North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-03-04
Loyalty.

gain the reputation OF being loyal IL does not
seem to be necessary that one should be un-
conditionally for the war. Else this Aboli-
tion administration would hold the following
extract, taken from speech lately delivered
by that arch traitor Wendell Phillips, as dis
| loyal -
Now I would accept anything on an an
ti-slavery basis l ,could accept a separation;
I would eccept a compromise | would ac'
cept union; | would accept peace, and pay
the whole Confederate debt at par on an an
ti-slavery basis"
| So it does not seem to be an element OF
disloyalty, if one with Cameron believes that
the "Southern Confederacy will re-estab-
| lshed,n nor does it seem to be a " disloyal
practice for Wendell Phillips TO say that
/" MoClellan's guns never hurt any body"
nor does it seem to be discouraging enlist
ments," when Wendell Phillips publicly and
advisedIy slanders tie whole Army Of the
Potomac in language as fellows:
| Not that | dstrust Hooker he is a brave
man and means to fight But with that ar
my two-thirds McClellanized, he will do all
that is possible for brave man to do.D
On the contrary, language of this kind
seems to have the special sanction OF this
miserable Adminisf ration. For has not
Wendell Philips lately been at Washington!
| Was he not there closeted with Old Abe =
| Was he not a short time ago introduced on
the floor of the Senate to Eice-Presdent
Hamlin and ntertained at the house OF Speak
| er Grow Fresh from Washington he
seems to be the special mouth-piece of the
administration to parade its views before the
country. 500 too if one dareS to express
what he cannot help believe that the Eman-
cpation Proclamation is violation Of the
Constitution, or that negroes are unfit for
soldiers and ought not to be placed side by
side with white men in battle, or that the
confiscatiOn bill is unconstitutional and i'm
polite, or that the consription bill can never
be enforced, or that the establishment of
Western Virginia as State is not according
to law, or that legal tender notes are not the
UGSl III IIlC "CIiu Va NtIdI IuS INSt-
dent cannot supersede all law, arrest men
without war rant, suspend the writ of hdbeds
corpus and hold them in durance vile until
il suits his pleasure TO let them off, orIf one
is opposed to buying up negroes wholesale in
the District of Columbia, in Western Virgin
la Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, or #
one expresses the opinion that the war is mis-
managed, that Cameron is corrupt, that Old
Abe is an ignora nus, that Stanton does not
WELD the sword Of Gideon and that Welles
is not dead but sleepeth--all these express
ions and opinions are traitorous and rebeil-
ous in the extreme. The WoolIy heads ar
rogate to themselves all the patriotism. all
the loyalty of the country. 1t does not seem
that fidelity to the constitution is required
nor an honest purpose of restoring the Union
desirable. On the contrary, it is the rankest
treason to talk of the Constitution as il is
aud the Union as it was. Thad. Stevens is
an intense loyalist according to the admins
tratlon definition so is Wendell Pnillips
50 is Henry Ward Beecher so is Charles
Sumner; and yet they openly oppose the
restoration Of the Union as it was ; they call
the Constitution a useless parchment : and
they think-our foreathers were eeregious
fools for adopting such form of government.
The key to admlttance to this precious set
Of loyalists is the negro. Whatever other
opinions a man may hold, if he will but ioin
the shout of the noble army of contractors:
/" Great is Old Abe and the idols he has set
up for u.s." then in truth he is loyalst and
need have no fear Of bastles, chains or pre-
vost marshals!
There is however a large class Of men in
these Northern States-sometime called
Democrats, sympathizers with treason. trai-
tors, Copperheads-who don't join in shout
ing Te Abrahamum Laudamus, and who are
for the q Constitution as it is and the Union
as it was" They are quite a large class of
men and are said to have carried the elections
in New York, New jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indianna, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Del
| cware. They are found in large proportions
III 'iiS army anu 'df IItS are Sdlu TO
have filled the Lincoln bastiles because thev
exercised the right Of Tree speech and free
press. They are peace men, since the war
has been turned into negro crusade, and
hope TO re-unite the discovered States by en-
forcing the Constitution in the spirit which
originated it and the decisions of the Supreme
Court interpreting it. OF course Woolly
heads call them traitors. The army of con
tractors name them C"pperheads. The pimps
Of administrative favor look upon them as
sympathizers with treason. Yet they still
live and move and have their being. They
intend carrying the elections in New Hanp-
shire and Connecticut. They keep step to
the music of the Union, and their flag has no
fifteen stars erased but its azure field and
glorious stripes remind one of l77G. 1912 and
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