The national Republican., 1861-04-27
DEMAREi

must look well 10 their necks, and to their for.
tunes, if they have fortunes to lose. The TEN.
per of the nation will brook mild measures Of
tone of the press, we suhjoin the conclusion Of
an article in the n. Y. Tribune of Tuesday,
upon tie systematic coniiscaton OF the property
of the tories, by our revolutionary fathers: ;
"Was their example good one? We Of
this generation have a hundred fold the prov.
ocation. aud We cannot better the example.
For eighty years, we and our fathers have
been blessed with a Government of which
there is no parallel in history. The bless.
ings of religious liberty, Of universal edu.
cation. of civil freedom, of prosperity
almost too uninterrupted, have been so Law.
ished upon US that this literally has been
Nep World, where the human race has been
placed in circumstances such as it has never
known in any other region, in any other age,
for those eighty years. In one short week,
what q change has come over us! In one
short week. we arc brought front to front with
a war to be wnged, as is already evident, with
merciess cruelty, worthy only OF savages
and towards, commenced on behalf'o human
slavery, and to be ended only, should it be car.
ried to a successful termination by those who
have began it, when every race upon this con.
tinent shall be degraded to political, social,
and moral thrahom but one remove above
that of the African. With the blessing of God,
that shall never be! With the blessing Of God,
the memories of the men who began one war
on the 18th Of April, l775, aud the memories
Of the men who began another on the 18th Of
April, 1861, shall be embalmed together as the
men who began the beginning, and who began
the end, of the great war Of American 1nde-
pendence, which, it seems, 1t is to take eighty
odd yearS 10 finish! And we Of our day shall
follow thS example of those Of that in more
than one way. We hold traitors responsible
for the work upon which they have pre-.
cipltated US, and We warn them that
they must abide the full penalty. Es-
pecially let Maryland and Virginia look to it,
for as they are greater sinners, so their punish
ment will be heavier than that Of others. Vir.
ginia is a rich aud beautiful State, the very
garden of the Confederacy. But it is garden
that is doomed to be good deal trampled, and
its paths, its beds, and its boundaries, are likely
to be pretty completely oblitera,ed before We
have done with it. 1t has what Ii is pleased to
call property in men, which will probably take
care of itself in the struggle, waiting bat in
hand for any new conner disposed to give fair
days wages for fair days work. But it has
other property-property in houses, in lands, in
forests, in country and in town, which will need
to be taken possession Of and equitahly cared
for. The rebels Of that State and of Marylfnd
may not aatter themselves that they can enter
upon war against the Government, and after.
ward return to quiet and peaceful homes. They
choose to play the part Of traitors, and they
must suffer the penalty. The wornout race Of
e.at liz, v,lu tn
'sturdier people, whose pioneers are now on their
way to Washington at this moment in regi.
ments. An allotment of land in Virginia will
be fitting reward to the brave fellows who
have gone to fight their country's battles; and
Maryland and Virginia, free States, inspired
with Northern vigor, may start anew in the race
for prosperity and power lhe property Of the
true Union men III both these States will not
be disturbed; but the traitors must be pun.
ished.'
INcEYDIARIsM.-Th following, from the Bal.
timore Republican of Tuesday,is a specimen
of the appeals made by the secession newspa.
pers of the South to the passions Of the mob:
"The insane despot who to the eternal dis
grace Of the country now controls affairs in
Washington, will listen to no advice from God
or humanity. Nothing but war, bitter exter-
minating war against the South, will satisfy
him and his counsellors. In vain do the sui
ferings and distresses, the painful anxieties Of
the whole country, appeal to him to torbear.
In vain do the ministers Of peace and the lovers
Of humanity make their representations to his
callous soul. The 'irrepressible conflict Of
sectional and fanatical hatred must go on.
What matters it to Abraham Lincoln, if the
country be desolated? If tens of thousands
are butchered in This uuholy strife? What
matters it to him if hunger, suffering, and star
walton, come upon hundreds Of thousands Of
innocent people? Is he not President and
does ne not sit in the White House, safe under
the protection Of the bayonets of the fanatics
whom he has summoned around him? Oh !
it is monstrous, that this great country, full Of
all the elements of wealth and power, should
be paralyzed in its career, and shrouded in
gloom and blood, through the insane ambition
and fanaticism of such q creature as Abe Lin
coin. e..
"What fearful reckoning awaits the man
who thus defes all the appeals Of a suffering
country, all the feelings OF humanity, and all
the dictates Of reason, and madly plunges on in
ruin and blood, to carry out his hatred to those
who only ask 10 be let alone-who offer no
violence to hm-4ho desire no strife with him
or his friends, but only ask to be allowed peace
ably to take care of their own interests.
ave have read of Nero, Of a Caligula, of
St. Just, and Carrier; but in all past history
there does not stand out character more
utterly detestable than that of the mad.headed
fanatic that is fast hurrying our country into
the vortex of destruction. The name of Abra
ham Lincoln will go down to postcrity as n
synonym Of all that is vile, cruel, and tyrann.
cal. The memories of RobespierIe, Marat,
and Danton, will pale before that of the more
inhumau and diabolical Lincoln. We shudder
us we contemplate the horrors which he is
rapidly bringing upon our Qpce happy land"
BASE INGRATITUDE AND TREASON.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN: desire to call alten.
ton to case of the basest ingratitude and tres.
son, right hsre in our midst, ever exhibited in
any community.
A lieutenant in the navy Who had for a