Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-08-26

X w as this lasts, SO long
reoeis are IN arms against this government al no
lticaliss are swallowed I'M IN -, -. -I,.
OF national life; national unity; thu .,,nr,r.rv of
the Constit ution. He said in substance ss~hila
/ the war lasts there be no issue but v,,....
treason, ana no parties but Patriots and traitors
! have sometimes put to myself this question ~
If Johnson, Dix or any other Democrat occpnia,
Lincoln,s place, having been elected before the
war began, by a political party which did no,
belong, could I, 50 long the lasts, organize
or aid in organizing political party opposed 10
| him, and still act the part of a patriot 80
L know not how others may feel, but for myself
before High Heaven declare that until this fearful
! issue of war is past, could not, and would not
dare do so, lest, SO doing should directly indi-
! rectly give aid and comfort to the rebellion, and
| thus bring moral treason upon my SOUL
- Ill tnls rebellion put down; until the SUI
premacy of the Constitution of the United States
is est ablisfled aud Acknowledged everywhere until
our flag fioats again every fortress and every
foot of soil every State and Territory of Uni
| ted States, / am determined t. know no issue but
| the country and the whole country, the Union and
! the whole Union, under the Constitution of our
fat hers and IN political action know friends
+, but those who sup ort and defend them by their
vaor in the field moral and political sup
!, port at home, at the polls.
T. repeat, the power Of the rebels, though Grip
! without moral support at the North, without NOR
/ al sympathy and aterial aid from abroad, they
would soon yield to the authority of the Govern
! ment But the truth is, the English press and
many of the En- gish aristocracy openly favor the
rebellion and worse than all, the English Govern
ment itse by acknowledges them belliger e.;ts
! before Mr.. Adams could reach London, have,
in effect, created formidable navy for the rebels,
built, armed and manned by British subjects, and
1 fish 1yxx,i
and is doing immense injury to commerce,
I pursuing it every under the whole heaven.
Meanwhile the Emperor of France, upon our south
weste frontier, has not only, by armed nteryen-
ton, overthrow the Republic OF Mexico, establish
ed an empire upon its ruin ), and placed foreign
4 despot on throne, be upheld by French bayo-
nets, but he threatens to intervene in affairs,
and would in honr, if he dared, and could get
/ England to join him.
/ While the nation is thus strug sling for its very
life against this gigantic rebellion while actual
! intervention by European armies is establishing
Empires upon the ruins of Republics on this
tinent aye at very doors, with threats OF in
terE ention in affairs, and alliances with
the rebels in arms against us, great God what
hour is this for loyal men to organize and embit-
ter political parties hostile to the only Admins-
| tration which the Government tor all
know that il this Government is TO be oyerthrown
by rebellion or by foreign Intervention, either or
both together it must occur within the next two
years of Mr.. Lincoln's Administration. We must
be say ed or before another Administration
! begin.
| But, my felIow-citizen it is my solemn duty to
declare that, great danger is from the power
/ of the rebels great injuries have been and
| may still be from the navy adoat by British
subjects from British ports, under rebel coors, to
prey upon our commerce. great may be the
dangers and complications to grow out of French
in terv ention in Mexico, and threatened alliance
| with the rebellion at the South, real danger
! to our cause and TO country is to be appre-
1 hended from the hostile political organizations in
the free States OF which such papers the New
York World, the Dubuque Herald and the Mil
waukee Ne1CS are the organs, and of which such
men as vaIlandigh3 m and Fernando Wood
true, frank, and outhpoken representatives. -.
! Loud in his protestations in favor of the Union,
Yaliandigham asserts his belief that there is not
IA sSman woman child in the Seeded States in
favor of a to the Union," and in the same
breath he says the s.South cannot be conquered by
force Of arms lie is for the Union, bat the sun
ion is impossible" The people of these States
will not re-enter it., and the Government cannot
force them to do
What for the Union, aud yet against the I'm
ion Strange paradox Little short of madn,
must rule the brain of who entertains it.
What does he mean Is Valandigham, then
foolish insane to utter words without mean
ing No. gentlemen, no. He what he
says, and has the boldness TO avow it. He be-
Heyes in Union, but in Union which is to come
from reconstruction upon the basis Of the South
ern Confederacy- First, he wo uld acknowledge the
indep endence of the Southern Confederacy. Sec
end, he would allow the States one by one, to vote
to Join the Southern Confederacy, believing that
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
would first do so; then that Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and all the States drained by the Mississippi,
would soon follow, and then that Pennsylvania,
and New York would from interest or necessity
follow their example, and that is the Union of
recon struc tion which he beves in, to which he,
Buchanan, Powell, and all who cry ''Unon, Union ~
"no coercion, coercion ~ g reconstru elton,
construction ~ looking, and have been looking
from the beginning, and from before the beginning
OF this
1t part of the great conspiracy which led
the rebellion which Blu chanan lent his influence,
if he was not a party. Such Union and such
recoustr uction, of necessity yields ali to the
bellon, to the overthrow of the constitu-
ton, and tramples the flag of .he Union under the
feet Of traitors. Such Union is a Union with
treason such q reconstruction involves death to
the Constitution of fathers. And while going
on it would invite and surely bring European in
terYention and alliances.
1t was in view, thcr efore, of the great danger TO
cause and country, to arise from hostile p0titi-
cal dssensio among the loyal people of the free
States and to avoid them in WISCONSIN that the call
under which this convention assemblies, wisely
declared, g There is reason why those who
cur substantially in opinion upon these subjects
should not now act together politically, whatey-
er may have been their antecedents,' and cor
daily invited GAN electors unite in the election
of delegates who approve of the following PROPOSE
| TONS
That the Union be preserved in its integrityi
That the constitution and laws of the United
States be enforced throu ghout the whole national
domain;
That the rebellion be suppressed, not by compro-
misses with or concessions traitors but by the
sword whose agency they have themselves okedj
That the national administration should be hear
thy and generously supported, in its efforts to put
down the rebellion"
Under that call, now assembled and, l
trust, and have every to believe the action
of this body wiz practically demonstrate, by our
nominations as well by resolutions, that we
meet not partzans, bat as patriots, the faithful
representatives OF all the people of Wisconsin who
| endorse those propositions.
| Indeed those propositions well and SO