Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-08-20

great effusion of blood I" to such an-extent
that they will seek peace upon any terms, and
By that means. establish Southern Confede-
racv and divide these States. :
You will recollect short time ago, while
our army was attempting to take Fieksburs,
these croakers and these papers were all the
time throwing doubt upon this thing, saying
the stronghold can meyer be taken. All these
things were said and all these means were
employed in order to discourage the people.
Why is it that the people must be diseour-
aged? If man is a true man TO his Govern
ment, he never will in its darkest hour do
anything to discourage that Government. 1t
IS the dark hour of this country now. 1t is
the period of its gravest trials. Stand by
your country now. Now is the time to do it,
50 that sooner or later her victories viii be
won. Have confidence in your army, instead
of gossipping on the street corners with the
effect of demoralizing the efficiency of that
arm Of YOUR country.
E WHY, my fellow-citizens, how is it that we
are grumbling and growing and talking about
resisting the draft Why is it that the mob
was organized down here in the central part
of Illinois to resistan enrolling officer? What
was thee of the mob in New York? Can
you tell me who did it and why it was done -:
1t was brought about in this way: By men
diseOuraging the people, and by representing
to them that the rebellion could not be put
down, that the war was unconstitutional and
wrong, that we we're invading the rights OF
the SOuth-by telling them everything to dis
courage and nothing to encourage; till they
made a portion Of the people believe that
everything was wrong, that the war was
wrong, and that they were justified by mo-
rality and by the laws of the country. 1t has
Leen by false preachers and false teachers OF
the people, who talked not for the purpose OF
sIppressing the rebellion.
PARALLEL BETWEEN JACKSON AND LINCOLN
This Government must be maintained al
all hazards whether it be by war or in any
other manner, it must be maintained
lChcers Some may say that it is unconsti
tutional to call out this army and prosecute
this war. These same men, if they are ole
enough, some of them at least, recOllect tina
there was once in this country man by the
|. name of Jackson. Cheers. If they do
they remember that, in 1882, J. c. Calhoun
led party in South Carolina that nullifed thl
laws OF the United States, and they wer,
about to set up for themselves an indcpend
ent GOVCrnmeDt.
Jackson was President at that time. On
the a 9th of December, 1882, he issued
proclamation to that people, and III his con
versations he declared that "by the cterna
God, | will hang every traitor in this land
unless they desist from opposition to the law:
and the Constitution Applause. Thu
was the doctrine of Gen. Jackson, the doc
trine of Democratic President, a man o
| nerve, a man who would sustain the Consti
| tuition of his country. But that was consti
J tutiOnal for Jackson to 90. 1t was cOnstitu
tiOnal for him to proclaim to these men tina
he would suppress the rebellion, and that,
they r9belled, he would compel them to ODE
| the Constitution and the laws of the Unite
| States. If they did not, he would with fore
/ of arms suppress it, and desOlate the land, o
| punish each and every one of them by fittin
| up a gallows for them. And he was endorse
as man who was only carrying out the Con
| stitution of the country when he made thi
declaration. Cheers. What was constitu
| tional in one man was unconstitutional il
| another-what was Democratic in one MAJ
| is the greatest piece of treachery ever perpe
trated on earth, in another. What is RICH
for one man to do, is violation of good OIL
| der and the peace of society, and an insult t
| the people and to Heaven, according to tn
| language of some men.
| SOMETHING NEN Err HEARD OF.
! Now, my countrymen, | want to answer som
| of the objections made to this war and to it
prosecution, and want to do it in this way
| Do you ever hear of any uncOnstitutionalit
| on the part of jeff Davis? On the part C
Gen. Lee? (Cries of "No") On the part c
| Beauregard at Charleston? (Cries of Gin tn
| Times 3 or of any of these men in the al
mics of the so-caIled Confederate States o
| rebellious states? suppose you do not.
EITHER FOR THE UNION OR FOR JEFF. DAVIS.
But these men who are opposed to this wa
| call out about the unconstitutionality of thes
proceedings; that we are invading their sol
despoiling their farms, and that it is a violatio
i. of the Constitution to do So But suppose tn
| converse of the proposition will make it const
| tutional. That is, we are trying to enforce tn
| Constitution and the laws and bring thes
| States back to the Union. In trying to do tina
we use every means in our power.
| If this war in its prosecution is unconstitU
tional, then the rebellion against the Govern
| ment is constitutional. But we are attemptin
! to maintain the Constitution in putting dow
| this rebellion, or else we must maintain tina
| Jeff. Davis and his men are doing so in tryin
| to destroy the Government. The Government
is right in prosecuting the war, and in using it
| force and its means in suppressing not only tn
rebellion, but every rebel in the land Ar
! plause, or else it is true that the people VIII
are sustaining this war are acting wrong, an
| ifso, then they are terribly in the right. Their
| are but two sides to this question. Every ma
| is eithera Jeff. Davis man or Union man
| fCheers. A man is either for the Constitu
| ton or against the Constitution for maintain
| ing the laws Or for mob law, riot and rebellion
| A man is either for the Constitution of tn
~, r. r e
| Davis. Tremendous applause, and cries c
| s:That's it. J.
| .... TRAITORS AT THE NORTH.
| I care not what he calls himself, what name
he calls his party or anything else, he cannc
! be loyal man. and at the same time interfer
with the progress of the Government in tn
suppression Of this rebellion. (Cheers.)
We find men in this country, and am sorr
to know it, who cry "peace" when there is n
peace. Not only do we find men who us
| every argument that men can use who hav
such intellects as they exhibit; we find me
that ,disapprove the war in every possibl
manner first, they traduee the powers tha
| be; second, they attempt at least to convinc
| the minds of the people that each and ever
act passed by Congress, and every order is
sued by the Secretary of War is violation {
the Constitution; that soldiers ought not to b
kept in the army, and in fact they hold OF
inducements to soldiers to leave the army an
! return home. 80 i--t-- -r
| . 1-- o." THE PROCLAMATION.
/ The President in his Proclamation gave til
rebels thirty days to come back into tn
Union, under penalty of the liberation of thei
slaves. 1t was at their own option. If the
refused to return, it was their action an
choice, not that Of the President that libe1
ated the slaves. Our Democratic friends a
the North that are so sore on the subject
ought to have gone down and induced tlei
Southern friends to submit and save slavery