The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-08-04

III lle name OF Liberty ana u mon, we sum
mon the people to the pols-Cieiian.
EE" 1t is certainly wonder that the
name Liberty" does not choke such
men as RoszELL whenever they utter it
Men who are devoted, heart and SOUL to
slavery who would alter the Constitu-
ton to give additional guarantees to
slavery ; who denounce everything that
looks like antagonism to slavery who
think more of the rig ht TO whip, to MAIN,
to buy, to barter, human beings, to pros
titute them TO the position of chattle-
hood, than they do of government and
OF country whose every sheer is for the
slave, whose every denunciation is for
those who would give the slave his free
dom who, rather than see the negro
race out OF bondage, would organize a
revolution against the government to as
sist those sleking the destruction Of the
Union. Precious devotees of Liberty
and Union they are, surely Every i'm
pulse Of their traitorous hearts have been
against the Union, and in favor Of the
men who declare in every variety of
terms, and upon all occasions, that their
object is to destroy the Union. They
demand that our armies shall be with
drawn, the conflict for the Union given
up, and that the men who, for thirty
years have been plotting the destruction
Of the government, shall have their own
way. They know that the inevitable re-
suit would be the separation of the sec
lions. The old Union, in fact, they new
er think of. Those of them who do not
advocate the kicking out of New Eng
land, propose a new Union under a new
Constitution. Their Convention in Ohio
declared in favor of amendments to the
Federal Constitution, and so did their
Illinois brethren, and so they do every
where. VALLANDIGHAM proposed in the
House of Representatives kind of
scheme dividing the Union into four
sections, and endowing each section with
certain powers, altering entirely the
Union and Constitution. MAHoNY has
also published pamphlet on /" THE Re
construction Of the Union." advocating
a remoddelling of the Federal govern
ment, dividing the powers OF the Execu-
tive between two persons, one from the
slaveholding and the other from the non
slayeholding States-the Vice President
to have a veto power over the actions oil
the President in so far as those actions
relate TO the section which the Vice
President represents. He also wants the
Union divided up into sections, with
powers and prerogatives now unknown
given to each. And he clearly and
distinctly says that the Union "can
never be restored under the Federal
Constitution AS it exists. The Constitu
ton must be changed or the Union will
cease 10 exist"
These are the representative men oil
RoszELL's party in this State and Ohio
MAHoNY and his friends ruled the Con
vention Of this State, and nominated al
least two men who are the same kind oil
Union men as MAHoNY hmself-DuN.
coMBE and MASON Even Judge CLAa.
cETT, one of their conspicuous martyrs,
charged Judge MASON openly, in 1861,
with being an out and out disunionist,
and there can be no doubt OF it. And
yet, in the face of these facts, the unblush-
ing hypocrite who edits the Civilian
says: In the name OF Liberty and
Union we Summon the people to the
polls" 1t will be hard day for
RoszELL and his fellow Copperheads
when the people assemble under such a
call.