Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-04-29

] eontederates, begin to preach the doc
trine of resistance to President Lincolr
E and the doctrine of submission to j eff
+ Davis, it is at least due to the communi
e ty that the tendencies of their absurd and
f dangerous instructions should be expos.
ed. They counsel resistance to the laws
Let US suppose that here and there these
cOpperhead apostles of mob law succeed
in securing body o. athsrents resolved
upon resistance to the conscription. The
Government undertakes to enforce the
law; bloody collision ensues; the con-
tagiOn of resistance spreads throughout
the ranks Of the party infected, and civil
war, with all its fearful consequences, is
inaugurated at our own doors. Under
such state of things what citizens prop
erty, home, or life would be secure?
What family would be safe from night to
night against the intrusion of a gang of
hungry ruhans and a wholesale spolia-
ton? And with the loyal States in this
horrible condition, how would it be pos
sible to prevent the breaking up of our
armies in the field, the occupation of the
National Capitol by JEFF Davis, and the
absolute destruction of the Government
of the United States?
A reign of terror would inevitably fol-
low throughout the length and breadth of
the land, and peace at last would most
probably be the result of foreign armed
Intervention and the division of the bro
ken fragments of the Union between
England and France. Such are the ten
denotes of the reasonable doctrines Of
resistance to the laws preached by such |
silly malignants as Vallandigham and
Company. Ina milder view, such preach
ings are the absurd rawlings Of miserable
mountebanks and political charlatans.
They want an armistice; they want
national peace convention; they want "a
change Of the Constitution to suit the
dainty stomach of Davis and his confed-
crates; they even want, as a last resort,
a capitulation to Davis, Union or no I'm
ion, for the sake of peace, But to all
these base expedients of base and stupid
impOstors, the responsible and ruling
chiefs of the rebellion have no other ans
wer than that of scorn and disgust. The
simple truth is that men cry peace, but
there is no peace, and there can be no
peace short of the subjugatiOn of this re-
bellion.
This is the exact issue-the suppress
sion of this rebellion by force of arms, or
endless confusion and ruin from civil war
in the North-universal chaos and mob
law. We call upon the President to ex-
ecute the laws; we call upon him to en-
force the ConscriptiOn Act in order to
our armies in the field, with :
put loss of time. We call upon the peo-
pie of the loyal States to stand by the q
side of the Government, to support it,
md to frown down all attempts, in every
quarter, to create riots, instructions, and :
oands of Iawless eut-throats and robbers.
The Jacobin teachings of Vallandigham :
Co., as we are advised, will not be much
onger tolerated by the Administration.
When refugee Unionists in the South are =
iunted down by bloodhOunds, President d
lincoln, no doubt, is inclined to believe u
hat itinerant Northern copperheads, in ?
.ushing their opposition to blatant trea- .
on, have passed the limits of the laws l.
orbearance. :,
The people will follow their legitimate D
-ay to reach the shortcomings of the 2,
administration. If, with the enormous "
orces, means and powers at his command, SC
resident Lincoln, in the interval to the D,
ext regular meeting Of Congress, shall 81
ii TO eztinguish the rebellion, the two in
ouses, by the verdict of the people in a
ie next autumn's elections, may be COM tb
slled to impeach him, and in his place nc
try the Vioe-President as the head of dr
e Government. Should he also fail in
hat will then be a very brief interval to
e Presidential election, the people will hii
evitably provide positive remedy in
e election to the Presidency of some -
ch man as General Mcclellan. Mean en-
ne, there can be no armistices, no peace
no amendments to the Con
tuition, no amnesty, no concessions of or,
y sort to the rebellion, while it defes up
e armies Of the Union and demands COZ
element by the sword. This is the al
native of Davis and his confederates. -
It them have it. We have the forces tbi
d the means equal to their speedy sub is t
CATION. A single great Union victory moi