Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-29
HENRY WARD pEEcHER.

| HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
In the fosepart Of the year 1865. the Rev.
| HRsRY WARD BErcHER, as the representative OF
the late Republican Administration, delivered an
address a, Charleston, South Carolina. on the
occasion Of restoring the glorious old national
| flag to its race on Fort Sumter In that speech
be told the people Of the South that the North
did not wish to humble them, it only required
| that they should submit to the Constitution aud
| the laws; all it had to say was, 'there is the
Constitution; there are the laus; obey them
| In the year 1856, Southern citizens came
North for some fugitives from service. The
Northern people rose in MODS to prevent the ac
complishment of their errand, and seized the
Soutberners and threw them into Jail They re-
monstrated, and In earnest appeals, said q We
only ask that you shall submit to the Constitution
and the laos; girs us only them; all rre haze 10
ca y is, there is the Constitution; there are the
laps. obey them Mr. BKEcHER then replied to
them, in a speech at New Haven, thus:
" The Constitution is the cause OF every di
vision which this vexed question of slavery has
ever caused in this country. 1t has been the
! fountain and father OF all our troubles by at
| tempting 70 hold together reconcied two
opposing principles. which will not hsrmonze
nor agree. The only hope of the slave is over
the ruins of the Government and of tie Ameri-
can Church"
| In speech of the same gentleman, then the
agent of the Administration, made in Manches-
ter England. October g. 1863. he bears this testi
mony as to the manner in which the constitn-
tional provision securing to the South a return of
her fugitves had been lived up to in the North:
"Agains, the infamy, my soul revoted, and
| these lips protested, and | de6ed to its face, the
Government, and told them Il will have none
of your unrghteous laws
He said his church was with him In this posi-
ton.
Secondly, of
GENERAL SHERMAN.
This gentleman everybody delights to honor
General SHERMAN. in letter 20 Mrs. ANN GILMAN
BowKS. Of Baltimore, dated "In the Field near
Marietta. Georgia, June 30, 1854" writes:
\ Even yet my heart bleeds when see the
carnage of battle. the desolation of homes. the
bitter anguish of families; but the very moment
the men of the South say. that instead of appeal
ing TO war. they should have appealed to reason,
TO the experience of history, then will | say
peace-pesce; go back to the point of error and
resume your places as American citizens, with
all their prOub. heritsges
To this the "men Of the South" truthfuly re-
piled that they bad been appealing to reason all
the time since the formation in the North, of
Abolition societies, in 1882, and the petitioning
of Congress, by them. for the abolition of negro
slavery in the South. and that their appeals had
been Knocked at; that they had appealed TO Con
gress, obtained the reunion Of the Union" OF
1850. through the Wing and Democratic parties
but that the Republicans Immediately set TO
work to break it up: and since the admission of
California. the South had, in Congress become
subject TO the mere mercy of the Northern mem
bers; that they had appealed to the Courts
and the Courts had decided 10 their favor,
in le5s. both on tho question OF return
ing fugitives, and OF the right Of the
Southern people to settle in the common
territories. Mr.. Judge Advocate General, Hour.
admitted this in letter addressed to the people
OF Kentucky. an extract from which is found in
Fugitive Pieces &c, p. 10: The Supreme
1919 Va VIZ = uee SeStatt tutt Nue Sltl-
rens Of the slave States can, at will. take their
slaves into all the territories of the United States
and this decision. which has never been resisted
or intertered with in a single case, is the law OF
the land, aud the whole power of the Govern.
ment is pledged to enforce IL" But they said
the decisions Afforded them no protection under
the rule OF the Republicans. because ,hey would
no, be regarded. Mr.. Chief Justice CHssk told
! them emphs,icaly 10 the Peace Congress. called
by Virginia. tia, their right TO the return Of fu
gilisss aud their right ~ settle 10 the common
territories would not be respected by the Repub.
lican Administration. We quote bis eIac,
words:
We caunot agtte With you, aud therefore do
rot propose to allow slavery where ne are re.
sponsible for IL. outside OF your State limits and
under national jurisdiction" ASIDE
from the territorial question. know Of but one
serious difficulty refer to the question concern
ing fugitives from service. The clause In the
C0SsrIrrTIoS concerning this class Of persons 10
regarded by almost all men, North and South,
az a stipulation tor the surrender 10 their masters
Of slaves escaping into free States. The people
Of the free States, however. who believe tha,
slaveholding ID wrong cannot and irsH NET AID IN