Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-12-14
TRINITY JOURNAL.
WcnvcrviIIe, Saturday, December II, 1861.

WE ask for the annexed article from the Chi
eago Times, the careful perusal of every reader.
The journal from which it is taken has ever been
first and foremost in favor of the war; and in sup
port of the Government. Its loyalty was never
questioned, and its remarks on the subject en-
body the ideas of large and constantly increas-
ing number of the truest friends of the Union
and the Constitution
[From the Chicago Times, Oct. 19th.l
How Longf
The Boston Li5erator, which holds the Consti-
tuition "a league with hell and a covenant with
DEATH now very politely calls President Lincoln
" the slave hound of Illinois," while the 1Rti-
Slayerv Standard styles him the unlocked for
assistant of Bouregard and Davis" and all the
other abolition press are in full hue and cry
against the Government and Administrat on-
While we regret that American citizens can so
forget their duty to their country as thus to at
tempt to create dsaflecton in grave q crisis,
we rejoice that Mr.. Lincoln does not please the
northern incendaries, and that aboitionism is
every day proving how unpatriotic and criminal
il is.
Democrats have forgotten that they did not
vote for the present Chief Magistrate, and behold
in him the only head of this great nation, need
ing all the support which devoted loyalty to the
Constitution can render. The immense mass of
Republicans no longer see in him their successful
candidate. In the terrible dangers of the coun-
try they feel that President that would cling
to party would be both knave and fool
Everybody who really loves the Republic, and is
determined to preserve the Union at all hazards,
feel the necessity of strengthening the hands of
the President and therefore sustains him in his
position of the Fremont letter--that he will
maintain the present status, rather than divide
the people by attempting new and doubtful poll
cies in regard to slavery but the abolitionists
have no devotion to the Union, no patriotism, no
sacrifices of personal ambition to make at the
shrine of their country. With The fierce love of
dominion which has always charac terized them,
they know of no use for power save to crush out
opposition to their inccndiary views. They
would depOse Mr.. Lincoln, overthrow the Const
tuition, destroy The Union forever, make the whole
continent desert and send millions of white
souls to hell, in order to free one negro, aud then
enjoy petty triumph over men at the South,
whom they hate Hence they still ilaunt their
motto into the face of the nation-still in war as
in peace clamor forth their reasonable watch
cry, d" The Constitution is league with hell ana
covenant with death" This is the greeting they
send the army-ths is the lesson they teach the
pcople-ths is the very apostolic creed OF their
religion the unerring evidence of their political
treason, their moral wickedness, and their hostil
ity TO the only form Of government under which
qchae men have ever been entirely free.
Why are they allowed to spawn their treason
among the people and the army Why when all
the secession papers which upheld the southern
hatred of the Union have been suppressed, are
the Boston LiJerator, the independent, the New
York Iribune and .anh- SLave'y Standard, per-
mitted to carry on their conspiracy to destroy
the popular confidence in the President, and so to
divide the loyal people into factions. and perhaps
into armed opponents OF each 0therY The New
York Ne,cs, DGy Book and other suppressed rebel
sheets, only insisted that the conduct of the Ad
ministration was oppressve-oniy called Mr.. Lin
coin q tyrant but these abolition papers style
not only him a " slave hound ;" but daily fulmi-
nate their curse upon the Constitution, the I'm
ion the very form of government for which our
fathers, brothers, husbands. sons, neghbors and
friends have gone forth to fight and If necessary
to die. Is it so terrible a crime to say that the
President is tyrant, yet no crime TO assert, year
in and year out, even in the midst of revolution,
that the constitution is league with hell y'-
Is it not vastly more criminal o teach the people
that the cause of their country is utterly unwor-
thy of their sacrifices of blood and treasure, than
simply to assert that the President has violated
the constitution.
We read in ancient chronicles of an " Old Man
Of the Mountans"-a real character, compound
ed of all that is most savage in brutes and most
wicked in human beings lie had bis followers,
blind, remOrscess, fanatical murderOus, who did
all his biddings, and at his command spared ne-
ther wife, husband, child friend, nor county
Like the aboltionists of the present day, they
lost all fear of God, all love for man, all respect
for every and any thing which did not centre in
their superstition. We shall find in all chronicles
Of men just such figures as Greeley, and Garri-
son, and Phillips and Sumner, and LoveJoy, and
Trumbull, fitting through scenes of history,
orant rouries of the oppression of peoples and
the triumphs of tyranny. Robespierre and Ma
rat ushered modern French despotism to the
world. The fires Of Smithfeld welded an extrav-
agant and corrupt ecclesiastical system upon the
British government. The fierce religious wars
of Germany have left Austria great machine Of
governmental torture, and the rest of the Ger.
man States small in despotisms and great abodes
of infdeity.
And now we have our Robespierres and our
Greeleys-our Phillipses and our Marats-our
Garrisons and our Old Men of the Mountains
Shall this nation be Thugged to death Shall
the patriots of this Republic, like the Girondiss
of republican France, wait and suffer extremists
and incendiares to debauch the people from
pure love of the Constitution, TO inaugurate n
new gullotine, establish new fetes of reason, and
finally consign us to the inevitable and necessary
correction of usurper, and Of bayonets? What
is extreme always becomes popular. Demagogues
know this, aud act upon it. The abolition trail
tors who call the President slave hound,' and
the Constitution league with hell" under
stand it. They have begun the work of destroy
ing popular confidence in the President. They
intend to educate the people up to the work OF
destroying the Constitution and the Union.-
Robesperre and Marat only recognized liberty
in the spouting veins of foe beneath the gulO-
tine bat before they drenched the streets of Pa
ris with the blood OF their enemies they destroy
ed all real government and order-created a cha
os in which their malign spirits alone found safe
and congenial abode We have the revolution
we have Garrison and Phillips How long shall
they be permitted to assail the institutions of
the people by asserting that the holy cause in
which they shed their blood is "a league with
hell and a covenant with death ~