The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-05-30
The Comprornisers at washing.
tFrOm the Nashville UsiOn, Msy 0ol

tFrom the Nashville Union Ma, eo1
The Compromises are busily employ.
ed at their great work in Washington.
and will probably present their bantline
to Congress in a short time. While the
people of the Union ore awake to the
grand questions Of the day, and the arm
les Of the Union are going on from tri-
umph to triumph, and the enemies of the
Union stand on the verge of utter defeat,
we hear feeble cry coming ftom men
who are not of this age and do not COM
prehend its momentous issues, and are not
qualified to direct its progress be
radical. You must be conservative, or
the country is ruined" Now conserve
tism 10 an admira b lie thing, and not only
so but essential to the existence of every
Government, and so far as the word sig
nlfies the preservation Of what is good we
are conservative. And so far on the
other hand as radical means uprooting and
destroying what is good, we are anti.radi-
cal. Butwe have heard this cry of con.
seryatism and radicalism too long not to
know that the first term Is often used TO
express that which obstructs the path of
human progress, while radicalism is an
epithet used to brand that of action which
is prompt, bold and decisive.
When a man lacks moral courage TO
strike like hero he steps timidly back
from the scene of danger and calls him
self conservative; and such man is sure
TO call his independent, bold and eneraet.
&c ncigbbor, who fixes his eye upon one
great and heroic purpose, and let's collat-
erals and minor consequences take caro-
Of themselves, radical.
Well, what are these Congressional
conservatives mining at in their efforts to
compromise! Divested Of an immense
cloud and fog Of verbiage and threedbare
common places, they virtually tell this
great nation now fighting for its life
against tho most wicked, desperate and
reckless rebellion the world ever beheld;
You must fight your battles tenderly and
with great regard for the welfare of err
ring brethren. When you fire your can
non "touch them off easy"
You must be vigilant in protecting the
property OF rebels, for if in marching
through a district where the people are
trying to poison and assassnate your SOL
diors, a slave should accidentally run off
1t might sour some traitors against the
Government.
On no account hold leading rebels
in custody, bet if you do, lionize them
ond feed them high at some first.class
hotel.
The first grand requisite is for our army
to protect rebel property, especially negro
property, and rather than this should hot
be done, let the Constitution and the
Union perish,
This il fair statement of the creed
which old political fossils are trying to
force upon this nation.
The army of the Republic is to be fet.
tered and dsarmed in the flush of success
and made subserv lent to the whims of a
clique of compromisers, who seem more
anxious to secure the reinstatement ofthe
rebel leaders in their former political
power than to redeem struggling ma
ton.
IL such disastrous counsels prevail, we
may expect to see Davis, Stevens, Wig
fall and Floyd in Washington before
many months, again uttering their trea-
son boldly and deiiantly in the ears of the
National Council.
We utterly repudinte such mischieyous
heresies. They are fraught with nothing
but mischief and disaster. IL the COM
promisers carry through their plans, trea-
son, far from being destroyed, will pause
only while it takes breathing spell and
gathers fresh strength to renew its attack
upon the Union.
We shall have a troubled sleep for
few months until cancellation has given
over the chief posts of honor and profit to
the arch-rebels. And then when "trea-
son has done its worst" the clangor of
the frc-bells, the glare of general confa-
grafton, the crash of topping buildings,
and the shrek Of mortal agony will again
awake us TO u drama tcniold more dark,
and bloody and horrible than that now
being enacted. We shudder as we now
the picture.