Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-02-06

eW~ GENERAL GASrr ON SLAVERY
General CAN'T, of Arkansas, one of the
ablest men in the South, and Hon. N. @.
Taylor, of Tennessee another able Southern
man, met in Philadelphia recently and both
mode able speeches in aid of the East Ten
nessee Union men. General CAN'T was for
merly General in the rebel army. Mr..
Taylor remained true to the Union. Gen.
CAN'T thus refers TO slavery as the cause of
the rebellion:
Nearly four years ago--and counted by
anguish, aud sorrow and desolstion, 1t is a
fearful age-the speaker was on Breckin-
/ ridge platform. He was q Breckenridge
elector, and wanted him chosen the Presi-
dent of the United States. There he met
Colonel Taylor, and once, in an hour and q
halfs speech in burning language and pas.
sionate oratory, Colonel Taylor had dwelt
upon the glories Of the American Union,
and the irretrievable ruin which must at
tend the overthrow of the Union. The
next night the speaker tried to answer him,
and after the debate they were separated.
"To-night," said General CAN'T, 1--WE meet
for the first time in these long years of trial
and blood, and although men in the North
have said have no manhood in me, because
have returned to the Union, yet have
manhood enough to say, that you were right,
Colonel Taylor, and was wrong"
The cause of the war was adverted 10.
and the speaker apologized in advance for
saying what might be aupalatable to South
crn men. When our Government was
framed, no such piece of mechanism. no
such political vessel vas ever put upon the
waters as was created by Washington and
his ooQtreres There was an outside element
OF danger TO the Union. They who founded
1t watched it carefully and we'll, and the
great roci ahead was negro slavery. The
agitation IF the slavery question neve-
caused 1t. Had there been no negro slavery
there could have been no agitation. Settle
ment OF 1t was Useless. The attempt to do
that was like the course of quack, who,
when man came to him with u nail driven
into his hand, doctored his back, poulticed
his neck, and blistered his breast. and never
pulled out the nail and cured the wound.
Laughter
Settlement has been tried. In 1850 the
Missouri Compromise was considered 1t
was not cure to the diseased country. 1t
was only an application 70 the wounded
part, without any true measures to eradicate
the evil. The patchwork did no good In
1854 1t came up again, and the whole
trouble began anew. \ doctrine that could
not be controverted was, that slavery would
he circumscribed and would sting itself to
death. Mr. Lincoln said the country could
not exist half slave and half free, and the
South knew ii and wanted it all one way
and that way, all negro slavery Compro.
mise was proposed, but the compromise
failed, and then secession was proposes, and
secede the South did. But negro slavery
was all the idol. The secessionists seeded
and what FOR ? why to protect negro slavery
And the Union men s.aid in the Union.
What tor9 Why to protect negro slavery
The Northern conservatives were against
the suhiugation of the South. Subiugation
would be the best thing for the South, if it
would be the means Of restoring them to the
Union, and giving the old flag free sweep
from one end of the land to the other.
Negro slavery caused the war, and it shall
be suhjugated.