Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1861-03-13
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RED WING MARCH 1861
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". ". PHELPS, Editor.

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:-T!,E CRIME CT TiIE AGE"
The Republican will excuse us for using
it's own words in rebuking the atrocouS
crime pcrpctratcd by it's own party and
allies. the scccssioniSts Of the South. The
greatest trial ever committed TO humanity,
was the Republican and fcdcra.ivc form O:
free government, secured by union Of sep
crate and equal States under one cons!i.u-
ton, and the abuse or violation of,l.at "trust
| is Of necessity the preparation Of 4 g:ca:
3crimc. Men who aspire to influential and
4 leading positions in the nation, and by fair
\ speeches and loud protcstations Of patriotic
\ devotion to the national good SO l.r gain the
public confidence rs to give direction to the
jpopuar mind, and then abuse and bctray
that confidence for purposes Of. personal az.
grandizement or private rcrenge-sacri!icing
1.-THE general welfare to their own selfish ends
incur tho Sui|t Of crime from which any
common william might justly turn away
with sickcning disgust. No common lootpad
or private assassin, no pirate or horse thief
brca,hs so foul breath or pollutes the air
with so loathsome an ei|luy;a, as the dcspi-
cable miscrcants to whom we refer.
/ 'lt has bccr the calamity Of the world and
the rcproach Of humanity that at various
pcriods-intcrvals sometimes long and
sometimes shor,er--tllcrc have come upon
the surface of society, classes Of men, fitted
both by nature and education, for the per-
formancc OF deeds Of the proGoundcst mean
ness and the broadcst vllainy: they present
the eliminating points Of national wicked
ness: they fell upon the world as the plaques
fell upon Egypt, involving alike in the con-
sequences Of their wickcdncss the innocent
and the guilty, spreading at once the poison
of their principles and the curse Of their
example most where they are least under
STOOD"
Such are the abolitio,ists of the country;
they justify their disgusting conspiracy to
overthrow law by multiplying The decisions
occourts, and subvert the government by
Organizing forays against the pcaccable citi-
zens Of ne!ghboring States, under the lanat-
ical pretensc orloving freedom. They in
volvc all in common ruin, because they are too
| ignorant or blinded to know the character Of
the evils they dcprccatc, or the effect Of the
principles they advocate.
By the specious justice Of their tlogmas,
viewed as abstract propositions unmindGl
of the history Of the world, or of This Re-
public and lis constitution, they have literally
p,iso"cd the public mind and educated men
to degree Of bloody bgotry, fifty illustra-
ted by the cruel prosecutions Of the rcigns Of
Mary and Elzcbcth Of England.
"What are common spies, deserters--thc
food Of the gibbct in every country--wl,at
are they in point of moral or political turpi-
tudc compared with the men who, to adj
vance their private ends, seek to plunge the
nation into confusion ai blood? Language
lends no colors to paint the comparison.-
Adequately to trace the contrast would
require pen Of iro1, dipped in the lava Of
hcll.''
Not having any pen Of the kind required,
we take the liberty Of using our neighbours
in order to do adequate justice to the men
who would conyulsc the country in civil
war, with untold horrors, to punish a;'peoplc
that they have no business to interfere with;
and for a purpose so meddlcsome, aggressive
and impcrtinent, that it develops moro Of the
cowardice AZ The assaes;n than the Courage
Of the citizen in defence Of a right.
Our nc;S|bor has drawn the picture, and
VIC have filed in the characters, and we
submit to intelligent mcn-and we hope to
to class our ncighbor with thcse-but with
a particle Of patriotism left, il it is not wiser
to moderate the heat Of pvcljudicc within
the circle Of our influence, than to increase
and intensity it. Is it not better to lecture
the men who elavc within the hcayn; o!
our voices, than to rail cut maledictions
against those far distant. It is not quite as
brave, aud far more honest and effective
We advise our ncghbor to go South and do
his brave talking to the persons he delights
to abuse. lie may modify his views little
in that locality. ......
Il THE INAUGURAL.
We publish this week the inaugural ad-
dress Of President Lincoln, entire. Tho
shirt and tome Of tho ;n,rcurol + ,r,o,.. &,