Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-07-02
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threatens President Lincoln with the GER
tain displeasure, and probable desertion,
of the mis-named conservative element. !"
He did not pardon the pirate, Gordon.
He did not veto the District emancipation
bill. He recommend freedom to the bor-
der slave states. He did oyerrule the bar
barous order of Gov. Stanly. He has not
stood up against the ideas of the age. He
signed the bill prohibiting slavery forever
in all the Territories. The public domain
is consecrated to free homes. The Pacific
Railroad is authorized. Rebels will be
compelled to pay for the luxury Of rebel
ling. Union soldiers cannot now be used
to run down fugitives not sowing service
to wretches who hate their county,
White traitors will not much longer be per-
milted to hold back loyaists as slaves.
And because President Lincoln does not
oppose this restoration Of the Republic 70
health and reason, he is threatened with
the deserton Of snail-paced crew, who
never stood up manfully for any cause at
all, and never will.
The conservative element it was that
deprecated the passage Of Union troops
through Maryland; advocated the armed
neutrality of Kentucky; charged the cause
of The war on New England; and never
hesitated to call upon the Government to
turn aside from the great task of saving
the Republic, in order 70 catch the runaway
slave Of rebel. The conservative ele-
ment" it was that deceived the Admins
tration in regard to Eastern Tennessee, and
postponed action till it was too late TO save
the Unionists from destruction. Let the
conservative element by all means cast
loose from the President. Herceforward
no man deserves the name of statesman
who would consent to the restoration Of
slavery to its lost power.
Deficient in faith, foresight, and cour-
age, the conservative, as we find him, is ut
terly helpless in a time of revolution. He
conforms backward and forwards with ey-
cry change in the fortune Of the contend
ing parties. Having no fixed principles Of
his own, be cannot conceive how any pun-
ciple should be worth fighting for. In
l'tryinc to make himself acceptable to both
sides, be gains the confidence Of neither.
He insists That the rebel Shareholders are not
altogether in the right, but entirely IN the
wrong; that they should be conquered, but
must be conciliated; that their revolt was
criminal, but yet justifable, for they were
forced into it by Abolition aggressions, and
therefore had no possible ground for COM
plant. A coward and runaway when
defending the right, an apologist Of wrong,
a mercenary who serves without love and
opposes without hatred,-this canting go
between, who never sees a coming event
till it is right upon him, solemnly assures
us that, whereas the country was once hap
DIV and is now miserable, the only way to
be happy once more is to do nothing.
Ard such stuff as this he tries to pass off
as political.
Press him to name the period Of pros
perity which he would restore, and he will
point with sigh to the time when The IL
lustrions Buchanan was President--when
Douglas was ostracized because he would
not bow before slavery in the prescribed
manner-when nayy-yards were filed with
workmen in order to outyote the friends of
candidates obnoxious to the Administration
when Floyd stripped Northern arsenals,
and Cobb robbed the Treasury-when
traitors in Baltimore plotted the assassina-
ion Of MI. Lincoln, and traitors in Rich
mond plotted the capture Of Washington
when peJured scoundrels telegraphed
from their seats in the Senate that the
time had come for striking fatal blow at
tho Union-to this miserable period he will
point, and he will shudder at the bare sug-
gestion that we must press forward with
the march Of events in order to secure a
permanent and honorable peace. And be-
cause the President has not kept pace with
the associates of this good-fo nothing lag
gard, he is threatened with the detection
Of the conservative element;" as if the
hindmost camp-followers Of great and
victorious army, too lazy to keep up with
the conquering columns, should threaten to
turn back unless the commander ordered a
halt The attachment of such men is a
misfortune while It lasts Chicago Iri6.