Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-09-19

: Statute tE-Up9hS GE0anEl UAQeF GESpCtIC
laws against unlawful and insurrection-
/ arv assemblies. II aimed at the con
stItutlonal guarantees to the right TO
( peaceablv assemble and petition for
the redress Of grievances. Itproscrib-
ed democratic literature as incendiary.
1t nullihed constitutional guarantees
/ Of freedom. free speech ana q free
press 1t deprived citizens Of the
other States Of their privileges and
immunities IN the States. an injury
and usurpation alike unjust 10 North
I ern citizens and destructive Of the best
interests Of the States themselves.
Alarmed At the progress of democracy
IN the face Of every discouragement.
at last sought immunity By secession
and war. The heart sickens with "a
contemp plation of the four wears that
followed. Forced loans, impressments,
( conscriptions, with bloody hands and
bayouets the number of aged men.
who had long laid aside the implements
of labor, who had been summoned te
the field by the CONSUMPTION Of their
sons; TO support their children and
+ grandchildren reduced TO the verge of
starvation; of the slaugher Of noble
youth-tyPes Of physical manhood,
forced INTO a war against those with
whom they were Identified by every
interest; long months Of iucarcera-
tIon IN rebel bastiles hanished from
homes and hearthstones - are but
part of the long catalogue of horrors
But Democrats, North and South
combined, defeated them. They lost.
( " hat did they lose? The cause IF
| olgarchv ? They lost African slave
~ BY name only As soonas the toe
sin of war ceased, soon as the claur Of
arms was hushed. they raise the crv of
immediate admission. and with that
watchwcrd commence to organize IN,
der new forms, a system to continue
their unbrldlcd SWAY. They rehabii-
tate with them, seeking control Of all
local and State organizations The
Federal Executive, readily seduced,
easily YIELDS TO these monsters. Aid
ed hv his inscriptions disregard Of
the Constitution and laws. bv his mer-
clless prescription Of true democrat
&c opinions. and by all his appliances
OF despotIc power, they now defautlv
enter the list in the roval North. and
seek to wiring from freedmen an en-
dorsement of their wicked designs.
Every foul agency IS at work to accom-
plished this result. Falsely profess
ing to assent TO the abolition Of slave
~, they are trying to regain their de-
tested power hv acts against pretend
ing vagrants. They know that anv
form of sorvitude viii answer their
unholy purpose. They pronounce the
toHr years war brilliant sword scene
in the great revolutionary drama.
Proscriptive public sentiment holds
high carnival, and, 0rofting By the cx-
ample of the Presidential platform,
breathes out the continuing Of slaurh-
ter against loyalists. and deuounces
all legal restraint, and assails. with
the tongue Of malignant slanjer. the
constitutionally chosen representa-
tives of the people. To still the voice
Of liberty. dangerous alone To tvrautz.
midnight conhagrations and assaszina-
tions are called 10 aid reign of ter
rOr through all these ten States. MAX
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