Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-01
Herr Frederick Hassaurelx ON the
War.

gentleman of fair attainments, anu ID ac-
counted eloduent. He belongs to the Ad-
ministration party, and has just returned
from Ecuador, where he served as MINIS
ter upon fat salary. lie affects particular
and poetic love of liberty-his love, SO tar
as we have watched his career, has always
been rewarded with tangible returns In the
shape of money. He is, we believe, one OF
those banished from Europe for their revo-
lutionary tendencies and opinions. He eloyed
liberty so much in Europe that he could not
remain there. He came to this country and
united himself to the shallowest humbug OF
the time by joining the party in thiscountry,
which, while it has the word liberty forev-
er upon its lips, has despotism forever In
its heart. Herr HAssAUREK, it Is possible,
may have argued that, as the party of lib
erty did not pay in the old country, he
would mend the matter by joining the par
ty of despotism in this; and as he received
nothing but poverty and contumely by his
advocacy OF liberty in the old country, he
has met with nothing but golden rewards
for his advocacy of despotlsm in the new.
But certain it is that he has Joined that par
ty in America, which, from the inception
of the revolution, has been opposed to De-
mccracy and to liberty, and now,
having attained its greatest power,
aims at the total subversion of the one, and
bends all its exertions toward the destruc-
ton of the other. Mr.. HAssAUREK may
have been deceived by the cry of freedom,
progress and humanity used by the party
of despotism, but it would be no credit to
his intelligence to make this excuse for his
present position; and if he has not been de-
ceived, his position is still less credit
able to his heart or his head. Herr HAS
sAUREK belongs to the scurvy clique of
German politicians, who by their intemper-
ate advocacy of ''liberty" ruined the revo-
lutionists of Europe, and who upon reach
ing this country, are believed to carry the
German votes in their breeches pockets and
trade upon the vote as capital, thereby Sc
curing to themselves fat offices and leaving
'liberty" to the tender mercies of ABE LIN
COLIN.
Never understanding the institutions Of
this country, nor the system of government
under which we lived, HERR HAssAUREK is
prepared to sacrifice them both upon short
notice and without scruple, provided his
own interests are advanced or provided the
despotism which arises is labelled "liberty."
The great majority of his countrymen un-
derstand perfectly well that the party to
which Herr II. belongs is the party of des-
potism, and upon plain, common sense
grounds they have opposed it. 1t is true that
party always has freedom for the negro"
upon its lips; but to procure the freedom of
the negro, an unconstitutional and unnat-
ural consolidation of power in the General
Government, never contemplated by its
trainers, is necessary; and although that
consolidation may emancipate the negro it
enslaves the white man. In brief HAssAUREK
advocates that system by which ALEXANDER
of Russia was enabled to emancipate the
serfs, by which he simply fortifies his iron
despotism over the bondmen and the free
men. HI
But we had proposed to say few words
upon HAssAUREK's recent speech in Cincin-
natl He resigned his Ministership with
Roman courage, in order to participate in
the campaign in LINCoLNs behalf; If LIN
COLIN is successful, Mr.. II. with Cyprian
virtue will accept better office. In his
speech, in response to welcome" of his
friends, Mr.. H. launches out in the follow
ing strain, which, although by 10 means
new to us, was doubtless novel to him:
We are i'm the midst of most terrible
war, war without q parallel for its magni-
tude in the history of man. The loss oflife
and treasure, and the misery that war has
inflicted almost on every family in the land,
are immense, and still that war Is not over.
What is to be done? The war Is only
symptom of our national disease; what,
then. is the cause? / see but one, it is slav-
ery. Without slavery there would have
been no war. Ohio would never have Sc
ccded. Pennsylvania would never have Sc
ceded; no free State would ever have seced-
ed. This is proposition which do not
suppose any man of good sense and good
faith will attempt to dispute.
In that extract which is the point Of the
speech, we see combined the sophistry of
the demagogue with the ignorance of a
foreigner. The sophistry as to slavery be-
ing the cause of the war and its removal
the only hope of peace repudiates itself.
Four years of war have not removed slavery,
and the abolition of slavery tomorrow
would not end the war. Mr.. HAssAUREK
should have known that while he was act
ing as minister in foreign country, the
demagogues of his party had exhausted
that slender thread. of sophistry and that
it only siekened an audience.
But Mr.. HAssAUREK fortifies himself by
saying that "Ohio never would have seced-
ed, and no free State would ever have
seceded.n Mr.. H. will not accuse Massa-
chusetts of being negro slave State; yet
Massachusetts did secede from the Federal
Government, and for other reasons than
those of slavery. The ordinance of Sc
cession stands upon the records Of
Massachusetts this day, unrepealed and
un-annulled. The State of Ohio, by a
convention of her Governor and a
large boSy of her citizens, assembled in
Cleveland in May, 1859, and passed an ordi-
nance precisely similar in effect to the ordi-
nance under which Georgia and other