Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-09-11

/ no confidence, Dul tncV nave con
fidence in the bowie knife and
revolvers, when the Union men are
helpless and dsarmed. | Lave con
versed with several of the Tennes-
sec delegates to-day. | was too I'M
well to so to church, although Par
son Brownlow was to preach. at one
Of the Methodist churches
Horace Maynard / think presents
the situation OF the Union men in
Tennessee ia the most favorable
4 light possible He is a candid, frank
and unimpassioned matter Of fact
man. His perSonet Is striking-darll
as Tom CorWin-hair dark, long,
straight; one would think lie might
boast of some aboriginal blood. He
says in East Tennessee the Union
men are strong enough to defend
themselves-but if the rebels are al
lowed to storm the breast works of
the constitution, and clutch political
| power, then Union men in Middle
and West Tennessee must leave the
country. IN former years, the prom
inent prejudice in the United States
was directed against color, the war
has engendered a fiercer hate which
is fast devouring the other. Time
will but a9gravate the crime Of the
southern rebclion-it was not an in
nocent error on the subject OF cons
stitutional law-whethcr the right Of
secession existed or not, it would
never have been called into exercise,
but for the purpose Of establishing
government whose corner stone
was human slavery. As the crime
begins to take shape and form on the
canvass Of history, it appears dark
er and more hideous, in its grand
purpose, in all its concomitants, in
all its actors. Yes, every convention
Of freedom loving men-cvcry ora
ton, every anni> ersary, every song
that expresses a nations gratitude to
the heroic living and the glorious
dead will CRATE upon the ears Of reb-
els like the shout Of the sons Of God
upon devils damned This war
has given us in the north q new
song like that of Moses and the
Lamb-the rebels cannot sing that
song they cannot read our great
national triumph they cannot en-
dqre the light Of our history They
cannot help us garnish the sepul>
cheers of our Union dcad-they can
not and us in celebrating our victo-
ries. Justice and future safety alike
require that treason should become
odious. The feelings Of the nation
have assumed the mildest form Of
condemnation in the constitutional
amendment prohibiting leading reb-
els from holding political office un-
less pardoned by Congress. We
thus see the real character Of the
hostility existing between Union
men in the south and their rebel
ncighbors. The rebels crime was
not q local event like the whiskey
inSurrection, orant-rcnt disturbance.
/ is crime against freedom, hu-
manity, progress, that will enshroud
with its gloom the darkest page, Of
human guilt Every book issued
from the northern press revives the
recollection Of tho southern Union
list. Neither johnson nor D0oiittle
nor Raymond VIII convince the I'm
ion soldier that he fought against a
noble people who had made an limo
cent mistake on a question of law.
The union soldier Will not walk arm
in arm before the nation, with his
rebel foe, and tell the world that
his brave antagonist fought in as
noble u cause, is entitled to equal
honor, fame and gratitude and COM
pcnsation with himself. In short,
the rebel in. the south from the very
necessity of the case must free his
state Of every human being enter
tanning the northern and historic
view Of his great crime Yet the
reconstructed rebels that met here
on the 18th say they are very de-
sirous of having northern men come
down and settle in the south. Judge
Abel of New Orleans, in his an
sWer to General Sheridan, boasts of
tho protection afforded by the state
government Of Louisiana to north
ern men Oopperhcads may be Safe
there, but the Judge is not conscious
of any illegality in treating a con
vention which believed it possessed
certain powers us al unlawful assem-
blage; as body Of burglars or thieves,
He did not see that if they had 10
authority he could pronounce their
action void, and yet with the blood
Of northern men dripping from his
hands, he has the impotence to tell
US how we'll we are protected by the
rebel government Of Louisiana
And the question, is, who shall the
late rebel statos belong to? Ii the
present state governments in the
south continue, then the country is
not our country SO far as the union
party OF the nation is concerned.
The war has been in vain. For our
own safety, we must wrest the pow
or from those who can never for
give Us, because we can never for
get them. Those who are conscious
OF the greatest crimes against hui
man liberty shall never be its guar~
dams and it is to save the union
men of the south from abiec, politi-
cal degradation by inexorablo enc
mics where mutual hatreds and dis
trust must deepen as time rolls along,
that the present convention OF south
!