M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-07-24

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like examples. William Tell broUkcd
the tyrant's irown III his days and gen.
GRAFTON in defense Of these saulerights,
in the notle republic Of the Swiss;
and that gallant little people, hemmed
in among the Alps, though Surround.
ed on every side by Gespots whose 10.
lgions numbered more than the whole
population OF Switzerland, have but
that same indominita6le spirit Of lib
eTty, maintained their rights, their
liberties and their independence to this
hour. And are Americans now to off
er themselves up a servilesacrifice up.
on that alter oi arbitrary powerl Sir,
i have misread the signs OF the times
and the temper ol the people, il there
is rot already a spirit in the land
which is about to speak in thunder
tones to those who stretch forth still
the strong arm ct despotic power :
THUS far shalt thou come, and no
farther We made you: you are our
servants" That, sir, was the Ian.
; guage which was taught to apply to
men in Office, when was youth, or
in first manhood and aprivate citizen,
and afterwards when holdn office as
the gift Of the people, to hear applied
to me, and bore the title proudly
And ask then, as ask now, no 9th.
er or better reward than, "Nell done
thou good and faithful servant
Cries OF, "You shall have it; you de.
serve it."] But to-day, they who are
are our servants, creatures made cut
OF nothing by the power OF the people
whose little brieT authority was breath,
, ed into their nostrils by the people,
who now, forsooth, become the mas
tiers Of the people-the press and pub
, lie assemblages-are to be suppress
ed, and the Constitution, with its
right Of petition, and Of due process
Of law and trial by jury, and the laws
Z. and all else which makes lite worth
possessing-are to De sacrificed now
} upon the tyrant's plea that il is neceS
t sary to save the Government, the Un.
, ion. Sir, we did save the Union for
years--yes, We did. We were the
Union savers" not eighteen months
ago. Then there was not an epithet
e in the whole vocabulary Of political
] billingsgate so upprobrious in the ey es
| Of a Republican when applied to the
Oemocralic.paTty as "Uniou.sbriek
ers," or the "Union'savers."
remember in my own city, on the
day of the Presidential election, in
!, 1860 Il remember it well, for had
I that day travelled several hundred
miles to vote for Srcpen A. Douglas
for the President-that in a ward
where the judges Of election were all
Democrats, your patriotic Wide,
Awakes, struttiug in unctious uniform
came mp hour after hour thrusting
their Lincoln tickets twixt thumb and
finger at the judges, with the taunt
and sneer, "SaOe the Union: Sape tie
UniOnp And yet now forsooth we
are TRAITORS" and "secessionists!"
And old grey bearded and grey head
ed men who lived and voted IN the
times o! Jefferson and Madison and
Monroe, and Jackson-men who have
fought and bled upon the battle field,
and who londly INDUCED the delusion
for forty years that were patriots, wake
up suddenly to day to find themselves
"traitors!"--sneered at, reviled and
insulted by striplings "whose fathers
they wonld have disdained to have set
with the dogs OF their focks." Oiall
these things an inquiSition searching
and terrible, will yet be made, as sure ),
as sudden, too, it may be, as the day
Of judgment. We of the loyal States
= we OF the loyal party ofthe country
the Democrat party--we the loyal cit
izens Of the United States, the editors
of loyal newspapers-we who tOgather
in loyal assemblages, like this, and
are addressed by truly loyal and Uni
on men as | know you are to-day and
at this moment CHATS so, that's the
truth) we torsooth, are to be now
denied our privileges and our rights
as Americans and as freemen, we are
to be threatened with bayonets at thu
ballot-box, and bayonets to disperse
Democratic meeting! Again | ask
why do they not take up their INNS.
kets and march to the South, and like
brave men, meet the embattled hosts
Of the 4 onfederates in open arms, in
stead Of threatening, craven like, to
fight unsrmed Democats at home
possibly unarmed, and possibly not
Laughter and applause, and a remak
--"Tbat was well put iD"] If so bel.
ligeren so eager to shed that last
drop of blood, let them volunteer to
reinforce the broken and shattered
columns of Mcclellan in front of Rich
mond, sacrificed as he has been by the
devilish Vaccinations of AbolitionismI