Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-31

Alas again, not one.
How frightfully portentous are such
facts as these even by themselves How
terribly they show that the old impulses
and purposes of this bafied treason still
remain!
From Georgia they elected to the Uni
ted States Senate, Stephens, the Vice
President of the rebellion, and Johnson, a
Senator in the rebel Congress; and to the
House of Representatives they elected
Cook and Wofford who were generals in
the rebel army.
From North Carolina they elected to
the United States Senate, William A.
Graham, who was Senator in the rebel
Congress, and Pool, who was in the rebel
Senate of North Carolina; and to the
House of Representatives they elected
Fuller, from the rebel Congress, and Tur-
ner, colonel in the rebel army.
From South Carolina they elected to
the United States Senate, Perry, who was
a rebel Judge, and Manning, who was a
volunteer aid to Beauregard, at the attack
on Sumpter and at the battle of Bull Run;
and to the House they elected Kennedy,
colonel, and McGowen, general in the
rebel army, and Furrow, a member of the
rebel Congress.
From Alabama, they elected to the
House, Battle, general in the rebel army,
and Foster, from the rebel Congress.
From Mississippi they elected to the
United States Senate, Alcorn, from the
rebel militia; and to the House they elect
ed Reynolds and Pison, colonels in the
rebel army, and Harrison, a member of
the Provisional rebel Congress.
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 are some of the most conspicuous
traitors who were sent to the American
Congress and who demanded their imme-
diate and unconditional admissionl Most
of the others elected were equally intense,
though less conspicuous, rebels.
Because the Union party did not sur
render the mighty powers of sovereign
States to such a people, such governments
such Senators and Representatives as
these-because its Congress did not, at
the insolent bidding of the rebellion make
hot haste to permit these conquered rebels
to change their theatre of operations from
the battlefield, where they were defeated
and overthrown, to the halls of Congress;
and did not permit them to seize upon the
Government, which they fought to de-
stroy; and because the Union party did
not permit the national treasury, the ar
my of the nation, its forts and its arse
mails, its whole civil administration, its
Ieredit, It's pensioners-the widows and
orphans Of those who perished in the war,
the public honor, peace and safety to be
all turned over to the keeping of its recent
enemies, without delay, and without i'm
posing any conditions guaranteeing the Sc
curity of the country, or ''pledging per-
petual loyalty and peace:" because the
Union party did not do this, almost the
unanimous demand of the rebel and john
son press is that the Government shall be
; overthrown 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 histo-
Try the objects of universal scorn-things
to be pointed at as betrayers of liberty
and the assassins of Republics.
THE PARTY NORTH.
You have hitherto looked, my fellow
citizens, at this picture. | would like to
have you now look at another. You have
seen the rebellion proper. L wish you
could now see its body-seryant. You
have seen this new party-South.
would you could see it-North. But
there is not time for the sketching. Could
you see it l doubt whether you would
deem that the country's safety would be
greatly promoted by adding to the ranks
Of them at the South who come from reb-
el battIe-felds to assume the control of it,
those at the North who control the action
and give influence to the Northern Cop
perhead party. In what [ here say ! dc
! not include all the members of the party,
but those who control it and make it all
that it is. They, on the l4th of January,
: 1861, pledged to the conspirators that 8
= majority of Northern men Tin an event
which could not but happen would fight
the battles of the South on Northern
ground. They renewed this pledge in {
! Convention of the party of our own State
on 23d January, 1861, and declared thai
two hundred thousand Ohio Democrats
would not even consider the propriety o
r coercing the rebellion. They, in the per
son of their leader, delivered to the rebe
government at Richmond renewal of thif
| pledge by assuring that the Northern Dem
I ocrats would come to the rescue of The re
: bellion, if it could sustain itself specified
g time longer. They met at Chicago, anC
when six hundred thousand of our chill
? dren struggled in deadly conflict for thu
: Republics life, and when the friends o
freedom throughout the word stood breath
r less spectators, and there declared ou
: cause unjust, the war failure, and de
= manded it to stop. They organized in tn
o nights, in our great Northwest, three hun
4 dred thousand conspirators, and put then
under Internal oaths to aid the triumph o
D the rebellion. They purchased and con
E cealed in your towns the guns and knive
$ and powder with which to join the arnie
y of Price and Smith in the work of treason
+ They arranged to capture your CARR
e sons in guard of rebel prisoners of wal
# and to release and arm these for the pur
d poses ofthe burning and sack of the cite
d Of the North. They provided themselve
y with rebel banners under which to marc
$, to the work of treason and murder. The
It fixed the day for the seizure of the arms
; the United States at Columbus, at India
% napolis and at Chicago, and for the mul
e der of the Governors of our States. The
imported from the rebel army, and con
i cealed at Indianapolis, Chicago, and othe
/ cities, officers of the rebel army, who wer
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