Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-05-09


himself The South said in 1850
"There are eighteen million vote
behind Abraham Lincoln; unles
we can press back liberty our civil
ization is gone" They fought t
maintain their idea Of inequality
They expected to succeed. Toomb
predicted that he would call the rol
OF his slaves on Bunker Hill. Nov
war is not a pastime, q picnic,
sport; it means something, it de
cides something. 1t decides tina
the idea which prevails shall hay,
the right to put the other idea wher,
it can do no further harm. Whel
the South failed in their resort t.
arms they gave us the right to dom
mate this continent. Nevertheless
all rights are not always to be exer
cised. 1t depends on whether the
rights are founded on Justice
Whence do we derive the right tc
dominate this continent? Simply
because our civilization is best
Having, then, by our victory, the
right, and our idea of liberty being
the best, we have right to enforce
it. Here comes in the idea of con
ciliation, We are conciliatory but
magnanimity and conciEation have
their law, and duty has its law, and
our first duty is to take a bond and
make it doubly sure that out of this
conquered idea war shall never come
again. The war has decided that
the root of all this past bitterness
shall die forever Applause. l
have never heard any of these adj
vOcates of conciliation offer to sac
rifice any of their own rights, but
they always offer the negro as the
sacrifice. Artemus Ward, d,once said
he was so patriotic that he felt as if
he was willing to offer up as sac
rifice all his wife's male relatives on
the altar ofhis country. Laughter
and applause.] So it is with.these
men; they are willing to sacrifice
four millions of negroes on the al
ter of conciliation. Applause. =
Radicals were advised to lay aside
their "animosity." No man or par
ty or journal was entitled to preach
moderation or prudence or charity
to the old anti-slavery men of this
country. No party had suffered as
they had suffered, or been so for
giving as they. For twenty years
thoy had been prosecuted, lied about,
abused, and yet they forgave their
prosecutors when they found them
in the right. There was not a
prominent man in the nation to- day
whose record, if it were examined,
would not be found sinful in the
highest degree against his fellow
citizens who, twenty years ago, held
the same views which he holds now.
He flung back, then, with contempt
and Indifference the advice Of any
journal or pulpit orator who talked
to him about conciliation or pru-
dence. In ten Southern States were
one million educated men. They
had always ruled there; they rule
now, and they would continue to
rule until other educated men SUI
perseded them. These men believe
just as they believed in 1860. Wade
Hampton and JEFF. Davis hold the
same views as they held in 1859.
They believe it is not safe to trust
5he masses. Battles don't change
mems opinions. You might stamp
Massachusetts, with a hundred Bull
Runs and she would continue to
Try out the same as now, "All men
ire created equal" So you may
mite South Carolina with a hun
lred battles, and she will still cry
,ut, "All men are not created equal"
Davis is man of convictions the
anne as 1 E; he has given evidence
If it. One man with conviction
md God on his side is a majority,
md one man with conviction and
he devil on his side is not to be
lespised. Laughter. Now, to
axe that trembling jelly we call
seward and pit him against Jeff.
Davis, is like peiting the Rocky
Mountains with Cologne water
Laughter and applause. In the ,
South the millions must be taken in !
% account in any problem of re
as an Interchangeable ,
luantity. We cannot trust the
south yet; there is not single ,
change of idea i'll the leading ele-
nent of Southern thought. God
,nce treated this very problem
Canaan was the territory, and God Z
ed the jew up to her boundary and
ct him look over. God wished to
,ring Canaan to the worship of one
God, Did he preach Cancellation ?
lie said, exterminate every living
hing in the land The Bible was ]
lot given us for literal imitation,
,ut to furnish us with an idea. We +
ant exterminate the South; We
ant Danish them. During the one
hundred days after Mr.. Lincoln's
Ieath we mightindeed have sent any ]
# them to Europe and never have y
cen the white of their eyes again.
But it was too late
ow. l said, two years ago, that
onciliation would yet offer us Gen Il
raj Grant and General Lee as can c
idates for President and Vice Pres
lent on the same ticket. ] was
lughed at and ridiculed for the
.atement. J2sst month the Herald ;