Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-08-19


racr and divide these States.
lou Will recoileet short time ago, while
our army was attempting TO take Nicksburg,
these croakels and these papers were all the
time throwing doubt upon this thing. saving
athe stronghold can never be taken Eli these
things were said and all these lpeans were
employed in order TO discourage the people
Why is il that the people must be discour-
aged: If man Is true man TO his Govern
ment, he never viii in its darkest hour do
anything to discourage that Government II
is the dark hour OF this country now II i
the period of its gravest trials Stand nv
volI country now. Now Is the time to do II
so tina, sooner or later her victories will be
won. lave confidence in YOUR army instead
of gossipping on the street corners with the
effect of demoralizing the efficiency of that
arm of your country.
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 resist an enrolling officer? What
was the cause of the mob in New York; Can
you tell me who did it and why II was done
1t was brought about in this way. By men
discouraging the people, and by representing
to them that the rebellion could not be put
down that the war was unconstitutional and
wrong that we were invading the rights of
the SOuth--by telling them everything TO dis
courage and nothing 70 encourage; till they
made 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. Ii has
been by false preachers and false teachers OF
the people, who talked not for the purpose of
suppressne the rebellion.
PARALLEL BETWEEN JACKSON AND LINCOLN.
This Government must be maintained at
all hazards whether it be by war or in any
other manner. il must be maintained
lCheers. Some may say that il is unconsti-
tutional to call out this army and prosecute
this war. These same men, if they are old
enough, some of them at least, recollect that
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 i'll South Carolina that nullificd the
laws of the United States, and they were
about to set up for themselves an independ-
ent Government
jackson was President at that time On
tie 10th of December, 1882, he issued a
proclamation to that people, and in his con
versatiOnS he declared that :" by the eternal
God will hang every traitor in this land,
unless they desist from opposition to the laws
and the Constitution" Applause This
was the doctrine of Gen. jackson, the doc
trine of a Democratic Pfcsidaa man of
nerve, a man who would sustain the Consti-
tuition of his country. But that was constj-
tutional for Jackson to do 1t was constitu-
tional for him to proclaim TO these men that
he would suppress the rebellion, and that, if
they r9belled, he would compel them to obey
the Constitution and the laws Of the United
States. If they did not, he would with force
of arms suppress it, and dcsolatc the land, or
punish each and every one of them by fitting
up gallo@s for them. And he was endorsed
as man who was only carrying out the Con-
stitution of Jhe country when he made this
declaration. [Checrs What was coustitu-
tional in one man was unconstitutional in
anotheT-what was Democratic in one man
is the greatest piece of treachery ever pcrpc-
tratcd on earth in another. What IS right
for one man to do, is violation Of good or
der and the peace of society and an insult to
the people and to Heaven, according to the
language of some men.
SOMETHING NEVER HEARD or.
Now, my countrymen, | want to answer some
of the objections made to this war and TO its
prosecution, and | want to do it in this way
Do YOU ever hear of any unconstitutionaity
N the part of jeff. Davis? On the part of
Gen. Lee (Cries Of No On the part of
Beauregard at Charleston - (Cries of sin the
Times y or of any of these men in the ar
mics of the so-calIed Confederate States or
rebelGous states suppose you do not.
TGrr r-Nress
But these men who are opposed to this war
call out about the unconstitutionality Of these
proceedings; that we are invading their soil,
despoiling their farms and that il is a violation
of the Constitution to do so. But suppose the
converse of the proposition viii make it consti-
tutional. That's we are trying to enforce the
Constitution and the laws and bring these
States back to the Union. IN trying to do that
we use every means in our power.
If this war in its prosecution is unconstitu-
tional, then the rebellion against the Govern
meut is constitutional But we are attempting
to maintain the Constitution in putting down
this rebellion, or else must maintain that
jeff. Davis and his men are doing so in irving
to destroy the Government. The Government
is right in prosecuting the war, and in using its
force and its IneaI in suppressing not only the
rebellion, but every rebel in the land, Zap
plause, or else it is true that the people who
are sustaining this war are acting wrong, and
ifso, then they are terribly in the right There
are but two sides to this question. Every man
is either jeff. Davis man or a Union man
Cheers y man is either for the Constitu-
ton or against the Constitution for maintain
ing the laws or for mob law, riot and rebellion
4 man is either for the Constitution ofth
United States or for the Constitution of jeff.
Davis. Tremendous applause and cries of
That's it."
TRAITORS At TIE NORTH
/ care not what he calls himself, what names
he calls his party or anything else, he cannot
be loyal man, and at the same time interfere
with the progress of the Government in the
suppression of this rebellion (Cheers.1
" e find men III this country, and am sorry
to know it, who cry peace" when there is no
peace. Not only do we find men who use
every argument that men can use who have
such intelects as they exhibit; we find men
that disapprove the war in every possible
manner; first, they traduce the powers that
be; second, they attempt at least to convince
the minds Of the people that each and every
act passed by Congress, and every order is
sued by the Secretary of War is violation of
the Constitution; that soldiers ought not to be
kept in the army, and in fact they hold out
inducements to soldiers to leave the army and
return home.
THE PROCLAMATION.
The President in his Proclamation gave the
rebels thirty days to come back into the
Union, under penalty of the liberation Of their
slaves. 1t was at their own option. If they
refused to return it was their action and
choice, not that of the President that libcr
afpd the slaves