Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-05


action of the Administration. di>courag
enlistments, and labor to. prevent II draf
of the army And besides all this. the
seek 10 involve in their opposition to tn,
- Government the members of the Demo
cratic party. The Hon. Edison B. Olds. o
Ohio, in a speech made at Berne, Fairfield
county, July Goth, said:
Il see blood at the ballot-box this fall
The President has issued his proclamation
for 3Oa,0nO more troops. and Congress ha
passed law authorizing him tO draf
them. lie will have to draft them if h,
: gets them, because these cowardly wretch
es will not enlist There is an election
this fall, and they want to carry it. They
want to draft Democrats they will draf1
them to prevent them from voting. They
; have the power and can so arrange il
You will not be cheated. ! tell YOU, you
will not submit to these wrongs. You
will see blood. If they attempt TO arrest
US and take us from our families to sup
port an Administration in its violation Of
the Constitution, we will resist even tc
blood. If the Democrats don't succeed al
the ballot-box, they will succeed at the
point of the bayonet." See Democratic
Leader, No. l.)
Are we to believe that the Democrats
of Ohio. and of the North in general, are
not loyal citizens?-that they will not sup
port an Administration that they cannot
control? Are they to fill the land with
blood because they cannot carry An cleo
ton? Will not loyal Democrats at once
ignore the leadership of Mr.. Olds and
kindred spirits, who seek to involve them
in treason and in blood?
| took up paper published in our
midst, and read this motto:
"Ths Constitution as ii is, he Union as Il
aods."
of the meaning of the latter clause of
this motto, | ask an explanation. Do
they mean the Union as it was in l176-
in the days of the Revolutionary fathers?
A Union to establish great, free repub-
lie upon the basis of the Declaration of
Independence, which declares that "All
men are created equal; that they are en-
dowed by their Creator with certain in
slienable rights; that among these are life,
| liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
and "that to secure these rights govern
ments are instituted amongst mem" If
this is what is meant by 1.-The Union US
it was" then we are with them with un-
divided hearts but if they mean the
Union as it was during the late Admins
| tration, when Breckinridge was Vice
President and Cobb and Floyd were men,
bers of the Cabinet; when Congressman
and Senators openly, and in their places
as representatives of this nation, pro-
claimed their treason-ifthat is the Union
they mean, it is treason of the darkest
kind, because it is the sentiment of hell
couched in the dialect of heaven. A
a., . 4. ,,,ot
bing of Methodist Conferences reign
of terror, during which preachers of the
Gospel were hung or shot down like dogs;
when the mails were rihed, the press
gagged, the foreign slave trade practi-
cally adopted, and a despotism almost
equal to anything Europe ever saw reign
ed all over the South, binding the ener-
gies of the nation to the service of the de-
mon of slavery. May God save our coun-
try from a repetition of such an unmiti-
gated cursel And we call upon all who
float that banner to tell us whether they
mean the Union of 20 or the treason of
1860, before they expect freemen to rally
round their standard.
But not only has the spirit of treason
diffused itself into almost every depart
ment of society it has put on the garb of
piety, and seeks to muzzle the Church |
and gag the ministers of the Gospel of
Christ. In the days of the Revolution
the pulpit was enlisted in the cause of
freedom, Ministers of God, led on by
such men as Drs. Dwight, Duffeld, With
erspoon, the Tenants, Muhlenburg and
others of kindred spirits, moved the heart |
of the nation with their appeals TO patri-
otism, and their burning words hurt not
~ I, e L sl
loved God and the country. But now, to
the same extent that the heart has revo-
lutionized from freedom TO oppression, the
same spirit that crushes the sons Of Afri-
ca in the cotton fields forbids the minis
ter of God to speak of those wrongs, lest
the ears of the pious should be offended
with what political demagogues are pleas
ed to call questions of politics" The
ministers of the Gospel are the Heaven
appointed guardians of the public morals;
and the fact that protesting Christians
are so sensitive upon a question of such
tremendous moral weight indicate rot
ten patriotism, a rotten morality, and a
rotten religion adumbrating condition
of things in which God must arise and
save the nation, or it will perish forever
I tia7a noio TO consider God as tie nation
lSarior. God, in his providence, has suffer
ed our national sins to bring their legiti-
mate punishment Even the Pittsburg
Post admits that the late reverses argue
the commission of some '.great national
sin." OF that sin we have been inquiring,
and find it to be departure from our own
laws. We have committed
the capital crime of nations, and in that
act we have forfeited our rights to an ex-
istence God, the disposer of the king {
doms of the earth, only can save US.
The text indicates the terms of nation
al salvation: Thou shalt arise and have
mercy upon Zion for the time to favor
her, yea, the set time, is come"
The time set of God is not time fixed ,
by some immutable degree, but rather !
when the case assumes such shape that ,
God can help according to the provisions :
Of his own immutabls laws. The required !
condition of thing is intimated in the ,
text: "Thy servants take pleasure in
her stones, and favor the dust thereof. - ,
Jerusalem had fallen; the temple of God !
had been razed to the ground; the gold ,
and silver had been carried away, and
nothing but the stones and dust, the mere
rubbish of Zion, was left. Yet change :
had taken place in the spirit of the nation
,ince the day when the ancient men turn ,
I'd their backs upon the temple, and wor- !
shipped the sun in the East. They had j
-epented of their sins, and in their hearts :
hey had turned again to the fundamen- :
tal law of their nations being; now they :
we're seen lingering about the foundations :
of the city. and the hearts cling to the dust }
thereof They have rejected Zion, and )
the set time to favor her had come. As a ma ;
lion we have departed from our fundamen- 9
,al law upon the spirit of our own Dec !
aration we have turned our backs, and :
liberty has become by-word and a cause E
Of reproach among q free people. The s
nan who now has the temerity TO advo-
ate the equality of the human race, ac-
in the nations protest, or will
tand up for the lone blood" of the Scrip
ures, or dare to extend the principles of
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