Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-01-09

through which the independence OF the country
achieved. What else do we. find at very
early y? Go to Massachusetts during the war
OF 1872, and the Hartford invention, and there
you will find men engaged in this treasonahle
and UDballowed work. Even in 1915, NJ assachu-
setts, in manifesting her great opposition to the
annexation o! Texas TO the United taes, passed
resolution resolving herself out of the Union.
She seeded she went off by her own act be-
cause Texas was admit ted into the Union. Thus
We find South Carolina and Massachusetts taking g
the lead in this secession movement.
These extracts very clearly show in what esti-
nation the President he Id the Radical element
of the n orth when he as risking life and all in
defence Of the Union Of the fathers. II is inv &C.
tive was poured upon their guilty heads like a
stream OF consuming fire. He regard ed them as
architects Of their country's ruin, as allies in a
crusade of destruction with the secessionsts o.
the South, and with them jointly responsible,
before God and man, for the blood, the miseries,
the tears, and the unnumbered woes which were
then rushing like swift mountain avalanche
upon this unhappy nation. They were miserable
outlaws from his school of atriotsm then; and
does any one suppose that his dhion Of them
now is any higher, when he finds them still at
their old trade of disun ion? Even during the
war, it is familiar sorhe public mind that he did
not spare them. Every one remembers the f..
sylogism which he put in speech at Nashville,
wb4eby be proved that an abojtionist was Sc
eessonist, that secessi onist was an abolition
ist, and that both were disunionists. The term
abolitionist: has, it is true, lost much Of it's sig
MITIGATION, but the men to whom the sylloeism
applied then are to-day the men who assail him.
But if it is coptended that neither can the for
mer term of '.disunionist" apply to them, let us
see.
The President proved that in the opening stages
of the rebellion, and for many years prior, they
were and had been in favor of dissolution of the
Union. Now that the war for the Union is over
do they yield their point? The Southern secess
sionists, their old "allies do but they adhere to
their old heresy by declaring that eleven States
have been Topped of , and are no longer members
of the Union. The President held in Februa airy
1861, that no power existed anywhere to declare
State out of the Union. He holds the same
opinion now, when Congress, under the lead OF
Sumner and Stevens, is aiming to do that very
thing. He announced in February, 1861, that
who made such an attempt, we're conspirator s
and traitors, and we have the best reason to be-
lieve that his mind has undergone no change on
that point. The States were not out of the Union
in February, 1861, although ordinances of seces-
$ ion had been passed, and large party then as
now declared them no longer living members of
the American Union. The States are no more
out of the Union now than then and party that
in 1866 declares that doctrine is less treason
able in the estimation. of the President than the
party that did the same in 1851 The one party
has been beaten on the field of battle, and the
other will be bea en- likewise on any field it may
choose. The President does not seek any COLI
sion, nor will it be found shat he will shrink, no
matter from what quarter the allies'' of disun-
ion may assail him. And when he appeals to the
people, as he will, against those who now arraign
him on account of his great benefcent, I'D emf
nensg successful policy, he will hear voice of
approval such but seldom in the hist DRY of the
world has gre eted the ears of u chief magistrate
of free people.