The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-08-28
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So far rs this war is concerned.
every true American will support the
President now--not because lie is
the President, but because he ia the
only channel through Which we can
give practical aid to the country, to
our state. to our neighbors and to
ourselves. The people arc the power,
hut they cannot administer it, This
war cannot hc carried on through
mass meetings. IL we withhold pow
or. the President cannot exercise it.
He has no Inherent power because he
lis President. He is personally weak
er than almost any man youwill meet
ON the farm or in the street. But be
ing the only medium through which
we can oNercisc power, We can only
7 defeat ourselves in defeating him. -
We shall not injure him any moro
than we shall each other II he has
done wrong in any particular-and
we think he has in a great many---we
may overthrow him and prevent his
doing wrong again, but we will de
prive him of the means to do right,
and at the same time despoil ourselves
of the means to rid the country of
other and very greater evils. lie has
imprisoned certain men and suppress
ed certain newspapers. II is an ir-
relevant question Mt this moment
whether those men and newspapers
were right or wrong. We can afford
TO sacrifice for n while those few men
and newspapers for the public good,
just rs We take private property for
public uses. Their grieis will have
their remedy when there is timn n,,d
;rstvuu OF nnirng now to adludlcatc
them we had better address ourselves
to worse dangers which are hesetting
us. We have no faith in the loyalty
and patriotism of those men and
newspapers who, if ever SO deeply
wrongcd even, are crying out that the
attention of the land should he turn.
ed to them The walls of Fort La
faycttc are probably unpleasant to the
few who may he sent within them.
but the terror of anarchy or the rule
of the rebellion will he found more
/ unpleasant to us all il we encounter
them. There il no danger of the
North losing its liberties through sup
porting the Administration in its con
duet of the war. We have now bcel
engaged for two years, with all the
energy and will Of the nation, in the
work of suhdung n rebellion whicl
no decent man dare say is not unho
~, and our efforts have only me-
with indifferent success. Is it more
possible to cope with the ontcrpris,
OF taking away the liberties of tn,
North? If it is costing two millions
u day in cndcayoring to make til,
South obey the Just laws of the land
no arithmetic within our knowlcdg,
contains formula for estimating tn,
expense of making the North yiclC
obedience to UNJUST ones. The mel
who are continually crying out tina
course, honest, and cannot desire tha
: their forcbodings prove correct; bu
we have noticed since II very promi
ncnt one among them has been nomi
, mated for Governor in consequence
of losing his liberty, the number adj
vchemence of this class of patriot
has vastly increased. They eXcee'
the anxiety of those ancient maiden
who, ut the taking of some city, W
forget where wondered when tn
snckinp and so on would commence.