Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-12-20

San Francisco and China. Make Ney
York the stock market of the world Es
| tablish military schools have decent ar
my-it looks respectable when you want ;
review. Laughter. ] Augment the na
w, and give Spain a hammering for hel
impudence in landing in St, Domingo
Hear, Wait till she gets into Mexico,
under the guarantee of France and Eng,
land, and gets the military reads built /;
then let the northern and southern army
close up and take Cuba as dependence,
and carry out the Monroe doctrine
{ Hear. We want morc room. We are
getting cramped and crowded, and We
must have an outlet for the rush of emf
grants that will pour into the country
when we declare peace Put discrimina-
ting duty on, shutting cut English goods,
if England still continues to side with the
rebels.
Don't get alarmed, gentlemen, you know
it is all fun. Loud laughter. You know
you call me eccentric, and | must keep up
the illusion. Hear, hear, and laughter |
England has slept in the middle of the
bed long enough The times are chang
ing, The speck on the horizon is already
bigger than an OK cart Laughter The
fires Of free opinions have been shoulder
ing In Europe for the last fifteen years
Poor Poland is in sackcloth and ashes -
Hungary sleeps awakingly. and will short
ly sprilg upon the enemy's camp, when
Caprera' s chief will land in Venice France
groans under disordered commerce and
diseased finance. EuroEe has enough to
look after withous troubling herself about
America. Let America lock her gates for
while, economise, buy 20 more foreign
fabrics, live within herself, manufacture
her own cotton, ard take the profit we
have SO long given to England. Our
strength is shown by this contest. Six
hours ef such rebellion would have chang
ed dynasty in France six days in Aus
tria, or Prussia, or Spain. Six weeks
without a ministry would capsize the Eng
lish constitution, but after six months of
preparation America begins to show her
strength.
1t was clever move of the President in
this great national game of chess, to give
up Fort Sumter-always give castle to
checkmate your opponent. Hear, hear. ]
The cabinet have done nobly; Seward up
held our foreign relations, and proved him
self the man we knew he was. So has
Chase; aad Welles, with his five hun
dred ships Of war, armed to the teeth and
Cameron, too, with his half million fight
ing men. Hear, and cheers. don't be-
lieve the reports of corruption in the do
partments they are circulated by rebel
spies aud enemies of tie country. ] have
faith in Seward, and Cameron and Welles,
and Chase, and know the President to be
an honest man. Loud cheers. like
the strong measures of the administration.
To times like these men cannot do things
too firmly. Act first, and apologise after
ward-strain point in the constitution, if
to save nation,-over with the
spies, down with the tratorous women,
down with the vile hordes who infest the
country with their treason. macadamize
Fort Lafayette with the best bones of the
land, if they have cbrystalized into patri-
cidcs.
The civil power is nothing when coun-
try is to be saved Give US martial law
overheard with habeas corpus act, and
command obedience with the sword and
gallows Yes. gentlemen, to put down
treason, I would put on the thumbscrew.
Out with the guilliotine, raise the inqui-
sition and enforce the law, at whatever
cost of money or men Break up the
printing press-shut the mouth that darcs
to breathe against the "army of the con-
stitutlon." Who thinks Of saving brush
and comb, sponge and towel, when the
house is on fire? Who stops for overcoat
and carpet sack when the ship is in break
ers? Who thinks Of wearing white kids
when shells are exploding in the drawing
room? Let the administration save the
nation and overlook any little thing that
may have been omitted. Hear ]
Christians hate Iscariot, Romans de8pise
Cataline, Americans loathe the name oi
Arnold. So VIII the southern pirate chief
tains in their exile be marked with con-
tempt by the patriots of the constitution
Separation is impossible. Annihilatior
is absurd. Who ever heard of twenty mil
lions being annihilated? America must
change her policy: be more republican
Ilaughterl less aristocratie, overcome oul
modesty, and not be too religious about
forms. America fights with her own mcr
Our soldiers 60 to battle for glory, Law
and liberty-Europeans fight for pay. =
Ours is volunteer army we have NJ