Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-02-04
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this connection. Its appropriateness will
be felt:
THE Feds and the little band of Guilds
in opposition, will try TO make something
of the infringements of liberty by the
military arrest and deportation of citi
: zens; but if it does not go beyond such
offenders as Swartout, Bollman, Burr
Blennerhasset, Tyler, &c, they will be
supported by the public appreciation"
May not, Mr.. President, slightly altel
the language of jefferson of that day
and by paraphrase adapt it to the pres
ent, and say that those who think more
of party than of country. who seek tC
make political capital out of every act oI
the government, may try TO make some
thing of the political arrests that have
been made, but if it does not go beyond
such offenders as Governor Moorhead
Buckner, Wallis, and their compeers
they will be supported by the public APP
probation
DIsLOYAL OPPOSITION.
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, Many may innocently differ in their
Iopinions as TO what are the best means to
restore peace TO a disordered land, but
mischievous demagogues have stealthily
obtruded on the unsuspecting, fears have
been aroused, preiudices have been slim
ulated, the minds of many misled, and
emboldened by impunity, combination
of such agencies has brought party ma
chinery 10 accomplish its ruinous work.
The timid have been terrified by highly
colored pictures of the desolation to en-
sue from prolonged war moneyed men,
rendered sensitive by great interests,
have conjured TO their minds eyea gi-
gantic accumulation of public debt and
rapidly decreasing resources; perturba-
tion of the less enlightened is generated
by the phantasm of disturbed order of
things, social and political equality of the
races, and the ruin which is to result
from an utter failure to suppress the in
surrection. Twelve months ago fourteen
men, in the name of Democracy, less
than e-fourth of the Democrats in both
houses of Congress, issued their call for
the organization of a party in this the
hour of our trial; and to this may be
traced the cause of the present division
in the North, the bitter partisan contro-
versies, the indulgence of private feel
ings, opposition to the draft, the discour
agement of enlistments, the arraying of
party against party these are the legiti-
mate fruits of such organizations at such
time. ...-.......
The Senator here quoted the advice
and warnings of Mr.. Douglas, and added:
{" 1t requires no gift of prophecy nor
! the wisdom of the statesman to discover
that in times like these, if there be party
organizations, one, whatever they may
say, being for the country, the other must
be against it" isa'
THE FALLAcY OF THE oPPosITI9S EXPOSED;
Men boast their loyalty TO the Consti-
tuition and the laws, but deny that they
owe allegiance to any man. Granted that
allegiance is due to the government un
der WHICH We live, hut is there nothing
due to the agent who is the representa-
tive of the unity, power and strength of
the government is loyalty to the gov
ernment reconcilable with hostility to
the minister who administers the govern
mept? The Senator from Kentucky
| Mr.. Powell proclaims his loyalty to the
Constitution and the laws, but he laments
the war, and is opposed TO coercion, be-
cause he believes the war will result IN
the destruction of both sections of the
country, and he would yield them license
in their crime, in response 10 their sup
DllcsiIlOn, lCI LACl AA@NC-0C
stroyed our forts, captured our mints,
seized upon public property, violated the
constitution and the law, IN one-third of
the republic, hidden defiance to those in
authority, and kindly and graciously We
are to 'slet them alone" for we are op-
posed to coercioni And this immunity
for crime which imperils the national ex-
istence is reconcilable with loyalty 1t
may be satisfactory to the Senator from
Kentucky, but it is not reconcilable with
the teachings of the school in which
imbibed my Democracy.
Mr.. President, what would you think,
what would be thought by the Senate, if
man were ushered into your presence
who, singing out an individual, should
say, last night that man went to my
house, set fire to my dwelling, burnt up
nv wife and children" and should add
the kind and gracious language, there
he is, but let him alone, | am opposed to
coercion" Strange as it might be, it is
not more strange than the same language
when applied to rebels in arms, who have
stained their hands with the blood of
| thousands. When Fort Sumter was
struck, when the first violent hand was
laid on the public properly. the eohstitu-
ton and laws were assailed, and millions
were engaged in common calamity. A
gracious Providence had benignly favored
our far-spread Republic, whose moral in
Auences had been felt in other lands, and
humanized foreign despotisIns; We were
| free and prosperous, and crowned with a
halo of glory which was becoming bright
er with every revolving sun art and liter
nature, religion and law, science and in
dustry, were accumulating comforts and
enioyments, and our Christian ciViliza-
ton had its inspiration to the ends of
the earth but a wicked rebellion has
dashed the cup of our happiness, murder
and rapine have desolated our fair PROV
linces, and we must " let them alone -
Such may be the exhibition of the loyal
ty of others, but frankly admit it is not
mine. -rt..
The Senator from Kentucky has spoken
of other manifestations of loyalty, in the
late elections, and spoke with an air OF
triumph of the g gallant Democracy" OF
my own State, and of their triumphs
| in Others / may darken the bright Wis
| ion of the honorable Senator; but the
cause of truth inhexibly requires that |
should tell him how much he is mistaken.
Instead of the election in Indiana being
evidence of opposition to the government,
the gentlemen who sustained the Admin
istration by voting for the tax law and
other great measures of the Administra-
ton, have been reelected by large and
increased msiorities; while the Fotes of
those were reduced who voted against
the lawn one instance at least. If,
however, different result had been pro-
duced, it would not haVe excited surprise,
when we consider the means the disloyal.
Iso-called democrats" resorted to fol
that purpose. They may be summed up
briefly thus: first, to discourage enlist
ments, particularly of those who woulS
stay at home to vote the party ticket;
second, denunciation of the Administra-
ton for every possible and impossible
shortcoming third, to Oppose the oonfis-
cation acts fourth. to create i'll feeling