The mountain Democrat., 1864-10-08
WMOUNTHMDEMO
rae A1vosates or the Codo Of Blood.


The following is from the Milwaukee
(Wla.) News, and as il ftly describes q
clasa q persons to be found In this com.
munIty, and 10 fact in all communities Of
Ihs Dee States We give It q place in our
cosrhna: .f
a.ThsTe is . class Of people amcng Us
wAAsS TsfgiOn Il b to revel In ruin and
fest % blood The news Of deadly
stgnagls 10 battle oT'of destructive con-
6aglatipn delights them. Thsy never
.WsI6 - sn1ently - when sOdeaSOrine to
persuade some lonely mother to s0nd her
last boy to var. A WidOW in need or .
hthoF desOlats renders them tnctiously
happy. When they zee fresh regiment
Of Young men departing for the field Of
olaaghtsF, their grasifcation Is too intense
fur6orda When they bear Of the slaught.
sP Of Q Fsgimsnt or behold the corpse Of
. slsin eoldieF, their glory is complete
We bear these men on railroad cars and
street. corners, Boosting Of the number
thsy have persuaded to die in fights
Thsy gloat over hospital scenes and claim
. patent right to exclusive sympathy for
the Giek or mangled victims Of war, as if
they were their appointed friends. They
rub their hands In glae aud tell US oyfully
how well their town or their county has
done in starving and depopulating itself
for the war. They are proud Of the mum.
Der Of their wives relations 10 the ser.
vice They 60 about ravenous ior some
means Of inducing their neighbnrs to
make more sacrifices in the holy cause Of
negro freedom. OF course they attribute
oil the misery and poverty around them
to the mysterious providence Of God, as,
sign oil the souls Of the dead to the bosom
Of Abraham, and constantly profess TO
see blessings flowing down from the skies
10 rivers upon the house seholds their infa.
NOUS faDaticism bad made desOlate.
"We have had enough of these vultures
10 human shape. 1t is high time for them
to assume their true position as the enc.
mics Of public virtue, national prosperity
a0a private welfare. Every man slain to
uniawfuhy enforce their partisan notions
upon an Nawilling people, is q man mur.'
dered. They kill the men whose fall they
aScribe to the sad fortune of war. They
create the sorrows and strife, the poverty
and national desOlatiOn, which they hypo.
critically attribute 20 God. They perpet
Uate the war whose consequences they
pretend TO deplore. They who are Will
Oing and snivelling over the destiny Of
southern negroes beyond their jarisdic-
ti0n while dead to the miseries at their
next door, are they who are wantonly rob
bing the people Of their property aud
peace. They are not patriots, but public
enemies; not saints, but devils; not the
agents Of God, but the emis>ares OF the
bottomless pit. Wherever found. in the
pulpit, in the halls If Co"g grrSs III the
market PLACES, n lecture rooms, III pri.
vAte paTlOrs or on the stump, their hearts
are black with hate nhd theii nandS red
with the blood Of brottIrI,. Thur brutal
code has no sanction IN any good law or
precept, human or divine. Apostles and
statesmen, virtue and expediency, alike
condemn them as monsters among men,
LINCOLN va LINcoLS.-'To WHox IT
NAY coNcERS. Abraham Lincoln, of
March 9Th. 1861 ,a0d Abraham LincoIn,o of
July 18th, 1864, cut the following figure;
LiNcoLN's INAUGuRAL, of March 4, 1861.
| declare that have no purpose. DIRECT
LY OR INDIRECTLY, TO interfere with the in
stitution Of slavery in the States where it
now exists. believe have no LAwECL
ETonr TO DO so. and have 80 INCLINATION
TO DO so. The RIGHT Of each State
TO order and control its own domestic in
stitutions according to its own Judgment
ExCLUsIvELY, is ESSENTIAL to the balance
of power on which the perfection and en.
durance Of our political fabric depends.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
LIScoLN, TO THE REBEL COMMISSIONERS,
July IS, 1864.
Any proposition which embraces the
restoration OF peace, the integrity ri the
whole Union and the ABANDONMENT OF
sLAvERY, and comes by and with an au-
thority that can control the armies now
at var with the United States, will be re.
ceived and considered by the Executive
Governw4nt of the United States and will
be met by liberal terms on substantial
and collateral points; and the bearer or
bearers thereof shall have conduct both
ways.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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