M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-02-27

Gushing.
"Fifs Away. you ahn, fslleT.
You may hfe till you are yener,
'lFors you get hold Of me-"
There, away down in some New
England village, they kind O. tho't
Christ went again war and pillage,
and that eppyletts warn't the best
mark of q saint" Now, they ara
willing to swear 'that the apostles
were rigged out in front of drnm and
fe." Now, they agree tothe ironieal
verse:
aJobn P.
Robihaon--he lJuuee'
saws they didn't know everything down In
These men whose lives have been
dedicated to considering the horrors
of war and slavery, and whose con
sciences we're very tender aboutthe
downEoiden when they wanted votes,
now undertake, by congressional com
mittees, declarations, and military di
atribes here, to Get squadrons in the
field and to slow McClellan how he
ia not doing it ut all, or how he might
do il With the aid of armed blacks SO
brayely aud all at once. Notsatlsned
with the President OF their choice, not
content with that which they voted TOR
in the Crittenden resolutions as the
object TO which the war should be de-
voted; not happy in the calm prog
ress Of a campaign which, SO far as
General Mcclellan is concerned, has
been comparatively succt tssiul, and
certainly without blunders, they want
a movement "at all hazards" even il
Il moves the country and the Govern
meDt to secession, dictatorship, chaos,
or destruction. Such political dys'
peptics and material zanips ought to
be sent home to teach boarding school
misses the doctrines that brought
many members here the be- uty ol
John Browns life, and the glory Of
his death.
Judging by tie remarks made bere,
one would infer that these gentlemen
were all ready to receive and provide
for the four millions Of blacks who are
to be freed by the war power; that
the corn bread and fat pork were all
provided for the jubilee Of freedom.-
But where will they get the food, or
where will they fix the locus IN quo
for the festive seemed In Kentucky2--
Ohiol Some of our soldiers, who
have Just fought so nobly under Gen.
Thomas, have written ne complaints
that they get clothes through which
thOy can pnt their fingers. and chick.
ory for coffee. We do not even feed
decently our white braves; yet these
gentleman, who reason so lunaticafly,
think there is some virtue in colored
child or woman, and that the Lord
somehow will provide for them as be
did by Elijah with the ravens.
Why. sir, the whole country will be
.swamped and dsluged by taxation,
without the double tax OF having an
sSodus of four millions o! blacks 30
Auently talked Of in this Chamber.
Why, do not these extreme gentle
men know that they are, in some part,
responsible for this wsri Does my
colleague, fiom Cleveland, want ME
to prove il by his own speechl They
are only fighting what we advised
them would come by their action
We Democrats, with Mcclellan at
our head, are now belying them; and
how are we met by thess ingrates2--
No, they are not fighting it; but they
think they ara moving the wheels,
they only sit on the axel and buzztheir
murmurs about Mcclellan and the
forces which move the chariot OF
war.
What good comes of this sort Of de-
bate here and nowl Talk about milk.
ing q he-goat in sieve--and it is
sense to this.
Now, there is little smack Of plo'
priety in this latter idea; but what
can we say to this exhibition in a de.
liberating body, whose only duty is to
increase the Army and the revenue;
discussing the disposition of the slaves
before We get them. and the move
ments of General Mcclellan, with the
blankest incapacity to understand
them. 1t is to ridiculous for serious
controversy. 1t can only be ridiculed.
Yet we have these civil warriors,
whose only fight is logomacay, bark
ing at General Mcclellan; and for
w6atl Because he does not proclaim
liberty throughout all the land and to
all the inhabitants thereof. \ Ah, there
is the tronble! Can you wonder that
Wendell Phillips, whose speeches are
hailed so yspturously by this class,
declared that he should deplore q vic
tory by Mcclellan, because the sore
would be salved over, and ii would
only be the victory Of a slave Union;
and that he thanked Beauregard for
msrshaling his army before Washing
ton, because il conferred upon Con-
gress the constitutional power to abol.
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