The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-11-21

with like result. In Georgia
General Oglethorpe began his col
ony for the express purpose OF linn
iting the extension of slavery in
that direction. Still later, at the
time Of our Revolutionary war, the
sentiment opposed to the institu.
ton of slavery was nearly univer-
sal, so mach so that the slave trade
was prohibited after 1903, and the
word slave was not written at all
in our Constitution.
Slavery would surely have been
extinguished in this country by a
gradual and natural process, and
we might have been spared our
civil war, had not other causes
como into play. 1t was fourd that
| the soil and climate ofthc South.
ern> States we're admirably adapted
TO the growth Of cotton. The pow
cr of steam was discovered and ap-
piled to machinery Of alb kinds. es,
1 pecially in O.d and New England,
and Eli Whitney, of Massachusetts,
invented his cotton gin, These
created an immense domand for
the staple and seem to have
changed the whole current OF pub
lie opinion. The invention Of the
cotton gin did moro to fix slavery
upon us than any amount of pre-.
hibitory legislation, or any amount
Of anti slavery agitation, so that |
have always felt that both Old
England and New England had
much TO do in fastening slavery up
on us as people, and should have
u just share in the responsibility
TOR its baneiul result. Under these
influences cotton became n power
10 tho land. 1t WAS proved AFRO.
CANT and claimed to be king. 1t
dictated its terms, and threatened
war unless its imperiors demands
were granted. II claimed the right
10 20 where it pleased, and to cx-
tend itself over lands, such as
Kansas and California, not adapt.
ell to it or to slave labor AZ all; and
at last it rebellol and set up Il gov.
crnmcnt of its own, whose very
corner stones were cotton and
slavery. Nothing on earth could
Justify such q rebellion, and only
mention these facts in the past to
show that others than the people
Of the South were partially rospon-
siblc, and should share tho natural
consequences of their own acts.
And | b rn of Connecticut pa.
rents, bearing in affectionato re-
membrane &C the virtues Of my hon
orcd ancestors, and yielding to nc
man in admiration Of the int2lli
: gence, refinement, industry anC
thrift Of tho people offs New Eng
land, do honestly believe that they
I, in common with all tho great
North who shared in the original
, causes aud enjoyed large part O.
! the profits resulting from cottor
and slave labor, should be charitd
bic and liberal in the final distri
, button of tho natural penalties.
If slavery then was the rea
, cause of our civil war, or even Tho
pretcxt for il, and If children mus
= inherit the sins Of their fathers
. even in the third ard fourth gcner
F, aiiona then mono OF us who trac,
our origin back to the earlier day,
: of this Republic can escape thil
+ mathematical and philosophical
conclusion or, in the language o
DR.. Draper:
"Guilty, then, both of us in the
, sight Of God, let us not vex oacl
), other with mutual elimination, bu
+ bear our punishment with humiIi
' ty.'
How has this punishment beer
. par rtitioncd by the result Of the
I war? We of tho North have t
+ mourn the loss of fathers, brothers
5 sons and friends, and are burdonct
with a vast national debt, binding
on us in fact, in law and in honor
b never, | hope, to be questioned by
t any honorable man in America til
a every cent is paid.
Look to the South, and you VIII,
won't with me through that lant
: can best say if they, too, have no
beon fearlully punished Mournin;
u in every household .desolaton writ
!, ten in broad characters across th
Il whole Aco of thoir country, citic
n in ashes and fields | id waste, thei
commerce gone. their system o
!, labor anaiIilatcd and destroyed
' Ruin, poverty and distress every
5 whore, and now pcstIcncc addin.
!, tho very cap sheaf to their stack o
r misery; her proud men bcggnl
tor pardon and appealing for per
' mission to raise food for their chill
. dreu, her five millions of slave
free and their valpe lost to theil
c former masters forever. How any
a southern gentleman, with thcs,
facts, plain and paIpabIe, every
s where staring him in tho Gico anC
n recorded forever in tho book o
= history, can still boast Of his "Los
' Cause" or speak Of il in lOuguag,
other than shame aud sorrow pas
r. sea my understanding, and instea,
n of beng revived, know thatthci
n I.osS Cause will sink deeper an,
deeper into inlamy as time NOR,
i kcenly probes It's hidden mystcric,
and reveals them to the light OF day
Q Now that slavery is gone, an,
forever, with its unh9Ppy wreck
o left behind, and all danger is pas
: sod, il any sct of men again appea
, to war when they have courts tC
! secure their rights and rcdres,
e their wrongs, would trust oul