The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-07-06
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franchise the Northern man as the
Southern man, who had abetted the
rebellion. Beyond all question, the
National Government$as been hated
as intensely, and struggled against as
strsnuously, by tens Of thousands in
the North as by any in the South
Beyond all question, it encountered
quite as much danger from the copper.
head politicians in secret council as
from tho actual military movements
| Of tho rebels in tho field. The efforts
to nsra1yze the Government BY defeat.
ling tax bills and cOnscription bills
were Just as reasonable in their range
as tho efforts to overthrow the Govern'
ment by positive violence. There was
no essential difference between with
holding the moulnand tho me- Re-
cessary to put 4 ho rebellion, al
an actual fighting on the sAe of thQ|
rebellion. Nay, ve might go farther.
and say that the declsratioh " the
Chicago platform, made BY the so-cal-
ed Democratic, party" last August
that the war was a failure and it's
demand that immediate efforts DO
,nado for q cessation OF hostilities," "
were iust ae directly calculated to give.
the victory to the rebellion as any
eampaign that Lee had ever planned.
The men who upheld that manifesto
wcro in reality, more culpable than
The majority Of Lec's followers into
Pennsylvania; for the latter wcrc con-
scripts who had no alternative, whilc
the former acted together on their own
, yolitions. We do not mean TO say
that all who voted for Gonoral McClei.
Ian wcro abettors ofthe rebellion. That
gontlcman committed a great error in
accepting al all nomination tender.
cd with such platform. But he made
: mr. terial notifications Of It; and great
uumbors--we think positive majority
who gave him thcir votes, were sin
cercly opposed to the position taken
by the party in Chicago. What we
, aairm is, that the Chicago platform
, was an adjunct Of tho rebellion, posi-.
, tive and palpable; and that those who
labored to establish it as the controll-
, ing law Of now Administration at
Washington, were nothing moro or
, loss than the allies Of tho rebellion
a Puro Justice would require that dis.
/. frauohisement should DO visited as
much upon those men as upon any
who worked on the side Of jeff. Davis,
Yet thorc will be no such distran-
chisomeut in any Northern State. 1t
Is not needed. The men who were
guilty OF detection to tho Union, in
, tho day of its sore straits, arc not on
ly powcrless now. but they can nevei
gain power. Ifthey throw their votes
" for those of their own stripe, it viii
effect nothing, for they would amount
at most but to miserable minority
% The public sentiment will always re
main overwhelmingly against them
: They are and always will DO under
y relentless political ban. Not one o
y thom can hereafter be elected to an.
., high position OF public trust. A dis
;" qualification to hold office, by abso
luto constitutional law, would hardl.
=" be more effective than will be this pop
&c ular intolerance. We may talk eve
so much about letting bygones bo by
gonoa, and throwing tho mantle O
. charity ever all faults in the past, ye
~ it is only idle dreaming to expect this
= = Thero ia that in tho American hear
w which will not forgive detection in th
~ day OF national trial THIS has Doe
" demonstrated most conolusively in th
" case Of the Tories of tho Rcvolutio
" and Of tho Foderalists OF the last wa
w No Intellectual accomplishment, nc
" any moral worth, could atonO Tor OF
y fa leo step Of taking sides against Il
" y country whom tho country wasin da
-. ger. If this were 80 in other times,
'" vii, bo 40 evoN more decidedly no.
'' The Tory Of the Revolution, at lca'
~ -, had tho apology of retaining his OF
=" ~ ginai loyalty. Tho pcacO Federali
~ of the last war actod against the &
~ ~ vcrnmcnt only in it's external relation
49,, -" and the pOacO he sought iavoked
- - vital injury to the nition itself. B
w. Wv tho oponents of this war were false
=, ~ all loyalty, and wore rocreant In
~. ' sense in which tho Tory was not
- was traitorous, too, in scnsO
- which tho Federalist was not for
~ peace policy inevitably carried wi
,"N , it the disruption and destruction of
,I M Republic, while tho other peace poll
A. would not have affected tho unity a
WV nernotuitv of tho Rcnublio nj nll.