland of its adults
and substitute Englishmen and Scotchmen
He tods right. 1t would have been wise, 8
humane, nay more, Christian policy if hi
had slain every man, woman and child or
that bright Emerald isle, and so far got rid
of the priest-ridden race which cursed it
Such policy would have made Ireland a
rival to instead of dependent upon En-
gland. and a contributor in place of an i'm
pediment to the prosperity of Great Brit
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Are our people prepared to face this con-
tinsency? Are you, my good friend? To
Sn6jugate the people of the South is an i'm
possibility, Like the Indians, they would
die rather than be enslaved. So die and dis
appear they must. The great powers of Eu-
rope have been for two hundred years try
ing to conquer Poland. She stands ready
to begin revolution tomorrow. The
great Russian Empire was fighting for
thirty years few barbarOus tribes
in the Circassian mountains; it found
that the only method to accomplish
its purpose was the complete extr-
patton of the inhabitants. Alexander fol-
lowed the example of Cromwell, and he
was wise in doing so. There are instances
in history of races being conquered, but
like the old Saxons, it was necessary to keep
! them in absolute servitude, and whole gem
erations had to pass away before it was safe
to intrust them with freedom, much less
with citizenship. need not remind you
that the Southerners are of the same vig-
orous stock as ourselves, and would never
submit to a state of slavery. Nor should
we think for moment Of such thing.
The spirit of the age, the glorious princi-
pies OF our party, now inscribed, thank
God, upon the nations banners; the teach
ings of Christianity, and the hopes we have
for the future, all alike forbid us from even
harboring the thought of such course.
This may afford you a glimpse of what
we are coming to. We shall secure the
next Congress without doubt, and with it,
l think, the reelection of Mr.. Lincoln.
You will know what weight to attach to
my words when 1 say that I am satisfied
Htue Ho Teut<CS WOt OHty Utut UtS country cannot
remain hdb free and half sldue, bm that there
can be but one solution Of the vered problem,
and that by the total elimination of the ,cltte
population Of the South. This aoiH involre, at
least, a thirty years. ,cdr National bank
ruptcy toU be Inevitable because zoe can sustain.
no further strain upon our finances. AT least
halt, II not t,oo-t,irds Of our able-bodied men
sotU hare to giue up their loes ere zoe reach the
end. All this, l firmly believe, is in store
for us, If we pursue the policy which aver
is the one that we oughtto pursue. it...
Will you finch, my friend? Do you
know of single man that will? Q refer,
of course, to the members of the Union
party. Look at the ultimate result to be
attained. What are the determination of
the people of the South, bankruptcy and
loss of life at the North, as compared with
the extension Of freedom for all men over
this broad land, from the St. Lawrence