Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-10-22

fOuOu. DuO leJ the niDilillpIS tnat have
known it perish with it, and be known no
continued applause That so That
the talk. Three cheers And vet this
returning fugitive from patriotism pro-
claims as his creed. in effect if not in
terms, that if either slavery or the Union
must be destroyed it should be the I'm
ion And the name of this man is Hora
ito Seymour
This Union movement is popular and
not partisan. 1t commends itself to every
loyal citizen, and not to part, and not in
all respects been conducted as | think it
should have been at all times, but is new
| ertheless preferable to party action, Nor
is there any party in the field pretendina
to act as such, except the rawlings and
selvedee of all former parties who have
taken the honored Democratic name, and
under leaders cheating by false pretences.
acting from prejudice toe strong for their
discernment or moral sentiments, from a
party attachment which clings to names
and traditions above principles or things.
Il mistaken comprehension of the dues-
tons at issue, or last, though not least. a
disloyal heart, and thus enter the field and
bellion. This combination seems deter
mined to run its worn out and creaking
machinery amid the blood and carnage,
and death groans Of this terrible war, as
the worst Of the Caesars fddled when
Rome was in flames.
The Democratic party, forsootl A
knot of men with some stray accidental
honest elements; with here and there an
honest democrat who supposes this is a
war with \ Abolition almanacs with lead
ers composed of freesoilers and Abolition
lists of 1913; chronic fossiized Wings o.
l5f4 looking for a re-charter Of Il United
states bank; crippled Democrats who ve
been carried for lie in the ambulanceS OF
the party; struggling know-No othmgs not
inaptlv named; Hards 80 hard that they
cracked in seasoning; Softs and shvsters
of all shades and periods and the ninth
resolution men Of 1851, W no proposed to
poultice the rebellion to death by propo-
sitions of peace, are now the Democratic
party who are to save the country "What
can you expect of Il people, said a phil
osoGher, when Il monkey is their God 7
Shade Of Jefferson, where hast thou flown?
Spirit OF jackson | almost hear you ex-
claim by the Eternal
I devoted seven Of the best years OF my
life in efforts for the settlement Of this ac
cursed question peacabiy-that it might
be taken out of the political field North
and South, aud he let alone to work out
It's own pcceliar problem under the mys-
terious dispensation of a Guiding ana be
naficent Providence Now that it is ua
necessarily made the preteXt for wicked
and causeless rebellion by the Southern
people, | care not how soon | see its end.
Rene we'd applause, long continued. !
hold the war power broad enough To coy
er the whole question, and confess, in a
Il ne when our government is trem bling IN
the balance before the World, | like to see
it exercised when it Is well, and boldly
and thoroughly done. Let those who take
the sword perish with the sword, is my
doctrine and let those who raise rebel
iouS army against the constitution take
just such aid and comfort martial law
and the war power in their utmost rIgor
mete out to them, Wi ether 1t be hemp, or
steel, or lead, or a coniscatlon OF proper
ty- | would have preferred practical and
real acts in the premises as occasions de-
manded, under martial Law as such to the
ories or paper proclamations, for | hold
b4ic war power idilV anu --i@4eibi'I
unnecessary; but, the president having
determined upon a proclamation, | would
have preferred to see how it would work
in the last few months of the old year to
to the first day of the new. Laughter
and loud cheers But ii the proc.ama-
ion but wea ems rebellion and strength
ems government-as | hope and believe
it wilt am for it and all its consequent
ces and any and every other measure that
VIII conduce 10 that end.