, 1861-04-11
C5ifa1o Triihtttte,


:: HHQD1E> YET
Tha ,issue IL :sairly presented. E{tfer
the Administration must ecknowledg8aha
right Of Secession, and accept the Consei.
tuition Of the Coufederated Olgarchs Of the
aeceding States; or It must resist III saahEs
fold End outrageous encronchmenta upon
Its rights. Il has chosen the latter alter
nadve-chosen to maintain the Constitu-
ton il: the form in which Washington
sagned and his eompeers framed ito
preserve to- succeeding generations the
blessings Of Republican liberty to Insist
a1penath u enth and imp ttiial enforcement
ofthelaws-and to- exert the power with
which the people have clothed it, for the
preservation Of the Union Of these States.
The choice il now offered to every citizen;
will you stand by the Union and the old
flag, or the rebels and the rattle -snake 3
bannerr There 'can BE no dodging the
question. There is no middle ground.
There Is no place for neutrality. Upon
the side of he,rebels: or beneath the flag
Of the Government, every man must be
arrayed. 2->'-, =: ".
Men Of Chicago, choose yel The cleo
ton to be held on Tuesday next should be
contested upon national grounds. The
Republicans will nominate on Saturday q
ticket composed Of candidates every oneof
whom will be sincere in his desire to aid
the Government in subduing rebellion, es-
tablishing peace and preserving the Union:
The arrangement presented by the Disun-
ionists is ccntrivance by which the force
Of the impending Republican victory is to
be broken, and by which the Adnlinistra-
ton, in its effort to ensure the observance
Of the laws, is to be discouraged. It il. q
contri7ance worth Of the Times Office; and
II by the mistaken aiAof any Of our Repub-
ncan friends it should be permitted to sue
cecd, the result would be heralded all over
the North and in every camp Of the Con.
federated scoundrels, as a rebuke Of the
policy which Abraham Lincoln, ". 81.
Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Montgomery
Blair and their associates are compelled by
high considerations Of public duty and
the obligations Of their oaths to pursue.
The dispatch announcing; 4 Republican
discontinue in the city Of Chicago, would
be read in Charleston, and the men who
have undertaken the task Of breaking up
the best government in the world, and es-
tablishing pro-slavery depotism On its
ruins, would take new courage therefrom,
and be emboldened to commit other sets Of
insult and aggression upon the Federal
power and the rights Of the peaceable
citizens Of the fee States. If ever; q Re
publican triumph is demanded now. #
eyer the right arm Of the Government
needed the support Of the people, this is
tia hour in which that support would
be most welcome. If, ever opportunity
WAS desired to rebuke treason, this is the
opportunity which should be embraced.
We know not wh3 will be named as the
candidates of the party; hut We do know
that the men selected will be une1ception-
<%llE-3iudh t1iEy WILL NC 14c1AtS1o III uV
clique OF. faction, and that they will be
eu,inently worthy Of support Of their
opponents ne say nothing, save that ma
Jority Of them are Of the secession stripe,
and that their associates, earnest and we
believe honest but surely mistaken, are
contributing to the defeat of the very
cause which they profess to have most
at heart-the yindication Of the integrity
of the Government, and the everlasting
indissolnbiGy Of the Union That they
do not see that the McCormicks and
McC Comases, and the handful of secession
lists, who want to compass Republican de-
fest By any means, bear them no good will,
is the only incomp prehensib1e part Of the
novel and unexpected arrangement II
they viii not be made to see that they are
put forward as the candidates Of "recon-
struction," and that their success would
be regarded as an evidence that the people
Of Chicago are dissatisfied with the Federal
Constitution and the old flag Of light and
glory and that they are willing to e1-
change them for the Constitution of the
Confederated States and the Palmetto