Year: 1862

80 ""''t 'e,ttOH W '1"dsc ~ Wc COUStt-
tuition is the Nation or its Government
required to guaranfee Or protect the aHeq-
edproperty Of Rebels in those they claim
as staves9


We have asked this question in sub.
stance once already, and have waited long
for response, but there is none.


Why none?


If there is such clause or section it
must be easy to point out Will some
one attempt to do so?


If there be any law of Nature or of
Nations, any principle of comfy or US.
age of war, which requires US to treat
loyal persons as the slaves of rebels and
remand them into Slavery at the back of
these rebels, some one can cite it. We
challenge its production


The pro slavery Journals can talk glib
lily enough of the guarantees of State
Rights and slave properly embodied in
the Constitution but they glide over the
fact that these guarantees uniformly con.
template and refer to St-.sssi in the Union
aud obedient to its authority, not States
in rebellion and hostility to the Federal
authority. ln no portion of our Federal
pact is there phrase. word, an in,ima-
tion, Implying that persons or States in
rebellion against the Union are entitled
to be upheld and protected by that Union
in holding human beings in slavery.


Is not the distinction here insisted on
plain and vital? Who contends that q
rebel IN arms against the Government is
entitled to voice in the conduct of that
Government? And if lie forfets by
treason his right to vote for Members of
! Congress, how shall he escape the forfeit
urc Of his right--if he ever had right
to be protected by the Government in
holding his fellow beings in bondage?


When before did Government whose
very existence was periled by rebellion
attempt to hold its loyal subjects in bond
age to traitors? Wheu before did ma
tion battling for life ever surrender loyal
sons eager to serve it to traitors fighting
to destroy it


A simple proclamation by the Federal
Executive--"All you able bodied men
who are willing to work or fight for t.
Union, repair to the most convenient
Federal camp, and there grasp the ak, the
spade, or the riff, as shall be deemed ad
visable, and your liberty shall a. least be
assured and protected would, within
two months, rally at least One Hundred
Thousand new supporters to the National
standards. All these would be wiling to
do whatever might be required of them
would be patieut and willing Iabor,r,
and would save our overwoskcd soldiers
from much fatigue ia this hot, trying
weather. Even though none Of them
was ever allowed to shoulder a nlu>k kct,
they would add immensely to tie strength
Of our armies by saving tie health and
Vi ror Of


They 1rant to help u for nothing for
their freedom, yetthey are not permitted
luStcad Of this, thousands who would
gladly flee from their rebel masters to our
camps are deferred by knowing that our
Generals send back their refugees to be
whalcd and gashcd to death door by their
lnturlatcd masters. Therefore our armies
occupy Nashville, Norfolk, New Orleans,
and Memphis, yet make little or no i'm.
pressions upon the slaveholding rural
districts by which those cities are sur
rounded


Is this making War? Is it honestly
and faithfully striving to put down the
Rebellion n? Is it doing justice to the
Nation, its authority, aud is integrity


Men and brethercn . stnH the .fatjpn





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