Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-29

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gress. From Virginia they elected to the
House Stewart and Conrad, who continued
to be members of the Secession Convention
of Virginia after it passed the ordinance of
secession. These were some of the most
conspicuous traitors who were sent to the
American Congress, and who demanded their
immediate and unconditional admission
Most of the others elected, were equally IN
tense, though less conspicuous, rebels.
Because the Union party did not surren-
der the mighty powers of sovereign States to
such a people-such government, such Sena-
tors and Representatives. as these-becausc
its Congress did not, at the i~nsolent bidding
of the rebellion, max hot and indecent
haste-to permit these conquered rebels tc
change their theatre of operations from the
battlefield, where they were defeated and
oYerthrown, to the halls of Congress, and
did not permit them to seize upon the Gov
eminent which they fought TO destroy, and
because the Union party did not permit the
national treasury, the army of the nation,
its forts and its ~arsenals, its whole civil ad-
minlstration, its credit, its pensioners, tho
widows and orphans of those who persisted
in the war, the public honor, peace and safe,
ty, to be all turned over to the keeping of its
recent enemies without delay, and without
imposing ffany conditions guaranteeing the
security of the country" or '~'pledging. per-
petual loyalty and peace'-because the Union
party did not do this, almost the unanimou:
demand of the rebel and johnson press is
that the Government shall be overthrow by
the dispersion or seizure of the Congress,
under military orders of the President of the
United States. Had we so yielded, we must
have become in history the objects of uni,
Versal scorn-things to be pointed at as be-
trayers of liberty and the -assassins of repub.
hes. In characterizing such an act of per-
tidy, l can do no better than to adopt again
the language of the report from which
have already quoted, which says: ''The his
tory of mankind exhibits no example of such
madness and folly as this surrender would
have been. "The instinct of self preserva.
ton protest against it. The surrender by
Grant to Lee and by Sherman to johnson,
would have been disastrous of less magni-
tude, for new armies could have been raised
and new battles fought, and the Government
saved. The anti-cOercion policy which IN
der the pretext Of avoiding bloodshed, al
lowed the rebellion to take from and gather
force, would be surpassed in infamy BY the
matches wickedness that would surrender
the halls of Congress to those so recently in
rebellion until proper precautions shall be
taken to secure the national faith and the
national safety"
h JOHNSON PARTY NORTH.
You have hitherto looked, my fellow citi-
zens, at this picture. 1 would like to have
you now look at that. You have seen the
rebellion proper. I wish you could now see
its body servant. You have seen this new
party South. I wish you could see it North
But there is not time Tor the sketching.-
Could you see ii, I doubt whether you would
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greatly promoted by adding to the ranks OF
them, at the Soath, those who come from
rebel battle fields to assume the control of it,
those at the North who control the action
and give influence TO the Northern Copper-
head party. In what l here say I do not
include all the members of the party, but
those who control it and make it all that If
is. They on the 18th of January, 1861,
pledged to the conspirators that a majority
of Northern men-in an event which could
not but happen-would fight the battles of
the South on Northern ground. They re-
newed this pledge in a Convention of the
party of our own State on the 23d of Janu-
airy, 1861, and declared that 100000 Ohio
Democrats would not even consider the pro-
prlety Of eoercing the rebellion. They, in
the person Of their leader, delivered to the
rebel Government at Richmond a renewal of
THIS pledge, by assuring it that the Northern
Democrats would come to the rescue of the
rebellion, If it could sustain itself a specified
time longer. They met at Chicago, and
when six hundred thousand of our children
struggled in deadly conflict for the Repub-
hes life, and when the friends of freedom
throughout the world stood breathless spec
tators, and then declared our cause unjust,
the wara failure, and demanded it to stop.
Ihey organized In the night, in our great
Northwest, three hundred thousand conspi-
%rators. and put them under internal oaths to
aid the triumph of the rebellion. They
drilled these bands of the -eonspirators by
the light of the stars in your beautiful groves.
They purchased and concealed IN your towns
the guns, and knives, and powder with
which TO join the armies of Price and Smith
in the work of treason.
PRESENT LOYALTY OF u SOUTH.
From this proof turn, my eountrymen.
to the next. The fact that the real Union
men of the South. whose loyalty endu-
red the terrible cTueibles of war. are
everywhere being exterminated by the
rebels, and are nowhere found in sympa-
thy or co operation With the President or
his southern party, is one of the sad-and
heartslckening indications that the Presi-
dent has become apostate ever to South
ern loyalty, and that his followers sustain
to such Southern and national LOYALTY
that same relation which they sustained
during the war. Ore of the most illus
trious patriots of the South, whom Mr..
johnson once was for, but is not now.
and whom he made a Provisional Govern
or, declared the other day, in hearing of
the two Houses of Congress. that, in all
the South he knew not one prominent and
true Union men who would join theSouth-
ern party now following the President
And he said, moreover, that there were |
more men o in the South ''fallibly lent
on mischief to their Government" than
there were IN 1861. He said, that, should
chance of success offer, either by Joining
a foreign enemy or otherwise, they would
certainly take up arms against the Uni
ted States.
Next inquire of my intelligent audi
enee to name to me which one Of all the
authors and leaders of this huge wicked
ness has ever professed repentance Or re
greet for his part in his countrys ruin ?-l
Your silence gives the startling answer, |
mot one !" Which of their W presses
those mirrors where the world can, best
of all, see the very heart of a people
has professed repentanceo or regret? Again
your silence s~tartles US with the answer,
mot one" Which of these does not
even now avow, in words, his poignant
grief for their failure to totally overthrow
their Government, andwhich failure they
tenderly name ''the lost cause? Again,
not one. Which one of these does not
avow to-day the justice of their "lost
:" Not one. Which one has de-
clared a remuneration of the principles
for which they made the rebellion, to-
wit: the right to destroy the Government
by the secession of the States? Alasi
again, not one.
How frightfully p~ortentous are such
facts as these even by themselves! How
terribly they show that the old impulses
and purposes of this baf1ed treason still
remainl A committee of Congress ex-
amined hundreds of witnesses, upon
oath, to find out the loyalty ofthese peo-
pie, by proofs taken from every class of