The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-06-18

Chairman Nlntc Central Comm
The Cause of Treason.

Gs' 1t werc useless to attempt to con-
vince the few men here at the North who
are 50 blind with partizanship, 50 ignor
ant Of facts. or 50 lacking in ability to
form a correct opinion, that their at
tempts to give recent origin to the
present treason. or TO lay its responsible
i'y at the door of the Republican party,
are injusuiiable and absurd. They are men
whose hearts are not open 10 the appeals
OF country, separate from party, and
whose minds are unimpressed by evil
dence, save where it sustains their pref
udices. The fact has been presented to
them, over and over again, that the
movement had inception, and was in
train Of operation many months before
the triumph of the Republican party
that these traitors, by the breaking up OF
the Democratic party, Intentionally OPP
Grated to secure the election Of Repub-
licqn President, that they might thereon
found movement for carrying out a
cherished SC heme TO destroy the govern
men', and bnild up cotton-raising and
slaveholding nation. 1t has been dem
nnslraled 10 them that all excuse for fear
OF an attack upon the South by a Repub
lea. ADMINISTRATION vanished in the light
of The fact that the legislative and judi
dicial departments Of the government
We're under the control Of the opponents
of the Republican party. Each day but
serves TO increase the overwhelming pile
Of testimony that Southern leaders had
long contemplated the organization of
government based, as Mr. STEPHENS
says. upon the central idea Of slavery, in
conlradistinclion TO that of our own, the
idea of Freedom, and have only used the
preiudices in the minds of Southern mas
ses against Republcanism, to lead the
people. naturally loyal 10 the Union, 10
the adoption Of their otherwise distaste-
ful scheme. This evidence the few trail
tors among US have fully before them,
bat with determined hostility to the gov
ernment they seek to prejudice its cause
by base Misrepresentation as to the aui-
mus Of the conflict. That animus, on
the part of the Southern leaders, is un-
doubledly distaste for popular institu-
lions. The lordly gentry of cottondom
cannot tolerate the idea Of giving polir-
cal equality to greasy mechanics
Like the writer in De Bows Reyiew,"
they want division into governing and
governed classes-in the former land
ed and slaveholding aristocracy, in the
latter the men who labor. Many senti-
menis from Southern men have been
copied into the journals Of The country,
showing that this is an idea of the Slave
Oligarchy and we have additional evil
dence in the testimony Of Mr. RUSSELL,
the celebrated correspondent of the Lon
don Times That able writer arrived in
South Carolina soon after the fall of Fl.
Sumter lie was at once admitted into
the most cordial and intimate relations
with Southern men--feasied by bankers
courted by planters, contided in by po'
litical leaders. They gave him theil
choicest condolences and he therefore
speaks adyisedly. In one Of his recent
letters to the Times, he bears witness to
the hatred Of the leaders Of the South to
the Puritanic idea Of popular rights, and
their sympathy with. and longing for,
the peculiar privileges of monarchy and
aristocracy We commend his conclu-
sions and statements 10 the tra'torous
sympallizers in our midst. His obser'
yatlon among Southern traitors has
shown him that al the bottom OF IhiS re-
bolli,,l lies an intense hatred Of The New
England doctrine Of political equality
an adherence Of the Northern idea OF
u,nular Government 1t may be, ~