Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-23

forbearance aud the ballot boI-the only
eropsr corrective Of such evils under the
Constitution, unless they become unbeara-
BILE.
Adding the aggravation of civil war in the
North TO the rebellion of the South, Whist
must be the political and social consequent
ces? The overthrow of Republieanisln, SUBJ
lection to the South and personal discords
and dissensions, which must continue TO agi-
tate and waste US until our fate stall have
been typltled in that OF unfortunate Mexico.
Apart from the Importance of concord and
harmony among loyal Americans as a condi-
ton OF success in putting down the rebellion,
it is of greatly enhanced Importance in view
of the portentOus events now Transporting in
Mexico. What do we see there? people
oyerrun and government overthrow, be-
cause the dlsSensions OF the one and the fee
bleness of the other tempted the ambition of
the French Emperor to the work. An alien
dynasty is transplanted into vassal and hum
bled Mexico TO rule over strange and I'M
homogeneous people and already We begin to
hear OF the new rulers intention to recognize
the so-cailed Southern Confederaey. Next
we may hear of both Mexico and the Southern
Confederacy becoming dependencies of France
as return for her protection; and thus by
the practical Development of crafty and
ambitious policy, both the Monroe doctrine
and our Union subverted.
Is this time, while these events are threat
ening us-is this time for party strife and
paralyzing the arm of the Government? On
the contrary, our cry should be ITO your
tents, o Israel !' g grid on your armor," and
rush to the rescue as the Gallo Saldunes,
bound together by hooks of steel The Phil
istines are upon US, we must awake; arise
OF be forever fallen"
Are you stirred, my friends ! am glad of
it. Oh that, like Demosthenes, l could in
spre you with the utterance, Lead as against
Phillip-lead US against Louis"
But, returning again to the rebellion, what
provocaton was there for it :? Had the South
been oppressed or injured? Had she been
excluded from fair and equal participation in
the honors, offices and administration of the
Government Had she been curtailed of
her domain or circumscribed in her limits ?
Far from it; she had furnished six of the ten
Presidents that swayed the Executive for the
first sixty years of the existence Of the Gov
eminent, and had enjoyed corresponding
excess of all the great domestic and foreign
offices. Her territory had been expanded by
the acquisition of Louisiana, Florida and
Texas, slave territories; and by the prodigious
enhancement of her planting interest, and
staples had become rich, luxurious and AFRO
giant and aspiring to be all, when being equal
she should have been content, fell, and great
III her fall.
She no longer boasts and brags that ne
Southern man Is equal to five or three North
ern men in combat. Belmont and Donelson
Shiloh, and Pea Bidge, and Arkansas Post,
and Port Gibson, and Champion Hill and
Big Black Bridge, and Vicksburg, and Port
Hudson, and South Mountain, and Antietam,
and last but not least, Gettysburg, have dis
PEELED that illusion. 1 allude not to these
battles in any boastful spirit, but in defense
of and in justice to Northern men.
Have L not seen them bear the old flag up
rugged heights and down broken slopes, dar-
ingly, desperately; with eager bound under
the wasting fire of hostile infantry and ar
tillery? Have L not seen the brave men of
Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana
Iowa and Missouri rush upon death as upon
some Intoxicating joy? Oh there is a mad
dening transport when battle RACES when
the warriors muscles harden as knots of wood
and his sinews as rods of steel, and when
anon through the smoke and roar of the fierce
conflict the old flag flashes its light and the
shout of victory is heard Great and long
continued applause.)
And what have these brave and hardy men
not done Have they not wrested Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Missouri, and parts of Ar
kansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi from the
grasp of the rebellion vast region more
extensive than the organized limits of the
original thirteen states. Have they not re-
moved the blockade of the Mississippi river
and restored that river to the wonted uses of
lawful domestic and foreign commerce nave
they not done all this; and are they not to-
day pushing the column of success to-
wards the heart of the rebellion, which must
soon be crushed.
Returning to the Democratic party, / wish
to and that the true men Of that party never
can aud never will sympathize with this re-
bellion. OF all men they have most personal
cause to antagonize it. What the facts
The leaders of the rebellion have betrayed
TIM Democratic party as well as the Union.
They wilfully and wickedly betrayed its faith,
its nationality and its unity, and that, too,
after that party mad honored them and long
shielded the South as well as the North
against the violence of faction and fanaticism.
Taking part in the Democratic convention
at Charleston and Baltimore, they seeded
from it twice, because Northern Democrats
would not repudiate vital principle of their
acknowledged creed, and succumb TO their
dictation; and finally bolted the nomination
of Douglas, the champion of popular rights,
and thus by dividing the Democratic party
insured the election of Lincoln.
And when the result had TRANSFERRED, what
was their elamor and cry? Have any for
gotten? 1t was that they would secede from
the Union, too. Yes that they would
cede from the Union for a result which they
indirectly and Intentionally brought about
thcmselves-for a result which they hailed
with bontres and salvos of artillery, and yet
nypocritically bewailed as necessity for dis
union. Have any forgotten that? Never
can or will l forget it, or pardon it. Never
can will l forget that these same men
stabbed Douglas, the Democratic party, and
the Union. Never Never
The speaker referred to Gen. Jackson's
mode of dealing with notification. Some
said that it was compromise that did it, but
it was in reality the terror of Jackson's
threat to hang Calhoun and crush out resis-
lance, and the preparations he was making to
carry it out. (Cheers.) Jackson then pre-
dicted that having failed to dissolve the Union
on account of the tariff, they would next
make slavery pretext for revolt. On this
subject, though he had been one of the most
rigid Democrats, ready TO grant every consti-
tutional protection to Southern property, he
would say that if slavery stood in the way of
the Union, let it be swept away. (Great
cheering.) The Butternuts might preach on
this homily, but slavery was a dead tree.
(Cheers.) Its roots had been severed by the
sword, its branches torn away ty shells, its
trunk girdled ~ the fires of war (Renewed
applause Whether the proclamation had
aided or retarded this result was question.
One chapter of American history, however,
was closed. The questions that have divided