Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-01-09
COMPuOmIsE.

Compromised is the great watchword Of the
butternut party of the North. They affect to
believe that in it isembodied the great talismanic
power that is to make whole and preserve in
tact the Union. Compromised We have heard
the word until we are disRusted with its repiti-
tion. The heart Of every loyal man sickens at
it. la that word he sees the sacrifice of nation
al honor and integrity-the sacrifice Of liberty
itself the present era in our national his
tory, it is word that looms up as hideous
monster, ghastly and terrible in all its features
1t pOisons the air it breathes, and like pestil-
ential curse, where it touches it withers-where
it grasps it crushes. Slavery is the great Jug
gernant Of the rebellion, and its handmade is
Compromise. Woe be to those who yield hom-
age to its unhallowed shrine Woe be to the
nation, If the powers that be should sacrifice the
prayers and tears and blood of millions--the
hopes and aspirations of great peoples future
--on the ugly alter of Compromises alter
that is blackened with the groans and agony Of
millions in the worlds history.
Compromised Doubly odOus and detestable
has the word become in the wane of eighteen
hundred and sixty-two Two years have elaps-
ed since the great rebellion was openly inaugur-
ated, and yet there are those who are so lost to
manhood, to patriotism, to all that ennobles and
dignihes the perfect man, as to pirate Of Com
promise. Compromise with armed rebels and
traitors, seeking the destruction of the best gov
ernment on Gods earth AS well might you
babble Compromise with the burglar who enters
your house at night; as well might YOU talk of
conciliation with the murderer who is about to
lmbrue his hands in the blood ofyour family; or
with the highwaymar who has made the de-
mand for "your money or your lfel"
With whom are we asked to compromised
With leagued traitors, combined together for
the purpose of crushing out our liberties and all
the blessings which make life dear.
With interruptions and ambitious men as
their leaders, who seek their own aggrandise-
ment at the sacrifice of the many, who have con
sPired together to ruin that which they can not
rule
With semi-civilized savages in human shape,
who acknowledge no law but their own fend-
like propensites.
With men who strip the dead and diving, and
commit unheard of brutalities on the battle
field.
With murderers who respect neither age, sex,
nor property.
With barbarians, who have converted the
bones OF our dead soldiers into rings and orna-
ments
With black-hearted Williams who have stig-
matised Northern men as "race of thieves and
mudsills, lost to all honesty" and Northern
women as "harlots lost to all virtue and shame 4"
With demi-devils who are not only guilty of
every crime in the great catalogue of vice them
selves, but have instigated Indian savages TO
the preparation of their brutal atrocities-too
itants of the Northwest, sparing neither age
sex, nor condition in life.
With fiends, who bayonet the wounded, who
violate flags oftruce, who make targets of hos
pitals
With inhuman wreches who violate female
chastity, who shoot women for hailirg the Stars
and Stripes, who hang men for no other crime
than devotion to the Union
With those who tar and feather the Revolu-
tionary heroes who still reverence our national
emblem.
With thieves robbers, pirates murderers and
outlaws of every grade, who have been guilty of
every atrocity in the great catalogue of crime.
These are the wretches with whom we are
asked to compromise, by such officiating
doughfaccs as Bright of Indiana; Vallandigham,
the disgrace of Ohio John Van Buren, Horatio
Seymour, and the Woods, of New York, to-
gether with others of their kith and kim
Compromised What blessed salve for sore
head Office seekers, for broken down politicians,
for disappointed scape-graces of every grade
What valuable cement it will furnish where
with to strengthen and preserve the Union
Compromised Did Truth ever compromise
with Error in which its power was not weak
ened, its influence lessened? Can there be COM
promise between Right and Wrong, or concila-
ton between Virtue and Vice? The live coal
will burn--the dead coal will blacken, ifit will
not burn
Compromised When Light compromises with
Darkness-when Angels compromise with De-
mons--when God makes terms with Satan
when Heaven and He'll coDciliate-then, and
not till then, let the Government Compromise
with armed traitors and rebels who have con-
spired for its rninl-Pcrrysbarg Journal