, 1865-07-18
GENERAL 5kS)ASR:AU on TIE
SIUuEs
His Views Of Slavery as q bible Ou.a.
t1OM.

| The gallant General Rosaeau Is candidate
for Congress in the Louisville District, Ken.
tucky. We give the following extracts from
| recent speech TO show the way In whi.h be
Is conducting the canyaes:
KESTCCKf, CrDA AND nRAzL.
-" Eleh 10 eay again that slavery is dead.
Its own friends have destroyed It. They
placed 1t at the foundation Of JED, Dayts,
assaf It. They forced the whole liberal world
to make var upon 1t, and presented to Us the
alternative, to destroy slavery, or see our
goverImsnt perish. We all know this to be
t1ue, and no truthful, sensible man will deny
II. Our duty was q plain one: t.. XIII sla-
government live. Both these things are &C.
comR1ishtd facts, and In the whole Christian
world there remains but three slaye states,
Cuba, Brazil and Kentucky. In her
Efforts to- save elayery, Kentucky has
i;s., tne fymnathy Of nobody; the ely
against her. and her hopes that she might
succeed In remaining neutral in the mighty
revolution through which We have lust
passed. was only lsss tsilly than the effort to
Keep her slave State row. I know the eauo
en- who thin said she would remain neu-
tsal ow say that she shall reject the Consti-
tutioual amendment, and these eatuc men In
siktcd II 1851 that che could rem ain neutral
and deftrd herself against the North ard the
South. etc was to be the monster porcu-
ne, with sbasp, defensive Weapons pointing
il every direction. The politicians Of the
STATE. put her in position Of neutrality, and
tn'ced her TO Eay TO the people Of the United
States, that, although the Government wAs
the best tn the world, and Ehe would gladly
rrjcy its bleseiDse and would never Field It
up, Yet u at the free States must defend and
preserve It, and in doing 50 mnat not pass
6fY3FA I fa
Al. my friends, Whist Degrading poeltion for
brave and chiya1ric Stale to occupyl She
was 70 aet the me1e passenger, md dead.head
at that; 10 use happy Illustration Of AIr,
Jump Th.le- ever, BODY else vas struggling
npu hwta ing TO save the noble ship that h1d
bttn ecuttled by the pirates!
WIT sLAvERY Is ENPRoF1TABIE
~ want to tell yon why slavery
ILL not ray 1t is because We have God In
heaven WHO hns arranged the affairs OF men
in such Way that wrung and Injustice wont
pay and don't pay, Has not the sonth lost
mnre ID 1ne nnxsa destruction Of houses, and
Hnces, and railroads, md nr7ue, and other
property, ard expenditures for Inuultsons of
war etc., in the last fur years of a rebellion,
carried on for the bent 1T of slavery, than ii !
sF,ung out Of the sweat Of the slayv In forty
million Of her brave sons, who died or were
crippled in battle and in camp. half OF the |
{ tptlre q ms.bearjnE popula:i ion Of the rebel !
States, and tell me ii slavery Was 3 pay1ug In !
Etitutfcp to the1ns And do you think it can !;
te restored now and not lead to blooder t
ard flercef war; And why Is th1ss Simply |;
btcsuse God in his wisdom has arranged The !
world, 80 that in the long run, system Of |
",oHg will not and cannot pay.
GENERAL EossEAC's THEOLOGICAL VIEWS OF ,
SLAVERY. !
scmc Of my clerical friends may take an
11g)ection 1) 70 my theology, insisting that tbs
nAoie eanetlons slavery. Nov, gentlemen, I
ousL confess That / am much better yersed
~ -. oy Gasey's Tactics tie Army, Regulations.
" o esen IN Blacks'on and Chttty, though /
~, alnsI rusty In law, than In the GOOD
M1, M1r1pA, oat tn1k much know Of the Bible;
Mneu me Old and the New Testament were
ot1seleG 70 tntn. clattel slavery existed
emehga4 nankind, and eyery word on the i
subject Of slavery which these booSs contain
goes toward mitigating ard 1essenfnm ne
power of the master and r!ying so,na i,t11s
comfort to the slave And thss tnn
know That whuterer Christia1{tv fs ~.
ruling religion, slavery has Cone dorn
down, down And wherever peopie do not
believe In the Bible, but In the Tn1t;eh
Koran or in some heatheuish sunsr1
st.,icp. there slavery u still as strnn1
and universal ard deeply fired as It Was two
thousand years ago. Now ali your hyoo.
critical rebel parsons, with their texts about
Paul and Ontsl1nus, can't get over this Httlo
ptoposit1on That Christianity has steadily
driven out slavery, and the Turks still keep
II up Aad want to know Il the Turks and