Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-09-12
TIMELY WORDS ELOQUENTLY SPO.
KEN.

George Wilkes, in the n Y. Spirit of the
Times, utters the following burning words of
truth and wisdom. We commend their care.
ful and thoughtful perusal to all, especially to
those anti-war, anti administration Democrats
of this vicinity, who may be said to be rep
resented by the North. Vest After speaking
of the situation of National affairs. Mr..
Wilkes says: 4.
Alas for the precious time, and lives ana
millions lost But the ways Of Providence
are inscrutable, and, perhaps, il is better that
we have been obliged to drink so deeply of
reverse. We have had other perils than those
which threatened us from foes in arms. A
dormant nest of traitors, here at home, have
periodically shown how ready they have ever
been to take advantage Of the undigested an.
ger of the People, by demanding a mercy for
their brother rebels, which would have been
fatal to our cause. These dangers are vet
alive, though latent. They break the surface
in every bilow of opinion, and it is matter
still of doubt, if the generous and unsuspi-
cious mass, are even yet sufficiently impress
ed with the heinous character of this rebel
lion, to adu1icate firmly and wisely on its
punishment. We saw these conspirators.
alert and ready to spring at the throat of the
Administration (when it was thought Nc.
Clsllan was OH the point of marching into
Richmond, and in the name of great party,
much msused, demand wholesale amnesty
for Treason. The sickenng disasters of the
change of base, "and the dying wall of the
thousands of our youth, abandoned by Caesar
in the swamps, which found mournful echo
in almost every family, sent these Pharisees
coniounded and covering to their dens. But
they re-appear again, and, at every step of
federal progress have been ready to perplex
the settlement. Even the last week beheld
the disgraceful spectacle in Philadelphia, of
public meeting called to dcpreciate the sub
lugation OF set of wretches, who are hang
ing loyal citizens for an expression of opinion,
and projecting wholesale murders on the hol-
low pretense of retaliation. .ss
They who get up these meetings are the
true allies of the insurgents. They have nc
words but those of tenderness for Treason,
and while they lavish slur and condemnation
on the Government, they sugar coat their po-
sltlon by spccious devotion to the Constitu-
ton. These creatures, however are not the
true leaders Of the Democratic party and we
Indignantly deny that they represent any
wholesome part Of it. Most of them are the
mere third and fourth rate ours of office, fel-
lows who never inhaled an honest or unsor-
did breath, but who, with mock pretence of
principle, and sad shakings of the head, as
sumo to be jealous of every invasion of the
laws. They are shocked, forsooth, at the
suspension Of the habeds corpus; they rave
at the idea Of the draft; they denounce ev-
or Of
dangerous precedent; but they are never
struck by the idea, that the rar Of the reJels
IS dangerous precedent, or seem to compre-
hend that man, surprised by an assassin,
had better thrust knife into the vtals of the
mscreant, than to desire him to loose his
hold and go quietly to court. ##n
These sensitive patriots are very fond of
directing attention to the abolitionists. They
would have us believe, perhaps, that it was
the abolitionists who passed the Lecompton
Constitution; who basely betrayed the Dem
ocratic party by nominating Breckenridge !;
who made the south secede when it had prac-
teal possession of the government who
seized the arsenals in a time Of peace, stole
the public treasure, fired upon Sumter, and
sent forth red-h handed pirates to sink peace
full merchantmen beneath the waves These
IuT'd images illiSnt wei mIlame an honest
patriotism, but what shall we say when we
learn that such shuddering crimes are the
guilt Of the friends they patronize, instead of
being the acts of those they would cordemn?
How shall we resent the base attempt TO fix
the howl of party upon set of weak and un-
influential zealots, for the purpose Of giving
shelter and license to the unspeakably damn
ed villains whe have dragged their country
from its poise of peace and stabbed 1t to the
heart? 5a
1t is against the wicked and mischievous
arts of such insidious knaves as these, that
we, as a Democrat, would warm the the 10y
al, honest masses, Of our common party 1t
is from their smirking. masks we would di.
rect the public attention Of our fellow Dem
scrats, to the noble aspects ofsuch leaders Of
the Democratic mind, as Andrew jackson,
Thomas Fl. Benton, Stephen A. Douglas,
David c. Broderick, Danel f. Dickinson, and
John A. Dix and to such steadfast, incor-
ruptible, and unfinching patriots as Arch
bishop Hughes, Michael Corcoran,a and
George Francis Train. ''The Union must
and shall be preserved" said jackson, and
81 would prosecute the war until the rebel
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