Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-02-25


not OF the chains OF the slaves whom he addressed from
tho Mount OF Olives Nor did the Apostle Paul in bis nd
dress Mars Hill in front of Athens strike off the chains
oil the slave IN moment or hour. But he iheucate6
principles he sowed the seed which twelve fifteen
hundred years in rpenng but which in the end brought
about the desired end without the violent loss OF life
But here Ia two or three years we have mady attempted
the liberation OF the negro and at what cost2 million
OF men have been drawn from their households aud fire
sides into the army and million to be sacrificed
In the hospitals by Diseases while ut the time debt
s fastened upon US of thousands OF millions of dollars
Before we have finished the the debt will be four
thousand nnIlons--a huge, monstrous, and crushing
debtwhch will Lhict upon postety, upon my children
your children and their children hereafter for hundreds
OF years, taxation under which they will groan negro
slaves have groaned under the white master; taxation
Of thirty cents the day aborers dollar Three years
ago We had no national debt worth moments consdera
non but during this civil war; in only two three years.
under the spirit which has guided it, had inflicted
on us national debt neHy, to be- as large
as tho national debt of Great Britain, and which will grind
the people OF this country hundreds and hundreds
years. II this war Is longer persisted in the spirit which
now animates the country.
recognise the abolition of slavery existing for other
reasons than have given. and call to law of the rebel
Congress which now hold in my hand. The rst Sec
ton of this act declares that all male free negroes shall
be conscrpd aud brought into the Southern army The
second section of the act provides for organizing twenty
thousand of the Southern slaves not exactly soldiers
but as sappers miners and navves, aborers in the
Southern armies The South, therefore, has taken the
secondary step to the first step which was taken by the
people OF the North There is the Southern act for arm
ing first the free negroes of the 81 nth and second for arm
ing the Southern slaves This Of itself the abolition of
slavery n the rebel States for the moment put
into the hands of slaves that slavery abolished
Soc:h q North. The necessities Of this war will
compel the rebels of the South more and more to arm
their slaves and thus and to abolish their slaves
H. tnen, war lasts two years, we shall every able
bodied negro in the South that be spared either in the
battle field or as aborers preparation of the battle field
They must they viii take that course Imperous
sty exacts ii of them The negro Of the North will meet
the w Grpek
then the tug of war" on then conscript the
negro reeDslaye the 1t the best thing you can
DO IN humanity and philanthropy to the negro to reensave
hlm and doom him to the army. You have made this
negro abolition war You have changed its original pur
pose and therefore the negro should be called out and
should fight the battles of party which has taken them
INTO their Keeping do not, for one intend to resist
your movements IN that respect any longer.
This freedmens bill, as it s called is not worthy OF
practical mind. The whole scheme Ia one of money.
making the whole scheme is for the of the black
race by Northern masters But il, in the name Of hu.
many you acting for these negroes introduce some
more practical measure without consolidating and cen
trazitg all the powers OF this Government Do not aban
don the beautiful theory of States and convert this toy
ernment into consolidation aud cenraIsation solely for
the money making purposes Of this bill Make it prac
cal-make it self supporting Do not burden the E-d,rs
Treasury with it, Let it take care of itself as i the tbso
y OF our Government We have no mora right to feed
and support negroes than have to feed aud s,pport
white men The thing 10 not written in the Constitution
III Il not written IN human nature If you advance
tue pay o negroes Ia the army make them you make
white soldiers support their wives and children Give
the negro eight or nine dollars month aud subtract four
or hye dollars Tor the support Of as wife aud children
protest against my constituents being taxed for II
protest ~ the name OF the laborer If the North Ia the
nsale Of the kman Of the North tho name of the
capitalists OF the North. protss. against il in bebnIf f
the white women ard white children of the North B,r
den not tie Treasury with the support of Southern ne
groes IL At be mere scheme Of paau hropy and bsps
voence Will contribge to IT, according TO my mesns A.
much as othes gentlemen will contributes but come not
70 ne federa Treasury for the support aud suseance
OF the negro
AT the close Of Mr.. Books remarks the House pro
ceeded to the consideration OF the naval appropriation
bill.
Mr.. A. WHITE, OF Ohio, bsins entitled Ia the floor
addressed the House during the allotted hour in discuss
ing onesans which he conceived to be Of vital moment to
the cause OF the Union and Of free government lie main
tained that the in which engaged wrong in
t.ef; that the policy adopted by the party power for
its prosecution i wrong that the Union be re-
stored or II restored maintained by the exercise of the
coerclve power of the Government-by war that the
war opposed to the restoration Of the Union desruc
tive OF the rights Of the States and the liberties of the peo
pie and that it ought therefore, ~ be brought to speedy
and immediate close.
If he were asked how he would make peace he should
answer, by reconcilng the differences Of opinion that
conflict Of principle which is the sole cause OF the war by
fair honorable just and reasonable concessons by
meeting IT, lighting it, and crushing II. He did not thluL
that this the whole sum Of moral social ahd pol
cal duties That is the voice Of passion and not the Ian
OF IL the sentiment that burns churches
and converts whips Suakes inspires the horrors Of the
nguston and which has Redeemed he pages Of hstory
with the shed blood OF the tyrs SANTA aud heroes m
AL lie had cherished the nope that the progress o
christianity aad the march Of enlightened civilization
bad carried beyond this point II we should succeed
IN overrunniDg the South with arms and reducing
them to state Of subsection by force we would be lar
very far, from restoration Of the Uns0a That wand h.
Union founded in force md not very
site OF that established Py the wisdcn OF our fathers
would be the union Of Eaeiaud with Ireland ~ Poland
Ot with Anafr lT...
execrated and despised by every true American who
breathes that spirit OF patriotic piety that animated m.
bosoms OF our fathers 1t would be a Union Of hate
pinned together by bsyonesa Union which il would coat
US our liberties TO maintain which could only he nra
served by the unholy riny Of perpetual war perpetual
taxatiou ana perpetual c0nscripton tie had no heart
Tor such Union that he eected it, and should r..
gard ts establishment the greatest calamity that ever
befel this coanry except the which produced H.
War he argued, cannot restore the Union the
supremacy o the Constitution, and enforce tie ayys in
the revolving States The subugatioa Of thoee States sud
the holding aud governing Of them subject provinces.
would involve the loss OF liberties require alarge
standing army oppressive taxation and system Of forced
poUscription revolving to free people, utterly az war
with the fundamental law Of the land and .ubyersye
the principles upon which the Union Of the States ara
founded. Then shall wo wage war against the Con
ederate StaeG win the view aud for the purpose of AN
nihsting aud driving into banshment their eaure ubite
population such would hs revolving 10 ths moral
sense of the civilized work. and shocking to humanity
Subjugaten 10 regarded not only impoit. hui c,
pcs-lhe, We mpaled upon a dilsmma that has bnt
Two hOrns and must choose upon which we will Ibroo
ourseYesPeace bg eompromise Of conflicting interests
princlpeg ssd opniona, e1terminating war al b
f,orth against the South. We had inst a. wall pran