Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-05-31
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LES CITY, FLOYD COUNTY IOWA, THURSDAY MAY 81 1866


They had not so much as their grea
exemplar and prototype, the first reb
el and State-rights man, had when from
the pinnacle of an exceeding higl
mountain" " he offered the Savior all the
Kingdoms OF the world for his homage
But, admitting that they had the nu
merical forces and powers of a grea
party to offer for such sacrifice, and
were the boon never SO munifcent, TIN,
voice of all history teaches that its &C
ceptance would consign the recipient
to the ignominious fate of all those
who have betrayed trusts bestowed
and accepted. Great services render.
ed by the acceptor in the field or the
forum furnish no excuse or mitigation
for subsequent treason. If he has
fought with the beasts at Ephesus, and
overcome all his foes and the foes OF
the Government, the quality of such
acts will be determined by the future
conduct of the victor. The ignominy
of treason has never been and never
will be mitigated or slurred over be.
cause the actor had once been faithful
and valiant. 1t is a priciple, sharply
defined and we'll established in tho
moral and political world, that the vir.
tues and good conduct of an early,
will not atone or avail for the broken
faith and corrupt practices of a later,
life. The virtues and character oil
those angels "who kept on their first
estate" have never been esteemed as
paragons because they were once
angels of light" The Christian world
has never abated jot or title of its
execration Of the treason of Judas be,
cause he was once numbered with
the twelve"
The fact that Benedict Arnold raised
and commanded one of the first COM
panies in the Continental army, and,
" side by side" with Ethan Allen, en-,
tered and captured Ticonderoga, and
was the first to enter and the last to
leave Canada in the early and dark
days of the Revolution, has not and
will not relieve his name from the i'm
mortality of infamy which attaches
thereto for his subsequent perfidy and
treason to his country. No, sir the
earlier associations but magnify and
intensity the infamy OF the latter. Be-
side, sir, the ignominy and infamy of
treason either to friends, principle, or
Government seems to concentrate and
abide on him that receives rather than
him that gives the stipend as the price
thereof. The man who gave the thir,
ty pieces of silver has been forgot
ten and clean out of mind" for eigh-
teen hundred years, while the recipient
has been and will continue to be damn
cd to perpetual infamy, world without
end.
Again, sir, who are these new con-
verts and defenders of the alleged poll
cy of the President? =? We may an
swer that they are
l. Every man who voluntarily fought
in the rebel army, or served in any ca
pacity in the rebel cause, who compose
the southern wing of the late Demo
cratic party. Here permit me to say,
without intending disrespect to any,
that such constitute the brains and the
courage of that party.
2. The northern wing of the late
Democratic party, which was led in
1862, 1868, 1864, and 1865, by the
Vallandighams, the Woods, Seymours,
1t a., but who, in 1866, are praying
and working to be put again into the
leading strings of jeff. Davis, A. II.
Stevens, and others of their southern
allies. say the late Democratic party,
because in 1866 they appear to have
dotted their old name and uniform, and
are now happy and rejoice in the cog
nomen of the Johnson party. These
are they who, during the entire conflict
of arms, like Jobs war horse, " "smell-
ed the battle afar off," and who, by
their speeches, practices, and votes du-
ring the same period, gave all.possible
aid to the rebellion, which added at
least two years to the sanguinary con-
fict.
3. Bounty.jumpers, skedaddlers from
the drafts, deserters from the armies,
cowardly soldiers who were prosecu-
ted for misconduct, and rascally con-
tractors.
4. A few original Union men who
are made to believe that the President
does in fact favor such an internal poll
cy and yet have confidence in his pat
riotism and integrity.
5. A small number Of sore heads,
and those whose acute nasal organs
snuff presidential patronage on the
breeze which they have helped to evoke
and which they hope and pray may
blow them some good.
Presidential patronage after all is
the great leverage power that moves
all this mass and is the centripetal
force that impels them inward toward
the President. This patronage is the
great magnet that attracts and holds
all these elements in solution. The in
discriminate bestowal Of Government
patronage is the threefold cord" the
cohesive power of public plunder that
is to blend this heterogeneous mass
into one homogeneous whole Treason
is to be made odious and traitors. are
to be punished by its free distribution.
Anxious to receive and endure the just
retribution for their crimes, Alexander
Ii. Stevens and Hershel V. Johnson
are ready and willing to be offered up
as living sacrifices in the Senate of the
United States and if it please God,
they are willing to endure such punish.
ment the remainder of their natural
lives, even should the days of their
years be three score and ten, provided
always that the Government resume
specie payment as to them immediate
ly and provided further, that the
State of Georgia does not in the mean
time renew the attempt to secede, in
which event they must again go with
their State. What a host of patriots
are anxious to be inundated in the
same way, suffering the just punish
ment for treason, making it intensely
odious. "They would suffer on theil
threescore years" and finally "seizt
the martyrs crown"
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