M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-07-24

thO OIuIo VI luulhud. huu YET, TeI6T
ring to this party and its constitution
The correspondent of a disloyal anC
peshlent, but Influential newspaper
in the chief city in Ohio, dared to
send over the telegraphic wires, wires
wholly under the military control u
the administration, which permits
nothing to6e transmitted not accepta
bic to its censors, dispatch in these
words:
"The fellows are frightened, evidently mel
without cause ;"
Well, gentlemen. | know not how
far Democrats Of Indiana may be frigh.
tened-but | see thousands OF Demo.
Gratis before me to whom fear and re.
proach are alike unknown. Frighten.
ed at whatl Frightened by whomi-
We are made Of sterner stuff.
"The militia of the State," he adds
twill probably be put upon war
footing very shortly"
And who, | pray, are the militia Of
the Statei They are not made up OF
the leaders OF the Republican party
in Indiana or Ohio, know. | never
knew that sort Of politicians to 60 in.
to any snch an organization, in peace
or in war. No men have ever been
more bitter and unrelenting in their
opposition to and ridicule OF the mill.
tia; and none knows it better than |,
as my friend before me by his smile,
reminds me that one of my own Of.
lenses is that | am militia hrigadier
in favor Of the next foreign war.
But who are the militial They are
the free born, strong. armed, stout.
hearted Democrats Of Indiana as they
are Of Ohio. Let them be put on a
war footing. Good! We have bosts
Of them in the army already, and on
war footing, but who are as sound
Democrats, and as much devoted to
the principles of tho party as they
were the hour they enlisted. They
have been in the South, and have
the authority Of hundreds of officers
and privates in that gallant army, for
saying that not ouly are the original
Democrats in it, more devoted to the
party to day than ever before, but that
hundreds also who went hence Re-
publicans, have returned, Or will re.
tuln, cured OF the disease. Laugh.
ter. Sir, the army is, fortunately,
most fortunately for the country turn.
ing ou: to be a sort OF politica! hospit-
al or sanitary institution, and | only
regret that there arc not many more
Republican patients in ii. Laugh.
tel.
Well, put the militia upon a war
footing. Put arms in their hands
They never can be made the butchers
o. jai!ers Of their fellow citizens, but
the guardians o! free speech and a free
press, and of the ballot-box. Stand
ing armies of mercenaries, not the mi
litia of'a country. ale the customary
instruments Of tyranny and usurpa-
tion.
But this correspondent proceeds:
"If the sympAthizers with treason and trait
ors''-
We sympathizers with treason and
traitorsl We, who have stood by the
Constitution and tie Union from the
organization Of the party, in our faith,
ers' day in our own day, in every
hour of trial, in peace ard in war, in
victory and in defeat; amid disaster
and when pros perity beamed upon
us-we to be branded as enemies to
our country, by those whose traitor
father burned blue lights as signals for
foreign foe, or met In Hartford Con-
vention to plot treason and d:sunion
fifty years ago! We false to tho con.
stitution and to our government, the
bones of whose fathers lie buried on
every battle field of the war Of 1912,
from the massacre a! :he River Rails
en- 10 the splendid victory at New
Orleans. we who bore aloit the proud
banner of the Republic and planted it
in triumph upon the place OF the Mon
tezumas. We by whose wisdom in
council and courage in tie field for
seventy years, the Constitution and
the Union aud the country which has
grown great under them, have been
preserved and defended; we to be de.
nounced as sympathizing with treason
and traitors, by the men who for TWEEN.
ty years have lsbored day and night
for the success of those principles and
of that policy and that party which
are now destroying the grandest Un-
ion, the noblest Constitution and the
fairest country on the globe. Talk to
me about sympathizing with disunion
| with treason and with traitorsl | tell
you, men Of Ohio, that in six months,
in six weeks it may be, these very
men and their masters in Washing.
ton whose bidding they do, will be
the advocates Of the eternal dissolu-
ton of this Union: and denounce all