Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-29

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Although ne time for reasoning seems
to have gone by, we wonld still desire to
say a few calm words 70 any Republican
who will listen TO them, upon the chsrac-
ter and tendency of the spirit he is exhibit
ing in this matter.
OF course, sir, you would be sorry to
think that the epithets "narrow-mindcd,"
"bigoted aud "intolsrant, ,"conld betruth-
fully applied to you, but are you sure that
you do not deserve them In times gone
by you have contended that "opinions
should pass toll free" But little while
ago, you gloried in the motto Of your par
ty, "Free Speech, Free Press Free Soil"
yet you say now, that men in our loyal
and peaceful States Of the North, should
be hung because their expressed opinions
of what constitutes patriotism, differ from
yours. EYES," you say, "but we are in a
war now, and no patriot can oppose it."
Did you not, sir, rejoice in the days OF the
old whig party, in the spirit of CoRwIN
and ScHENcK when they dared oppose the
Mexican war, and defantly voted against
supplies for our brave soldiers in the field?
"Yes, but this is a civil war, which threat
ems to destroy our Union, and an express
ed opinion against it is encouragement to
rebellion" Did you not when you were a
school-boy often declaim with a swelling
heart the noble speech of CHATHAM against
the war for the subjugation of the colo
MES ? The English Ministry were saying
then, just as you say now, that eve must
see if we have a Government re-
bellion must be put down"-"this Empire
shall not be divided" but CHATHAM told
them, "you never can conquer America
If were an American as | am an Eng
lishman l never would lay down my
arms" Your cheeks would have burned
with Indignation. if history had recorded
as sequel to this speech, that CHATHAM
was arrested and thrown into the Tower
charged with "sympathizing with rebel.
lion - yet if Democrat should to-day
give utterance to any such sentiments as
these so warped has your judgment be-
come, you would pronounce him deserving
of death.
Your present position is simply this
Il am wiser than any who differ with me
am truer patriot my judgment on thi
question is infallible, and it is simply i'm
possible that / am wrong" Like tn
Pharisee, you wrapt the robe of your sell
righteousness about you and "thank Go
that you are not as other men," Althoug
you and your nearest neighbor We're boy
together. grew up to manhood together I
enter similar pursuits and to have interest
in all respects identical, yet if he does nc
see the great issues before the countr
Just as you do, if his belief, aohich is "a
A dependent of his t0iH, is different from your
I you esteem him an enemy of his count
: and his God, and deserving of an ignC
: minious death.
n This is the same evil spirit of bigotr
s and intolerance, which has been the dii
d grace Of human nature since the worl
Y began. 1t is the same spirit, which
t Jerusalem, eighteen hundred and thirt
}, years ago denounced our Savior as di
d organizer and blasphemer, and whic
d cried with loud voice, "cruciiy him, CT,
= city him." II is the same spirit whic
actuated Phillip ii of Spain, in his ba
d barous prosecutions of his heretital sui
Il iects in the Netherlands, and which o.
e peared incarnate, in that machine for il
quiring into mans thoughts and {
n burning him if the result was not sati
= factory" called in those days the Ho
ir Inquisition, 1t is the same spirit viii
+" burned HUss and SERvETUs, which pers
is cuted the Albigenses and the WaldensiaI
m which exiled the Puritans from Englan
Of the Quakers from Massachusetts, and whi
N executed old women for witchcraft
IN Salem. ttt B|
IN You cannot allege single excuse (
re your intolerance, which these bigots Al
ty the Jacobins of France, could not wi
de equal propriety, have given for thei