The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-07-15
The Cause of Rebellion.

EfT To bolster up the cause Of rea
son, to conserve the interests of REBEL
ion, TO create sympathy for the attempt
ed murderers Of the government, to as
sisl in the hellish plot TO overthrow Free
dom and make permanent and universal
in this broad land that unparalleled out
rage upon humanity, Slavery seems
TO be the voluntary province of the Du,
buque HeroH. TO this end, day after
day il goes on with lis labors Of derac-
ton and misrepresentation, day after day
denounces loyal men and loyal effort, day
after day abuses the administration, day
after day pours its anathemas up,n the
upholders Of the government. Facts are
distorted, falsehoods coined, and every
sluiceway Of rumor and ofassertion sem
ed for the purpose of bringing to the
surface whatever may detract from the
sacredness of the great struggle for ex
istence in which the government is en-
gagged, and whatever may defend and ex-
euse the treason now attempting the life
Of the nation.
And yet the miserable traitor presiding
over its columns has his sympathizers,
his echosts, his copyists, in this and 9th
ss communities. They repeat his as>er-
lions -chuckle, as he does, over Union
deieal-palliate, as he does, The inrany
of treason-argue, as he does, against the
punishment of trailors-denounce as he
does measures boxing TO the weakening
of the resources of the rebels lie, as he
does, about the origin, authors, and the
motives of the rebellion.
The falschood that disunion was
prompted by the aggressions of the Re
publican party, or could have been pre-
vented by the Republican party. or BY
he North, by anything short Of the alb
so'ute surrender of the country TO the do
minion OF slavery, has been so often as
serted that it seems that even intelligent
men can be found 10 give it encourage.
ment, while ignorant and unscrupulou,
par,izlns give il voice on all occasions,
and big and liule traitors constantly offer
itas an excuse for the viiiainy of REBEL
ion. The blatant sympalhizers with trea-
son, in our midst, who denounce tn. Re-
pubhcans as the cause Of secession, NAV
not know any better, but men with Ma
nosY's capacity do know that they lie
willfully when they charge this. They
know that secession was before the Re
publican party, and has been the South
ern panacea for the commercial and ma
trial inferiority Of that section fcrsev.r
al decades. They know it has been the
dream Of certain class Of Southern poll
t'cians for many years, that it cropped
out into open opposition to the govern
ment in the notification contest in South
Carolina. They know that the motives
Of these men were understood and pub
licly proclaimed by Gen. JACKSON, who
Faithfully predicted that slavery would
be seized upon as pretext BY them
They know lhat Thomas H. Benton I'M
Lers.ool and denounced them long be.
fore the Republican party came into ex-
i'tence. They know that the Southern
precipiators Of this contest have not
claimed dat il was because Of The Il pub
llcan party or Of Republican acts. In
The Convention that passed the ordinance
Of secession of South Carolina, Mr..
ItnErr sail. speaking Of the act then pro
posed
:. 1t is nothing produced by Mr.. Lincolns
election. or the non-cXccution of the fugitive
slave law. 1t is a matter which has been gath.
ring head for thirty years"
Mr.. PARKER said
: II is spasnodic effort that has come
suddenly upon us, butt has been gradually
eliminating for Il long series of years"
Mr.. ENGLISH said:
Most Of us have had this subject under con
sidcratisn for the past thirty years"
Mr.. RnGrr said
+" have been engaged in this movement ever
.!nca ] entered political life"
Here is the testimony Of the very
prime movers Of Rsbellion-the men who
precipilaled this civil war upon The coun
ry--lhe men who forced South Carroll,
IA 10 array herself the second time
against The government and forced The
Cotton States to open opposition TO the
government TO sustain q fayorile abstrac-