Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-07-20
IT'S DEATH STRUGGLE,

ting forth its last convulsve efforts before its
final dissolution 1t dies hard. IT is as ten
acious of life as n cat. But it must die, and
it is good that it should die. 1t has trans
gressed gricvously and much. 1t is vile
thing, conceived in sin and brought forth in
iniquity. Its father is Satan and its mother
South Carolina. Like its paternal, ii. can as
sumo any shape. and put on any disguise
which may best suit its purpose for the time
being and enable it to accomplish its unholy
ends. Despotic and brutal when in power,
cunning and treacherous when out, it is at
all times, and under all circumstances, the
same deadly foe to the peace, unity and pros
rerty Of the country, and justly deserves the
sxecration of the present and all coming time
Defeated by ballots in 1860, it resorted to
bullets to maintain itself and keep in Office
Defeated again, overwhelmed and utterly
crushed on its chosen field of warfare it re-
turns to the charge. and seeks to renew the
combat til. ough the agency of its old weapons
.-.fnessc, fraud and hypocrisy. It wriggles,
and crawls and hair-splits, and irsplits and
crawls and wriggles. 1t falsies and ga-blcs.
1t is one thing here and another there. Now
It fnwns and wlines, now it busters and bull
lies 1t is truculcnt and savage when it dares
he, fattering aud deceitful when it must be.
Its fangs and venom are like the serpents, its
twin-brother the copper-head, and the fires
that have been, and are yet, burning in its
black heart arc the fires of hell. 1t is mani
testing to-day the same malignant and des-
t-oying spirit that it has shown for the last
thirty years, and it is resortinG to the same
tactics to accomplish its objects that it exhib-
tied before its head was crushed and its body
,rampled in the dust by the Union forccs.-
The war was brought about on the part of the
secession leaders by falsehood. deceit and
Misrepresentation, and their emissarics and
representatives are practising the same dis
reputable game, and if their power for mis-
chief was equal to their purposes they would
reproduce the same widespread disasters;
they would bring upon what there is left of
the fair fields and smiling homes Of the sun
ny South the bloody horrors and gloomy des-
Citations from which she has as yet scarcely
begun to recover. God pity the South if her
people give these men the powcr-aud they
arc working desperately for ito involve her
In new complications, to bring upon her new
and bitter woes. Forewarned let the South
ern people be forearmed. Let them give no
quarter to the intrigues and willy Vaccinations
of scmi-scccssion politicians the dregs of the
old disunion party-among them.
There are restless spirits in the South who
do not intend to yield to the authorities of the
United States or to submit becomingly to the
decision of the sword, to whose arbtrament
they appealed. We may as well be plain in
the matter There has got to be some plain
talking and probably some very plain acting
before these men will understand their duties
us citizens of the United States If they hate
this government SO badly that they are I'M
willing to live under it, let them leave it, and
seek for freedom under the mild and paternal
government of Napoleon or Macmillan, or
the Emperor Of Brazil or under any other to
which their tastes and moral infnities may
lead them; but if they intend to remain in
the United Statesif they are loyal citizens
DESTROYS Of promoting the peace and unity of
this country-then it is :heir duty, and they
will be compelled, if necessary, to submit to
tho will of the majority, and acquiesce in the
settled and irrevocable policy upon which the
people of the United States have settled. -
They must not, and cannot, remain here as
revolutionists, disloyalists, traitors, ready
q plunge the country into civil war the mo-
ment any serious difficulty may arise with a
foreign government.
We care nothing about the professions of
these men. Professions are easily made. We
know what they professej in 1860 and previ-
ously. and we know they belied all the pro-
LESSONS they then made. We don't believe
their professions now, and intend to look to
their acts as the only criteria by which
to judge Of their motives and their intentions
Looking to these, it is quite clear that they
intend if possible 10 revive the slavery issue.
They don't mean to accept, they don't accept
the free basis which they themselves through
war have established They intend to make
q combined and desperate effort to revolution
Ike the government and to re-establish slave
W. We see almost every day the old disu-
nionists returning to their homes and posts in
the South, and witness their revival of the
old slang phrases of secession to excite the
prejudices and arouse the passions of the ig-
norant; VIC see them calling into requsition
the old tactics by which they fired the South
ern heart" and brought revolution, anarchy,
and despotism upon the Southern States
against the wishes of the Southern people.
Who can fail to appreciate the dangers
consequent upon the action Of these individ-
uah? Their past conduct is fair sample Of
What will be their future conduct, and il be-
Aooves the people-she honest. loyal people
" take charge Of the public interests. and to
hurI back these brazen- faced devils of dis
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