Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-11-27
"The sarcasm, catch your hare,

| -- L lhe.SarcdSIIl, CdtCil tcui A''i Z,
| may be applicable to the first; per.
gthaps its intended victims are not
1yet within reach of the power
(which menaces. Besides, it is only
Ia threat-a thing which none but
1.-the, weak and timid deal in. But
! the people of the Northern States St;
are not merely threatened. They
J, are already caught, and consequent
tly the decree which consigns them
to bondage, is immediate, absolute,
and unconditional. Nothing is
left to the citizens of Northern
State but the poor privilege enjoy
ed by the humblest slave in tie
most despotic countries. He is
told, ''if you continue to approve
yourself as loyal to the entire sat-
isEaction of the governments spy
and jailor, you will not be locked
up"
.sOf the liberties won in '76 by
three million heroic colonlsts, OF
George Washingtop's constitution,
of the freedom of speech, of the
press, and of the person, secured
] by that palladium through its con-
seerated writ of habeGs corpus, its
trial by jury, and immunity from
military arrests-of all that ever
constituted the peoples pride and
safety, or the nations strength, but
this remains. Every citizen of
the North may keep cut of Jail
Just so long as he can satisfy the
town marshal of his loyalty.
81 Ispeak not of disordered trade,
of ruined finances, of enormous
and increasing debt, of intolerable
taxation, of the thousands who
have fallen, of amputated limbs
and shattered health, of tears at
so many fresides, or of great des-
titution sitting at so many hearths,
without single promised result
having been attained Or even ap-
preached, by any or all of those
sacrifices. Let these considera-
tions pass. Some think that these
things were necessary and wilh ul-
!, timately work out benign results:
I confne myself to the civil and
political consequences resulting
from eighteen months of abolition
rule, to our once happy and pros
porous Northern people. Neither
will l dwell upon the fact that our
great and glorious Republic which,
two years ago, commanded the
worlds respect, would have defied
the, power of all. earth's monar-
chies, and in vindication of It's own
acts, right or wrong, would have
done SO, has cried peccaci, and yield
ed up its four Fort Warren cap
tives at the demand of single for
eign state. Let us, too, pass by
the humiliating accompanlments.
The. same gates which submissive
ly open at the demand of a foe
never previously truckled to, and
gave liberty to avowed rebels and
traitors swing back upon their
hinges to hold in unlawful bondage
free citizens of the North merely
suspected of disloyalty-men a.
gainst whom their jailor could not
prove the slightest offences, and
whom, therefore, he dared not to
produce on habeas corpus before
any iudgein the land. Alas! they
were nothing but officers Of the
United States; in them no foreign
prince was interested; they had no
friend or guardian but the Constl-
tuition; and that had been set aside
as useless or inconvenient."
The New York Times in the
course of an editorial, makes the
following remark:
|. every one knows with what
keen interest any indication OF
hostility to the Confederate
Administration, whether coming