The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-08-29
Ilraud the Traitors.

itSlutHt, WAS ueslbneu 10 lnhuSUr'
ate regular crusade against the
war. The popular upriling imme'
diatoly after, consequent upon the
check before Richmond, and the
mighty demnonstrstion at Union
Park, took tho movement all absck.
Tho Now York leaders saw at once
that they had flo chance TO make
way against such determined patri
otism. They dropped all further
direct en,rt. The chief of them,
Fernando Wood, became so alarmed
at the new phase OF affairs, that he
stretched bis impudence to IA length
never ventured before. Having in
his speech at the Cooper Institute,
declared that "if the will OF the peo
pie ia not accomplished, thuy will
enforce it as Oliver Cromwell did,
by breaking into Congress and scat.
tering it to the Winds" he issued a
public card three weeks aderward,
averring that he never used any such
Language. though the S.enographers
ST. reported at the time and hundreds
bear witness OF the fact OF such an
u,tcrauce. The conduct OF these
New York politicians, in 30 speedily
seeking cover from the public indig.
nation, be,okened quickness OF per.
ception and much prudence. They
content themselves with working
clandestinely and indirectly.
At the West, however, the origin.
al programme ia openly and boldly
adhered to. The speakers Of the
Democratic State Convention, held
last week At Indianapolis, took high
ground against the administration
and tho war. The principle among
them, was the came "old man from
Kentucky. named Wicklife." who
figured 80 largely on tho Cooper In
stitute platform. lle was even more
audacious in indianapolis than in
: New York. This time he made a
dead set without any care for ap-
pc arances. He reviled Congress
Tor having "devoted nine'tentbs oi
, the late session to the interests of the
negro race reproached the Presi
dent for having "gono into the busi'
ness of working negroes and raising
cotton at Port Royal" and after
stating that the President has now
proclaimed the con6scstion of the
, property in eleven states" asks:'
"Are you Tor the war that 10 going
to take the property in slaves and
confscate in Are you willing that
four million slaves be set free9 Are
you, | ask, for such war! Do you
want these negroes to come on and
|, compete with your white labor"
He answers his own question by
exclaiming, "No! no! | am for u
white mans war against Abolition
ists" II this is not equivalent to
declaring that rather than prosecute
,, the war in its present direction, he
. would excite civil war here nj the
North, there is no meaning ia Ian
, guage. 1t may not be meant ioi
disloyalty, but it is not whit better
than tho biackest treason. Human
, wit could not devise anything better
q calculated 10 "give aid and comfort
to tue rebels under arms. The
! white mans war" which Wickliif,
|, proclaims "asainst Abolitionisis,
> is the very war these rebels claim t
! DO waging. lis proper place ii
under the rebel flag. 1t 10 a bas'
perversiJn to represent that conts
cation sprang from Abolition. |
sprang from rebel Obduracy, an,
h may even now be avoided by time
" y return to allegiance. The prop
h erty upon which the con6scation vii
# chiefly fall, il the rebels persist il
= incurrins it, is MT slave, property. -
~ That simply has to share the fate O
It all the traitors possessions. Tn,
! government which should depry,
:. its iucorrigible enemy Of all h!
/. property with the exception of hi
j. slaves, leaving his titlo to the latte
/. undisturbed, would make itse.f alik
n ridiculous and contemplate. Tn,
,. coniscati0n bill was intended /,
i. bring back rebels to their duty, an,
e tn punish them if tdey refused. Til
: measure, 1t is believed, was dictate,
IT by abaulute necessity, ior which Ih
is rebels themselves are Responsible -
"a Whether this necessity be g!lowo,
!. or NOT, the bill is ut all events q law
- aud he who attempts TO stir up pop
ID ular passion, and to drrg down tn
3. adm nistration, and to plunge til
North into an intestine war, becaus
OF it, can in no sense he loyal MAE
" 1t is that sort al faction whic
amounts to downright treason, inaa
much AS It's success would inevi,abl
!" make the government powerles'
and the rebsllion triumphant.
10 The other speeches at this gatht
4 ing were in the same traitoruus veil
/. Senator Carlisle denounced the L..
he slalion Of Congress as "divertIr
IN the war into an unholy aud gigan!
ly crusade against the Institutions
a Tho South, ard inauguratirg u poliC
tn which would continue the war 10
.s- ever. and bring on Il military Tespc
er ism" IL follows that the rebc
an ought 10 rcsist this policy aud CT