The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-11-18
BOLD TALK FOR THE NORTH.

!
and the Southern Confederacy triumphant and
unassailabe."
| The same issue of the Times, the 31st ut.,
quotes the following passages from speeches lately
made IN that city by supporters OF the Seymour
ticket, though 1t does not name the speakers:
! 81 am going to Washin gton, and when I reach
there | will 90 to the President. [ will tell him
that without we have change of measures, so
! help me God, we will have change of men,
| Hear anotherpromnent Seymourite:
"If we elect Seymour, we intend to have this
cursed war stopped instantly, whether Lincoln
agrees to it not and if We carry the next House
Of Representatives will have it together on the
4th of March next at Washington, whether the
President calls it together not. This infamous
war on our Southern brethren shall come to an
end"
| The New York World Of the same date, boldly
declares
| awe have seen, one after another, our most
precious liberties insolently tramplcd upon; our
most sacred rights made the plaything of petty
| tyrants dressed in little brief authority. We
have been called traitors for exercising the func-
ton Of reason, and 'sympathizers with rebellion
for denouncing the incapacity of those who have
suffered rebellion to riot in victory. But there is
limit to everything The sleeping lion in this
case is not fiction; nor has he ever really been
asleep. The lion has been patient because he has
been deceived"
Of Lincons emancipation proclamation the
same journal says:
ave repeat our statement that the emancpa-
ton proclamation is virtual confession of inabili-
ty to conquer the South by fair ightng. 1t is
dissracetul acknowledgment of military weakness
made by all administration that has welded (al-
lowance being made for the navy, open ports, su-
perior wealth, and mechanical skil) quadruple the
| military resources of the Southland finds itself
overmatched! There is not more humiliating
spectacle in history than this exhibition of moral
abjectness. While the administration had hope
Of success by legitimate warfare it never thought
of emancipation. But it was at last made to be-
lieve that there is no other way to succeed-a
pusillanimous conclusion which bears the same
relation to real vigor that MIR. Chases shinplasters
do to real money"
We find in the same copy of the World letter
from Charles OConor the distinguished orator
and intrepid politician, written in favor of the
election of james Brooks, of the Express, to Con-
eress, that gentleman being a candidate for the
Sth District. Mr.. O'Conor says:
'Three unconstitutional and despotic acts have
been before the American people for about thirty
days receiving Judgment. One threatens 10 sub
vert existing social relations in the South; the
other two, by their purport, at and immed-
ately consign bondage at the footstoo of an ar
bitrary and irresponsible military power, all the
inhabitants Of the North. Our whole community,
men, women and children, are whelmed in one
common doom. The calm speech and measured
pace OF. age, the gay converse aud light step of
jocund YOUTH Must alike fall into accord with the
provost marshals notion of loyalty, or he may
apply the tyrants remedy, incarceration in dun
gcOn.
But the people of the Northern States are not
merely threatened. They are already caught, and
consequently the decree which consigns them to
bondage, is immediate, absolute, and uncondition-
al. Nothing is left to the citizens of a Northern
State but that poor privilege enjoyed by the hum
blest slave in the most despotic countries. He is
told, ''h you continue to approve yourself loyal
to the entire satisfaction of the governments spy
and gaoler, you will not be locked up"
OF the liberties won in '76 by three million
heroic coonists, of George Washington's constitu-
tion of the freedom Of Speech of the PRESS and of
the person, secured by that palladium through its
consecrated writ of ho6eos corpus, its trial by iu-
ry, and immunity from military arrests-ofa all that
ever constituted the peoples pride and safety, or
the nations strength, brit this remains. Every
citizen of the North may keep out of gaol just so
long as he can satisfy the town marshal of his !
loyalty.
Ispeak not of discarded trade, of ruined fnan-
ces OF enormous and increasing debt, of intolera-
bic taxation, of the thousands who have fallen of
amputated limbs and shattered health of tears at |
SO many tiresdes of great destituton sitting at
so many hearths, without single promised result
being attained or even approached, by any or all
OF these sacrifices. Let these considerations pass. |
Some think that these things were necessary and |
will ultimately work out benign results. conine
myself to the civil and political consequences re-
sultlng from eighteen months of abolition rule, to
our once happy and prosperous northern people. !
Neither will | dwell upon the fact that our great
and glorious Republic which two years ago COM
manded the worlds respect, would have defed the |
power of all earth's monarches and in vindcation |
OF Its own acts, "right wrong" would have
done SO, has cried pcccau', and yielded up its four
Fort arren captives at the demand of Il single |
foreign state Let u.s. too, pass by its humiliating
Accomplishments The same gates which subms- |
sivey open at the demand of foe never previous
ly truckIed to- and gave liberty to avowed 'srebes
and traitors swing back upon their hinges to hold
in unlawful bondage free citizens of the North
merely suspected of disloyalty-men against whom
their jallor could not prove the slightest offences
and whom therefore, he dared not to produce on
habeas corpus before any Judge in the land Alas.
they were nothing but officers of the United<
States; in them foreign prince was interested;
they had no friend or guardian but the Constitu-
ton and that had been set aside as useless or in
convenient"
Since the defeat of the Lncolnites in Pennsvl- !
and 9TH Il,