Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-06-11
The Difference.

AAere are q great many men in the
North, who should know better, but who
+ apparently infatuated with the rebeI
idea that the South are fighting, as an
unit for just rights. A little unpreju.
diced investigation of the rise and pro
gress of the rebellion is all that is necessa-
~ to dispel so absurd an illusion. For il
Is q most notorious and lamentable fact
that not & single state revolted in obedf
snce to the fairly expressed will of their
people. Fraud and violence in every reb-
el state, ruled the ballot-box.
Louis Napoleon, whomocked the French
people with the empty forms of an cleo
ton, in pretending that he only wished
to wear an imperial crown placed on his
brow by the willing hands of the people,
But who took the anti-republican precau-
EeR to array a million of bayonets to de-
lend his claims at the polls, and deter dis
senters from exercising the elective fran
chise, was no more of a usurper than
Jefferson Davis and his rebel compeers.-
And Napoleon to-day holds the sceptre
over France with q less violent sway, and
more in accordance with the will of the ma
ton, than does Davis exercise his tyran-
nicle authority over hundreds of thousands
of the Southern people. He rules in bar
barrie violence. His armies are not COM
posed of volunteers; and his bankrupt
treasury is not ~replenished by willing
tributes. If the southern people believed
they were fighting in a just cause, would
their armies have to be recruited by con-
scriptionf Would men only give of their
means 1t the point of a bayonet? These
facts are significant, as showing the
wretchedness of the rebel cause.
But in glorious contrast, behold the pa
t-iotic North. Here are a people animated
By love of liberty and pure devotion to
their country. They feel their cause is
just, and that they are doing a pleasing
service in the sight of Heaven in girding
on the srmor of warfare to defend the
honor of their country. Here no cruel
eonscript acts are needed to fill up our
armies /; no forced exactions or confisca-
lions are necessary to provide the govern
met with ample funds. But on the con-
trary there is a superabundance of both
men and money for governmentus use. And
we firmly believe that the love of country
is so strong in the Northern heart, and
the confidence in the integrity and patri-
otism of President Lincoln so implicit,
that Notwithstanding seven-hundred
thousand men have already volunteered
to defend our flag, should the President
to-day call for a million more volunteers
as urgently demanded to save the nation
from ruin, that could be raised in
sixty daysi There is betw cen us a
marked difference, not only in our
great superiority in material power
but better yet. in spirited patriotism, so
strong that it prompts our brothers and
s0ns to fly at moments call, with the
speed Of eagles, to guard and protect the
nation.
Let no man allow himself to be deluded
with the idea that the rebels are fighting
in AUST cause. The masses of them are
only the victims of ambitious, reckless,
leaders, and fight only on compul-
sion. For Northern men to say or do
any thing that will encourage the master
spirits of this rebellion with the hope that
there is even a remote chance of con-
o~essions to them on thepart ofthe govern
meRt, is moral treason, the influence of
which is only to protract instead of ter
ninating the war. Unqualified acknowl-
of the supremacy of the Federal
Government, in all its constitutional re-
is the only condition, and the
least, on which the chastising hand of
power now Furnishing treason
should be withdrawn. Until then, spare
not. :