, 1865-04-19
Chicago Gribnne..


Sopp0lneaulst1 10 lis logical results, VIC had
supposed that 1t had too much hypocrltical
cunning to confess the fact. But yesterday,
rshe "dre1n- -thc-rear" concern, despite Its
naFkfsh attempt for few days to counter.
felt mild disepproTal Of Booths more effect
:xlal mode Of stirring from the rear" at the
President, finally lets out It's i7epressible de-
.prayity, defends Booth as the equal Of John
Brown, aud admits him to be the logica!
though extreme result Of Copperhead teach,
tugs. The i1re-in-the-rear advocate thus ac
cepts Booth as the representative and losica]
result of Copperheadism.
John Brown Wis the natural DEVELOPMENT o.
sbolinonis1n precisely a. John Wilkes Booth ID
former honestly believed that. when be c,rice
zusnrrectton and murder tnto Virginia, he wa.
performing God service; the latter. perhaps, just
earth Of tyrant when b. placed his pistol 70 the
head Of Mr. Lincoln Oue IS an exsmpie of wha,
will result when aooliuonlem Ia tarricd to it
greatest pofstble length aud the other is IN ex
ample Of what will result when devotion tc
slavery 10 carried to excess.
On behalf Of John Brown We take un the
gloves thus thrown down by the vo!untee,
champion Of j. Wilkes Both.
We admit TINT extreme hatred to slavery
produces John Brown. What is the pro
,dnct-a venerable Christian man, earnest In
prayer and full Of the spirit of devotional
pacty. tender as woman In his sympathy
for every form Of suffering, yet brave Us q
lion, and absolutely fearless Of death when
ossailcd. He crosses With fifteen men the
border line between slavery and freedom a
few years before fifteen hundred thousand of
his countrymen cross the samc border line
and accomplish the result at which he aimed,
IA n1t H.. ~
of Emancipation, fighting without orders
and on his own hook. He issues his procla-
nations Of emancipation, calling on the
slaves to free themselves. Now slavery is
either inherently right or Inherently wrong.
If it is inherently right then John Brown
committed a moral offcnse in assailIng 1t, and
Mr.. Lincoln committed the same moral OF.
feusc In assai1ing it by lis proclamation. Il,
On the other hand. slayery VAS morally wrong
then John Brown WAS morally right in striv-
ing to c1nancipatc the Slaves, and If blood
flowed The moral responsibility rested On the
snastcrs who resisted the emancipation. At
1cast this conclusion would .follow un1ess we
admit that the laws made By men eau change
the Laws of God and make wrong right md
right wrong.
The American people have finally decided
with the rest Of the Christian world that
slavery is wholly and altogether wrong.
The whole moral difference between John
Brown md the American people Is therefore
thRt he came to right and sound position
On great moral question before the Ameri~
can people did. True. it led him into the
violation OF statute law, but in viola ting
these laws Of men, be vinlicatcd the eternal
Law Of God US he believed, is the Christian
world outside Of America then believed, and
as tue majority Of the American people now
accept it. He had no malice in his heart
against individuals. he would have slain
nobody If Ills yindieation Of the actual moral
right Of Slaves to their freedom had not been
wrongly intcrfered with by their opprcssors.
He set seventeen slaves free, aud
to Go 50 he disdained flight, but
freely met bis foes and offered up his life. IL
proved the emptiness Of slavcholdera' cour-
age, and silcoced their taunts of IS Abolition
cowardice," by defeating and thrashing the
chiynlfy OF Virginia. and then surrendcring
to squad Of United States marines. He
showed the ptety, the self-sacridcing courage,
the Indifference to temporary mob-oplnion,
and to unrighteous human laws, which have
characterized all martyrs. If his object was
fame, he VAS wise beyond any other man Of
his day. OF no other man do the armies OF
Freedom and the Union sing his soul is
marching on." He is the morning star OF
American emancipation, This, then, is the
head and iron: OF the charge Of the Chicago
Times against Abolitionisn, that it will pro-
duce b:ayc, temperate, ee1Edeyoted, heroic
martyr.
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neatly like that Of Hues, Cranmer, Latimer,
Ridley, Lafayette, Hanpden Gud other po-
lidcal and religious martyrs than any man
our age has produced, 1he miscrcant wretch
whom the Chicago Times canonizes as the cor
responding representative Of >'extreme''
and "radical" Coppcrheadism.
4 dissolutc, licenuous aud debauched
wretch, as ncted for the intensity of his
low passions as WIS John Brown for the
icrvcncy Of his puritanic piety, first plots
with brutal wretch named Sutratt, so
dangerous that having seduccd female,
the officers Of the law dared not serve q
warrant On him, and with his mistress, CON-
mon prostitute, who attempts suicide on
hearing Of the crime, and insults
the physic1ans who restore hcr to life. His
other accouplsccs ate>no better. He is actu-
=ated solely by hatred Of the doctrine that all
men should be free. He steals away fiom his
mistress as darkness, the curtain Of guilt,
promises to afford lin the mems Of commit
ting his crime and efIectlng his escape. He
7,ounces panther-like from behind, upon an
unarmcd man whose crime consisted in hav-
ing been twice eleyated by the voice Of the
American people to the highest political po-
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