Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-02-05
PICTURE DRAwN BY NEGRO.


We have seen no more mastery picture OIL
the horrid character of the rebellion than the
following passages from the speech of Fred
erirk Douglass, the colorcd orator, TO an au
dience in the Cooper Institute, New York:
We are now wading deep in the third year
Of conflict with fierce and saugHinary re-
bellon, one which, at the beginning Of it, we
were hopefully assured by one Of our mos,
sagacious and trusted political prophets
would be ended in less than ninety days; a
rebellion which, in its worst features, stands
s. alone among rcbelions a solitary and ghas.ly
horror, without parallel in the history Of any
nation, ancient or modern; n rebellion iii.
spired by no love of liberty aud no hatred Of
. oppression, as most of rebellions have been,
! and therefore utterly indeiensihle upon any
moral or social grounds; rebellion which
openly and shamelessly sets at defiance the
worlds Judgment Of right and wrong, appeals
from light to darkness, from intelligence 90
ignorance, from the ever increasing pros
poets and blessings of a high and glorious
- civilization to the cold and whitening blasts
OF naked bsrbariSm; rebellion which,
even at this unfinished stage of it, counts the
number of its slain not by thousands or tens
Of thousands, but by hundreds Of thousands;
rebellion which in the destruction Of hui
man life and property has riyalied the earth.
anakc, the whirlwind and the pestilence that
walketh in darkness and wasteth at MONDAY.
II has planted agony at million hearth
stones, thrnnged our streets with the weeds
Of mourning, filled our land with the mere
stumps OF men, ridged our soil with 100000
rudely io,med graves, and mantlod it al,
over with the shadow of death. 4 rebellion
which, while it has arrested the wheels O
peaceful! industry. ana checked the How 81
commerce, has piled up debt, heavier than
n mountain Of gold, TO weigh down the necks
of our childrcns children. There is no end
to the rnischiefs wrought. 1t has brought
ruin at home, and contempt abroad; cooled
our friends, heated eur enemies, and endan.
gered our existence as n nation.
Now, for what is all this desoiation. ruin,
shame, suffering and sorrow? Can anybody
want the answer? Can any body be ignorant.
of the answer? 1t has been given thous
and times from this and other Platforms
lYe all know it is slavery. Less than half =
m,ion Of Southern Notwithstanding IL
bondage four millions Of siaves---fndng
themselves outyoted in the effort to get pos
session of the United States Government, il
OFtitT 10 serve tilD ihtSiSStS VI slavery iaN'
ma1ly resoIted TO the sword-have underta
ken to accomplish hy bullets what they
failed to accomplish by ballots This is the
answer.
Whence came the guilty ambition equal TO
this atrocious crime. A peculiar education
was necessary to this bold wickt dness. licr
all is plain again Slavery-the peculiar il
stitution--is aptly fitted 10 produce just suci
patriots, who first plumber and then seek I,
destroy their country A Systt m which
wards labor with stripes and chains which
rGbs the slave ofhis manhood, aud the master
OF al just consideration for the rights of his
fellow man--has prepared the characters
male and .eaae-tiat figure in this rebellion
and for ali its cold bto0dcd add he!lish
atrocities. In al the most hcrrid details of
torture, starvation and murder, in the treat
ment Of our prisoners, behold the features
of the monster in whose presence ] was born,
and that is Slavery. From no source .e>>
foul and wicked could such rebellion come.
] need not dwell here. But am one of those
who think this ebel!ion-inauguratcd and
carried on for cause SO unspcakably guilty
and distinguished by barbarities which void
cxtort cry Of shame from the painted say
AGES quite enough Cor the whole lifetime
of any one nation--though that lifetime
should cover the space Of a thoisand years.
We ought not to want repetition of it
Tor can we wisely risk 4 possible repetition
Of it. Looking 1t The matter from no higher
ground than pat!iotism--sutting aside the
high considerations Of justice, liberty, pro.
presS and civilizatiOn--th American people
should resolve that this shall be the last
sIaveholding rebellion that shall ever curse
~,
cost htle--Iet it be long or short-tho work
row bcgua should suffer no pause, no abato
lnent, until it is done and done forever.
The hour is one ofhope as web as danger.
But whatever may come to pass, ore thing is
clear. The principles involved in the con
test, the necessities Of both sections Of the
country, the obyiousre requirements Of the age,
and every suggestion Of eu!i shtened policy
demand the utter extirpatio'! Of slavery from
every foot Of American soil, and the cnfran-
chisement Of the entire colorcd population
Of the county. Elsewhere we may ind peace
but it will be a hollow and dgccitful peace
Elsewhere we may find prosperity, but it will
be transient prosperity. Elsewhere We may
find greatness and reH0mu. but if these are
based upon anything less substantial than
justice they will vanish. for righteousness
o ---
No TEUsT-Tke Lacrosse Democrat thus
speaks:
- Nearly all our exchanges are crying out
FOR subscribers 70 pay up. We hope they
won't pay up till the editoys will act upon
sound basis and send papers only to those
who pay for them in advan'e. 1t is The ad.
vance style ghich has in three years raised
this Office from bankruptcy to perfect soven-
cy. We send papers only to those who pay
in advance--when the time expires the paper
stops. We have no old bills to worry over
--I!o poor accounts to fret about, and are Ell,
ab'ed to pay cash FOX all we purchase, and TO
pay cash each Saturday for the labor done in
the Office during the week. and 10 'walk the
dock out 0: debt and with money ahead
In all carncStuess we advise every printer
and publisher to quit trusting folks-come
down 10 business aad 10 success. The pat
ronage u; = man who is good but who never
pays, is the kind Of patronage which swa,Ips
so many eaitOrs and makes the poverty Of
printers a bye word and disgrace TO the pow.
er which moves nations and controls the
world.
4 HINT TO THE LADIEs.-tD a certain old
work entitled "Courtshp, Love and Matri,
mony," Published in the year 1906, occurs
the following, which, read in connection with
the fact that this is bissextile year, affords a
very significant hint to the ladies' Of this and
every other vicinity: