Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-06

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If the hideons enormity of treason were exem-
pffied in no other manner, its effects upon the
corrupt and implacable politicians of the North
who profess to be Democrats would suffice to
make it apparent to the lowest understanding.
Their leaders, always mere demagogues, were
base enough before. They were never possessed
of any honorable impulses. For many years
past the seething political chaldron has been
| throwing the vile, the malignant, the utterly I'M
principled, to the surface, until at last, the
places which ought to be posts of honor, were
occupied, almost without exception by the most
depraved and God forsaken men in midst.
The ordinary decencies of life, the commonest
observances OF honor, the slightest regard for
humanity, were apparently ignored by the men
who had control of the political machine, which,
III the interest of the slaveocrats was persistent
ly used to destroy the last vestige of political in
tegrity in our country. 1t must be confessed
that the Southern traitors judged wisely in the
| policy they adopted They knew that honorable
and patriotic men would not yield to their dcta-
tons, would not sanction their purposes. Hence
they felt their way along the path to open re-
volt, by steps more and more atrociou;, gradualy
ousting the better class of Democrats who neither
could would endorse them until they sue
ceeded in giving absolute control of the party in
the North to men upon whose baseness and ig-
noble subserviency to their masters they could
when the rebellion reared its horrid front, we
had Buchanan for President traitors acting, for
the most part, his councillors, and fellow
conspirators all over the land, ready to assist in
the work of blood and desolation.
But the outbreak started the PEOPLE, every
where, from their dream of security. They had
been deluded by false doctrines, had been lead
to sanction pernicious policies under the honest
impression that they were best for the peace and
hN,,A of@l t1,a
petual well-being of the whole people. They
did not mean to destroy the Republic They in
tended to preserve it. They did not love treason
or traitors They were the enemies of both
Hence, when the purpose of the South became
apparent, when treachery eliminated at Sumter,
and the Flag Of the Union, for the first time,
was trampled in the dust by the foul gang who
had combined to destroy, now and forever, true
democratic institutions, the great mass of our
citizens rose as one man against the atrocity,
and the Northern wing of the conspiracy was,
for the time, compelled to hunt its hole, and
conceal much possible, its completely with
the most terrible crime written in the Book of
Time.
But this popular voice had no effect upon the
minds of the villains who were parties to the
| crime. They only the more confirmed in
their iniquity. They only studied how they
might gradually regain the influence they saw
had departed from them. They bent to the gale,
waited until it had spent its fury, and then set
themselves to work to undermine and pervert the
popular will. 1t brought expenditures, trials,
Observation-Disclosures policies, new purposes,
opinions. These they availed themselves of to
SOW discord, dissatisfaction, and doubt among
the people. They ssaled the Government on
all sides-talked OF the beatitudes of - peace
and when trials and hardshps came home to the
people, ascribed them ALL not to the traitors for
whom they acted, but to the Government which
sought to avert them.
In all this time. nothing has induced them to
swerve from their course. The noble patriotism,
courage and gallantry of soldiers, the devo-
ton of the mass of the people, their trials, their
woes. their anXieties, and their suferings. have
failed to inspire in the souls of these cxecrable
enemies of the country and mankind, a solitary
impulse of honor single throb of rem0rSe.
They have only become more and more bitter
and malignant. As they have been enraged by
their defeat, like Satan in He'll, they only foster
their hate, and study nothing but revenge.
Even now, when the prospects have grown so
cheering to the hearts Of patriots, their malice
works with increased venom. They traduce,
with internal glee, all that is good, honorable,
patriotic in the land Tkcy labor with the venom
of despair to foster discord to promote dissatis-
faction, and thereby hinder prevent entirely
the enlistment of volunteers. They jeer at those
who encourage the recruiting of the army, afa
denounce all who, in act word. with voice and
pen, seek to give success to the veterans who
have GLoRIFIED our arms.
All this is astonishing. But it is true. We
all kHOr it. The influence of treason, has made
DEVILS of the men who lead the traitorous fac
ton, who give voice to its purposes, who control
its press. There is no sign of manhood left to
them. They arc given up to demoniac impulses,
heightened by despair. They would destroy the
country, and to do this, would destroy them
selves. They arc living proofs of the fact that
those who
Damned like the devil. devl-libe will damn
-BnrLinQton (I0mal Warkeue