Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-03-05
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plans or prosecute the war. Thus the
war will be suddenly brought to an
end for want of men to wage 1.-THE
separation will be effected, rebellion
triumphant, and the success of trea
son complete. verify believe that il
was the anticipation of this scheme
more than the justice and efficacy oI
the measure, that finally nerved the
Administration up to its present atti
tude, and that whatever of odium ol
censure may attach, in the eyes o
some. to the freeing and arming ot
the slave, should rest upon the shoul
ders Of the vile conspirators who had
predetermined to strip the Govern
ment of its power to subdue the re.
bellion.
This programme is only foreshadow.
ed by the resolutions of the Democrat.
ic cacuses of New York and illinois,
of the resolutions of that party in the
Legislature of New Jersey, and the
speeches Of those doubly dyed, twin
traitors, Salisbury and Vallandigham.
They all ask for an armistice {; but is
one so determined as not to see in
this position, only a proposal for a
formal separation p? The South asks
no armistice and why should we beg
one if We design to maintain the Union
They talk of reconstruction aud solicit
a convention for the adjustment Of
our national difficulties. Is any one
so great fool as to suppose that the
South, nnder an armistice unsought
by them, in a convention uncalled for
on their part, and with our armies
called home, is going to listen to terms
of reconstruction, when this armistice
this convention, is but simply suing
to them for terms of peace-this re.
calling of our troops but recognition
of the success of their rebellion and
an acknowledgement of their independ
ence? No; it is the formal recogni-
tion of secession and the accomplish
ment of treason, and nothing else.
The leaders in this conservative De-
mocracy know it, and intend it for
nothing else. ..."a
Their mock.holy supplications for
reconstruction are for another pur-
pose. With all the besotted blindness
Of their party parasites they would
not yet dare talk of accomplished Sc
cession and recognition but know
ing that these are to come of it, they
seek to represent TO the North that
they have sought for the re-establsh.
ment of the Union, but that the policy
OF the Administration and its friends
placed an insuperable barrier in the
way, and barred reunion that the
bloody and disastrous war was waged /;
all this accumulation of national debt,
and consequent burden Of taxation in
CURED, merely for the sake of the
nigger, and that the result is separa-
tion at last and that had their coun-
sells been heard all these things had
not been ; thus attributing to the
Administration results for which them
selves alone will be responsible, and
securing themselves in the confidence
and support of the people and the
spoils and places of political power
for all time to come. ...- -..
This is the monstrous conspiracy
velled under this so much vaunted
counter revolution at the North And
through what personal, political and
national degradation and infamy have
they not walked to accomplish their
purpose ! How have they fawned,
and kneeled, and knuckled at the fee!
of those who have scowled upon them
for their contemplate abasement. Not
q step have they taken in their work
Of reconstruction, but they have been
slapped in their faces for their mean
ness, their presumption, their very
contemptibleness and still they hang
their haDg-dog heads and plod on in
the same low work.
The history of nations nor the cx-
perience of individuals never yet pre-
sented so disgusting an exhibition of
whining at the feet of power. How
have they stood with hats off calling
for the return of those who have turn
ed their backs upon them and slam
med the door in their faces. In what
a damning position of modification
and shame they seek. to place the
Government, by making it suppli-
cant on its kneecs before an armed
horde of rebels whom it has power to
crush at once and forever.
Oh /! where is their American pride,
honor, American feeling
the spirit of their fathers Whittier
has fed the fires Of ancient Democra-
cy Whittier has fled their Ameri-
can souls whittier their personal
honorl They have become callous to
all these considerations Through all
this show of national, political and
personal degradation, they have crept,
and are still creeping, because they
sec beyond it partisan ascendency
over a ruined and disgraced half,
which through their dishonor they
lost, yet might have regained, over a
grand and glorions uhofe nation. 1t
is but conspiracy entered into with
armed rebellion--the latter to take
one half, and these miserable recre.
ants the other and the cause of hui
manity, good government and the
hopes Of mankind to go down between
them.
There is but one course to pursue.
The Government must put its hand
land firmly upon the neck of the first
breathing embryo of this conspiracy,
let it manifest itself where it will.
Whether it be conservative Demo
cratic Legislature, Governor or Sena-
tor--anything that threatens to inter
pose itself between the Government
and the child of it's wrath, to thwart
the purpose Of the former, to chastise
into obedience aud restore to good or
der the latter, must be strangled in
its birth. If the present administra-
tion will not do it, it must give place
to a dictatorship that viii. To this
are We Fastening, and we may as
we'll begin to look it in the face, or