Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1867-01-31
. HsebeI'' as a Term of Re
prOach.

PE0NV ns
THERE lis no greater truth IN The
Declaration Of Independence tha, the
statemgnt that all history has prved
that people are moro prone to bear op-
preston and tyranny too long than 70
rise aud change their governments upok
too light end triAing causes Notwith-
standing the Opprobtium which is sought,
in this age, by shallow partisaue, to be
visited upon the word Hretel," there is
little that is glorious 10 the history Of.
mankind that is not associated with that
word. All the freedom there is in the
world, political and religious, we owe to
tho exeTtiOns of what were called "reb-
els" in their day and generation. The
names we have taught TO honor, hosh in
ancient and modern times, were those to
whom this appollatiOn has been applied.
Large communities and great bodies Of
men do not rebel until they have real
causes of grievance, The risks Of Eebel-
lion are too great, the suforings they
are almnat certain to cause, too intense
to lead to such decided action, without
the public are spurred on by injuries and
indigrities that NO high-Spirited people
can submit to, without disgrace aud hu~
Observation-Disclosures that, if submitted to,
are certain to lead, in the end, to un-
bearAble oppression. Itis singular that,
in this country y-~hose- GonArnment is
the fruit of successful rebellion, which
was formed by .'rebels' and then adopt
ed by "rebsls," which has sympathiEed
with every rebellion that wrs ever set on
foot, should now have party that 6ndS
ia that term its highest degree Of politic-
al depravity, which mouths the word
"loyalist" with all the facility with which
it has ever been used by the supporters
Of kiDgcraft and priestcraft in ali ages
and countries.
a They are, indeed, trying to read our
iistOry backward, or, rather, to use with
different application the language Of
the President, they have swung around
the circle until they bave got directly
upon an opposite side. Only think Of
the defendants OF those who boast Of
their Hampton and Sidney-who have
their Washington, their Adams, Han.
cock and Jefferson, all of whom acted in
-defeuse of civil liberty and Of the right
OF people when oppvessed-to change
their government, and adopting as .
fundamental article of their creed that TO
rebel against constituted government is
the highest Of crimes and the greatest Of
moral as we'll as political Sins. The
most ultra high Tory doctrines Of the
apologists Of the StuArts 10 the darkest
periods OF English history have now bs-
come the creed Of factiDn in our own
country. From them they draw all
their arguments. They reason from the
same premises, and they come to the
came conclusions They seem deter-
mined to blot out rebel recolIectionS 10
the past by the greater tory or loyalist
zeal 10 the prssept. Our haters of reb-
els have been, we fear, thrown into the
wrong century,, What an admirable
force they would have constituted to
sustain the tyranny Of James or Of
Charles, in England How loyal they
would have been to the British Govern
ueni in 1776 What faithful subjects
of the Hapsburg or of the Czar they
would make, whose Governments do not
hate rebels more than they do. Tcn
How many JEFF. Daviscs and Robert
Lees they would have found in Hungary
and Poland What extensive fields for
confscstion would the rebelliOpsin those
nations have present ted to theml They
would have had their gibbets and Sibe.
rias for all who had rebelled against
"rightful authority aud the proscrip-
ton and persecution would have been
sufficient to crafty the malice even Of
such men as Ben. Butler and Thad.
Stevens. Unfortunately for the canss
Of humanity that it was the destiny Of
those Jealous loyalists to be cast in this
land, whose previous history and the
temper of whose people had not been
lxactly 10 consonance with them, and
that. therefore, SO much has to bO done
in order to blot out the past, that We
may have an entirely new political
They would have given
The Gar and Kasier no trouble, where's,
10 the United States, owing to the per-
Versity Of those who can not entirely
Iorget our history, they promise to be an
element of trouble, by their arempts TO
move US back into the darkness of tho
Middle Ages, when to resist any degree
# oppression Of government was treason
10Th to God and mao. and when rebels
Vsre at onoo given over to the fagUt and
ts stake, or were gibbeted upon the
,allows.-Lin. Eng. '''' 90.
WILLIAM Brown, desperate of
Iynchburg, KY, committed robbery
o the vicinity Of Bloomfield Station
Ie barricaded his house and deied ar"
est Friday week, Constable Murphy
um moned d young man named Samuel
3roomfield TO assist him In afreating
srovu. On spproaching Brownie house
hey were fred upon with rife from
be house. One shot passed through
Broom fields breast, killing him Instant
y. Another shot took effect in the