The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-08-07
Fhe Tories OF the Revolution - The
Peace Torirs of the Rebellion.

Apparently but few persons are
aware of the close resemblance which
may be traced between the tories OF
the revolution and the peace tories of
the great Southern rebellion yet threat
ening the life of the nation. a few
facts show almost. the complete iden-
tity between the two, and few refer
ences to the documentary history OF
the revolution, show the conclusive
hess Of the parallel The tories OF
l7T6 directed their whole force against
the Continental Congress and the mil
itary policy by which our Independ-
ence was ultimately established. They
assailed the Congress, Gen. Washing
ton, and the agents and officers Of the
revolutionary Government in the same
Istyle they are now assailcd by Val
llandigham and his co traitors. They
belitticd the causes which led to re
sistance Of oppression, denounced
Adams, Hancock, Jefferson, Franklin,
&c., as pestilent agitators who had
led the country to ruin, and were the
real enemies to its peace and prosper
ity. They either actually excused the
oppressors, those who were seeking
TO make slaves Of the colonists, or did
what was tantamount to that, by
charging the most frightltll oppress-
ions, wrongs and outrages upon the
revolutionary Government.
That the reader may observe how
clearly the parallel runs between the
toryism of l776, and the toryism of
1863. we will collate few passages
from Moorc's Diary ofthe Revolution.
Witness the following from vol l, p.
306, from the address of tory re
cruiting officer for the royal service,
delivered ut Il meeting on Long Is
land, Sept. 9th, l176: The misrule
and prosecutions of Committees, Con
vcntions, and Congresses are no long
er to be endured; they have become
insupportahlc-they are too enormous
for description. There are none ofus
but what have already either seen or
felt the cruelty and oppression of their
Republican despotism! Without ef-
fecting one salutary purpose, those
self-created bodies have violated all
the sacred ties Of civil society. pros
trated all law and Government, and
arbitrarily usurped all absolute con-
trCl over the natural rights the reason
and consciences Of their fellow sub
iects. Instead of Supporting consti-
tG;ional liberty. and redressing pub
lie grievance the special purposes Of
their original associations, they have
denied their fellow citizens the great
est aud mos valuable of all personal
privileges; those Of personal liberty
and freedom Of speech"
Wi,h the merest verbal alterations
this langua, is but transcrirt Of the
present 0lJU, r'HCCs ur N-,,TiUiri-t-t tler.Is,
Olds, VOORHEES,. an1 the whole hrool
of peace misyiemt4 in the North.
A.~liu, when 6en. burgoync com
men,ed his celebrated invasion from
the North in III, and which brought
up SO disastrously at Saratoga, he
scattered high-sounding proclama-
ton among the people, of which the
following is an extract, found on page
400 of the lst Volume of the Diary of
the Revolution:
ITO the eyes and ears Of the tenn
perate part of the public, and to the
breasts of suffering thousands in the
provinces, he the melancholy appeal.
whether the present unnatural rebel
lion has not been made foundation
for the completest system of tyranny
that our God in his displeasure, suf-
fered for time to be exercised over
II froward and stubborn generation
Arbitrary Imprisonment, contiscat.on
of property, persecution and torture,
unprecedented in the inquisitions OF
the Romish Church, are among the
palpable enormities that verify the af-
lirmative. These are inflicted by as-
semblies and committees who dare to
profess themselves friends to liberty
on the most quiet subjects, without
distinction of age or sex, for the sole
crime, often the sole suspicion, of hay
ing adhered in principle to the Gov
ernment under which they were born
and to which, by every tie, divine and
human, they owe allegiance. To con.
summate these shocking proceedings
the proclamation of religion is added tC
the most prohigate prostitution OF
common reason; the consciences o.
men are set at nought; and multitudes
are compelled not only to bear arms
but also to swear subsection to an
usurpation they abhor"
Evidently Geo. L. Pugh and Other
Vallandigham orators, have prodteC
by studying Burgoyne' proclamation
OF I777, got up expressly to meet th'
views of the tories Of that day. The
correspondence is complete between
the language employed then andnow
Bullock at Il few lines Of descrip
ton of the tories of l779 and see hov
aptly they apply to the peace tories 0
1868. In vol. I'd, p. l67, of the Diar,
p of the Revolution, under date Of jun
lst, l770, are given some extract
, from "a Whig," in the Pennsylvani
+ Packet, of August 9Th. Mark fey
+ of the questions and answers Of ~
Whig' of the revolution-"Who hav
always counteracted the endeavors o
Congress to secure the liberties of thi
country The Tories.
q Who propagate lies among us to di
courage the Wings? The Tories