American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-15


um OF treason? know no trait of ten
derness more touching and more human
than that with which she received back
to her arms the bodies Of her lifeless chill
dren. I" Handle them tendery," was the
message of her loyal Governor Massa-'
chusetts desired TO look once more upon
the faces of her martyred sons, "marred
as they were by traitors" She lifted gent
ly the sable ball that covered them She
gave them soldiers burial and soldiers
farewell and then like David of old when
he was informed that the child of his af-
fections had ceased to live, she rose to
her feet, dashed the tear drop from her
eye, and in twenty days her iron-clad bat
talions were crowning the heights, and her
guns frowulng destruction over the streets
of the rebel city. Shut out Massachu-
setts in the cold Yes You may blot
her out from the map of the continent;
sou MAY bring back the glacial epoch,
when the Artic ice-drift that has deposit
ed so many monuments on her soil swept
over her buried suriace-when the polar
bear, perhaps, paced the driving foesand
the walrus frolicked among the tunbling
icebergs-but you cannot sink her deep
enough to drown the memory of Lexing-
ton and Concord, or bury the summit Of
the tall column that lifts its head over the
first of our battle fields with her, in
The language Of her great son, '' the past
is ut least secure" The muse of history
has flung her story upon the worlds can
y,,ss ia finite b.t a, M ,,t r. o,,J ammo.
die. t
PRESERVING THE UNION.
1t is suggested, however, by gentleman
from New York, on the other side Of the
House, Mr.. Fernando Wood that while
we on this side are tanning to be for the
Union, the enunciaton of these doctrines
by my able colleague (Mr. Stevens.
amounts to a declaration that we are no
longer Union party. The meaning of
ihls, If it means anything, is, that because
the rebel States are out, withoutany agen-
cy Of ours, but with large share of the
responsibility on the heads of those who,
like the gentleman himself, encouraged
the detection by their servility or by the
assurance that they were opposed to coer-
cion-as they oppose it now--and taught
them to believe that they would go out
with perfect impunity, and that New York
and Pennsylvania would go out along with
them-the mere statement of the fact
that they were out in evidence that the
party OF the Administration on this floor
is not in favor Of the preservation of the
Union Well, we are in favor. at all
events, of preserving all that is left of it,
and iniend. with the blessings of God,
to win back the residue, and pass it thro
the fire until it shall come out purged of
the malignant element that has untitled it
Tor freedom But what does the honor
able gentleman himself, what do those
who vote with him really think on this
subject? Does he, do they believe that
the rebel States are not out? If he does
not look upon themas anewand independ-
entpowerln IN the commonwealth of nations
why does he propose to treat with them
not with the veloltng States singly, but
with. ''the authorities at RichmondY
How is it that in his own resolution he
proposes, IN tOtidem verbts, the ''oher to
the Union! Who are the authorities
at Richmond 2" Will he inform us wheth-
er they are people known to our Con.
stitutlon, or how these States are TO return
to the Union if they were never out Of
His tongue confesses it unwittingly--l
will not say like Balaam's, who blessed
when he attended to curse-but Just as
did that of the louisiana claimant who.
N ha
stood before this House unconsciously
testifying in the same way. lie stands
therefore, self condemned by his own log-
lc, as no Union man. | will allow him.
however, the advantage OF the admission
that it is but slipshod logic that cannot
distinguish between the lac and the fact
But that is true of himself and his party
which he unjustly charges upon my col
league. The difference is,just this, that
although the rebels have spurned and
spit upon their northern auxiIiaries, re-
jected all their overlures, and declared that
they Will no longer associate with them
upon any teruis, aud are not willing that
they should even come !. betwixt the wind
ana their nobility" he wishes to treat ior
the privilege OF seFrmJ them, while we
propose 10 .fghtfor the purpose Of chast-
lsing them into submission. This may be
the result only of difference in taste;
but all history attests that There always are,
as there always will be, men who love to
wear the livery of master, and are un
comfortably without it; who regard the
collar as badge of distinction, aud would
at all events, rather carry it than quarrel
with it. No wonder, therefore, as the
opinion so often expressed by men Of this
sort in relation to the black man. that he
would neither run away, nor bear arms
against his master or anybody else They
did him injustice in supposing that he was
like themselves. Pompey, who was an
incoiuntdyy slave, is tending toward the
north star with musket in his hand, While
his white non eombatant substitute, a rot
tntd'y slave, in rushing southward with
the olive branch in his hands, into the pa
triarchal arms.
WHAT is TO BE THE END?
But wnat is to be the end Who
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