Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-12-03
From the Phnade.p hia BuIIelIn.

In the present day, when, according 10
the Roman proverb. the discussion of
legal points should give way to the clash
of arms, it is found that more pettlfog-
ging twaddle is talked about the Constitu-
ton than in the most peaceful era.-
Every ardent Breckinridger, clinging TO a
lamp-post on election night, has an IN
coherent argument to utter in favor OF
letting the ''wayward sisters of the ma
tional family keep house for u.s." on
Constitutional grounds. Every scOundrel,
arrested in the act of betraying his cOum-
try and justly inearcerated IN a felOn's
cell, has II set of winning traitors hanging
like eaves-droppers about his prison. or
pleading his vile cause IN a Court room
which ought not to be polluted with their
dishonorable feet. Every rascal. who
takes some sneaking parole which he
breaks at the first opportunity, has his
story OF martyrdomto tell to 'butternut"
editors as o as he gets away from Fort
Lafayette or Fort Warren. Then we have
every petty pop-gun of the daily, weekly
and monthly press pouring forth lies and
misrepresentation about the Administra-
ton and the Constitution, on their own
responsibility, until we should think the
public would be perfect y Disguised with
such stuff. II Is amazing that there is a
market for such nonsense, but we cannot
deny the fact that many persons who
ought to know better, from the bare fact
that they were born in a land of 9
papers and free schools, take it all in,
open-mouthed.
Now we venture to assert that no form
of government ever gave such peace, hap
nfnaaS and nncrNarIfv 10 naffOn - tho
Constitution has shoWered upon the
United States. No constitution ever was
more faithfully, mildly and mercifully
administered than ours is, and has been
up to this day. No class of men ever
came SO near having all their rights as
the rebels against the American Union
Under no form of law since the Hebrews
has justice ever held equal poise between
man and man, and no government could
have been more mild and paternal for a
year and a half ofrebellion than has ours.
Now there is not a rebel-sympathizer,
traitor, hypocrite or peace-coward in the
loyal States, but who knows these facts as
well aswedo. When Democracy held the
Federal purse-strings all these t~rairors,
towards hypocrites, &C., exulted in these
facts. They shook them like metaphorical
fists in the face of England and all des-
potic nations. They never made q stump
speech without beating the same con-
stitutional drum and playing that identi.
cal constitutional fife; and they have only
changed their tune, because they must
have, as D'Israeli says, a ,Car-ery, to help
them put down the Federal Govern
ment." Plainly and simply they gam
mon" their deluded followers, about the
Constitution, just as Joe Smith, the Nor
mon, ''gammoned" those who founded the
town OF Nauvoo. Their trade is deceit
just like other gamblers, chirlatans and
bogus philanthropists, and the crop Of
dupes ready to be trified with by them as
wide a the area of the loyal States and
as innocent of common sense as the file:
that batter their heads for a whole day
against a window pane without ever find.
ing that they cannot get through the
glass.
1t is truly pitiful to see how many ther,
are who deliberately ignore the holy jus
LITIGATION of the war for the Union, anC
wayer in their allegiance to the banne.
which symbolizes everything that is no
BILE. A nation IS solemnly offering VI
scores of thousands of her bravest anC
best in nearly every household there il
q vacant chair in every heart memorie,
of sadness are clustering with each day
upon the whole land there is q burden o
sore travail, and yet the blind victims viii
not see and feel the truth. BewildereC
by the arts of demagogueS they endeaYoI
to hug the viper of rebellion-slavery, Il
their bosoms, and strive to kill themselyei
under the delusion hat they are protect
ing the Constitution
But q day of ~deliYerance is at hand
When the blow is struck that emanci
pates the slaves of every rebel, mora
shackles will fall from the victims of reb
Ell falsehood, and many thousands will re
joice in the liberty which enables them t.
see in the Constitution a SAVIOR of life un
TO life. Over these who are emaRcipateC
from the chains of eowardice and treason
there will be joy, even as there will be &
jubilee over every liberated Ethiop, in al
regions and realms where sin and errol
die in pure radiance of translucent truth
Such q jubilee will have no stain of bitter
ness in it, for every brave pure spirit viii
be filled with gladness, and only those
who are vile, tyrannical and british viii
find u for mourning. Only those who
hate mankind, only those who govern the
weak by the lash and chain, only those
who take slavery as the cornerstone o.
their empire, will knash their teeth al
such deliverance. 'The sons of God" viii
shout for JOY, and a quickening pulsatior
of happiness vibrats from eartb's zones
until the circling waves of that glad emo
ton shall widen and widen until every
bright intelligence that sympathzes with
the shadows and the lights of human ex
istence shall participate, even as the roo
and walls and worshippers in a vast cathe
dral are made dim but glorious by cloud:
of grateful incense.