Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-01-31
Shall Treason Triumph


peace these organizations exert an healihful
check upon each other, and when controlled by
good men contribute largely to the general well
fare
With new issues must arise new parties. The
war now being waged against the Constitution
and the Union, presents the great issue in which
all others merge-that is Union or Disunion,
government or anarchy, loyalty or treason
Every citizen of the republic must take one side
or the other We are not fighting for conquest
or subjugation, or to avenge some slight insult
or wrong, but for the very existence of u great
nation. Should the unballowed designs of the
conspirators triumph, it would infict upon us
greater evils than any which could otherwise be-
fal the nation. A war waged by internal enc.
mics against republic necessarily terminates in
death-struggle, in which one of the combatants
must be destroyed If treason triumphs then we
bid adeu to our national prosperity, security
and greatness. If the Government fails to pro-
tect itself against the rebellion, its prestige will
be ruined forever. One successful revolt will
serve as precedent for another, and this great
country will soon be divided not into two, but
into numerous miserable, jarring, distracted
States
| This insurrection aims fatal blow at the socu
rity and happiness of all good citizens, whether
they live in the North or the South, or have bith-
erto belonged to the Democratic, Whig, Ameri-
can or Republican parties. Those "peace Dem
ocrats" who denounce the war as one in which
only those of the same faith as the Administra
tion should engage who attempt to give it
partizan aspect by calling it an " abolition war;"
are either demented, or what is more probable,
in secret league with traitors.
The opinions of the Administration on ques-
tons of national politics, heretofore agiated, are
of little consequence to the American people,
but it is matter of deep concern to them that
the great republic of the United States, founded
by Washington, should not be forcibly overturn-
ed, and that anarchy robbery murder and trea-
should not stalk defantly through the land
conemning the authority of constutionally cho.
sen rulers, and jeopardzing all the vast interest
of peaceable citizens.
The conspirators are waging this war not
against party, but against country, and true
the insurgents as the Republicans. The best men
of the old parties-Dougas, Everett, Holt, Dick
inson, Butler, Corcoran, johnson, Hamilton, Nc
Clernand, Sprague, Stanton, Halleck Burnside,
and a host of Others whom we might mention,
have exhibited to the world patriotism which
has obliterated all party lines and buryng all
party issues have said to the President Of the
United States We opposed your election, but
you are our President, and will stand by you
and the Government until the old flag again
floats over every inch Of American soil. Here
are our lives and our Estates which we freely
tender to our country, and we sware by the Great
Eternal, though all things else shall PERISH this
country and this Union shall live, aud be trans
mited to the latest posterity
! Crowding the ranks of the national army may
be found Irishmen, Germans and Americans
men who have never been identified with the Re-
publican party, ready and eager to be led against
the traitor hordes. This is as it should be. But
meanwhile there are some so lost to all sense
Of patriotism, and regard for the welfare of the |
nation as to endeavor to paralyze the efforts of
the Administration to preserve the Union, and |
to crush out those who are arrayed n arms
against it. Every effort which is made to check
mate the designs OF the unprincipled conspira-
tors, instead of being hailed by them with the
delight felt by loyal citizens, receives their bitter
denunciation. They resort to every frivolous
pretext which their ingenuity can invent to weak
en- the loyalty, excite the prejudice, and mislead |
the judgment of their countrymen They bawl
out " abolition war; say the President has vi |
olated the Constitution, suspended the habeas
corpus, imprri soned spies and persons suspected
of treason, infringed upon the freedom of speech
and the press, and so on without limit, but see
nothing to condemn in all the Infamous efforts of
the secessionists to plunder and destroy the Tn.
ion, and nothing to applaud in the measures CT
the Government to protect it. The news of
Federal repulse elates them and illuminates their
couDtenances with complaisant smiles, but vic |
tory to the Union arms elongates their visage, |
and the smiles suddenly vanish. In fact loyalty
to the best Government that ever existed is in |
their eyes the worst of crimes, and open hostii. |
ty 10 1t so great virtue that it covers multi |
tudc of sins.
The destruc zion of this Republic has long been
predicted by the friends of monarchy, because |
they believed as they asserted that defeated par
ties would sooner or later prefer an appeal to
arms to a peaceful submission to decision of
the ballot box, which was obnoxious to them |
We are now passing through the most critical pc
riod in our history, real, not speculative ; dan
gers encompass us, and the greatest of them ey. |
succeed in exciting dissensons and by fraud and
false pretenses divide the loyal Masses and throw
the power into the hands of secession sympathiz
ers, the results would be most disastrous All
Union men, regardless Of former party names or
associations, should rise to the comprehension of
the actual periis in which our institutions are
placed, and cheerfully devote every power of
body and mind and fortune to their delverance,
forget that they were Democrats, Bell Everett
men, Americans, Wings OR Republicans, and meet
this crisis as becomes frcemen sincerely attached
to republican institutions, and regard those who
have opened the Pandora box, and are now coun
selling their countrymen to make an gnomini-
GUS peace with armed traitors as the most dan.
gerous foes of civil liberty and democratic gov.
eminent.
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