American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-23
The same Three.

through proclamation of its Presi-
dent, announced its determination,
in the early period of the rebellion,
ito take aDUhold all places belong
ing to it, that had been seized by
the usurpation of conspirators- This
has been the fixed policy of the Gov
ernment through the entire war.
1t has ''fought it out on this line /"
to complete success. 1t has conquer
an open and powerful insurrection,
supported by foreign treachery and
domestic sympathy. No rival flag
of usurpation floats from any mast or
fortress within its geographical
boundaries.
Its work now is, to repair the dam.
ages done by the rebellion, to re-
store order and prosperity to the
places which have been desolated BY
it, and to infuse sentiments of loyal
ty and feelings of security through
all the population of the country.
Its good intentions and efforts, in this
direction, cannot justly be called in
to question. 1t is making some
progress, but not as rapid as might
be desired. The embarrassments
that occasion delay spring frem the
same agencies that oo-operated in
the rebellion. The same three an
tagonists that openly or secretly con-
fronted it in war, now throw imped-
iments in its path of peace. For
eign counsels and influences, and d.
mestic sympathies and encourage
ments, foment the hostile spirit of
rebellion, one hoping still for the
dismemberment, or, at least, the en-
feebling of the Union, the other
seeking to get the control of it,
and both aiming only at the a vance,
ment If their own selfish ends.
The warriors Of the rebellion,
beaten by the heroic patriots Of the
Unian have been driven from the
feld The politicians of the rebel
lion, whose proverbial prudence has
kept them afar from the dangers of
war, now creeping out from their
hiding places, upon the field of poll
tics. The South, routed in the open
battle, has evidently betaken itself to =
Fabian policy, to perplex, harrass and
hinder the Government in its benignant
work of reconstruction. And in this
policy, it has all the aid and comfort,
from its old poadjutors in the rebellion,
that they are able to give it. This triple
allience," Three Judases and each thrice
worse than Judas" is what the Union
Government encounters now, as it has
for four years past. And only by the
steadiness of purpose and energy of ac-
tion, supported By the undivided loyalty
of the nation, can it go on, conquering in
peace as it has conquered in war, to the
complete establishment of law, order, am.
ity and prudence throughout the whole
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That party or faction in the North
should sympathigo with one in the South,
occasions neither surprise nor alarm, in
it, but to its shame, that in such times
as we have had, and still have, it should
coincide and co operate with treacherous
and hostile foreign influences, to embar-
rass the Government in the work Of
peace. 1t is not wise friendship to the
Southern people that prompts to this
course by either their foreigner dometsic
sympathizers. The war would not have
done them half the damage that it did,
had they not been encouraged by these
false friends, to protract it to their utter
exhaustion. And by prompt and sis-
cere return to the path of duty, the rights
of freemen and the benefits of peace are
within their reach. Their own folly alone
postpones their enjoyment of these bless
ings-a folly into which they are betray-
ed by those who make pecuniary or poll
teal capital out Of their miseries.-Ras.
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