The weekly union record., 1865-07-01
Opposition Tactics.

The Opposition papers true TO their instincts,
are engaged in the task Of writing up the re-
beliion and ezcusing and justifying the actors
and authors thereof Not single word of
condemnation Of single act done in the inter-
est of the rebellion. is uttered or written by
them. On the contrary, all its leading spirits
are gentlemen, heroes and statesmen JEFF
Davis is, with them, the beau ideal of all the
excellencies of character-of craftsmanship
and Of political orthodoxy They are even
getting Indignant that JEFF. is not treated With
the consideration due to great public bene
factor, instead of the malefactor that be is
They are great sticklers for the Constitution,
but cannot see that Jefferson Davis and his
associates have committed treason, though
they could always see that Lincoln was al
ape, buffoon, and traitor who ought to
have been impeached and hung for treason
Claiming that the so called seeding States
were always in the Union, and If so amenable
to the laws and constitution of the same, yet
they affect 10 believe that it would be great
cruelty and injustice, if not unconstitutional,
to punish the Confederate traitors The 70
cabulary of the English language copious as it
is, is not sufficient for them in epithets, exple
tous aud terms wherewih to blacken, vilify
and defame the Administration aud Union
party. Their latest phase is magnanimity
''it is not magnauimous to kick dead lion !"
Had jeff Davis and bis associates observed
the rules of civilized warfare, in their charac-
ter of beligerents, they might have been ent-
tied TO some consideration, but as they have
not magnanimity in their case is misplaced,
and they simply deserve the treatment OF
felons.
They have deliberately and with wanton
malice, exposed to the frosts of winter, the
heats of summer, without shelter and without
food, thousands of our soldiers taken prisoners
by them. They have murdered in cold blood,
thousands who have fallen into their power,
and in numerous instances mutiIated their per
sons and desecrated their dead bodies. They
have conspired with scoundrels and assassns
to burn our cities and ships, and introduce
pestilence into them; and finally TO assassin
ate our public functionaries Aud JEFF. Davis,
knowingly, wilfuly and maliciously, has been
privy to all of this and the chief spring and
executive agent; and yet they say, Don't
kick the dead ion.'' And who says this
Those who call themselves Democrats and the
peculiar friends Of liberty and order. There
is one test by which this Democracy can be
tried. 1t is this. In the other countries,
without single exception, the enemies of lib
erty and liberal institutions have been the
friends of the rebellion, while all Others have
been its enemies. On the one hand, not sin
gle British Tory has befriended the Admins
tration and the Union cause, nor on the other,
single British Liberal that has not sympa
thized with it.
This is evidence conclusive that this so
called Democracy, is no Democracy in any
sense of the word. The arstocrats of the Old
World are intelligent and understand the mean
ing of the rebellion, and there is not senti
ment or argument put forth by so called Dem
| ocratic papers with which they do not fully
sympathize.
There is not one of them who if their wills
were to decide, would not vote the Democratic
party into power. Such is the Democracy Of
the present time-aristocratic, venal un A mer-
ican factious and disloyal-a shame and dis
grace to Liberalism and the age and country
in which We live. Let such be trampled out.