The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-04-28

NioO puV IOI NuIu uuO hlSSCl. LuSJ
will make the issue themselves, and
now are most terribly Mortified because
it is the issue
sLAvEHoLDING TRAITORS SKINNED.
Yes, my friends, it is negro war.
The slave owners make the war at u
time when all their pretended rights
to their stolen property are scrupu-
lously respected, and every law for its
protection passed that they ever de-
sired Not content to be master of
their slaves, but they must be your
master, too. Our Government had not
wronged them, but the dishonest prin-
ciple that had been planted in the in
stitution of slavery now bears its leg
itimate fruit. They had been taught
that to rob a man of his inalienable
rights of his labor, ofhis liberty, was
no harm, provided his skin was black,
and they had the right to do it; and
now they cannot draw the distinction
very clearly between robbing white
man and robbing q negro, and they
add to their schedule of crime, mur-
der, burning, lies, reputation and
have always been amalgamationists.
These Conservative traitors are now
very indignant at the idea Of drafting
negroes into the service of our Gov
ernmcnt, but are perfectly willing that
they be used against us! The rich
slave owner will not volunteer nor be
drafted. They will pay out, and want
the poor man, the widows son to be
drafted, Che can't pay ou) and that
will save him niggor and this poor
man must be sent to the front to stand
on the battlement nights, his honest
and sturdy breast bnlwark of de-
fense to keep the enemy back, while
the slave owner can quietly rob the
ill-fated African of his labor, and add
to his own wealth! What does he
care if the poor widows son is killed ?
He losses nothing by it. The widows
prop may 60, and she starve for all
he cares but the life of the sacred
negro must not be endangered. The
hypocritical, Conservative scoundrels
turn up their noses, and ask you if you
are going to make negroes their
equals
!, for one, on that point, say most
emphatically no! We have already
treated the negro with gross injustice;
have yoked him with the beasts of the
field have worked him for genera
tons without pay; have dcbased and
degraded him but do not, my coun-
trymcn, commit the outrage of putting
them down upon level with q seces-
sionist, repudiator, a robbcr, q mur-
dercr, and house burner; they do not
deserve such treatment! As race
they have done you no harm. They
have violated no law, they have not
turned traitors and thieves, as the cd
! ucated slave owner has donc, but they
have quietly submitted to their yoke
and performed the labor allotted to
them. .
4 These traitors ask, "What are you
going to do with the negrocs?" "Will
you have them amongst us?" Are
they not already amongst us? Docs
changing the relation fmaster and
slave bring them here? AS honest
men which would you rather have
? amongst you, negro laborers, or these
seccssionists, thieves, robbers and mur-
. derers? 't---tF
"- FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
The freedom of speech has suddenly
become very precious in the eyes Of
that party which would not let you
express the mildest opinion against
slavery. No, not they the bowie
knife and tar bucket Vas their argu-
ment. They knew slavery could not
exist under the blazing light OF q free
press and free speech; therefore, all
such presses and speech were choked
down by them. And yet, even if theil
SANDERS were true about stopping the
mouths of traitors, they set the exam
pie even in times of peacei they sowed
the seed, and are now reaping the har
vest. 4esa 1t3 ..a 5F.
SHOWING THE RECORD. i'r
IF Hero is arccord of Company II 18tl
/, Kentucky Infantry, o company thai
first went into tho service under my
. command, and was with me in the fal
1 of 1861 on Sandy. A moro gallant
band of true patriots and brave mer
s never lived l passed through this
/, town with my regiment, and they
!. stayed in this. Court House on th'
night of the goth of October, 1851
Then this company numbered ovel
: one hundred ofyour sons and brothers
They defended your homes and nc
c groes too, against the invaders, on ma
n nv hard contested fields. Where nov
are the gallant boys? Look over tha
s record ye fathers and brothers. How
/ many Of them are marked Killed
}. wounded, died in hospital? BY tha
: Eever-to-be.remembered day, the 3Otl
!. of August, 1862, the company was re
duced to some seventy men, and OF
q that day / saw forty y-four Of them fall
killed and wounded, in twenty min
Il utes, at the battle of Richmond.
!. met them few days ago, and now bu
- twenty eight of them remain; the bal
4 ance killed, wounded, or starving il
i their filthy prisons. But that gallan
J twenty-eight whose names are carve
!, high on the column of fame, are nov
y re-eplisted veterans. But where noN
!. are Captain Berry, Captain Lewis an