M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-07-09

J At your proposed meeting yor
should so arrange matters as to Sc
secure list Of all who fail to attenC
or omit to render q suitable apology
and you should adopt resolutions t
the most ''loyal" kind. Allow me Q
Suggest that a committee on resolu
tions be selected from contractors
and Office holders. l particularly
suggest one Cooper, who has beer
recently appointed assessor tor thC
large, rich, and populous district o
West Tennessee. He was originally
from New York. True, he was nevel
in West Tennessee until sent from
this city on his official errand, but he
no doubt knows by intuition the true
value Of the goods and chattles, lands
and tenements, ETC., Of Il people he
never knew, and a country in which
he never lived. But he is so loyal
50 much go that | doubt not he is
better fitted for the office than any
one OF the native born sons, brothers
Or fathers of the thousands of sold.
iers, which, before the 2d of last
September West Tennessee had fur.
nished the Federal army. Let the
committee initiate the "loyal leagues
of Baltimore and resolve that you
not only approve all tho present wise
and patriotic administration have
done, but that you will sustain and
uphold every thing it may hereafter
do. Let the committee make an ella
borate report, accompanied with res
olutions denouncing all who find fault
with our most excellent President
For instance, the last Congress (in
July, 1922 passed law to confs,
cate the property of certain rebels.
That Congress, though a very wise
body, did not possess as much aggre.
gate wisdom as our great and good
PRECEDENT In proof Of this we need
but refer to the fact that the Congress
aforesaid that under this law, trial
should precede conviction and for.
teiture, and that guilt should be pro
ven, not presumed. Worse still, it
offered an amnesty t. repentant reb.
Gle; it mercifully gave them sixty
days in which to accept it; and proyi,
ded further that ourmost noble Pfesi
dent might suspend for period the
operations OF this law as our armies
advanced southwark, 80 as TO afford
all an opportunity to accept pardon
Worse still, this law actually applied
to none but the rebels. And it is as.
tonishing that it applied to them
everywhere, North and South in
Springfield, lllinos, as we'll as Spring
field, Tennessee. But worse still it
did not wantonly effect the rights or
property of Union men, women and
children, or lunatics, in any section
OF the country.
That Congress, strange as it may
seem, did not perceive that theway
to end the rebellion and restore affec.
tiOnate relations between the sections
was to place the Union men, women,
children, and the insane upon a per.
feet footing of equality with the vilest
traitors in the land That Congress
believed that the crime of refusing
obedience to the usurpation of jeff
Davis & Co., in Mississippi, Arkan
sas, North Carolina, and elsewhere
amid the terrors of a military despot
ism, did not merit the same or worse
punishment than they had denounced
against titled and official traitors
That Congress spared the women anj
children ; also shielded from harm
the Union men who still adhered tc
the national symbol of protection
What weakness But Congress had
adjourned. What was to be done
Thank heaven, our sagacious Presi
dent was found equal to the occasion
You will perceive that on the frs
Of January last, under this 30 o.called
confiscation law, the slaves of every
rebel in the United States who had
not accepted the amnesty therein pro
vided were de ,jure free. But how
were we to end this rebellion if tht
Union men. women and children il
the so. called Confederate States, were
left in undisturbed possession of al
their legal and constitutional rights
lfthis policy we're adopted the rebels
might become angry with these mon
uments Of Federal mercy, and in tina
event the spared monuments aforesaid
might cling more closely to the Fed
eral flag. This division among thu
people might cause a still more un
happy state of affairs down in Dixie
our friends there might have to bea
additional indigni!ies. AS before re
marked, our merciful and consideratC
President was found equal TO th'
CRISIS. In q long conversation will
some inspired apostles from the sanity
city Chicago "a place where Onder
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