The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-04-28

(McClcllan) Strengthened himself up
quickly, and said: :" 1 do assure you,
sir, that you are mistaken. jeff
Davis IS perfect gentleman, and raI
not do anything anbeeOming a gentle
man" Well, if a traitor, conspirator,
thief, repudiator, and the chief devil
who is instigating all this murder is
his beau ideal Of a "perfect gentle
man." i hope our country may never
be cursed with his standard of moral
ity and virtue at the head Of affairs
These same conservative and Copper
head gentlemen (?) agree in all things.
They are alike opposed to any confis-
cation of rebel property.
WHO SHALL BIZ coNFIscATED.
Now, which should be confscated,
iny your opinion, the loyal man who is
fighting for US, or the traitors who are
fighting against our Government,
with the ayowcd purpose Of over
throwing that Government He who
has made war on our country without
q cause, or he who is defending our
country? He who has caused this
mountain of debt, or he who tried to
prevent it? Are not the loyal men,
and they who have risked their lives
in defending the country, being CON
tiscated every day in the shape Of tax
es, stamps, excise, &c? We never had
any such demands mado on us before
they created this war. Is it not as
just, as righteous, yea, as constitution
al for them to pay the little bill they
have created, as for loyal men to pay
it? Yes, but they say there are loyal
men in the South--would it not be too
hard for them to pay any of this bill ?
| answer, that there are many loyal
men here, and in the North who have
riskcd their lives and lost their limbs,
their health and their youth, in defend
ing our country; would it not be hard
for them to pay this bill? These
Southern Union q men have not help
ed us. In the hour of peril they stood
back and let everything be carried
against US by default. Too much
cowed, and cringing to this naughty
slave power, they very meekly and
submissively said: &" as my State goes
IuU 90, and nor as the Union is dissoI-
Ued, L riU fight for the State" They
are pretty lot Of birds for you to ex-
pend your sympathics on, preference
to your slaves
THE ORATOR coNFIsCATED.
l have been confscated pretty sound
! ly in the way above named, and also
by them. You all knew my brother
Jacob II he died a batchelor in Mobile,
worth hundred thousand dollars, and
they have confscated me and my fam
lily out of it. Have you heard any OF
these conservative Copperheads con
denim the constitutionality of that act!
But behold my cousin E. NJ. Bruce
is the Representative in the Congress
Of thieves, representing this county
and district in that den of robbers
which they call a Congress. Who o.
you voted for him? Will any one dare
to avow that he voted for him? Well
that is constitutional according to theil
construction of it, How they do re-
verence that sacred document! He is
one of the scoundrels who helped con.
coct the plan to rob me and mine. and
now at thisvcry time, his wife is al
Covington, and came from the South
under the pass of the tyrant Lincoln
and l am compelled by the laws of this
tyrannical Government to protect his
family, while he and his confederate
thieves rob me and minel -.
STRONG HOME TALK.
Here in your midst are thieves ant
scoundrcls that have been in thc
Southern army, killing your sons
burning your houses and robbiug You
They have now returned to thcil
homes under the amnesty proclama
tion of that tyrant C) Lincoln, for
given; NJ trial, even, for the murder;
they have committed You all saw
some of the scoundrels on our street:
to-day Some of you here, whose sons
were murdered by them, must meet
them, and bear it. If you were to xii
one Of them, as You ought to do, il
just retaliation, this tyrannical g,
Government, that they complain Sc
much about, would put you through.
THEY KNEW THEIR MAN.
l wish to call your attention to the
fact that all such papers as the Cincin
natl Enquirer and Chicago Times anC
Louisville Journal are for Mcclellan
That is enough to damn any man
Look in your midst. Every well
known rebel is for Mcclellan. Thi
is suspicious. They know their man
t l tell you my friends that JEFF. Davi
, and this man. Mcclellan are as gooC
friends as Andre and Arnold.
heard him myself express the highes
praise of jeff. Davis,
NO TIME FOR cAvILING.
This is no time for Union men t,
3. differ and entertain discussions witt
, one another on minor points. W
: must sustain our legal authorities il
0 the execution of their duties, in carry
: ing out the laws and in putting dow
: this rebellion. We must not trust mel
q in high places who are justly obnox
= ious to the suspicion of being to-
2 friendly with the enemy, or friendl,
4 with the friends of the enemy. lfyo
j, do, you may rest assured you will b
S betrayed. We must stand by thos