Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-07-03
From New York Freeman's journal.
The Peril and the Remedy.

The Peril and the Remedy
The imbecie and wicked Federal Admin.
istration is drifting without rudder, and
4 without compass 1t knows neither where
it is. nor whittier driven. We can we'll be.
lieve that the ungainly and vacant counte-
nance of Lincoln, as it is reported, is fire.
quently overcast with vague sense of ter
ror, that renders him incapable for time
of speech or of motion
The truculent incapab!es that surround
him, are seeking to illustrate by new ex.
ample the old adage: Maprobs. ne pere-
ant, 25erIunt 1.-THE wicked destroys 9TH
ers, that themselves may escape" They
are fools in this, as in al they have hither-
to attempted Witness their failure in the
attempt to destroy Vallandigham. Witness
their ignomiuious defeat in the attempt to
suppress the Chicago Times! The safety
the only safety, Of these weak bad people
is in yielding to the lac, and resigning
themselves to the law abiding Dem ocrats.
/ We Democrats loatbe and detest them, but
we respect our own magnanmous primer
pies, aud never propose to deal with them
as they have dealt with us. But, this the
lawless faction Of Puritan growth are inca
! pable of understanding 70 bring it near
erto their moral range. suppose we tell them
we despise them too utterly ever 70 lower
ourselves to the thought of taking verge
ance on them
The military satraps Of this LHcalu 49,
ministration that takes counsel q rs unnerv-
ed fears, have beeninstructed to dfsarna the
Democrats in the Great North West. Pros
vost Marshals' guards are going around, at
night generally, taking away from Demo-
Gratis their firearms. They do this, Of
Icourse, under the warrant of the second
amended Article Of the Federal Constitution,
which declares, that '.Ihe right Of tbepe
pile to keep aud bear arms, shall not be in
! fringed p The wicked Federal Admins
Etraton, setting out as friends Of slaves,
are probably too dense'y ignorant Of politi-
cal law to know that White taxing to their
bosoms the race Of Cham. they are seeking
to impose the yoke Of slavery on the free
imperial white race
| There are bus two classes Of man in this
respect freeman and slaves. The laws
ard customs Of former ages define it Look
to the cronicles Of their Anglo Saxon ances
tors, ana see how a ff1.eeman became Stare.
s'7lhe unhappy man laid On the ground bis
sword and his lance, the symbols Of the free
took up the bill and the goaa, the nipple
ements Of slavery, and, filling en- his knees,
pIiced bis head in token Of submission IN
der the hands Of his master
! And those cowardly and incapable things
-Lincon. Seward Stanton, have inagia
/ eb that this fierce fsh ing American race
trained to liberty even in its excesses, will
bow theay heads beneath tie trembling raus
Of these creatures, and quietly lay on the
ground the symbols Of the free" the arms
that the Goustltutionsof the land guarantee
to them to keep and bear, for the protec
tion Of themselues and of the Statet"
Every revolver you take from these PEG
/ pie, is replaced by a rife and bayonet! Ev-
cry old shot gun you steal from them, is
good for a dozen regulation muskets, with
ammunition to match ! You think YOU have
trophy when you have seized rife-you
will find, as if it had dropped down from
the clouds, or as if the earth had yawned to
let it forth, well furnished mountain how
itzer, making good the loss Of the rife
Hunt the brush, and you will not find
them Burn barns and you will not des-
troy them. Exhaust your suspicious but
narrow brains, and you will be no nearer
the mark ~ but ce tell you NOT by political
forecast, but as the chroncer Of what is.
and is ready to become accomplished fact,
that if the freedom Of the ballot box be in
terferred with in the North Western States.
or if the free canvass necessary to a free
election be further interrupted there, the
irreparable blow will fall AS If the heav-
ems dropped it down from above, and the
earth hudded it forth from the four winds
Of heaven the entire Northwest will be in
one blaze Of armed array. BY your attempts
at suppressing speech, aud the Democratic
press, you have forced men to action instead
Of words Yon have to DEAL in the North
west, with the kind of men who took Fort
Dpnelson for you Against them what can
avail your wheepiug Wide Awskess
transformed into Union Leaguers ?
Three years ago We iabored 10 prevent !
the election Of Lncolu, saying that i be
were elected, there would be i civil war
4 HuGe w DIS CouoiucICu HiNFpclSi was. = = !
now strive to put an end to the mad Purl
tan policy that rules Lincoln, because, il 1t
be not stopped, and at once. in the North
west, not only the cereals that New York
relies on to make the larger part of her cx-
changes with Europe, butthe provisions she
has need Of for her own consumption, and
which she expects to draw from the West
will be cut off as unex pectedly as Southern
traffic was interrupted after Lincoln's cleo
ton. The dull, slow moving, but para
mount mass Of the people are in the mo-
ment Of yet indefinite delberaticn. Lei
freedom Of speech, freedom Of the press,
and free aud lawful elections, be guaranteed,
and the storm mag be stayed W VIII
strive 10 allay il If these Dc tatlieF inter
tered with the question IS put sharp and
clear toevefy man, to become q slave, or Y
arm aud f gilt for his inherited llbeTsies
Il behooves the moneyed men Of New
York to look to this. Do they hope toanake
something more out of this wicked war?
We tell them that they may lose IN 1t all
they possess. II they do not join Us II IL
sisting on all the rights Of free hey
lave no guarantee for the securitX Bhelr
property, IF military necessity can de-
! prive us Of the rig ht of publishing o. pa
nor or can cansign l,s to Fort LAFAYETTE for