The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-02-07
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than consistent loyalty, to,'agiFate' on tbs
the subject OF certain aarrresFs,'s made BY
the Governrnent, mostly, under the fieFss
pressarefof an sunpanalialsd. crisis in our
.hissaEY Jand the impeEstiye 'slaw, OF seH de-
sianneeesss sineess undsr AhiGR 6df Ii Sssdt ruIsrs as-
suniSSd bfsses that tSg1t blssksss 9teseAssy
was worn BY the rebellion proudly, as the
| very "frontlGts betRaen its eyes," that tbs
Freaanry was. piundered TO ntter emptiness,
the couspirators scramblipg for the last
coins as they left tbetr5 seats 10 Congress-,
foreswern and glorafyipg 10 thsir infamg;
thasth army and pIRy Was; scattered the
canon, and other srms spirited away by per
jured officials; in short, that to the extent
OF their knav6ry'th tho conspiratofs had bersfs
our incoming rulers Of everything needful
to carry On the Governm ans, we shall be
reminded of the terrible task imposed up
on the latter in attempting TO save q great
nationality from utter ruin.
But. there wts something w1rse thin all
this perhaps to eaebnnter. 10 the guilty
eight of the great traitors from the Gap
ital, tbey had taken care to leave bshlnd
them, 10 the Offices OF the Government, a
small army of spies and traitors Of the worst
grade, 10 alhanoe with themselves; so that
lock which way he might, the new Execa.
tive would eneountsr smiling faces of men
seeking to bury aim" and the loyal men
associated with him, under the ruins OF the
Capital, aud we may again be reminded
that IN position 80 full Of responsibility
and peril, extraordinary means WeIs-- to
be resoRted to if he would save the country
and the Government from utter destruc-
ton.
II would have been bad enough, too,
had the enemies OF the Government, the
base plotters against It's safety and it's hon
or, been confined to the hmhs Of the Cap
ital; but, unfortunately, the deadly virus
of secession had-under the encourage
ment given it during the last year of the out
going g'AdministratioD-pe even she
loyal States. From Maine TO Texas were
found --Whereger er the rockenridge Democ'
racy was f0und-those who c.uug to the
trescherous Vice Presidsnt even after he
had done the erowning act which insured
him an eternity of infsmy. Active, plausi-
Bile, doubls faced, cantiug abouS their de
sire to see the'C1nscitution adhered to apd
the Union preserved they, in the dark, as Dp-
portunity served piled 10 the deadly engine
u destroy both-touehIng elbows as they
could manage it with the gre9t traitors
at Montgomery and afterward at RICH
mond, and, when detected, putting on an
aDpearauc Of wrougfuliy' suspected patriot-
ism, humlattug, as it was appalling for the
credit of human nature to witness.
Ii was long labor, hard task to de-
tect all this rottenness and crime. At every
IN oment, revelations we're made, treacbery
was uncovered, / efore which the dark deeds
o! Benedict Arn0Id-the hitherto synonym
Of CRIME of that s0rt-became almost white
by contrast; until the Government at last
n eminent peril Of its existe nee, even from
day to dsv, exercised the God given power
of I" self f-defeuce," and laid its grasp upon
those who were clutching at its throat. Our
rulers dld this under that plea, admitted
by every nation in time Of war, in time of
deadly peril to the State-rthe plea Of 'mili
tarv necessity" and the loyal of the ma
ton justified the act.
@Thas the ssnecessisy" existed, none can
deny; and right here let Us hear the Father
of his Country, the very founder OF our
nationality. in letter written in Novem.
hcr. l775, to Gov. Trumbull, Gen. Wash
ingtoB thus safirms that right and the
propriety of FsBezng" upon the Jais&lfected,
the piotters against the country. Nay, be
went so far as TO propose arresting those
who-he says "we know tctN be aCtivs
against u.s." not even proposing to wait
for the overt act. We quote:
CAS- it is now very spparent," he wrote
"that we have nothing to depend upon in
the present contest but our own strength,
care. frmness and UOiop, should not the
same measures be adopted 10 everyGovern-
ment on the continens2 Would it nos be pru
dent to seize on those tories who have been,
are. and that We know will be active against
us7 Why should persons who are prey.
ing upon the vitaIs Of their country, be
suffered to FuIk at large, while We know
they will do US every mischief in their
power? These, sir, are the points beg
leave to submit to your serious consldera-
ton"
Now we submit that what Gen. Washing
ton affirmed to be right in a great crisis
one 10 DO sense more perIlous than the
present-is right to day; and the views ad-
heFed to, where would be the brawisrs who
swarm 10 the lsBd, seeking openly aDd ia
every way possible to give aid to the enemy
Or il the words of Washington, who
" are preying upon the vissls of their eouO-
try?" .esl>. p
Again, with many of the disafeeted--par-
ticuiarly 10 our own State-Virginia is the
great model "As Virginia goes, so must
Maryland" Let US see how Virginia treat
ed traitors, ipcitegs OF treason, in the olden
time, when Pptris Henry vas Governor and
Thomas Jefferson was member OF the Leg.
isIatnre. After anaesing that, any person
who should by 'sany word, open deed and
act, aavisedly aud willingly maintaiu and
defend the authority of Great Brisaius
should be fined in sum not to exceed sswen-
ty thousand pounds and to be imprisoned
for the term Of I've yeare,'" the psxy pro-
vides: 81 b SIS q - y
sFThat any. person who shall uasllsiuaalg
and advisediy enaeavot TO excite Che paokia
to resist the government of thisp ksers
monwealth, as by law estabhshedss e cf per-
suads them to return to a dependence.
upop ste crown OF Grekt Britain; or whosbalI
maIlclonsiy and advisedly excite or raise
.tsissuis nnd disorder in the Stateas or gwha
'shsn dEia1ioiousIy and adyisedIy serrifs and
sisoausage the peaple from enl,sting into the
servIoesof the Conmenwealth, or dispose
them 10 favor the enemy; every person 50