, 1862-01-04
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papers IN the North haunt IN our faces Mt
every radical suggestion in reference to
slavery fla move is made that indicates
determination any where to insist upon
vigorous measures-if men who are tired
and sick Of the domineering whitening in
fuences Of the accursed institution propose
to lay the axe at the root Of the evil and
end the war at stroke, by destroying that
which has caused it, the French Reyo}u-
non' is trotted out before us, and some sen
saoie men are assured with vehement
eaInestness that the confscation and emau-
elpatlon Of rebels negroes will be the
signal for the erection Of guil1otine in
every town and city Of the North. Now
this may be so, but we fail to see the con
necton. We affirm, too, that the French
Revolution, deplorable as were many of its
incidents, is already equalled in horrors and
atrocities by the conduct Of the traitors in
this war. AL the horrors Of rebellion and
civil war do now cluster around guillo~
tine. The men who make merchan-
dize Of their own flesh and blood
arc able to invest war with more
tideous terms than were ever conceived
Of BY the Jacobin clubs Of France. Call
on the Union refugees from Tennessee and
Missouri-the men aud women and chill
dren who have been driven from their
homes under circumstances revolving to
humanity, who have seen their neighbors
and their nearest and dearest relations hung
on gibbets and shot down like wild beasts,
and who have themselves fed by the light
Of their own burning dwellings all be-
cause they would not worship the Moloch
of Slavery and become traitors and rebels
to the best government on earth. Call on
the unfortunate prisoners who lie rotting
in dungeons at Richmond and Charleston !!
Call on the fugiti4es who have been hunted
with bloodhounds in the canebrakes and
forests Of the South, and who have seen
their companions literally burned at the
stake for asserting their rights to be free!
Call all these men and women together,
and read to them chapter after chapter Of
the most thrilling, heart-rending episodes
in the history Of the French Revolution,
and they would tell us that such stories are
monuments Of civilization and tenderness,
when compared with the horrors and afro
cities Of a shareholders rebellion.
STAND BE TIE CONSTITUTION, OR ALL Is
LOST"
When shallow argum ent and hypocriticl
warning seem to fail, our secession neigh
bors often fall into deprecatory mood, and
begin to pray and whine about the Consti-
tuition. They are terribly exercised lest
that ancient instrument that has so far
withstood many such shocks should now
be shattered by the triumph Of civilization
and humanity over barbarism and oppres-
sion. At Port Royal our own brave
soldiers must toll in the trenches un-
til they die by hundreds under the
fatal influences Of Southern malaria,
because the slaves who are gathered there
in thousands and whose rebel masters have
run away, cannot be employed in working
for the Union, without endangering ou1
blessed Constitution. Slaves may work
for the rebels, black regiments may be
armed against us to shoot down our sol
diers, and rebel forts, earth works and
foztitications of every kind built by
slaTes, and that is all constitutional Bul
"all is lost" if they are employed in the
same manner by the Federal army. We
may fight the rebels and espend ever SC
| many millions Of money and ever 50 many
valuable lives, but the war must never rise
above the dignity Of mere scramble. I
we claim that principles are reinvolVed-tha
the South has rendered us an issue tia
VIC ought to accept, and thus in deciding
the war settle some great principle for al
| time 10 come, the Constitution is COOL
thrust in our face, and VIC are tol,
that if We attempt anything Of the kin
"all is lost" Now, the whole gist an
meaning Of this cant phrase is simply this
If We fight this war as sensible men, col
scious Of our responsibility to the worl
and to those who are TO come after us,
We insist that it shall settle not only thj
particular outbreak, but wind mp in its IT
suit, with sure guaranty against seccssio
and rebellion hereafter, then all-that i
slayery,the only all in all with these men
lest. With them Union without SLAYER
is not worth having, and they presun
upon the regard and respect that loyal me
have for the Constitution to misrepresel
| it and make it an instrument especially d
signed to strengthen and perpetuate SLAYER.
; Hthis be $3.50 much the worse for the Coz
stitution. It would soon be swept ava
and left mere wreck by the onward pr
. grcss Of humanity itself But it is not 8
The CRY that "all is lost in the triumph
the right, is catch and a mere false pr
tcnce, We propose to stand by, and Y
do stand Bf, the Constitution, and under
and by virtue Of its authority, we propo
: 10 utterly abolish and destroy everythi1
that attempts its overthrow.
"AIoLIT1oE1sTs AND ApoL1T1oS1sM."
Our first cant phrase was specimen
the argumentatiyc, the second Of the threa
, ening, the third Of the deprecatory, an
here We have the very quintessence Of So
casm and ridicule. faloyalman venture
to utter sentiment indicating that he
tired Of sacrificing every material and NOR
interest to the demands Of slavery, he
reproached with having turned abolition
ist." If an old-time Democrat dares to q
scrt the opinion that this is war brougl
on us by the slave power, and that the sla1
power in return for it should be made |
suffer in the very interest through which II
! can cffcctual1y reach it, all the yelping Gre
Of secessionists among us are down q
= him as "viIe abolitionist." # his hea
is stirred within him al the atrocities Of til
rebellion, and he is moved to give utte
ance to manly, heayen-inspired sentiment
he is warned to beware Of "abolisio
ism"
1 The word is echoed and re-echoed, III
f. only in their papers, but in the groggcri,
on the streets and in private conversatio
= as if to be an "aboitionist" wss to COMM
the objectionable sin. The fact is appa
: emily forgotten that terms of reproach s
l ways become sanctifed by association
; that name applied in derision and SEQ,