Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-21
4 Brace of Traitors-The Round
head and Cavalier.


head and Cavalier.
- While the pro-slavery Democrats of the
North are doing all in their power to
unpopularize the war and tie the, hands
of the Administration, Jefferson Davis
and his fellow traitors in the South are
making speeches and publishing MESA
ges full of malice and bitterness toward
the North, invoking the South to stand
firm and not yield to the Yankees. Of
course if the rebels will not succumb, and
the North sues for peace, the South will
dictate the terms of settlement between
themselves and the Government they
wish to destroy. Such a spectacle wouIu
involve too intolerable a degree OF as
grace for the American people TO ever
consent to its enactment.
There is a very provoking and humilia-
ting feature in our present situation, in
the fact that while Davis, Stevens and
Others are urging the South to continue
the war, their sympathizers in the Free
States, who consist of such men as Wood
of New York, Vallandigham of Ohio, and
their idolatrous w~orshipers, wherever
found, are insulting the patriotism of the
North with the traitorous proposition to
cease prosecuting the war, and allow the
rebels to have it all their own way, as a
consequence. It is remarkable how Davis
and Vallandigham work together for the
same ultimate end. Davis pleads with
the South to persevere. The Ohio traitor
insists that our Government should de-
sist. Davis, in a recent speech at Jack
ION, Mississippi, told the South they were
superior to the North. That the men of
the North were the descendants of the
human scum that Cromwell scraped from
the Dogs and marshes of England. This
is the vile language he employs in allu-
sions to the glorious old Puritan Fathers
of New England. Vallandighsm, who is
Davis Northern echo, repeats the idea,
in a speech he made in Congress, a few
days since, in the following language:
"Mr. Vallandigham y addressed
the House at length, urging that the war
ought not to continue, and eunlo IS
possible and inevitable, unless defeated
by deliberate folly and wickedness of the
public men and the people. This was a
war of the Yankee and the Southron, the
cavalier and the roundhead."
What Vallandigham expects to gain by
assuming the theory that this war is but
q renewal of the conflicts of the Cromwell
era, We do not certainly perceive. The
cause of Cromwell was that of humanity,
Christianity and freedom. He and his
old covenanters fought for civil and re-
Ggious liberty. The cavaliers fought to
uphold a corrupt. cruel and despotic dy-
nasty, who favored aristocracy and privi-
legged classes, just as the southern slave
holding despots and aristocrats of our day
do. Accepting the proposition OF Davis
and Vallsndigham as correct, in the
premesis, but false in its inculoations and
conclusions that the descendants of the
Cavaliers, whom the effete F. F.'s ofthe
South claim for their ancestral origin, are
a superior race 10 the R~oundheads and
Puritans, q fair investigation of the ques'
ton will terminate in establishing the
conclusion that this war now raging be-
tween the North and South is but anoth-
er struggle in the worlds history between
the supporters of aristocracy and the
friends of republicanism. If Davis and
VaIandigham' doctrine proves anything
It proves nothing more clearly than this
point, which is a good argument for the
Justice of the cause of the North. The
North is battling Cor principles Of Justice
and Humanity. The South for the es
tablishment of a C~onfederacy whose
chief cornerstone is to be slavery. II 4
fighting for barbarism, wrong and out
rage. In such a contest the duty of every
honest christian man is plain, andif tru'
to his God and countryhe will not shrink
from the responsibilities of the day.