The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-12-11

Who are the Northern Traitors

"a sr-sse aHrs
According to the Constitution Of the
United States, which everv citizen iss~orn
- support, treason to the United STATES
consists only in levying war against them'
or in .dherinz 10 their snemies, giving
yhem aid and comfort.
When the Southern State. rehelled
against the government Of the United
States, and proposed 20 seceds therefrom
and establish government of their own,
sHoRAcs GREELEY. Of the New York Tri
bune. the leader of the Republican press of
the North. insisted ths. they had The right
10 do 20. and. Of course, reasoning logical
j., haa the right to oppose al! power bro'i
against them in their attempt to erforce
that right. Was HoR.cK GREELEY, who
endorsed he pretensions Of these rebel
States, and thereby gave them aid and
csmfort, . traitor 10 the United States
roveromenti The course of the New
York Tribune VA. endorsed bv the New
York Iadependent, the Chicago Tribune.
and ether radical Republican papers =
Why we're not HoRAcs GREELEY and the
editors Of these and other papers who en-
dcrsz1 and sanctioned the course Of the
rebels, prosecuted for their treason, and
arrested and sent to Fort La Favette bv
the Administration? Who can give any
other reason than that they voted the Re-
publican ticket1
While these papers afforded aid and
comfort to the enemy Of the government bv
endorsing their right to secede. and have
since criticised severely, if not most malig-
nantly, the acts of The Administration, and
have not been censured, loyal Democrat
ic papsrs have been suppressed and their
conductors incarcera'ed in prison.
Lest some may say ,ha, We are dealing
in mere assertion, without proof we quote
the following from the New York Tri-
bane
"lf the cotton states shall become sat.
is1ed that thev can do better on, Of The
Union than in it ,ce INSIST on Ms letiing
them go an peace. The r0ht to socsde may
be revolutionary one but IL erists. neUrr-
Meless. We must ever resist
the right Of snv sta'e +, remain in the
Union and nnlify and DEFY tho laws there
Of To lpithdrow fiom rhe Unioa is qntife
another matter Uhfnerer coneiderobe
section of our Union shaU dpIiberalelv re-
solue to 90 out re SHAH resist oil coerciye
measures designed to keep 1t in We hope
never to live in Republic whereof one
section is pinned to the other BY bayoneis. y
Tribune. Nou. 9. 1860.
X the cotton state. uni'edlv and ear
nastlv wish to Withdraw peacefully from
the Union ve think Mev shou1d nnd 10 ula
be alowed to do 50. Anv ntemptto ram
pei them bv torce to re,anin r,n'd he con-
fr1ry to the principles enuncjatea IN the
immortal Declaration Of Ind pendepce =
contrary 70 ,h- Fundamental IDEAS on which
human liberty is based. '-7ribune, Nov.
26, 1860
"If it (the Declaration of Independ
ence) justified the secession from the Brit
ish empire of three millions Of ro'onis's in
l776 ,ce do not see ,rhy II ,cnu1 not jus
ttv the secession of fire millions of .Soutt
erners fron, the Union IN 1861 '-Tribune.
Dec II, 1860
Whenever IL shall he ~1cnr that he
IL Il ,Fo J.
come conclus;rlv olicnntrd from he Union.
and anrions to escape from IT WE WILL
DO OUR BEST TO FOHW ARr TIL EIR
VIEWS. Tribune. FEB. 90. 1861.
Who can say with truth that these aye
not reasonable utteranc~s Who can
not saw that but for he course of the Tri-
buns the South would never have come to
open rebellion against the government
Was not that paper the leading organ OF
the Republican par'yl Wa. not TIoRAcE
GRKELkY a delegate to the Chicago Con.
veutiS,.. ..hsnd did he not claim 20 have
nominated ABRAHAM LINCOLN? Did not
the South know all this, and knowing it,
did thew not believe that the incoming
Administration would permit them TO
peaceablv secede "-tha, they wonla not
be /" coerced TO remain in the Union -
that no effort would he.made br the LIN.
colin Administration, whose mon'h-piece
was supposed to be the New York Tribune
"to pin the South TO the North with bay
cnets"
Who will say that such REASONABLE ut
terances from .hs radical Republican press
did not preeipitate the people into thl. civ
il war, which is taxing the resources, in
men and treasure, to the utmost caraci'v
Though such crimes. committed hv Re
publcans. NAV te winkeA At or excused hv
the present Administration, the day oil
reckoning to these high criminals will
most surely come. The patience of the
people is b coming exhausted bv this pro
longed war, and they will soon over'uru
An imoecile Administration. crush Aboli