The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-07-21

ice toward tho whole world, in suffering without re-
priaas, our commerce and our flag be insulted in
every sea by pirates issuing from the ports of pow
ers which make war upon under tho sheltc. 81
neutrality everywhere cOwardice.
Americans. is this the devise which our fathers
lett us Is it this which shall Leave our child
ren without energy for good, wtkeut force
io direct what has become of our liberties and
what has oecome OF the iramanse re,ources Of eve
ry KIND put by patriotism at the discretion of our
executives Oar hbertics' we have ,cen them sue
comb, one by one. without n muru,.r without a
single popular protest to vindicate rights and JUS
tice oatraged; military pro-consuis have every
by the Provost Marshal, tho habcas corpus no long
CT exists, ard the caprhcious bell of Mr.. Seward
sends, without power of resistance tho best citizeus
oi inc Republic to dream in a dungeon over our
lost liberties There is not citizen to-day who
can be secure in going to sleep at night, that he
viii not awake n criminnl-not by tho laws but by
the viii OF u pro-consul OF his agent
That which Eogland Would have defended to tho
last drop of her blood, chat which is the most plor
Gus apPanage of the Anglo Saxon race its rride in
and its attachraent arid respect for the liberty of
'''e clizen, VIC have abandoned without protest.
Arc VIC descendants OF those sturdy Saxons who
never knew hoU TO bcnt tl.eir heads or arc We the
efennatc sons Of the Latin race of whom s.ryility
Is the distinguishing charaeter;stic?
In hghting for universal liberty, arc we going tn
surrender our own? Our national wealth is fol-
lowing in tho wake of our liberties The re-
Dor, that prosperity Thic6 was he envy or tie t
world and our just PRIDE is flowing of Mt the rate
Of four millions OF dollars day, into the pockets of
contractors scattered and wasted by incapacity on
the battlefield. and by corruptionin public trans
actions Prossra:e, ruined, and dishonorcd have
We ut least the consolation to ali those sacrifices
crowned by victory over our enemies? Judge for
yourselves. Aitcr three years Of voluntary impo-
tcnce, after having steadily drained our wealth and
our blood in such way sjust TO carry our exist
ence along far enough to bring us exhausted TO tho
moment of Presidential election tho Adminf.tra
tion drawing together for supreme last effort all
the force OF tho nation, stakes its existence on n
last card IN order to pcrpcu ate itself in power
it falls, to leave with its successor only n ruin
and the remembrance of greatness destroyed for
ever.
AL our resources are engaged not in those com
bats of civilizel coPle where modern science wins
victory while il spares lifc but ia II human hcca-
tomb, like the recorded struggles of barbarian an
tquity, whcre masscs take tho place of intelligence
and where exhaustion and death take tho place of
yictory--a triumph of darkness over light history
will mark with her bloody finger this ferocious
hutchery, a shame to humanity and stain upon
this age of civilization and progress.
We have lost at least 40 00U men in less than ten
days; we push forward even our niilitin; what af-
tsrwar II Is enough to dearly for the ignorance
CT those who instead of leading men to victory
lead them to death! The Imagination refuses TO
look ut the consequences ofa dsastcrn such circuuf
stances AUnder this Administration sold to fer
eigncrs by fear OF ty interest, have seen that
"a idcst and most incredible spectscle of the work
!t
had yet reached century Of existence, but which
was also u century of unexamplcd prosperity.
Shades of Washington, of Jefferson of Monroe
and Jackson, of Adams, sof Clay, of Webster, and
OF Benton. tell our coun:rymcn if you recognize
tha; Republic which you knew how TO make so
great! Bloody shades of the heroes of irdcpcn-
dencc, you who founded the Republic by hcroisin
and suffering against the numbers aud the treasures
of England, rise up and tell if you recognize
your battles of giants where energy and valor sup
piled the. piac: of numbers, in these human hcca-
tombs where patriotism snccumbs under incompe-
tcnac! Come forward. Touch with your finger
the bodies of these contractors swollen with the
peoples gold, mocking Mt the devastation and smil-
ing over the national ruin; touch and tell. if
your antique Yr,ue realizes the existence Of these
human Tultufcs People! There is yet time for
yom TO rise un. There is yet time for you to pass
in review ihc acts of guilty Administration, which
has betrayed your confidence, and to arrest its
course. The moment has come to launch out from
the ne.s world the great truth that admins trations
male by the people, and not the people for tEc
administrations and Shat howsoevcr great may be
their fnrbcaTancc for ghcr servants, how long
may be their forgetfuncss of their interests, when
the measure is full, the people declare that they
alone sovereign and change their Admnistra-
.tion. The time has to change that which for
threc years past has occupied the White House,
the time has come TO clean out the Augcan stables
and to select the Hercules charged with that task
On TO Cleveland!