Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-07-21
Gen. Rousseau's Views.

Gen. Rousseau, whose military and DO.
litical record are equally good, is making
lively fight in the Louisville Congression-
al district. In recent speech he "carried
the war into Africa" in the most gallant
style, as will be seen from the following
extracts
KENTUCKY AND SLAVERY.
IL wish to say again that slavery ia
dead. Its own friends have destroyed it.
They placed it at the foundation OF JEFF.
Davis's government and invited, nav.
forced us to assail it. They forced the
whole liberal world TO make war unon
it, and presented to US the alternative, to
destroy slavery or see our government
perish. We all know this to be true, and
no truthful, sensible man will deny it.
Our duty was plain one to kill slave
ry, and the rebellion with it, and lie, the
government live. Both these things are
accomplished facts, and in the whole
Christian world there remains but three
slave states, Cuba, Brazil and Kentucky.
In her efforts to save slavery, Kentucky
has the sympathy of nobody the civil
lied world, in sentiment and practice, is
against her, and her hope that she nigh.
succeed in remaining neutral in b
mighty revolution through which we
have just passed, was only less silly than
the effort to keep her a slave State.
WHY SLAVERY rs UNPkoFITABLE.
81 want to tell you why slavery will
not pay. 1t is because we have God
in heaven who has arranged the affairs
of men in such a way that wrong and
injustice won't pay and cont pay. Has
not the South lost more in the mere
destruction of houses, and fences, and rails
roads, and crops, and other property, and
expenditures for munitions of war, &C.,
in the last four years Of rebellion, car
ried on for the benefit Of slavery, than
it wrung out of the sweat of the slave in
forty years preceding7 Add to this the
half million of her brave sons, who died
or we're crippled in battle and in camp,
half Of the entire transferring popula>
ton of the rebel States, and tell me if
slavery was paying institution to thems
Simply because God in his wisdom has
arranged the world so that in tho long
run, a system of wrong will not and can.
not pay.
A THEOLOGICAL VIEW OF SLAVERY.
"Some of my clerical friends may take
an objection TO my theology, insisting that
the Bible sanctions slavery. Now, gem
tlemen, | must confess that | am much
better versed in 'Casey's Tactics the
Army Regulations, or even in Black
stone and Gritty, though got rather
rusty in law, than in the good book, but
this much know of the Bible When
the Old and New Testament were deliver
ed to men, chattel slavery existed among
all mankind, and every word on the sub
ject Of slavery which these books contain
goes toward mitigating and lessening the
power of the master and giving some lit
tie comfort to the slave. And this, too,
| know That wherever Christianity is
tuC iullIS lEllSIphs SiaNCtl HAS ROuO
down, down And wherever people do
not believe in the Bible, but in the Turk.
ish Koran or in some heathenish SUPER
stitiou, there slavery is still as strong aud
and deeply fixed as it was two
thousand years ago. Now all your hyp~
ocrtical, rebel parsons, with their texts
about Paul and Oresimus, can't get over
this little proposition: That Christianity
has steadily driven out slavery, and that
the Turks still keep it up; and want
to know if the Turks and the Tartars arc
really better Christians than the French
and the English, the Germans and the
Americans. Mr.. Mallory belongs to
Dygone age, somewhat like mastodons aud
Siberian elephants, and other antedilu-
Wan animals. His opposition TO the con-
;titutional amendment will no more stop
It's ultimate adoption than bis baying at
he moon can keep that heavenly lumi-
nary from shedding its mild rays over
he wise alike and the fool. He cannoI
'tem the wheel of progress, which sweeps
lway old fashioned plows and keel boats,
,ld-fashioned spelling, and old-fasbioned
music, old>fashioned monarchies and old
fashioned slavery, which rolls forward
where once stood OK cars, and
lraws the electric wires across the sea-"