The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-19
Gen. Roussenu on slnYerr.

Hen. rousseau, VINO mas served gal
lantly during the war, is now running
for Congress in the louisville (Ky.)
district; and this is the way he talks
about slavery:
II wish to say agnin that slavery is
dead. Its own friends have destroyed
it. They placed it at the, foundation OF
jeff! Davis's government, and invited,
nay, forced us to assail it. They forced
the whole liberal O world to-; make
war upon 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 n plain one; to Kill
slavery, and the rebellion with it, and
let the government live. Both these
things are accomplished facts; and in
the whole Christian world there RE-
mains but three slave states,-Cuba,
Brazil and kentucky. In. her efforts
to save slavery, Kentucky has the SYM
pathy of nobody; the civilized world,
IN sentiment and practice is against
her, and her hopes that she might,Sllc-
ceed IN remaining neutral in the mighty
revolution through which we have lust
passed, was only less silly than the eff
fort to keep her n slave state now.
II want to tell You why slavery will
not pay. 1t is because we have God
in heaven who has arranged the affairs
OF men i'll such n way that wrong and
injustice won't pay and don't pay. IIus
not the South lost more in the mere de-
struction of houses and railroads and
crops, and other property and eXpendi-
lures for munitions of war, &C., in the
last four years of 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 brave sons, who died or were
crippled in battle and in camp, half of
the entire arms-bearing population of
the rebel states, and tell me if slavery
was n paying institution for them? And
do You think it can be restored now and
not lead 10 n bloodier and fiercer WARP
And why is this? Simply because God
in his wisdom has arranged the world
so that, in the long run, Il system of
wrong will not and cannot pay.
''Some of my clerical friends may
take an objection to my theology, in
sisting that the bible sanctions slavery.
Now, gentlemen, l must confess that l
am much better VerSed in tCaSey'S Tao
tics the Army Regulations, oreven in
Blackstone and Chitty, though l got
rather rusty in law, than in the good
book, but this much know of the bi-
Bile: When the Old and the New Testa-
mentS were delivered to men, Chattel
slavery existed among all mankind,
and every word ON the subject of Sla-
very which these books contain goes
toward mitigating and lessening the
power of the master and giving some
little comfort to the slave. And this.
too, l know: That wherever christian
itY is the ruling religion, slavery has
gone down, down, down! And wher-
ever people do not believe in the bible.
but in the Turkish Koran or i'll some
heathenish superstition, there slavery
is still as strong and universal and
deeply fixed as it was two thou
sand years ago. Now all your hypO-
critical, rebel parsons, with their texts
about Paul and Onesimus, can't get
over this little proposition That Chris
tiHnity has steadily driven out slavery,
and that the Turks still keep it ont and
want to know if the Turks and the
TartHrs are really better Christians than
the French and the English, the Ger
mans ana the Americans. Mr., Mallory
belongs to a bygone age, somewhat like
mnstOdons and Siberian elephants, and
other HntediluNiRn animals. His op-
position to the constitutional amend
ment will 10 more stop its ultimate
adoption than this haying ut the moon
can keep that heavenly lIminary from
shedding its mild rays over the wise
alike and the fool. He cannot stem the
wheel of progress, which sweeps away
old-thshloned plOWS and kecl-hoatS,
old-tashioned spelling, and old fashion
ed music, Old-fashioned monarchies and
and old-fashioned slavery, which rolls
forward locomotives where once stood
OK cars, and draws the electric wires
across the OCenn.n u...