Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-03-09

THE REcoRp IS IsDELLIBLE.-All loyal men
earnestly warned Democrats during the war they
we're making a record they would attempt to
shun, if not blush to own in the future. Those
were no ordinary times, and every argument was
adduced to make men, acting in opposition to
the Government while it was at war, fully un-
derstand the great political responsibility they
assumed for the present, and for all future time
They were told that their record would taiut
their good names through life, and the odium
extend to the second generation. Our loyal
warnings were prompted by no expectations OF
party gain, but came up spontaneously from
honest convictions of judgment. 1t was the duty
of every man in the North to be true to the Gov
ernment in its struggle for sovereignty. There
was no just cause for secession. Every loyal
man wished in his heart to see unanimous
North against the Rebellion. Every man who
wavered committed treason. If Northern Dem
ocrates had been true to the Government
protecting and shielding them as to the party to
which they looked for Office and preferment, the
war would not have lasted six months. the hund-
reds of thousands of men who fell on both sides
would have been saved, and the industrial en-
ergies of the nation would have been spared the
heavy load of taxation and debt now bearing it
down.
The Copperhead papers, whose editors have
felt for years the truth of our warnings-who
have been nearly crushed out of existence by
the weight of the odium we advised them to
avoid aud shun-are now calling for I" new, polt-
ical issues" They are earnestly laboring to bury
the past, and to direct the public mind to meas
ures unalied to those most vital during the war.
In these efforts we have the confirmation of the
truth of teachings during the four years of
war We warned them against making up the
hateful record. They needed not then, and
their unfortunate political predicamentnow draws
no sympathy from the people. The loyal masses,
composing the Union party, are deaf to their
prayers g that the dead bury the dead" and to
their appeals for q new issues" There can be
no issue greater than those growing out of the
war, and embraced under the head of recon-
struction. The issues of the day are to see that
the Rebel States submit to tho fullest results of
the war, and that traitors and treason are made
" odious." Next to this issue is to see that their
sympathizers- Copperheads- suffer punish
ment equal to their nfdelty to the Government.
While the Government DISTINGUISHES active Rebels
in the South by legal enactments, the loyal senti-
ment in the North must not abate one iota in its
work Of political disfranchsement of Copper
head sympathizers. For nearly six years the
people of the North have ineeted out justice
to the diSoyal Democracy by keeping them out
of honorable Office. II is time to change? What
good reason can be given why Copperhead of
1867 is more entitled to official reward than a
Copperhead of 1864? Are they more loyal
Have they yielded up single principle of the
old party? Has public sentiment changed, and
is it admitted that loyal men were wrong in de-
Tending the life of the nation, and that the Rebels
and Copperheads were right Justice never
changes her principles. Dsloyalty ought to be
as odious in 1867 as in 1861. 1t is as hateful
and despicable ever among men who are gov
erned by principle AarysvNe Appeal