Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-12
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the double-faced Charles Sumner of Mass
achusetts, upon the Rack.
have heard the Senator declare in tn
Cnamoer that under the Constitution W
had no power to interfere with slavery /
the States. To-day he tell us that it
constitutional to strike and crush SLAYER
wherever we can find it.
The Senator swears to support the Con
stitutIon, and declares in his place that h
would not assist in the execution of the fu
glnve slave law, a law made in ODE.
dience to the command Of the Con.
stitution. The Senator disregards the Con
stitution, his oath of Office, and everything
that should bind the conscience of lust
and good man, to carry out his abolitio
schemes.
The Senator from Massachusetts, talks as
glibly about war as If he had all his life had d
the harness on. as if nothing had ever de-
lighted his eyes but backed and bruised ar.
NOR and broken blades. He has talked
soout this war as being righteous and right;
ne has advocated it throughout; he has vo
ted all the meu and all the money thew
wanted, and to-day he eulogizes war
NOW, what do you think has heretofore
been the tenet of that honorable Senator?
As before said, those who have but one
pred idea are not wise counsellors.
The Senator has changed the whole current
OF his thoughts within the last few years
on this subject OF war. Let me read from
most elaborate oration, very handsomely
written, and replete with all the encyclops.
dla learning for which that Senator is so
eminent. made some years ago. Let US
see what the Senator then said of peace;
and it every body in this Cham Der who has
wlknaaQ1H 10 6,of bara IL.
b Q has run counter to the principles laid
down by himself will admit that . have
not capacity to see the truth or to state it.
Here is an extract from an oration, made by
Hon. Charles Sumner, entitled the Gran
oeur OF Nations. few years ago.
Mr.. sun NER. What is the date of it?
Mr.. POWELL. The 4th of July, 1S45.
and | would rather have it dated back at
that time than now, because it expressed
the Senator's ideas when everything was
cool and calm and quiet, and there was not
the excitement of civil war. I have right
to use 1t as weapon against him. He is
using this war as an instrument to DESTROY
slavery. That is his whole object; he has
none other; aud 1 think he will get up and
avow that to he the case. am sure he
will not deny it. Now, sir, let US look to
what he said an war in that address:
IN our age there can be no peace that is
not honorable; there can De no war that is
not dishonorable'
And those words are put iu capital letters
According to his own tenets, the Senator is
now urging on a dishonorable war. I do
not say that if he utters the truth when he
made the speech from which l have Just
read. he is now advocating dishonorable
war because in that speech he said there can
be no war that is not dishonorable. 1 sup
pose the Senator in the course of his life |
has had two ideas, a war idea and a peace
idea, and when he was on the idea he |
thought nothing under Heaven was good |
but peace. l do not concur with the Ssna. |
tor in that sentiment, for think there are
times in the affair of nations when it is right
to go to war. read it merely to show the |
Senator's inconsistency.
Mr.. SUMNER, The Senator will allow
me to say that at the time made that re-
mark had very little idea of the barbar-
ism of slavery.
Mr.. POWE have no doubt of that,
and If the Senator would look into himself
be would find that he is more barbarous than |
perhaps any STAKEHOLDER that ever lived
The Senator is the perfect EN- bod iment of |
barbarism of fanaticism / |
am a sIav ehoIder; and if believed that |
lad about me half the barbarism the Seua-
tor has, should be disposed to hide from
the civilized world. But, sir, let m 90 on
with the the speech from which l am quo =
ting:
War is utterly Intellectual to secure or ad.
vance the object at which it processes to
aim. The misery which it excites contrib.
utss to no end. helps to establish no right,
and therefore in no respect determines jus
tice between the contending natiohs.'
Why does the Senator carry on this war?
just for the love of blood, havoc, public
plupder, and the destruction of human life?
He boldly aud clearly and most perspicu-
ously declared in 1945 thatit never will eff.
feet it's aim. Yet we find the Senator in
that most ridiculous attitude, at war with
himself. That is the barbarism that fanat-
icism teaches. That is the barbarism that
fanaticism teaches. 1t brings him into
most striking contradiction. But will
read little further from the honorable
Senator's most elaborate speech. He says:
Christianity forbids the whole custom OF
war.
Is the gentleman, IN order to carry ont his
one idea Of destroying negro slavery. not
only to overthrow the fixed and firm prin- |
ciples of bis life. but is he to overthrow |
The whole system of Chris |
tiauity? The whole system of Christianity
is to GO by the board because the Senator
wishes to effect through the iustrum sntallty
of arms one single objsct-the abolition OF
He 10 willing to foreso not only
his former principles about human affairs
but to overthrow the religion of the blessed
Saviour himself, to bring about that, to bin,
most desirable Of all objects.
The honorable Senator from Massachu-
setts further says on this subjsct OF Christ
anity and war:
sIt was not until Christianity became COR
rupted that It's followers became soldiers,
aud it's priests learned to minister at the al
ter of the God OF battles.
admit with the Senator that many oil
,h = ec,..r.v.in his region of-ccuhtry have be-