The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-01-15

that the south asked was that Mr.. Lin.
colo would not bot out slavery.
He thought that the South should
have waited, until Federal interference
with their constitutional rights, compel.
ed them to withdraw. a y
The government as constituted b1
Lincoln was very bad one. AZ
Offices 10 the bestowal of the AdninA
ton, we're given TO his abolition frisnd
The plan. according to corresponds
ent of the New York Horl0, to free the
negroes was matured at Springfield, ILL.,,
a month b, fore Mr.. Lincoln was inaug-
urated. The war was, at the outset, com.
meuced to sustain the Constitution
The north rose up as one man to defend
the government Armies were raised
and equipped. The treasury was re-
pleuished The people responded nobly.
This Uuion, they said, must be preserv-
ed. Soon new light broke in upon them.
They saw that the Government was de.
teruli1ed to make this ar abolition war.
Epcroachmcn.s were made by Congress.
The Government established military.
despotism, more arbitrary than that of
the Emperor Of Russia. The wri. of
hoLeos corpus was suspended and martial
law was proclaimed throughout the land,
under which, arrests without due pro-
cess of law, were made in paIpable viola
ton of the Constitution. The Constitu.
ton is the great charter of our liberties,
and its integrity must be maintained. -
If the President can violate one clause,
SO he can another, and another, till its
every provision is wholly disregarded.
1t would then be no better than rope
Of sand
the President swore to uphold the
Constitution. While he did this the
people sustained him. To the people
the Constitution is everything. In it is
wrapped up al the honor and glory Of
the nation, and blow at it causes the
IubIic heart to bleed. When the Prof.
dent suspended the writ of haJeas col
the people cried out against it. H.
knew that, it one man could do this, ILL
erty was at an end. Liberty loving men
'amented this, and cried out against it.
But their voices were not needed. There
is power in the ballot box. When it
speaks and the rulers do not heed its
voice, the people will find other means
of resisting their entertainments. They
are justified IN making use of all the
means that God and nature have put in
TO their hands, 70" the purpose of main
tanning their ri gh;s. The people have
the right of revolution, when the Gu /
tuition is disreearded and encroaeI
upon Within the last six months i
have been wrongs committed al ael
US, worse than any monarch on e.
commit. The Government HI
crowded with martyrs to e.
"on. ihe'e WIN ena -n.1-l
until the abolition party is seq
hell. God grant that that del
it goes down to the pit, may
permitted to appear again on e
time shall be no more. The Del
when Mr.. Lincoln undertook to pr
the Union, sustained him. But 4
he put his own party into powc u,
when he advised them to put an end
slavery, and advised a pro'ongation + I
The war for the purpose Of emanoi pat1k
he slaves, they entered their protest
against it. The President is spending
three millions per day. What laudable I
undertaking. for the purpose of freeing
negroes from Their masters?
After referring to the amount of blood
that has been shed in the recent battles
ne says, mo longer is the battle cry for
Liberty and Union; but the battle c{
Is, ltt up the colortd race. take that
terry and free niger" Two years
now elapsed since the common cement 81
TINS war, and what has been accomplish
ed? We have done Dothing and worse
than nothing. The Administration has
turned this rebellion into lever to fur
Their its own ends.
After euiogizing the soldiers, he says.
that the Presidents proclamation will
bring with i, bankruptcy and a war that
can never be brought to close. The
war is now essentially an abolition one.
The negro now is Of infinitely more i'm,
rortauce than the white man. The sol.
dlers are meanly clad and scantly fed
! whl,c the negroes are we'll clad and well
fed. The Administration now holds manv
negroes who weep to return to their mas
tiers. Mr.. Liacoln wishes to have them
come north and settle side by side with
the whites The white man, under such
circumstances, will rise and extermiDate
the blacks, not on account of any wrong
which the blacks have done, but on ac
count of the mismanagement of those
who are IN power Our government as
made for the white man.
The Republican party has tasted pow
or, and are determined to use it to their
own advantage Their purpose is to free
the blacks and to place votes in their
! hands. M one is so foolish as to SUD-
pose that they desire 20 free the nirrers