The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-09-29
Established 1925.


and forts were thoroughly invested
along the sea coast, and rivers, by the
insurgents, they could be neither re.
enforced, nor supplied even with food
by the Government. Sd, languid de-
bate with view to an ultimate Ma.
tional Convention which the rebels
haughtily despised and contemptu-
ously rejected. -r-. ,..
What were the alternatives left ua
Either to surrender ourselves and the
Government, at discretion, or to sum
mon the people to arms, terminate the
armistice, adjourn the demoralizing
debate, and "reposs IS" ourselves ofthe
national forts and ports. And now
has allthe treasure that he's been spent,
and all the precious blood that has
been poured forth, gone for nothing
else but 70 secure an ignomimous re.
treat, and return at the end of four
years to the hopeless imbecility and
rapid process Of National dissolution,
which existed when Abraham Lincoln
took into his hands the reirs of Gov
ernment2
WHAT SAVED THE GOVERNMENT.
Every one of you knows that but
for that accession Of Abraham Lincoln
just at that time the Union would in
less than three months have fallen in.
to absolute and irretrieyable ruin
MILITARY ARREsTs-DRAPT.
l will not dwell long on the com.
plants which misguided, but not in.
tentionally perverse men bring against
the Administration Of Abraham Lin.
coin. They complain Of military ar
rests Of spies and lurking traitors in
the loyal States, as il the Government
could justify itself for waiting without
preventive measures, for more State,
to be invaded or to be carried of into
secession
They complain that when we call
for volunteers we present the alterna.
tive of draft, as if when the shir
had been scuttled, the captain ought
to leave the sleeping passengers to e
TO the bottom without calling upor
them to take their turn at the pump.
They are not content with plotting
in secret places, but they 90 up anc
down the public streets altering trea
son, vainly seeking to provoke aries
in order that they may complain of
denial of the liberty Of speech. Th,
impunity they everywhere enjoy un-
der the protection of constitutions
debate, shows at one and the sam,
time, that their compIaintsare ground
less, and that the Union in the elemen
or moral stability is stronger than the!
/ know.
ABOUT PEACE PROPOSITIONS.
The chiefcomplaint against the Pre-
sident is that he will not accept peae
on the basis of the integrity Of tn
Union, without having also the aban
donment of slavery. When and wher
have the insurgents offered him peac
on the basis Of the integrity of th
Union? Nobody has offered it, Th
rebels never will offer it. Nobody O
their behalf can offer it. They are dt
termined and pledged to rule this Re
public.or ruin it. ! told you here
year ago, that practically slavery wa
no longer in question-that it was pei
ishing, under the operation of tn
war. That assertion has been cor
frmcd.
The Union men in all the slave Statt
that We have delivered ore even MOI
anxious than we are to abolish SLAYER,
Witness Western Virginia, Marylan,
Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee an
Arkansas. jefferson Davis tells yor
in effect the same thing. He says it
not for Slavery, but Independence an
: Sovereignty for which he is content
ing. There is good reason for this.
hundred dollars in gold is only ayear
purchase of the labor Of the workin
man in every part ofthe United State
t At less than half that price you con
I buy all the slaves in the country. n
verthcless, our opponents wants adj
tinct exposition ofthe Presidents viev
l on the ultimate solution Of the SLAYER
e question.
3 Why do they want it? For the san
reason that Pharisees and Sadduce
wanted an authoritative resolution
the questions OF casuistry which aro
= in their day. One Of those sects b
$ lieved in Kingdom to come, and Il
! other altogether denied the resurre
= ton of tho dead. Nevertheless, thu
t walked together in loving accord
: search Of instruction concerning Il
= spirit world. "Master," said the
: "there was a man of our nation WI
= married o wife and died, leaving s
= brothers. These brothers suCcessiv
S ly married the widowed woman, al
VI afterwards died, and last Of all the W
3 man died also. In the resurrectic
: which of the seven shall have this W
i man TO be his wife,
:, Now what was it to them wheth
K one or all shall have the woman to W
in Heaven. 1t could be nothing to t
It Sadducecs in any case. What was
!, to any human being on this side of t
y grave2 What was it to any hum
h being in heaven except the woman al
IF her seven husbands-absolutely r
thing. Yet they would have an 0
o swer. And they received one. The a
swer was that while in this NOR
state, men and woman shall never cei
/ to marry and to die, there will be
j. tha resurrection neither death nor m