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

no more than what humanity and equity
require; that he may do himself justice
respecting the object which has given
rise to the war, aud indemnify himself
for the expense aud damage he has sus-
tained that he may render them incapa-
ble of further mischief. Indemnify, Sc
c,trity and punishment are all, therefore
means of self-defence which may be legiti-
mately used. .a
WHAT REDRESS WE MUST SEEK,
I think 1 may safely say that human
history presents no parallel TO this rebel
lion. Since the revolt of the rebel angels
there has been no example of an insurrec-
tion so wanton, so wicked, SO utterly cause
less, and so indescribably ierocious and
demoniac as the present. 1t was not the
case OF the oppression of government
whose weight had borne heavily upon the
people. 1t was none of violation of the
Fundamental law. The object was not
redress, like that Of our Revolution, but
destruction. 1t was rebellion against
the majority rule for the purpose not Of
returning, but of overthrowing the gov
ernment, and ereetingupon its runsanjth
or of oligarchic cast, whose corner stone
was property in man. twas the product
uf a system which threw all the lands OF
the South into the hands Of few men
1t involved an act Of aggravated treason
against humane, patetnal and unuffcnd-
ing government. 1t has been conducted
with degree of inhumanity that has no
example exceptin barbarian wars. 1t has
involved to us an enormous expenditure
OF money and of blood. Its suppression
has become impossible without removing
the cause of strife, and disabling our enc
my by liberating his slaves, and arming
them against him. 1t cannot be repaired.
There is noIeparation possible that would
be commensurate with the injury. Can
you breathe new life into the bones that
ornament the necks and fingers of south.
ern danes, or bleach unburied without
even the humble privilege of grave, Oh
southern battle-iields? Can you recothe
them with the comcly y vesture that has
been given to the vultures of the southern
sklesy Who shall restore the shattered
limb; who fill the vacant chair at the fam
lily fresidej who give back the husband
and the father, or dry the teaiso of the ewid-
ow and the orphan? What triumph, but
that Of the dread archangel, who gathers
the tribes of the earth for the last solemn
| judgment, shall awaken the gallant dead
who sleep in bloody garments in their
beds of glory, from their deep repose p
Mock not the grief that is unutterableby
the subject of indemnity or reparation
Give me back my legions p was the
passionate exclamation of the Roman Au-
gustus, when swift messenger brouahtto
him the tidings of the slaughter of Varus
and his brave companions in the forests of
Germany. "Give me back my children."
is the wailiag cry that will burst from the
bosom Of the American mother, who weeps
like Rachael for her frst-born. by the wa
ters of the Merrimac and the Oh Or
mock me not with the idea of reparation.
There is no reparaton for it, as there can
he no punishment, except i'll the dvesti-
ture of the rights and the seizure of the
estates of the guilty leaders. There is no
security except IN the distribution of the
latter, aRd the. complete exorcism of the
hell-born and \ aell-deserving spirit that has
wrought all this worldwide ruin,
LEAvE'oUT NEW ENGLAND IN THE COLD.
Leave out New England in the cold
We'll, am no Yankee. No drop Of my
blood has ever filtered through that STRAIT
pm of humanity | claim, however to be
| man. | think l love liberty above all
things know that | can respect and
admire courage, and constancy. and high
thought, and heroic achievement, where
! ever may find them. | would not quar-
rel even with an overstung philanthropy.
| can always excuse the errors that lean
on the side of virtue, aud find fanaticism
much more readily in uiat devil worship
of slavery, that would be but even the
Union itself, upon its horrid affairs, than
in these noble spirits whose sin is only
their excessive love for man | may
speak, therefore, without prejudice
Leave out New England in the cold
doubt whether even this would chill her
brave heart, OF quiet its tuniultous throb-
biugs for humanity Though no ardent
! soutiiefn sun iids VhlckeHeu hef pulseS,Of
kindled her blood intolava, no frigid nev-
trality has ever frozen her into stone when
The interests of liberty appealed to her
for protection. She has been ever faith
ful to the memory of the great idea which
broughther founders across the ocean, us
the only colony that landed in this newly
discovered hemisphere upon any other er
rand than the search for gold. L cannot
forget that it WIS this prescribed race that
inaugurated the Revolution, by iorgingin
their capital the thunderbolts that smote
the tyranny of England, and dying their
garments with its first blood upon the
commons Of Lexington.
Leave out New England in the cold :
Y You may look unkindly upon her, but you
cannot freeze her into apathy any more
than you can put out the light of her
eyes, or arrest the missionary thought
which she has launched over continent.
1t was not New England that stood shiv-
lering in cold indifference when the boom
of the first rebel gun in Charleston har-
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