The weekly union record., 1865-06-03
The Cry Of Wolf.


So wrote Carlyle of the times when the re-
peal Of the Test acts and Catholic disabili-
ties were passed by Parliament. In the mod
ern history of England there has never been
greater howl from The Church aud aristocra-
cy. than when these bills or reforms were
passed. Tyranny is always suspicious; bad
Institutions are always in danger, and if they
are il any way meddled with, the air at once
resounds With howls and awful predictions
There Is no more honesty 10 the world. and
everything is going TO wreck So it is with
slavery and lis advocates 10 our country
Being bad Institution and conscious Of lis
autagonism to al law, natural or divine, slavery
must needs be incessantly making new guards
for lis perpeiuation and security. Having
always succeeded 10 shaping the Government
to its own ends, at length It attempted to make
Itself the corner stone Of the whole edldce
The ultimate aim was to proselytize the whole
country TO slavery. When as might have
been, and was expected. large portion of the
people demurred to such result, and whct
was not expected, the Democratic party d.
vided upon it then came an awful rebellion
cruel, bloody war which. half war, half peace
at first, and war in earnest at last, 10 which
slavery has gone under and had its feathers all
pucked, would according 10 the authority Of
precedenis settle the whole matter Such
would be the conclusions of reason, prece
dents and common sense; so much so 10 fact
that no party, not even the rebels themselves,
expect any other issue. But now, a withered,
puny, servile faetion sneaking under the pettl
coats Of Democracy are striving by iudireciion
and any and every pretense TO plant the seed,
from which shall spring as the fabled Phoenix
from its ashes, the worse than Upas tree of
slavery, in all its pristine wide spreading
gloom and shade Not daring to come boldly
out aud advocate the restoration Of slavery as
II ,rds, they ask if you want social equality
with negroes ; if you want them 10 vote, and
dozen cognate questions. They want and
hope to divide and split up the Union party
on This and that petty incidental question, and
thus, as the snow melts at the return of the
yernal sun, TO dissolve the cohesion OF the par
ty. They are not like the stalwart mariner
that hurls his barb at the leviathan of the
of the deep under the frozen zones of Green
land or the Autartic, or the milder waters OF
the Atlantic or Pacific; but like the juvenile
who casts his tiny barb in the brooks aud rivu-
lets and fishes but for minnows, and when be
catches minnow rejoices in childish glee
And when will they accomplish a result
When sensible men fish for trout in mud
puddles, but not till then. They will find the
Union party has what the French call soli-
daritg after while. If keeping mum on the
direct issue they can detach this, that and the
other from the party on this, that or the other
incidental questions, they hope to get foot
ing ; and in sort of geometrical progression
to mount up to the top of the ladder and cry
aloud the Union as it was" and what that
means all understand. If they want slavery
restored as it was. why do they not make that
their issue? We put the question directly to
them Do you want slavery restored as it
was? They dare not; we defy them to au-
swer this simple question. None OF them will
do it. They will plead as mild az a spring
morning at first that it is altogether the best
that JEFF. Davis and no rebel should be hung ;
hat cb ha 6,
Gated then that they should be allowed TO
vote. electioneer and come back to Congress ;
then that State Rights to the hub should be
recognized ; then it would be the old story
intensified, all sou aboitionst sons OF b.
shall be hung, burnt. drawn and qnarlered, "
and this would be the finale Lovely to con-
template, is it not
Then II is a iavorite saying Just now in re,
pute with them that the world is governed
too much" 1t is admitted that such is the
case when laws are made to foster. encourage
and protect nopolies-slavery, church and
State and like-but We do no, admit "that
the world is governed too much" when laws,
however volumnous. are made to project men
in the worship of God, according to the die
tates of their own conscience to the right of
every man TO own himself, his wife and chill
dren, and 10 the full rewards Of his own indus
try. To recur 10 our text, our opponents, like
the British Tories. see and predict nothing but
unconstitulionalty. public honesty widow,
private honesty run TO shoddy, aud society all
gone to the devil" just because slavery is a
wreck secession whipped, Copperheadism turn
ed to tiunkyism with the privilege to whine
aud bark, aud Uniouism not so homogeneous
that they with the aid of powerful microscopes
cannot discover here and there little blemish.
In answer to the question are you IN favor
of negro suffrage aud equality? we say we
shall take our own time to answer the cues
ton. Meantime, we ask them. do you want
slavery restored as it was? When ,hev have
as party answered this. we will answer the
other. And in the interim We will keep on
DlaVirr Yankee D0Oile