The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1865-06-23
"The cause of the war removed Z"
- A.

"The cause of the war removed I"
Who believes it in the light Of the above
facts9 Instead of being removed" II
has only fattened upon the blood it has
tasted, and grown ravenous a. the llyena
for more blood in "the next war;" Like
JOBS war-horse, it already "psweth in the
dust and smelleth the battle afar of. ~
1t smacks its lips over the delightful re-
past of "Irishmen and Southerners, -
smothered in wool and served up as dain-
ties for the Puritan palate.
The sight of ",he papacy buried deep
down in the grave with slavery, lis enough
with it to make another debt of s. OOO,-
000, 900 and the sacrifice of 1000, 900
lives look small and contemplate.
The cause of the war removed! +"
Never will the cause of the war be remov-
ed or the next war be removed until
"deep down in the grave with slavery " is
buried the spirit of fanaticism and puritan
ism-the spirit which hung old women aa
witches, which bored the tongues of Qua
kers and banshed men who differed with
it in religious belief-the spirit which
seeks to unite churches and State, and
drags moral and religious "reforms into
politics and politics into religion" The
spirit which brooks no difference of opin-
ion but would baptise the nation in blood
and sacrifice generation of men to prosy-
lite them to its straitjacket theories, and
bigoted orthodoxy. That spirit creeps in
to our national councils alone through the
Republican party. Only in their bosom
is the serpent warmed into life. 1t creeps
out in all the issues of that party. Some
times it is Know Nothingism. Sometimes
it is Maine Liquor Lawism. Sometimes it
is Abolitionism. And lastly it has coiled
its shiny folds around our national standard
and hidden its head among the stars and
stripes and calls itself "Unionism."
But it is the same old serpent which
stole the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in. Its head must be bruised, be-
fore the "cause of the war is removed"
and we have "lasting peace"
And if the Democracy will only make
good their promise made at the beginning
of this war, that when the rebellion was
put down, they would then call the Re-
publican party to account for their agency
in precipitatiDg it.; if they will go to work
with all the conservative men in the coun-
try to crush out with ballots the Northern
wing of the Disunion party as they have
with ballots the Southern wing, then "the
cause of the war;" acM be "removed, +"
and the Union will be not simply half saw
ed as now-while the Northern disunion-
lists refuse to reconstruct it except on the
basis of their peculiar party creed, but
wholly saved on the basis of comfy, fra
ternity and good faith, as provided in the
Constitution of the United States, and not
of any political party.
To complete the four years labor we
have begun, We must bury in the same
grave with secessionism-
Let the people then-all people-whether
Protestant or Catholic, native or foreign,
who wish peace forever in the future,
unite to frown down and vote out of ex-
istence the only disturbing element left to
bring on another war. That element is
in the Republican party. The country'i is
wide enough for Catholics and P Protestants,
Southerners and Northerners all to live in
peace, each regulating their own affairs in
their own way. Put your foot upon any
party which seeks to stir up more strife
and bloodshed. For one more such war
strikes our proud country from her high
meridian of glory to the state of second
rate South American nation, and brushes
our lihortios uofar Tho fvropt,, hal