Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-06-17
THERIGHT SPIRIT.

Casslus nj. Clay thus shows up the Jolly OF tnoSe
who demand aud those tcho submit to be tied up in
silence in regard to the justice of the present war;
6 1T is idle TO play game of "fast and loose" on
this question. Cowa rds may do it, to escape popular
cutlery. The poor po'troon, who has not thought
of his own, the conscience to feenor the honest
to act himself out may do it for hire or for favor
But the honest, Independent citzen-the freeman
wherever his home, or whatever his cline, would de-
nounce with manly Indignation and fiery scorn, any
such slavish doctrne-Stand by your country-fght
for her-pour out your blood and treasure like water
in her defenccbut let her rulers close up the
channels of thought stop inquiry, arrest the denun
citation of folly, spare any tyranny, known I'M
known, to the law, merely because it has wantonly
an fagtiously involved the nation in war.
The cry of faction against those who would so act
is the cry of towards and knaves. We peril our life
and spend treasure, in defence OF the flag of the
nation; against her enemy we strike with all our
might. Are we at the same time to be manaced in
thought We peril our life, and spend our treasure
in defence of the flag of the nation against her
my we strike with all our might. Arc at the
same time to be manacled in thought! While our
hands are upfted against the foe in the fight must
our tongues ceave to the roof of our mouth least
be overwhelmed by torrents of popular passon,or
murdered by the blood hounds of party, who track
and howl after us as beast of prey We are no
such bondman. No American who knows the first
letter of the Constitution, has breathed into him
the smallest breath of liberty would be the sot or
slave to submit to this despotism. No Stand by
your government whoever may rule it, while for
egn foe treads your soil; but dshonor not your pat
rotsm--play not the traitor-by saying in word, or
Decd or thought, that those rulers shall escape the
fullest responsibility their country and to
any violation of right any act of injustice done by
them.
! We are amazed at the panic of the Wing press
Does the bloody sponge of war wipe out the dstinc
ton between right and wrong! Shall the mere fact
of declaration of hostilities close every avenue of
enquiry, and dethrone reason and thereby enthrone
a monarch over free Republic? Wake up, men of
the Press; say out your say, deal boldly and hon
estly with the men in power, never forgetting the
country, the whole country,-and freeman will be
with you, and sustain you, however hrelings and
freebooters may decry or denounce you.
Why should Wings, least of all, hesitate as to
their course. Let the roll of volunteers be called
and from Maine to Texas Wing will be found to
answer for everyDemocrat. In the mid West they
stand three to one And not one among them that
does not denounce the war and the usurpaton of the
executive. Why should their organs, then, while
rendering every service to the country, cowardly
submit to these wrongs, basely faler in the efor
to rescue the constitution from overthrow Never
be overpowered in such cause as this I! Again
! Wings rely, land we say this without meaning t.
dscredit Democrats,) upon the moral sense of tn,
people for their support. they quail, while sup
porting the government if they become, through
fear, traitors to the liberties of men; if while thei
friends shedding their blood in damnable cause
they succumb to the infamous tyranny at Washing
TOM and play lackey to corrupt and usurping Exec
utve in the face of their recorded resolutions and
vowed principles, they will sink, as they ought tc
sink in hopeless infamy. The moral sense of the
country will turn from them in disgust. They will
be loathed by honest men everywhere.
For part, we risk all to defend our flag. But
never shall we be silent against the wrongs perpe-
trated by political power under it-never shall we
cease to expose the vllainy which has involved us
in war, or to hold responsible, now and hereafter,a
the perpetrators of that vllany. There is no free
dom for any of us unless we pursue this course
There is hope for the maintenance ofconstituton-
al liberty unless we do it. We would sooner Weld
our life at once to the savage, than yield up our
right to defend freedom, to exec-ate corruption, to
expose official abuse and usurpaton, or to denounce
slavery, the and cause of all these internal
| evils in our land.-True american
OREGON TREATY.
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