The Red Cloud chief., 1882-06-08

I vouid never hare made such . ally
exclamation II I hsd been in h.s saesd.
bot rather Give me liberty ~ I'll
give you Death While ,herefese .
psonens-s viii exist among men 90 en-
csoach upon the rights Of one another.
there will be sar. While man b
prone 10 aggression upon his fellow
maa.-so rub him of The fruit u his
indnsssy and of his night 10 labor fos
the benefit u himself and hmily-c<
has labor. and in certain cases. u his
life. there ~iIl be. there should be-
ought ~ be resistance unto blood.
War will Be lawful and necessary.
Such Is the nature of man and such
the conditions of has Development
tha, but fos lawful var. resistance TO
tyrany and oppression. such . benefit
a. liberty could. ~ far a. ~e can see
have never been a;tAined.-ueh .
thing ~ freedom in thinking. belies-
ing and acting would not be nos
enjoyed. The state Of society would
be At presen; what j; MAS won, To be
ages aeo.-ityrAny and opprcssion-l
consisting Of i~o classes. masters and
slaves. oppressors and oppressed. the
one about a. mean and base and con
temptable - the other. The lAmen-
ted old cage. Horace Greedy xas COM
PEELED TO acknowledge aher . tour
through Europe and q view Of the
state Of society there that there Was
some use AFTER all for powder and lead
and steel.
Hence, though war has its primal
origin in unrigh,eousness and wrong.
war is moi all unrighteous and wrong
it is not so on all sides. II has n
other side or aspect-there can be
such a thing Us religious war. War
may have been, and may he q condi-
ton Of good-a benefit and . gres,
benefit to mankind. And il ever War
WAS such. the wars Of our own
Countrywide first and last war which
was wagcd thereby were clearly and
individually Of this type OF character.
the first for liberty and independence
to our country and nation, and the
last for the life Of the nation and for
liberty TO a large class OF its popala-
ton. And the one was necessary to
was the complement Of the other. OF
little value or avail would have been
the first without the last The last
was necessary to the vindication Of the
last or for our justification in pro-
claiming and in waging it. Because il
our government had not resisted TO
the bitter end the attempt which pO-
litical demagogues and traitors in the
south had made to rcnd this Union in
suiNder and establish their " indie
pendcnce in eternal perpetuation OF
human bondage or slavery, or had We
through rcmissness or cowardice al
lowed them to succeed We would have
stood before the world convicted Of
unworthiness to be free and indepen-
dent ourselves,-our war with the
mother country would have been con
demned rs unrightcous and hypocriti-
cal-as a gigantic crime against
human nature.
Nothing Of which the nation could
have done would have expeated that
crime, or Unidentified the world for the
blood which had been shed and the
lives sacrificed in the conflict with
Britain. No degree Of national pros
periiy or ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to which we
could have sttasned, no amount Of
cotton, rice and tobacco which We
could have raised would have made
that war pay. Our national life and
history-such as i'm that case, ouns
would have been. would have made it
pay.
Some there are who challange the
position ! have taken in this address.
not Britons or Southrons MOI abet.ors
ofthe same, but northern Americans
Republicans and ever good christian.
who deny the right Of men. either as
individuals and nations 10 s~elf-defencc
or to employ physical force and mater
ial instruments for the purpoee,-who
hold the doctrine Of nopresistance to
evil in all its integrity, who insist we
should succumb to every imposition
and suffer every i'll treatment rather
than take up arms, carnal weapons in
defence Of themselves and their fam.
lies. In charging error Of judgement
We by no means question their SINGER.
ity and purity of motive. We simply
dissent from the construction they put
upon our Savior's language touching
resistance to evil and the position
which they deduce as q general con-
clusion thercfrom. We think the
construction fallacious, the result Of
~ovestraining the mcaning,-and the
position untenable, because fatty con-
Trajectory to his u~tsersnce on the
subject on another occasion. Il
he that He meant 10 enjoin on
. love for q enemies greater than
that which we have for ounelvc,-
that We should appreciate the life Of q
blood-thinty william more highly then
no do our own, even when he il
making . deliberately premedissted
on that life. Certainly the
life Of the innocent IL ~ vaiuble 70 the
universe - the life Of the guilty-spd
The farmer has - good . right to hi.
life - . murderer in heart or deed has
70 his, and If 90 the farmer has . right
% defend his life against the assaults
u the latter. even At he cost Of biz
lie II necessary-because incurrin~l