Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-13

the deceitful advantages of a dictatorial re
gime. To apply to the South an exceptional
rule would be, alas, quite easy. 1t would be
easy also TO pronounce the death penalty TO
outlaw, TO execute confseation bills; but in
| treading this path of vulgar tyranny you
would sacrifice two things-your high re-
nown in the present, lasting Union with
the South in the future.
But If, on the other hand, you show the
world the novel spectacle of victory without
| reprisals, of liberties strong enough to sur
vlve civil war; if your constitution remain,
and slavery alone fall in such a conflict: if
on the morrow of the struggle the law re-
main supreme if elections for the Senate
and House OF Representatives be again open
| a. IN the old time; if the representatives of
the Southern States reappear at Washington;
! if taking the oath 10 be faithful TO the [ Giou
and to support the modified constitution
| they find themselves on a footing of perfect
equality with the representative of the
| North if il be permitted TO them to attack
! and to embarrass the government, your will
have won the most glorious of victories, and
assured to your country the best chance OF
prosperity and greatness.
Accept, gentlemen, in the advice which
we tender TO yOu, proof of our esteem. 1t
is not of every government, it is not of every
/ people that such things can be asked Pro
| tracted civil wars tend 70 arbitrary customs,
| stir up passions and hates, and at last engeD-
der a development of military power and ir-
responsible authority which generally hind
ers a return TO control, TO free opinion and 10
strict letter of the law. We honor the United
| States enough to believe that they viii be
! capable o. setting Us this, too, after so many
other examples.
The moderation which We hope for from
you at home, we look for also from you
| abroad. Assuredly OF. the morrow of the
submission OF the South there viii not be
"a ole Of r,ar
you wrongs, real or fancied suffered at the
hands OF this or that power. They viii point
TO your armies and disposable feet. They
viii prove TO you that foreign war is per
haps the surest way to draw together the two
| sections so lately hostile. They will tell YOU
| that common enmity, common dangers, are
! the cement needed TO strengthen your shat
/ tered editce.
! You viii not believe th,n, gentlemen. You
viii feel that after these jars it is needful be
| tore all else, TO restore to America peace and
| liberty. You viii not seek new adventures,
aud thus lengthen the temptation of dicta-
/ torships, the peril of exceptional rule
! You viii fear return to the aggressive
| policy which, with Its invasons and turbu-
/ lence, the influence of the South forced upon
/ you, the day, when, 10 assure the extension
/ of slavery, it awakened In your hearts wick
| ed coyetousuess and pushed YOU almost TO
/ the violation of the law of nations Your
| glory viii be 10 take the opposite of those
/ violent declarations, OF those hllibustering
| expeditions, of those INSCRIPTIONS ambitions.
The temptations which great army ex-
| cites are OF the class most difficult to repress.
! May You not hesitate TO reduce vour forces
| after peace. Not only your material pros
/ perity, but your very liberty, is involved n
/ disarming, in a reduction OF Your expenses,
and return 70 the old idea of small armies
and small budgets.
But We do not deceive ourselves. Your
small armies, do what you may, viii be large
compared with those of three wears ago.
our military education Is completed you
have replied but too well 10 those who smiled
az the recital of your battles OF 1851. You
have learned but too quickly 70 face death
and to kill, and what you have learned you
viii not Uulearn. You viii not return 10
your former situation.
But while We do not expect again % SCI
your effective force At ten thousand men. we
do hope that effective forces which are now
numbered By hundreds OF thousands viii not
long be witnessed Ola American soil
II.-CUulaEe You have before YOU one
OF the most noble works, the most sublime
which can Be accomplished here below
work II the success Of which we are as in
/ tereSted a. yoUrsa-vas-a work. the success
of which viii be the honor and the cousoIa-
ton of our time.
This generation VIII have seen nothing
more grand than the abolition Of slavery lin
destroying IL with you. Won destroy il every
| where,) ana the energetic uprising Of a PEG
pie which, in tie midst of It's growing pros
perity, was visibly sinking under the weight
! or the tyranny OF the South, the completely
, OF the North, odious laws and compromises.
1 Now, at the cost of immense sacrifices. YOU
/ nave stood up against the evil You have
! chosen rather TO pour out YOUR blood and
/ your dollars than to descend further the slope
OF degradation, where rich, united, powerful,
! you were sure to lose that which Is far nobIer
than wealth, or union, or power.
! Well, Europe begins 10 understand. viii
Ingly or unwilingly, what you have done
! IN France, IN England, everywhere your
cause gains ground, and be it said for the
| honor OF the nineteenth century, the obstacle
winch our I'll viii and our evil passions could
not overcome, the obstacle which the infrigr1es
OF the South could not surmount, is an idea.
principle. Hatred of slavery has been vour
champion in the old world. A poor champion
seemingly. Laughed at, scorned, il seems
weak and lonely. But what matters il: ere
the account be closed principles viii stand
for something, and conscience, in all human
affairs, viii have the last word.
This, gentlemen, Is what we would say to
you in the name of all who with Us, and better
than ourselves, defend your cause in Europe
Your words have cheered Us may ours in
turn cheer you You Lave vet to cross many
dark valley. More than once the impossi-
bIIIty OF success VIII be demonstrated to you
more than once in the face Of some military
check or political difficulty, the cry will be
raised that all is lost. What matters it To
you? Strengthen your cause daily by daily
making it more just, and fear not; there IS a
God above
We love to contemplate in hope the noble
future which seems to stretch itself before
you. The day you emerge at last from the
anguish Of civil war, and you will surely come
corrupted the public manners and degraded
/ your domestic as we'll as your foreign policy
that day your WI ole country, South as well
As North, and She south perhaps more fully
than the North, viii enter upon a wholly new
| prosperity European emigration will hasten
toward your ports, and viii learn the road to
| those whom until it has feared to APP
! proach. Cultivation, now abandoned, viii
renew It's yield. Liberty-for these are her
miracles-wiH reyivify by her touch the soil
/ which slavery had rendered barren.
Then there viii be born unto you a great.
/ moss roIEar and vopra ztaLia than ha old for