The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-07-25
Traitors at Homo.

knowing iuS IVellDb5 VI Nue peVPic|
can doubt. Tho heart OF the great
lnsss Is with the Government, and
no class 10 trucr TO it than the mas.
scs OF the Democracy. But these
people have been ani orc being de.
ceived into the support Of men who
have sworn the destruction Of the
Governmental who are in the conh.
dencc of the leaders OF the secession
armics--who tre carrying out plots
laid years ago. They are powerless
without q party, and they have by
slroit maneuvring assumed tie con-
troll Of the Democratic organization,
and are laboring through their un'
dcrstrsppers in each county to drive
the people into their toifs. They
want posse ession of the State Offices
to t they may Withhold the aid the
state owes tho General GovorumeE,
they want a majority in Congress
,hs. they may by adverse Legislation
check the operations Of tho armies,
aud sell out the Government to the
dcsperndoes who control the South
ern Cenfcdcracy.
We make no assertions that the
acts OF ,hteo men will not Justify
While Souti, Carolina was building
batteries for the destruction Of tort
Snmptcr, tho loyal men Of the North
implcred Buchanan to send sufficient
MD to hold the foItrete. The Val,
landighams md the Brights said
NJ! They knew that II the rebels
were do'ea'ed there, il Charleston
was allowed to remain nndcr the
guns Of a oderal Fort, that the
progress of the rebellion would tc
seriously intpriered with. Reinforce,
ments were withheld, until when
Lincoln assumed the rcins, il was
impossible 10 reach the Fort and il
iell. Rebellion was now fairly in.
auguratcd. The Southern leaders
know that they could never prevail
against an united North, and the
their tools were set at work to pro.
dueo division, and well have they
performed their work. They de-
nounced the President and the party
that elected him as Abolitionists,
thoy denounced the war as @ strug.
gle for the abolition Of slavery, they
held up before the people the pic.
:urc OF Ohio flooded with negroes
with their fingers dripping with the
opoils OF Buchanan's administra
zion they dwelt unctuously upon the
frauds in the War Department, they
nagniliod the cost OF the war, and
prophesied ruin il it continued Il
year, in short, thoy did whatever
devilish, iiendish malignancy could
suggest to excite in the minds OF the
peoplo q distrust of their rulcrs, and
TO divide them upon the question of
the prosecution OF the war. They
went farther. They opposed enlist.
,nebts, and in Congress opposed ov.
cry measure, important or unimpor.
ian., that looked toward the deie at
oi tho rebels, or the success Of the
Government. Loan bills, Tax bills,
Corti,cation bills--on all these meas
nres the votes OF these traitors are
recorded nay, while every PROPOSE.
tion tor u surrender Of the Govern.
lnent met their approval.
To the Democracy who are now
being entreatcd to give these sceun.
dre!s a fresh lease o, power, we
commend q serious consideration oil
these things. Tho struggle now in
progress lie Que Of life or death. The !
tate OF the Nation ia involved. The
question 10 whether the Government
under Which We have been blessed
leyond any people on the globe,
shall be continued, or whether III,
shall DO destroyed, aud a score OF
petty desrotisms instituted In its
Stoad- whether tho experiment ol
Goverrment by the People is a sue
'cla or failure. |, 10 now, no,
iesa thsn in re, q Struggle for our
oiues and ireei1es--lhe RebcllionI
ar the Government must go down.
These questions are to be ducided
N part, az the ballot-boS, If the
.oyal North gives tho Government
hearty spFport--if il comes up as
one man to its support, all will be
well. But il Vallandigham and
Mcdary, arc allowed to give their
'ools the control of affairs, the sirug.
SIC viii be prolonged, aud the re
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