The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-04
Opposing the Administration.

A Republican journal of some infu-
ence, in a neighboring county, is indig,
nant that, at tine like the present,
there should not be absolute, universal ac-
quieseence in the course of the Admins
tration. The Republican journals seem
to all agree that even the fairest criticism
is factious, and that he who cannot swal-
low it whole, with all its blunders and cor
ruptions, and cry calls well!' falls far
short of being patriot. We cannot
coincide in these views. We cannot per-
ceive how, in merely adhering to their old
principles the Democrats are pursuing
factious course of tampering with trea-
son, while the Republicans, who have mel
ther forsaken their organization nor their
principles, or ceased their clamor, as parti-
cans, for the spoils of office, are free of all
reproach, and, in their own estimation, are
pure patriots. The Democrats have treated
the Administration with great fairness and
courtesy; they have sustained all it's war
measures that were constitutional and free
from the extreme faint of Ablitionism !;
they have, in short, sheen to its virtues
very kind" and TO its failings as blind as
they could be without an absolute betray-
al of their principles and duty. In re-
turn for this generosity they are denoun-
ced by the united republican press as
"factionists'' and "sympathizers with re-
bellion." The journal we allude to has
the shameless effrontery to 60 so far as to
assert the unfounded, most malicious false
hood that they have "within the last few
days heard, first with incredulity, and
then with evident regret and disappoint-
maent, intelligence of the Union victories
in Virginia" And further, that "their
hope and expectation was" that Washing
ton, the President, public archives, &C.,
would fall into the rebels hands. If the
Republican press desired to stir up dis
affection in the North it could not devise
course more likely to succeed than the
the ungenerous and dishonorable one it
has adopted. If the case was reversed we
should look for open rebellion, the Repub-
lican party is so reckless and lawless, SO
mobbish in spirit and reckless of order and
propriety but the Democracy is too pa
triotic, too law-abiding, too sensible
to be affected by the falsehoods uttered
against them by this organized and sys-
tematized band of lbellers. ....r...
But let us hear what this patriotic Re-
publican journal has further to say:
Given in the war with Mexico public o.
pinion would not tolerate opposition to the
Government, and the Wings of that day,
though they deprecated the war in its
'pretexts,' gave their full proportion of
means and men and lives to the contest"
The alluson to the Mexican war is un-
fortunate; it was during that war, if we
are not mistaken, that a leading Republi-
can expressed the hope that the Mexicans
. would "welcome" our brave troops "a0ith
bloody hands to hospita6le graues." Dur
ing the Revolution the forefathers of our
present Republicans were Cow Boys and
tories, and during the war of 1872, many
of the leading Federalists, their more i'm
mediate progenitors, amused themselves
3 by burning "blue lights" as a means of
information to the British. But, pray,
have not the Democrats of Pennsylvania
given s'their full proportion of means and
. men and lives to this contest 2" The
most profigate Republican in the ranks,
Il the basest and most habitual libeler con-
nected with the Republican press, will
not dare to say No The strength of the
Union army lies in Democratic armsall
the success it has achieved have been a.
chieved by the brains of Democratic Gene
rails and the bravery of Democratic troops
and yet the party, because it still dares to
act as party in support its principles, is
daily held up in the Republican press as
false to the country, as in league with re-
bellion.. ssigit .5si5 ..5t ,
Fss Butthe people are not SO easily cajoled
) as these calumniators imagine, and the
Democratic party will be amply repaid
for all the abuse 1t has endured by the
signal victory which awaits il in October
the verdict Of the people pronounced at
the ballot box ID favor Of the protection
Of constitutional privileges and against the
fanatics and corrupt politicians who are
lighting for plumber and negro emancipa-
ton and not the Constitution and Union.
Hdsyis5nsg Union. ISL &
BeJr It's stated that Gen. Cassius M.
CLAW will after all return III Russia IL II