Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-06-12


rebellion, Jackson Esuld have called
into active exercise every power Of the
Constitution to crush it ont, and where
there was any deficiency, his own m
domitable will would have taken the
responsibility. The mild and gentle
means at frst adopted BY Mr.. Lineolni
and eves yet praetised BY the Admin
istration, would to Jackson have seemed
mere child's play. Even when the null
li6cstion reared its rebelliousi front, he
could scarcely be prevented from hang
ing Jnos C. Cslhoun, not in South Car
olina, but in Washington, andto his
dying day regretted that he had not so
done. How long would Cobb. and
Toombs Haunted their treason in the
Senate. if old Hickory. instead of cid
Buck, had occupied the white house?
When assailed for. violating the Consti-
tuition, his reply was that she had
sworn to support it. and would execute
it, according 10 bis own construction OF
it." When he proclaimed martial law
in New Orleans, and defed Judge Hall,
when be removed the United States de-
posits, when be hung Arbuthnot and
Ambruster, he judged only Of the i'm
perative necessity, and acted according
ly. The people sustained him in every
thing. When he enrolled and armed
the negroes by thousands before the
battle Of New Orleans, he never stopped
to inquire into the Constitutionality of
il, but did it. From all this who can
doubt that if Jackson were now in the
place of Abraham Lincoln, he would
hesitate to seize upon every means to
bring this war to a close.
But alas for The great party to which
he adhered. How many who yet style
themselves Democrats, would be found
to aid him in his great task? How he
would recoil in disgust from such Dem
ocrats as Voorhees,, Cox, Vallandigham,
DC? Their pitiful winnings about a
violated Constitution, would only excite
his contempt, and cause them TO be
seized as aiders and abettors Of treason.
Can any one doubt that If be believed
slavery to be the cause Of this war, he
would hesitate TO adopt every measure
calculated to destroy it. H
But how changed is the course pur-
sued by those who claim to hold his
principles. The leaders in the rebel
lioR were prominent men in the Demo
cratic party. The States now forming
the Southern Confederacy, for years
have been considered overwhelmingly
Democratic. Under the purely Dem
oeratic Administration of James Buchan-
an, the rebels inaugurated their bloody
treason. Every man in the North,
who sympathizes with them, is adhe-
rent to that party name at least. Yet
we are gravely told that the patriotic
efforts of Mr.. Lincoln and his friends to
restore the Union to its normal condi-
tien, are unconstitutional and must be
thwarted by every means foul or fair
which party trickery can bring to bear,
or the brains of mischievous politicians
invent.
In the "0stend Manifesto" gotten
up by Buchanan, Mason and Soule, we
find the following remarkable language
in reference to the seizure of Cuba:
"Self preservation is the first law Of
nature with States as well as individu-
ais. All nations have at different pc
RODS acted on this maxim" Yet when
Mr.. Lincoln undertakes to carry out
this principle, these same villains and
their adherents are the first to cry out
against him. 81