M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-03

eInEeht lhe htSo race 10 ttu5 10
come in conflict With the white raca,
though the law Of nature, aud espoci.
Ally tho law Of settlement On this con
tneht, shows that an inferior race
periShes when attempting to live On
terIs Of equality with race that il
superior. Disease, desolation and
death are, therefore, tho doom Of the
hap!ess negro.
Ii the Census or this city could b.
taken Of The original slaVeS whu were
mere when emancipation was decreeI
in this district, thirty per cent. oI
thtm would be fonnl in their gravas
Look at tho hoyels that surround the
Capitol. Look at the miserable as-
srnblagas Of emancipated Africans
in this city, hn ldling five or ak iami
lea in Il little room, literally rotting
with disease, unlor your decree ot
emancipation. Look how the rlco is
being extvrminatei il your irsedmen's
camps on the banks OF the Missssip p
pi, tho srent father Of waters. See
what a spectacle is there presented
Death ia cutting down hundreds,
thousands, aud tens OF thousands as
death seldom cut down mOrta, man
before. Death there is tho doomed
decree 10 the African. As surely as
the plaques Of London or Athens do
creed the death of the stricken vic
TINA, 81 surely does the march Of tht
army, hberating the negro from o.
protection, a:d surrendering him t
the cruel, merciess employment oi
tho calculating white msu, doom him
to disease, hunger, starvation aad
death. | know the philanthrCpic gen,
tIeman from Massachusetts does Mi
design thls any more than did hic
uamesaEe, perhaps his kinsman, the
apostle Eliot, when he carried the
cross aud the Bible among the New
England tribes Of Indians, But with
the Iapostle came the ride and tn,
rum, AMI then opened upon the Indi.
ans tho whule l'anlora's box Of tor
rible diseases that destroyed thai
lnlian aud extinguisLed his race.
1t is, therefore, the white man.
liberty, not tho negro's liberty, tha
hereafter is to interest me in the dis
cussions before this House. The
spirit of Massachusetts has dono in
two or three years only what Christ
or the Church of Christ, WAS twelve
or fifteen hundred years in accom-
plishng in the Roman Empire. Thu
Savior himself struck not off the
claims OF the slaves whom no addres
sei from the Mount OF Olives. MOI
di1 the Apostle Paul. in his address
OH Mars Hill, in front Of Athens
strike off the chains OF the slave "a a
moment or an hour. But he incul
Gated principles, he sowud til, seed
which was twelve or fifteen hundred
years in ripening, but which in the
end brought abont the desired end
without war or the vio'ent loss o
life. Bat hero in two or'threa year;
We have ma1ly Attempted tbs lib'fa-
ton Of the negro, and ut what coat
A million Of men have been drawn
from their households and fresides
into the army, and q million more are
TO he sacrificed in the hos pi'als by
diseases, while at the saTno time 8
debt ia fastened upon rs ofthousand-
of millions Of dollars. Baloro vi
have finished the war the debt will b.
four thousand millions "A huge, mon
strons, and crushing debt, which will
inAict upon posterity, upon my chill
dren, your children, and their chill
dren hereafter for hundreds. Of years
q taxation under which they vii
groan as negro slaves have groaned
under the white master; a taxation o.
thirty cents on tae day laborer'e
dollar.
Three Jears ago ws had no Natl
onal debt worth o moments cmsi-
dera.ion but for the benefit Of ihi.
civil war, in only two or three years
under the spirit which has guided il
we hays had inflicted on us a National
debt now nearly, or soon 10 be, o:
large as the National dsbt of Greal
Britain, and which will grind the
people of this country for hundreds
and hundreds OF years, if this war ia
longer persisted IN in the spirit which
now animatos the country.
II, then, war lasts two years, we
shall see every able bodied Oegro in
the South that can bespared, either in
the battle.f field or as laborsrs in pre-
paration Of the battlefield. They
must, they will take that course. Im-
perious necessity exacts it OF them.
The negro of the North will meet the
negro Of the South; and when Greek
meets Greek. then comes the tug OF
wsr,"
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