Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-07-30

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r NEUTRALITY
We find room for only the following ex-
tract from one of Mr.. Trains recent
speeches:
Mr.. Enthusiastically signifies weak
ness. All small minds hesitate. Gener-
ais who win battles are not neutral men.
neutrality on the American rebellion is
taking sides in disguise. The man who
is soft on the American question is soft on
all questions. | despise soft Americans
as well as soft Englishmen. 1t is impos-
sible for an honest man to be neutral
He who is not for me is against me. The
Indian thug is remarkable for his neutral
ity until his garotte is round your neck.
The Camanehe chief is a neutral to your
face, while his scalping knife sleeps in his
belt. Dumollard, the French murderer,
was neutral before he destroyed his vic
Tins. There is no half way between a
patriot and traitor. The woman who
permits the least familiarity has already
| lost the foundation of her virtue.
Let her remain neutral in the presence
of the libertine and she is lost. The
young man counting his employers mon
ey must not be neutral, if he does not
wish TO end his life on the gallows. The
coat / have made fits exactly the neutral
bankers and leading Americans abroad
who are waiting for victories before hoist
ing secession or Union flags. The gar
ment is not out of place on England's
back Neutrality in England is treach-
cry. Americans say, England, with all thy
faults, we love thee still Englishmen say,
America, with all thy virtues, We eontin-
ne to hate theei Strong men choose sides:
weak men are always neutral; once an i'd
lot, always an idiot. The world Is packed
with fools. q. .ss.. ... --..[
Neutrality is imbecility. No man can
serve two masters. He must either love
the one and hate the other, or hate the
one and love the other. Our Saviour was
not neutral. England for three gener-
ations has been unjust to America. He
that is unjust in little is unjust in much.
The maxim comes from an ancient and a
respectable authority. Unjust in small
matters for half a century, England was
just ripe for being unjust in great matters
during our revolution. Neutrality is dis
guise-assassins are neutral before they
use the poignard. The tiger in a Jungle
is neutral before he plunges ON his vic
tim. When you wish TO destroy an enc
my, you first conceal your plan. Error
and injustice are neutral before becoming |
arrogant and impudent.
GENERAL BUFFERS PROCLAMATION.
A love of fault-fnding is no proof off
wisdom. Your criticisms on Gen Buffers |
proclamation are as just as your pretended
love for America is honest Critics, says |
are like thieves who, con-
demnned to execution, choose the busi-
ness of executioner rather than be hung.
Your distortion of the New Orleans proc
lamation Is worthy of the people that
were Abolitionists when they thought, by
that doctrine, they could break
up our Republic-and pro-slavery advo-
Gates when they believed that we should
preserve the Union. The proclamation
you have dishonesty translated. Do YOU
mean to say that you believe Gen. But
ler issued the order for immoral purposes?
Do you really understand its workings
to signify that unbridled license was given
to the Federal army? The very idea is
contrary to the instincts of our nature,
to the American people, and
the senses of our race. You
give the order a meaning never intended.
1t. was unfortunately worded, but the
spirit of the order was proper one. La
dies hold the remedy. Let them remain
indoors, let them behave like women, not
like human tigresses. The terrible slaugh-
ter Of our soldiers will some day lay heavy
ipon their consciences. Women who go
1ut of their way to insult Federal officers
Who have treated them with every cour-
esy, by pouring water out of their win
lows when they pass, or throwing vitriol
n their faces on the pave, or so far unsex-
ng themselves as to strike an officer,
,ught not to object, when martial law is
,rdered, to proclamations that enforce
;ivility where rudeness was SO marked.
The municipal law permits no disorder
n the streets Women breaking it are '
'ent to the ealabose. That is the terrible /;
'rder-nothing less-that arouses England {
md provokes this debate. Lord Palmer
ton takes advantage of il TO have another {
1ing at the Americans, and Gregory and !
Walsh are mad with delight. Lord Car ]
1aryon also brings out Earl Russell, and {
III the newspapers clap their hands in ioy; /
md you, gentlemen, echo the sentiment /
If the land. Do you remember a picture
n the Illustrated News during the Sepoy {
evolution? do-and. three features &
vere prominent: cannon, English officers, !
md Sepoy messengers bearing flag of t
ruee. The picture has another side-the 6
'ficers consult-theS Sepoys are bound on /
he muzzles of the guns, and, with their 4
lag of truce tied around them, they were
'lown toward the camp from whence I
hey came. .... ..f .-.. .-...... le