The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-10-10

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Of othersl-holding "parades' and
"revicws" while the gallant Union
men of Kentucky are fighting,
sword in hand, for their families
and household gods, and only
falling back in the very face of a
converging torrent of fire and
death! A truce to this artificial
war! Men of the West, rise in
your majesty, and speak, so tina
the world may hear, and act, so
that the world may applaud!
What encouragement is there to
go to war if prisoners cannot be
exchanged?
We demand, in the name of our
common country, in the name OF
civilization and humanity, that the
Southern Confederacy be treated
as a belligerent power, and our
gallant soldiers be not permitted to
fade away under the pestilent fe-
vers of Carolina, or rot in South
crn dungeons. Let these men be
exchanged, according to the strict
letter Of the rules of war, and let
them come home to their families.
Who but they are the sufferers by
this mistaken policy of our Govern
mcnt?
What terrors, indeed, surround
the soldiers life when he knows
that, if not killed in battle, and I'M
able to retreat before an advancing
foe, he cannot surrender and be
treated as n prisoner of war! The
principle which we have adopted
is but one step from the "black
flag" and the horrid shouts of "No
quarter..'
Gen, Fremont, by exchanging
prisoners in the West, entitled him
self to the thanks of the enlighten-
ed community. Why cannot his
policy be formally enunciated at
Washington, the fountain of pow
cr. There is a just God who will
not hold him guiltless-even though
he were Secretary or President Of q
great pcoplc-through whose neg
lcct thousands Of Northern soldiers
should perish in the miasmatic
swamps of the distant South.
"Thcre is a just GoD;" yes, and
that just God will yet visit the
TJmcS, and all the inccndiary and
blasphemous sheets which have
all along bounded on this cruc.
war, without uttoring one word tC
mitigate its horrors. Reason, just.
ice, and mercy have been dethroncd
all the way from New Orleans t.
New York, by interested, insane
and dcmoniacal journalists, sine
the commencement of the presen
war, just to ongulf this great coun
try in the vortex Of destruction, il
order to promote the daily anC
weekly circulation ofillitcrate bias
phcmy and trash. One sinner car
destroy much good, and it is only
God who knows the amount O.
mischief done to the interests o:
society, by the course which the
Republican and Abolition press ha:
taken during this war.
The upchristian, inhuman, sour.
%rilous, and vulgar part which ever
our village Abolition sheets, in.
Guiding the Eaton Register
which, to use its own word, i:
"puking' out its own bile, from
its bottomless pit, to keep up {
perpetual stencil which is engen
dcrcd in Abolition dungeons-cal
only be fully realised by the retrib
utive vengeance, which must over
take the advocates Of unconditional
war.
So sure as we pen these lines, til,
time will come-and that quickly
when American society will turI
round, and smite the tire-eaters Q
the South, and the Abolition mad
men of the North, with q terribl
curse, and q triune God will say
Amen.
We have nephews and a cousil
in the Northern army, and, 70
aught we know, some of them ar
among the prisoners lodged in tb.
swamps of the South. Can we b
a man, and not feel for our broth
er's first and second born? Cal
we be a human brother, and no
feel for the sacredness of human
life? Can We be a patriot, and no
shudder at the appalling sigh
which the present war presents t,
our bleeding soul? Can we forge
the honor that is due to sail men,
who are but the defaced image Q
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