Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-02
peace at any Price"

comprehend the reach anu ino"""o VI
this phrase, though the developments
rapidly taking place are making them ac-
ouainted with it. The Indiana revolvers
are powerful preachers, and they show
precisely the character of he peace
which these truculent shriekers DESIRE
They pray for peace. They are deter
mined to have peace. They will vote for
no man who does not go for peace. So
they form secret associations, and plot
for peace. Then they buy thirty thous-
and revolvers to control elections in the
interests of peace. If their neighbors do
not consent to go for peace, they propose
to murder them. In short, they propose
to go to Sighting at home, inaugurate a
new civil war, launch a new revolution,
set new rivers Of blood flowing, do what
lies further in their power to ruin the
country, and bring new horrors TO every
hearth aud heart in the land, and all in
the interests of peace The country may
as well rise to meet this new demonstra-
tons Of treason first as last. She toler-
ated The southern rebels TOO long, and we
can tolerate these too long. The govern
ment will utterly fail in lis duty to the
country if it does not keep a sharp eye
on all these disloy al movements, and visit
the frs; and every overt act with swift
punishment. Every honest lover Of his
country, republican and democrat alike,
will support the government alike in any
measure which administers to overt trea.
son in the northern states short thrift and
bloody doom. Nay, every lover OF his
country, of whatever parity will hold the
government responsible for all the dam,
age these devils may do. If we fight
traitors at the South, let US save a bullet
Off every man who dares, here at the
North, to destroy our unity, and strives
to give the country into the hands Of its
sworn enemies.
These peace men with revoIvers in
their hands: who are thery? They are
men who have from the first, given all
the aid and comfort to the enemy in their
power. They have opposed the govern.
ment, rallied at the government, and sym
pathised with Davis and his fellow reb-
els. They are the companions and CO.
laborers Of the rebel consprators at Nj
agara-the arch rebels chosen emmissa-
ries. They have, from the first, ejoiced
in every rebel victory and groaned over
every rebel defeat. They are, in heart
in deed and in reality, rebels, living north
oil Mason's aud Dixon's line, and they
want peace for precisely the same rea-
son thai the rebels do---that the South
may achieve her independence. They
are working in the interests Of the con-
federate states and not in the interests Of
the United States and there is nothing
which would SO nearly break their hearts
(such as they have) to-day, as to hear
that Richmond was in Grants hands and
Atlanta in Sherman's. This is perfectly
notorious, and yet people do not like to
acknowledge to themselves tn at these
men by hundreds a n thousands are
thronging to Chicago to attend a conven-
ton with the purpose of securing the
nomination, as a candidate for president
of the United States, Of one Oftheir o,on
number.
Are we ready to meet these men? l.
the government resdy to meet them,
when, failing to control the nomination or
the election for the interests of treason.
they proclaim the peace principles at the
lips of their revolvers? Is it ready to
treat them as it treats other traitors? IF
it is not then it is time it were. This
fair heritage is not to be still further de-
filed, we trust, through the childish cred
uity and the criminal forbearance of the
national government The game is in
its own hands. II has the means for
perfect self-protection, and if it fails to
use them in such way that they shall
never need to be used again, it will bring
upon itself the execration of every hon
est lover Of his country in the land All
it wants is spirit and determination to
finish up these marplots at short notice.
-.Springfetd Republican,
There is more hope OF the final educa-
ton of an attentive simpleton, than there
is of him that fanoies himself so wise that
he cannot be taught by others.
-.
To love arightly thou Shouldst love as
God loves-as is Ii written-"The right
eous Lord loveth righteousness, and ha-
teth all iniquity," and again, "He is kind
to the evil and the unthanktul also"
In LamoiIle County Samuel NJ. PEN