Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-08-05

possesses Inc Constitution, and the
laws made under it, are still our sword
and shield; every battle fought. and gun
fired by the army of the Union, las been
strictly on constitutional principles, except
in cases where our boys ran, as they have
once or twice, and that | am in q little
doubt about. Laughter.] The Constitu-
ton is now our guide and watchword-iti is
what We are fighting for; it is our pillar
of cloud by day. and fire by night, to lead
Us through this Red Sea of war, and this
wilderness of our trials; it is still unim-
paired and our segis, and so it will remain
till not rebel on the broad continent
shall dispute its vitality, or deny that it is
10 full force and effect. And am inclined
to think that one ciause-that which con-
fers on the executive the pardoning pow
er, they will be very happy to use for
their own benefit. Applause and laugh
teri ~
MORAL CHARACTER OF REBEL sYMPATHIzERs.
No person has been wronged. The
wrong doer alone, has been disturbed in
his evil deeds. 1t is a just right and ne
cessity of war to condne or Danish the
enemys friend in our midst, as much as
to kill the enemy himself in battle. And
in this case, under the circumstances of
this war, Oh, thousand times more so.
For when We contemplate the enormous
wickedness OF this rebellion-the ocean OF
tears, the rivers of blood, the hell OF suf-
fering that it has caused-what can we
say OF him, who for loves sake, or for hate,
from party feeling or personal regard. or
spite, or for any cause, shas sympathy or
excuse for traltors2 This say That not
the slaughter of the Innocents, not the
massacre OF st. Bartholomew, not the con-
centrated crimes which have stained the
history of civilization and which felons of
all degrees have expiaLed In prisons and
on scatfolds, equal in black intensity the
unmitigated and deep Gepravity OF the
smoothest tongued miscrearl, who in his
innermost thoughts-in the very secret
recess of his heart OF hearts, oherishes
enmity, or disdain, or GOODNESS or luke
warmness, or aught but the most vivid,
burning and constant enthusiasm for the
success of our arms and the triumph of
our cause. Prolonged applause.
THE PEACE MEN.
And other men, doubtless hoping for
the blessing pronounced in the beatitudes,
have turned peace makers. do not think
they fill the bill. One who thinks to re-
store peace between a man fighting for
his life and an angry grizzly bear, would
as much deserve to be called one of " the
children of God," laughter as does the
vain and impotent babbler who now talks
of peace between the defenders of the
Union and its enemies. Applause. /
Peace Peace with what Peace with
rebels in arms against the government
Peace with the assassins of your country
men. Peace with vast butternut rag.
bag, laughter alive with traitors and
bristling with arms, as other ragbags
swarm with vermin and are prickly with
their stings. Man of peace, you are En-
couraging, aiding and abetting this war
Each cry for peace at the North is worth
to the rebels a victory on the battlefield.
l"That's so" and applause. Man of
peace, the continuance of this war is your
work. This blood is shed by you. Your
hands are red-wet with the gore of your
countrymen. Those groans from desc
lated hearths and broken homes, are the
echoes of your stump speeches, your curb
stone harangues, your newspaper arti-
cles. o, father, in thy gray haired an
gulsh, mourning thy first born-thou sec
ond Abraham, who consigned thy son to
the sacrifice, and no Angel of the Lord
withheld thy hand-lift thy sunken eyes
wrath, to strike this man OF peace dead
Mother, the staff OF thy widowed age is
10 more. This man OF peace is guilty of
his blood. In the pangs of thy mortal
grief, cans't thou not ask the widows
God tor vengeance on his murderer p
sensation. And thou, fair haired young
bride, whose bridal wreatns are turned to
widows weeds, this man of peace did kill
thy husband. o, raise those lilly hands.
and that streaming face to Heaven, and
imprecate some chosen and fated curse on
thy conntry's foe and thine. Prolonged
applause.]
FALSE PRETENCEs.
But these men don't want peace till af-
ter the election. They want the war to
continue so that they can oppose it.
[Laughter.l The peace talk is a politi-
clans trick. They want something to find
fault with. They are like the boy that came
into the house crying: sonny" said his
mother, "what do you want, do you want
a piece of bread and butter ~ mo"
was the reply, 81 don't want any bread
and butter, I've got the belly ache, and
that's aohat aoant." (Great laughter
| tell you, these men want it. Why, make
a peace, and you destroy their capital
Cure the pain caused by the abnormal IT.
rltauon OF The muCuS membrane OF the
viscera, and you rob them of their stock
in trade. (Renewed laughter).
PEACE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE EXTERMI-
NATION OF TRAITORS.
No man talks of peace believing peace
to be possible, while there is a rebel in
arms against the Government. To end,
and to end forever rebellion to the Gov
eminent is the object of this war.
Sc Like the Poutic sea
whose icy current and compulsye course
Meier knows retiring ebb;
it cannot stay nor halt till that end is &C
And to accomplish it, if |
necessary, the war must be one of exter. |
mination. Where there is q rebel who |
will not submit, he must be killed, if it |
includes them all. II necessary, their |
cities must be depopulated, and their land |
laid waste. Let no mans child live to |
become q rebel. Let the rebel father die, |
and let the rebel mothers quickening
womb be paralyzed, that the seed OF trai. |
tors may be exterminated frcm the earth. |
When, and only when, there are no rebels
eft; when the race is extinguished, and
their principles forgotten, may we have
peace, substantial peace, permanent peace,
peace. Then will this red deluge |
of war be to US the tructifyer of q more
abOuudlnp harvest of good in ects hliubad |