The weekly Butte record., 1863-12-12

try, was taken np, aud q committee appointed
to prefer charges against him.
This intolerant christianity is but initiating
the administration, whose course nav be Illus
trated by little anecdote: a teamster
backed his horse into the river and BY tying a
rope around his neck, succeeded IL saving him
from drowning, but choked him to death"
The administration has borrowed very IN
fortunate hint from this. and similarly sanitary
experiments 1t adopts in lis broadest and
most unlimited sense, the adage, The safety
Of the republic is the supreme law. aud IS pro.
ceeding with fatal zeal to save it, by DESTROYING
detail every clement Of that free government.
which constitutes it a repablic. lis position
may be thus stated: Pile up the debt beyoud
all hope Of redemption, out save the Union.
XII of every ah.ed qodied man, but save the
Union. Destroy the South, but save the Tn
ion- Keep the war going on twenty years
to abolish slavery. but save the Union. Pro
scgioe the democracy Of the North, but save
the Union. Stiae speech, press, courts aud
ballot, but save the Union.
Bah! this is the very sublime Of madness
hypocrisy and folly. These people don't wish
TO sa7e the Union; # they did, the Louisiana
planters would have been needed. Alexander
Stephens would have been listened TO. The
movement in North Carolina would have met
a response, and such men as Chandler, Wade
and Whiting would be cast overheard They
wish to save their party at the expense of the
Union, and the expense of liberty itself They
care about saving nothing else
Their greatest measure is the emancipation
proclamation. Probably every general reader
remembers the prophecies of the wonderful re-
suits to be achieved by that fanfarranade of
fanaticism. The National Intelligezcer gives
these abolition prophets an opportunity IN re-
ply 10 the following statement of the problem.
to show whether they prOphesied true things or
false:
Slavery was everywhere destroyed BIZ the
hostile presence of our armies before the proc
iamation was issued;
Slavery is everywhere destroyed BY the
hostile presence of our armies slncs the procla-
nation has been issued
Required to prove that it is the procaua.
tiol which destroys slavery.
And again:
The hostile presence of military force
where the proclamation does not apply las in
New Orleans, for iustance produces the des.
truction ofslayery;
Where the proclamation does apply, but
where there isho hostile presence of our mill
tary forces las in Alabama) slavery remains
undisturbed
Required to prove that it is the proclama.
tion which damages slavery"
Here is aao.her splendid hit from the same
source
AS we said a few days ago, replying to
some ingenious imputations of our amiable CO.
temporary, the New York Tribune, it is very
easy to be generous and philanthropic at c. her
peoples's expense, but We can tell our cotemp-
orary that the publishers of the National To-
lelligencer have emancipated more slaves at
their own cost and out of their own pockets
long before the present agitation, than all the
abolition'sts put together between the Potomac
and the Penobscot."
The speech Of Postmaster General Blair, at
Rockville, Maryland, was said to be carefully
written before delivery. There can, therefore.
be no mistake as to the views set forth in it
by the distinguished speaker, and which have
fallen, l may add, with no inconsierable
weight upon those here who boast of being
radicals The whole tenor of Nr. Blair
speech is very severe on the "ultra abolition.
lists, who, he declares, will yet be found side by
side with the nullideFs in support of seces .ioa.
There is hardly doubt Of this. Their doc
tFines essentially agree now. The aboli,ioasts
at the North and secessionists at the South,
have turned their attention to accumula,ing
money out of The mseries and desolation and
ruin they have forced upon the people. II is
no matter Of astonishment to us, who know
them that the abolitieuists should do 50 ; but
that that the chivAlrous sons of the South
should engage in the enleavOr to swiudle each
other out of their last dollar, instead of dig
ging their last ditch" Alas for that heroic
race of modern Spartans" that was to win
the freedom of the South upon a swatheir
broth than ever had flavor from tie Eurotas
Where is it now? 1t haGnis the the plrleus
of the rebel military prisons to bay from Yam
kee soldiers the autographs and vignettes of
old Abe, sHeais coin, (ooce in awhile aud
speeulates in flour. Ii is not "the jews. " that
;be Richmond papers sneer at so loftily, who
do this, nor shopkeepeFs, nor professional
sharptraders. Jefferson Davis says SO. He
says the passion for speculation" has become
il the South "a gigantic evil" and that it has
reduced ciiizeus of all classes from a deter
mined prosecution Of the war 10 4 sordd effort
to amass money" Only think Of it! Now
We have never attached much credit to tie
starvation reports from the South. Bat this
official notice Of JEFF 5 shows him to be a pru
dent President. It is also stated that societies
ave.nOw in progress of organization at the
South, teVesist the spectators. and il IS pro