The weekly Butte record., 1861-08-10
Who are the Union Men2


We almost daily hear certain well known
class of individuals proclaim that they are
Union men, while they know and feel that
they are looked upon, by vast majority OF
the people-not only here, but elsewhere-as
untrue to the whole Union of these States of
America as Disunionists and Secessionists, in
the most enlarged sense of these terms. They
say they are Union men, but are opposed to
the war, Il Ia the traitor Breckenridge, who is
their god, and whom they politically worship
and would delight to honor with power suffi
cient to annihilate our Federal Government.
They prate much about the present Executive
violating the Constitution, in his honest en-
deavors to maintain the Government and pro-
tect its property but they ignore the fact OF
existing rebellion to the Constitution, at the
same time by their Southern friends and
brethren. They damn with faint praise the
valor, courage aud impetuous bravery of the
Union men in battle endeavoriug to maintain
the Government; but at the same time claim
for the traitor forces all praise that could be
bestowed in just and upright cause. They
talk much, too, about the dictatorial power
exercised by the President of the United
States, and at the same time ignore the fact
that the South is controlled by an ambitious
political oligarchy with Dictator Davis at its
head, and not daring to act or move without
his sanction, and to be near him, the pre-
tended seat of the Congo Conlederacy is
moved to his military camp. They grumble
heavily about the freedom of speech and of
the press, and say they are abridged by the
Union men Of the North and West, but at
the same time ignore the fact that no Union
man dare express or write loyal sentiment to
the Constitutional Government of our country
in any of the Confederate States, without be-
ing thrust out of its borders, and treated on
his way with all the indignties and brutality
that demoDical vengeance can invent. They
claim, too, to be the chivalric portion of the
American nation; but they forget, wilfully
that their Southern friends treat their cap
tured foes, whom they claim as brethren, with
savage barbarity, not far surpassed in the an
mails Of early Indian warfare ;-captaiHs and
sailors of uuarmed merchantmen, captured by
their piratical vessels, are paraded through
the streets of their capital, threatened with
Instant death, and all manner of indgnitles
heaped upon them, all because they sail under
the Stars and Stripes of the Union. All
rules of modern warfare are trampled under
foot, and American citizens, with no arms in
their hands, are treated like malefactors con-
demned for the highest of crimes. They
claim for themselves and their Southern friends
to be the embodiment Of honor and honesty in
the affairs of life between man and man but
seem to forget that it is declared 10 be treas
on for Southern debtor to pay Northern
Or Western creditor an honest debt, incurred
for the necessaries of lfe and declare the
debt honorably Cancelled if paid into jeff. Da-
Wis Golfers. Oh, ye bypocritlca Union blow
ers how seemingly ignorant of the thinness
of the gauze yoa use to cover up your treas
on Yon steal and use the sacred name Of
the glorious Union Of these States, and hypo-
critically enshroud yourselves in the banner of
your injured country, that you may the mere
readily deceive the people and decoy them
from their loyalty, when they may learn, per
haps too late, that they were used to cover
base treason.