The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-05-15
BIDDEFoRD, MAINE, FRIDAY MORNING,
cd traitors shouted for Joy over tho defeat Of

cd traitors shouted for joy over tho defeat OF
his countrymen. Sir, We have such men
cycrywhere-men who so long and so blindly
followed the counsels of Davis and Toombs,
Slidcl and Mason, and the pro slavery Dem
ocratic leaders who have plunged their coun.
try into the fire and blood Of civil war, that
they have not ceased to sympathizc with
them and to denounco the Republicans as
usurpcrs and tyrants.
Mr.. President, would not sustain the
Government Of the United States in any act
Of tyranny and oppression toward even the
men who stand before us with their hands
dripping with tho blood of our countrymcn.
Nor would deal larshly or unjustly with
their sympathizers ! abhor their deeds,
but would not deal unjustly with them
God knows that if they had justice done
them in this world many Of them would be
quickly sent out of it. would smito down
rebels in arms in tho field. would arrest
tho men who give aid and comfort to traitors
whenever found, in tho loyal or disloyal
States, until tho just authority OF the Gov
crnment should be fully established, and the
q l,g of the united country should wave every
where in triumph. from tho St. John to the
Rio Grande.
Tho land rcsouuds with tho tread of armed
men; our fields arc stained with the blood OF
civil war; the MANNED, the dying, and the
dead gil our homes with anxieties and sor-
rows, and the Republic, rent and torn by the
storms of battle, is fcarfully struggling for
national existence. In this troubled hour,
when patriotic hearts throb heavily with So
licitude for tho fato of the nation, when the
Government is staggering beneath the bur
dcns imposed upon it by tho pressing duties
of this fearful crisis, instead of the united
counsels and action of lofty patriotism, tho
heavens are darkcned with the arrows of
partisan warfare. hurled mt tho Administra-
ton by the reckless hands of political ma
lignity.
Those envcnomcd shafts now raincd upon
tho Government and its supporters recall
yiyidly to our rccollections the bOastful pre-
dictions of tho rebel chiefs ere they left these
Halls to drench tho land with tho fraternal
blood of civil war. They told us here in
tones of assured confidence that they would
have united South, that VIC should have
disunitcd North. Jefferson Davis, the rebel
Cnicltbiii, tIIOc yCio oSO, III s"'o S""Ni'
boastfully that If blows were struck
their northern democratic friends would throt-
tic us in our tracks. Those traitor leaders
left these Chambers in the conscious assur-
ance that the action of the Government
would ho impcdcd, checked and thwartcd by
their Democratic allies. The fires of patriot
ism, rekindled into consuming flame by tho
rebel batteries around Fort Sumter, silcnccd
for season tho voices of sympathetic Demo-
cracy, and disappointed tho high raised ex-
pectations of the traitor chiefs.
Now, sir, tho voico of tho whole pack OF
rebol sympathizcrs rings out in full chorus
on the track Of the Administration. But the
people, the intelligent, patriotic people. will
silence the voices OF faction, and dispcl the
illusions of hope created anew In tho bosoms
of the rebel leaders by the clamor Of northern
dcmasogucs. Sir, the loyal people of the
United States, who are for "libcrty and Un-
ion, now and forever" will never forget
that the Administration, with all its faults,
has been faithful to the rights of mankind
and the unity of tho Republic. They will
not, they cannot cease to remember that tho
Republican party, with all its faults OF mis-
sion and commission, mover nurturcd trail
tor in its bosom to sympathisc with treason,
or to fro upon the flag of his country, or
into the ranks Of his country's defenders.