Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-01
The Contempt In which the Rebels Hold
the Northern " Peace - Cowarda.
Iron the Richmond Enquirer, Jan, 12.1
TWO YHARS HHNC'


Ifrom the Richmond Enquirer, Jan, 12l
TWO YHARs HENCE.
In two y>ars, as many persons hope, we
may possibly have peace-that is. always
provided we continue 70 repulse and de-
feat the invading enemy. The Yankee
Democracy is certainly rousing itself
and preparing for now sirpggle Cat the
ballot bcx) in the great cause Of the
spoils," or, % they call it, the cause Of
Constitutional Liberty. Those Detnocra.s
are evidently beginning to raise a Peace
plattorm for their neat Presidential cleo
ton !; and if they have the good luck To
be helped on and sustained by more a1u
more serious disasters of the Yankee aru.v
in the field, there is no doubt that the
present devourers of the said spoils st
Washington may soon be SO discredited
and decried that our enemy's country
would be ripe for such peaceful ballot box
revolution.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that those
earnest champions of constitutional free
dom will be helped on and sustained in
tne manner they require-namely, by con
| tinued and severe reverses in the field !;
| and it is the first and most urgent duty OF
our countrymen 30 to help and sustain
that Democratic party. 1t is nothing TO
| US which of their faction may devour
their spoils !" just as little does it sig
| nifty to Us whether they recover or do not
| recover that constitutional liberty which
| they go wantonly threw away in the mad
pursuit of Southern conquest and plumber.
| But it Is Of the utmost Importance to US to
aid in stimulating disaFection am0ug Yam.
kees against their oton Government, and in
| denaoralising and disintegrating society in
that God-abandoned country. We can do
| this only in one way-namely, by thrash.
| ing their armies and carrying she war into
their own 6resides. Then, indeed, consci
| entious constitutional principles will hold
| sway peace platforms will look attractive !;
| arbitrary arrests will become odious, and
hateas corpus be quoted at premium
| This is the only way we can help them.-
In thas sense, and to this ertent, those DEM
ocrats are truly our allies, and zoe shall
endeauor to do our duty by them.
But they evidently look for other and
further help at our hands, and OF quite q
different sort. No doubt they are pleased
tor the present, with the efficient aid which
the Confederate army is affordng them.
| Charlottesville was q God send to them,
and the tremendous repulse at Port Hud-
son is quite plank in their platform. Yet
they understand very well that no matter
how soundly their armies may be happily
beaten; no matter how completely Lin
coins present war policy may be con.
| demned by its results, yet all this will not
| be enough to enable the unterritfed Demo-
crdcy to clutch tho spoiLs"-or as they
phrase it, to restore the Constitution OF
their fathers. This, of itself would neve.
| give them a Peace Democrat President
| and Cabinet it would only result in an.
| other AbolltioDist Administration, with q
new Secretary of War, and new Com
mander in-Chief, and slightly different
programme for s. crushing the rebellion. y
Those Black Republicans are In power
alter long waiting, pinlDg, intriguing in
the cold shade of the opposition and they
| have now the numer' cal preponderance 80
| decidedly that they both can and will hold
on to ,be office with clutch like death.
| The Democrats can do absolutely nothing
without "the South" as they persist in
| terming these Confederate states; and
! they cannot bring themselves to admit the
thought that zoe would refuse to unite aciM
them (as alas zoe used to do) in grand
universal Presidential campaign, for a
Democratic President, Uith Peace plat
form, and the Constitution as 1T u.s." In
fact, this whole two years war, and She
two years more war which has yet to be
| gone through, is itself, in their eyes, only
a Presidential campaign, only somewhat
more vivacious than ordinary.
This explains the Valland;ghan Peace
Meetings in New York and New Jersey ;
and the ''manly declarations" of Mr.. Hora.
to Seymour and other patriots. 'Do not
let us forget" says Fernando Wood, writ
| ing to the Philadelphia meeting, "that
L
/, arrest and Punishment of Mr.. Vallandig-
| ham, do so as necessary war measures
| Let us, therefore strike at the cause, and
declare tor peace and against the aoar"
This would sound very well if the said
''declaring for peace" could have any ef-
feet whatever in bringing about peace. I,
q man falling from tower could arrest
his fall by declaring against il, then the
| declarations OF Democrats against the war
might be of some avail. As it is they re-
semble that emphatic pronouncsment of
| Mr.. Washington Hunt: "I.et it be pro-
claimed upon the housetops, that no citizen
| of New \ ork shall be arrested without
| process ot law" There is no use in bawl-
ing from the housetops what every body
knows to be nonsense. Or this resou-
ton OF the New Jersey meeting:
|
ment of the Hon. q. l.. Vslla ndg ham, the laws OF
our country have been outraged, and the OF
the United States disgraced and the rights every
! citizen anced, and that it is duty of .
| wrespecting people to o<mdnd of the Admins
trAtion that it at and forever desst from
deeds Of despotism and crime. Enthusiasm
Demand, quothaa The startling that
Mr.. Sterne saw in the cage, said only, II
| can't get out" It would have been more
'.manly" to scream, 81 demand to get out
i proclaim on the house-tops thas aoill
get out !"
Another of the New Jersey reso utions
throws an instructive light upon the
| whole movement, and its objects.
| Rssolved, That we renew our declaration o. at
tachment to the Union, pledging to its frieI DIS,
,chereoer found, our unwaverng support, and TO
its enemies, in whatever guise, undyin.-
| hostility, and that, God willing, We will stand
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