American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-10-12

on every battle field of this Union, they
died for this country and we will never
consent to visit their remains in a foreign
kmd They died for freedom, and we
will not see them slumber beneath the
tread of siaUe. They died like true
Soldiers, and we will not disgrace their
graves by cowardy compromise with the
traitors who murdered them No! The
Keystone State stands by the Union, and
when she falls, if fall she must, it shall
be amid the ruins not of eleven but Of
thirty-four States.
SLAVERY.
/ am aware it is no longer necessary, to
prove slavery the hinge of this great con
fict, but in times gone by, ! have Of
ten strove to convince the people of this
fact, when many were so patriotic, they
could see nothing but 4" The Union" and
The Flag and so blind they could not
see the enemy of both. While address
ing crowd at the first Of this war to
raise volunteers | said. This was but
the means to the end which would be free
DOM was interrupted by one Of these
men who declared his eternal hatred to
abolitionism piticd his weakness, but
50 long as he would volunteerI was salts
fed Two years rolled round, and | saw
this man wounded abolitionist fighting
for the emancipation proclamation. But
| only grieve to-day for the One Humid
red Thousand, brave men we sacraficed
in the commencement, to find uaioR in
| sia09y, when the fact is, it contains no
L. no. \. no, |. no O. no not one letter, and
what is more significant not me element
Of union. 1t is in intelligence, UiriUe and
christianity, that we are to look for union
not in the ignorance, licentiousness and
barbarism Of slayery--slaycry striving
to break up this republican government
for thirty years. All the leaders of the
rebellion and shareholders. All the Slave
States out, or trying to get out Of the
union. An organized rebel government,
with slavery for its corner stone, seeking
to destroy US, aud yet One Hundred Thou
sand men had to die to prove the destruc-
tion of slavery military necessity. | am
not blaming Abraham Lincoln for this
but public opinion, which is aud ever must
be king in a Republican Government. But
you ask can talk of nothing but sla-
very Why could the nation talk Of
nothing else for the last forty years? You
can not march on with your Pacific Rail
road, in your struggle for wealth and
greatness, while the groans Of the slave
cry to heaven against you. Slavery is
the hinge of this srebclion--cut loose the
hinge and the platform Of rebellion drops,
and those who stand upoe it are suspen-
ded betweena hell they have merited, and
/ dl tdFtH tHcy hdNC Cu.seV'
have seen hundreds of slaves with
straight hair blue eyes fair complexion,
some as white as any man here. Now is
this enslaving, the black or the white
race? You call us a negro loving party,
but when the Southern Democrat makes
his negro-wench the mother Of his child
rem and then marks, brands, whips and
sells them, that may be negro loving, but
| it is the degradation of the Democratic
party. ! am constantly reminded of the
fact that am talking to a professedly
christian people; and | would have you
to remember that there is always connec-
ton between our sins and our sufferings.
when you are called upon to behold, the
great suffering of our nation. | would
have you to remember our sins arc great
for 240 years we have practiced this
iniquity, you held no slaves you say, yes
you did. What separates your State from
Maryland A simple line such as sep
crates your farm from your neighbors
1t was not the line held the slave there.
1t was the oath you had registered in the
Constitution that if he crossed it you
would return him to his master. We
could not violate it, and we could not get
it changed, but " He whom the gods
would destroy, he first maketh mad .
The slave master levied war against the
Constitution, and forfeited his right
under it, and thus is wiped out in
the blood of the nation, the sin that has
so long cried to heaven against US.
Well did Jefferson say, | tremble for
my country when remember that God
is just. 1t is estimated that during the
existence of slavery more than sorty mil
lions of tho sons of Africa, have been
brought to the shores of the new world
and sold into bondage. At least halt
/ nariS in tho nagsaoa fhint of this from,