The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-03-15

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active and provocative of their in.
evitable consequences, by reason
of war-engendered passions. A
considerate view of she past estab;
fishes the fact that two Radical ex-
tremes brought on the conflict
that the war was provoked. Abo-
litionism in the North, which
openly avowed its purpose and for
thirty years was the assailant, was
met by a spirit hostile to it. The
latter was broken in the name of
the Union; but the former remains
bloated and ferocious with the
blood of its rival. The President
of the United States lately, said /:
"On this matter the extremists of
both sections, while pursuing diff
ferent means, labored steadily to
the accomplishment Of the same
end-the destruction of the Union.
So far as the dissolution of the
Union is concerned one is as bad
as the other. When the rebellion
is put down, and we find a party
for consolidation and concentration,
it is the same spirit as rebellion,
and leads to the same end-de-
struction of the Government" The
assailing spirit of Abolitionism yet
survives. Nourished into immense
proportions and intensity by the
influences of the war; aggregated
in its strength by causes foreign to
its nature, and crazedby its power,
without reasoning as to its own ell
ementary formation, it vainly inn
agines itself superior to the Consti-
tuition. Having, as it claimed,
fought for the Union, it lis now en-
gagged in systematic schemes to
prevent Union. Can those who
deprecated the disunion fanaticism
of the Abolition party, before the
war, sustain it now, with that faaat-
lclsm undated and enlarged in its
destructive purposes? Sectional,
political and financial ambition
and cupidity were the motives and
causes Of our civil troubles, and
the successful faction has. reaped
wealth and power. The masses Of
the people have never been known
to profit by civil disorder, by viola
tion Of their fundamental law, or
u5urpation. Constitutional order,
while atal to sectional aggrandize-
ment, is full Of blessings to the
people. So must be speedy re-
covery from public disorder. To
restore the South to the Union en-
dangers the power Of the leaders
and restore equality. To govern
the South as a conquered people
and territory, subserves the pur-
poses of ambition and cupidity, but
ruins the people. The leaders in
power are of the old Abolition par
ty, devoted to agitation, supremacy
and monopoly. They are the vul-
lures of the late public calamity.
They do not propose to surrender
the advantage gained under cover
of the war, though it be at the ex-
pense of the overthrow of the Con-
stitution. Their sole purpose and
interest seems to be to prey upon
the Southern States. To do this
they must likewise prey upon the
whole North. The machinery nec-
essary to accomplish the first, re-
suits in the other.
A standing army, thousand of
salaried officers, schemes of plum
der and rapine, thefts and oppress-o
ions; the prostration of industry
and commerce; the drying up of
the fountains of revenue; the in
crease Of extravaganza; the swell
ing Of the public debt; the increase
of taxtation-these are the legiti-
mate results. These leaders have
made immense fortunes out of the
war. They own estates in the
South confscated by their own
legislation. Immense quantities of
cotton have been coined by their
legalized Treasury permits, into
bank deposits, to their credit, in
stead of to the credit, of the Gov
ernment. Whole caravans of Gov
ernment cattle of every description,
have been swallowed by these
fierce and overwhelming 81
moons of Abolitionism. The whole
contract system of the war, created
by them, but a feeder to this aboli-
tion rapacity. The high tariff sys-
tem-a legalized, piece of larceny
made by these leaders, enabled
them to declare three hundred per
cent. dividends, in their business,
at the expense of the masses of the