Year: 1866

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, they are doing now. 1t was for this
. that the war was inaugurated and car
ried on; and it was for this that de
nounced it as crime, not only against
l the American principle Of government
, but against Christian civilization. 1t


was a war of conquest and plunder
The party which carried IL on, as still
represented in Congress, now admits
, it to have been war of conquest, and
they are so far from denying it to have
been war Of plundcr, that they are
still, after the war is ended, inventing
all kind of schemes and excuses to
continue the plumber Of the Southern
people. Their thirst for plunder is not
yet satiated. Their cannibal appetite
for blood is not yet appeased. And, if
speak of plunder, fellow citizens, you
have had good taste of the genius of


the negro party in this respect; for |


see here before me many who had to


mortgage their little homestead to buy


substitutes to feed the insatiate devil of


Abolitionism. Once you owned a


peaceful home, which you had gained


by your own daily toll; but Black Re-


publicanism laid its mailed hand upon


your shoulders and said "Come, your


money, or your life! either go yourself


to be shot at for the glory Of negroes;


or mortgage your homes and get money


to buy those who are to be shot in your


stead" This was the only alternative


the Black Republican party gave the


poor of this country. This party has


mortgaged not only your homestead


but it has mortgaged your muscle and


the sweat of your brow, to pay n debt


heapcd up in numbering and plmdering


the Southern people. Well, gentlemen,


l take no more pride in seeing the


Southern people plundered than ]


should in seeing the Northern people


plundered 1t is true that | was born


here in the North, but that considera-


ton renders me, possible, still more


keenly sensitive to the modification and


shame Of witnessing the spirit of con


quest, plumber and despotism that has


disgraced the place Of my birth. If |


leave my children no other inheritance,


| shall at least proudly leave them the


name Of a father who, in time Of
great corruption, tyranny, and brutal
insanity, never for single hour suffered
his integrity to bend before the furious
storm. If have suffered persecution
in this cause, ! am proud Of it. lf'the
place where was born is stained with
great wrong, lam the more ashamed
oft l look upon these abolition tyr
ants with as great horror and hatred
as the proud and virtuous man does up
on the defler Of bis home Nor have !
any more intention of ever abandoning
deeds and principles, than | should


have Of letting off Il scOundrel who who
had violated the sanctity ofmy home.


10 acquiesce in the results Of this war,


as they now stand, is to acquiesce il


despotism--is to give up the land OF
our birth to the ravagcs of the fanatic,


and the foot of the spoiler lis to turn
our back upon the graves of our anccs


tors, and to become a traitor to every
principle that justly bears the name of
liberty! Acquiesce in this abomnable,
this negroized dcspotism! God Al
mighty forbid it! Sooner may the
land be divestcd of its human popula-
ton, and become the home only of the
cockatrice, the owl, and the bi,tern
Sooner all this wild waste, with the
sublime prayer lowering above the des-
olation, that God will repeople it with
race of men more worthy Of the fair
inheritance than we should be, if we did
acquiesce in this despotism TO acqui-
esce, fellow citizens, is to consent that
the white laboring man should be
brought down to an equality with the
negro. That is what it means. And
it means more; it means that the white
laboring man shall be taxed to death to
feed and clothe his newly christened


black brothers, in idleness. The cx-


pense of the negroes bureau for the
current year will not be mill under fif-


teen millions of dollars! And what is
this negro bureau? Why it is simply
the negro's new master. You have suf.
fered the negro to be taken from his
lawful master, and given to bureau of
Yankees, spiritualists, free-lovers, and
fanatical vagabonds generally. Prac-
tically the negro is not as free under
the control of the bureau as he was I'M


der the control of his lawful master.
The great difference in his condition is,
that formerly he supported himself, and
now you have to support him and the
horde Of official scOundrels who are
appointed to take charge Of him. Nor
ally and physically, poor Cutie is a
thousand fold worse off than he was
before. Indeed, before, he was the
best off of any negro on the face of the
earth Now he is the worsv. He is
perishing at the rate Of fifteen per cent
annually! The poor creature he, been
freed to death. Why will not the
wretches, who have compassed his ruin,
and the ruin Of our country, iniict the
same blessing upon themselves? Why
do such men as Thad Stevens, Charles
Sumner, Ben. Wade, Stanton, and the
legion of such deyelish spirits live
We will not seek to fathom the mystic
ries of divine Providence:
"If storms and earthquakes break not |


Heavens design,
why then Borgia or a Cataline!"
n Let them live; but let us reserve the
eternal right to despise and denounce
them. In proportion as we love our
country we must take care that the
bloody, the brutal, the despotic deeds
Ofthe Abolition war, are not permitted
to be precedents for the future. All
that has been done in this new march
of despotism, must be undone TO
say that we cannot unwind this thread
ofdespOtism, is to say that our coun-
try can n0vpr mo frpp and hanny AGAIN