The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-07-27
GENERAL R0SSEAU ON THE STUMP,
His views of slavery as a Bible Ones
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The gallant General Rosseau is a candidate
for congress in the Louisville District Ken
lucky. We give the following extracts
from recent speech to show the way in
which he is conducting the canvass:
KENTUCKY, oGBk AND BRAZIL.
81 wish to say again that slavery is dead
Its own friends have destroyed it. They
placed it at the foundation of jeff. Davis
government and invited, nay eforced, us 70
Iassaii it. They forced the whole Ideal
world to make war upon it, and presented
ito 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 slavery, and the rebellion with
it, and let the government tide. Both
these things are accomplished facts, and
in the whole christian world there remains
out three slave states, Cuba, Brazil and
Kentucky. In her efforts to save slavery,
kentucky has the sympathy of nobody; the
civilized world, in sentiment and practice is
against her, and her hopes that she might
succeed IN remaining neutral in the mighty
revolution through which we have just
passed, was only less silly than the effort
to keep her a slave state now. know the
same men who then said she would
remain neutral now say that she shall
reject the Constitutional amendment,
aud these same men insisted in 1861
that she should remain neutral and defend
herself against the north and the SOUTH
She was TO be the monster porcupine, with
sharp, defensive weapons pointing in every
direction. Thepoiiticians Of the state put
her In a position of MENTALITY and forced
her to say to thepeople of the United States
that although the government was the best
III the world, and size would gladly enjoy
its blessings and she would never yield it
up, yet that the free states must defend and
preserve it and in SO doing must not pass
over her sacred soil to strike its enemies
All, my friends what degrading position
for a brave and chivalric State to occupy
She has to act the part of mere passenger,
and dead-head at that, to use happy illus
tration Of MIR Lincoln's and was not to lay
her hand to the pnmp while everybody else
was struggling and swearing to save the
noble ship that had been scutted by the
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n WHY SLAVERY IS pNPRoFITABLE
: *al* 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 way that wrong and inius
tice wont and don't pay. Has not the
south lost more in the mere destruction of
bnncaG and fAppaS nd oilrna 4 NJ
and other property and expenditures for
of war etc, in the last four years
of a rebellion, carried on, for the benefit of
slavery, than it wrung out OF the sweat of
the slave in forty years preceding? Add
to this the half million of her brave sons,
who died or were crippled in battle or in
camp half the entire arms bearing popula-
lion of the rebel states aud tell me if slavery
was paying institution to them? And do
you think it can he restored now and not
lead to .bIoodIer and fercer war? And
why is, this? Simply because God in his
wisdom, has arranged the world so that in
the long run system of wtong will not
and cannot pay. sr"o iHse,a,.ta5 p
GENERAL ROssAU's THEOLOGICAL VIEWS OF
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''Some of my clerical friends may ia ke
an objection to my theology, insisting that
the Bible sanctions slavery. Now, Gentle
men must confess that am much better
versed in Casey's Tactics'5.the army Regu-
lations or even in Blackstone and Chltty
though | got rather rusty in law, than in
the good book but this much know Of
the Bible: When the New and the Old
Iestement were delivered 10 men, chat
tel slavery existed among all mankind, and
every word on. the subject of slavery
which these books contain goes toward
mitigating and lessening the power of the
master and giving some little comfort to
the slave...9 And this to L know: That
whatever Christianity is the ruling relig-
ion slavery has gone down., down, down!
Aud whatever people do not believe in the
Bible, but III the Turkish Koren or in
some heathenish superstition, there slavery
is still as strong and universal and deep
ly fixed as it was two thousand years ago.
Now all your. hypocriticaI rebel parsons,
with their texts about Paul and Ouesi-
mus, can't get over this little proposition:
That Christianity has steadily driven out
slavery, and the turks still keep it up.
and / want to know if the Turks and Tar
tiers are better Christians than the French
and the English the Germans and the Amer
leans? Mr.. Mallory belongs to bygoue
age, somewhat like mastadons and Siberian
elephants and other antediluvian animals.
His opposition to the Constitutional amend.
ment will no more stop its ultimate adop-
ton than his baying at the moon can keep
that heavenly luminary from shedding its
mild rays over the wise alike and the fool
He cannot stem the wheel of progress which
sweeps away old fashioned ploughs and
keelboats, old fashioned spelling and old
fashioned music, old fashioned monarches
and old fashioned slavery, which rolls for
ward locomotives where once stood oxcarts.
and drawns the electic wire across the
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