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

rresldeDL OF TIE unlted Stales, who
related to him one OF his choicest ar-
ecdotes. Yet Democratic editors,
Democratic Senators and Representa-
tives, and those holding other ofiicisl
positions by the grace ofthe States or
of the people, are TRAITORS" iorsOoth,
because they would adhere to their
principles and organization Of their
noble and patriotic old partyl Such
ace sume Of the exhibitions which
Washington has Wltnt ssed during the
past winter. Congress, too, has been
in session. Sir, | saw it announced
in one Of the disloyal papers Of this
city yesterday, that JEFF Davis, end
Toombs, and Yancey, and Rhett, and
other secessiOHists OF ths South, wo'd
derive much comfort from this day's
meeting.
Well, sir, have Just come from q
a body Of men which | would not fora
moment pretend to compare for states.
manship. respectability or patriotism,
with this Convention. That body
has devoted its time and attention to
doing more in six months, for the
cpnse Of secessio1ism, than Beaure.
gard, and Lee, aud Johnston, and all
the Southern Generals combined have
been able to accomplish in ono year.
Said a Senator iiOm :he South the
other day, a Union man: "Jeff. Da.
Wis is running two Congresses now,
and 10 making a id sight more cut
Of the Washington Congress than the
one at Richmond" Laughter, and
many remarks Of approval.
The Legislation Of tha, body has been
almost wholly for the Almighty AZ
rican." From the prayer in the morn
ing flor, gentlemen, we are pious
body, we are--making long faces, aud
sometimes wry faces, too, Qaughter)
We open with prayr but there Is noe
muck Of the Almighty Maker ofheav.
en- and earth in it, from the prAyr, to
the motion 10 adjourn, it is negro in
every shape and form in which he can
by any possibility be served up. But
it is not only the negro inside Of the
uopse and Senate, but outside also.
The city ofWaihingtOn has been with
in the past three weeks; converted in-
to one universal hospital; every ch1rch
except one for each denomination.
has been seized for hospital purposes;
and while the sanctuaries Of the ever
living God--the God OF Abraham
Isaac and Jacob, not the new God Of
the Buringames and Summers and
other Abol;tiOnists, not that God
whose gospel is written in the new
Bible Of Abolition--but the Everllv-
ing God, have been con6scated for
hospitals, every theatre, every concert
saloon, every other place Vt amuse.
ment, from the highest to the lowest,
from the spacious theatre in which q
Forest exhibits to an enraptnred audi.
ence his graphic renderings Of the i'm
mortal creations Of Shakespeare, down
to the basest den ofrevelry aud drunk.
eness, are open still; as in the Inferno
OF the great Italian poet,
"The CRATES Of He'll stand open night and
dayp
Sir, ifthese places CT amusement,
innocent some Of them, but not holy,
certainly, had first been seized as hos.
pitals, for the comfort and cure Of tho
thousands of brave and honest men,
who went forth believing in cir
hearts that they were to battle for the
Constitution and the Union, but now
lie wasting away upon their lonely
pallets, with no wife or sister, or moth
er there to soothe, groaning in agony
with every description of wound
which the devlish ingenuity OF man
can inaict by weapons, whose inven.
ton was inspired by the very author
of all human woe and suffering,
wounds, too, ranking and fostering
for the want Of surgical aid, If those
places, cay, had first been seized, and
then it had become necessary for the
comfort or life OF The thousands ofoth.
er sick and wounded who are borne In
to the city every day, to occupy the
churches Of Washington, 1 know ofno
better or holier purpose to which they
could have been devoted. And now,
sir, not far from the stately capitol.
within whose marble walls abolition
treason now runs, riot, is building,
"Green's Row" by name, in which
l1e0 fugitive slaves, "centratands''
in the precious slang Of Infamous But.
Ter. daily receive the rations Of the col.
dier, which are paid for ont oi the tax
levied upon the people. One hundred
thousand dollars o day are taken from
the public treasury for the support Of
these fugitive slaves, while the army
of Shields. and other Union armies In
the field even 80 lately as nix weeks
ago, marched baseiooted, baieheadsd,
and in their drswers, for many weary
miles without 90 much as cracker OF