Year: 1863

Union. This should be called the lunatl


party. Must not men be crazy to supper


a war that they denounce as unconstitu


tionally carried on, and meant to revolution
ize the Government and destroy the Union


1t is a ch artable conclusion to suppose tha


such men are crazy. Is it for plunder ant


office that they connive at the barbarou


murder OF hundreds of thousands of ou


people, and at the everlasting destruction o.


the Union that was formed by our fathers


and the overthrow Of the laws of our Gov


eminent of the United States? Is it fol


plunder that they counive at these base and


brutal designs? Then are they dogs, and


not men. But, we are told it is policy
What is policy? Is that the mild name Q
| you give to the base cowardice that immo-
la;es your own laws. and aids the Abolition
lists in breaking to pieces the altars of liberty
that were built by our fathers? But the
people are not yet ready for the truth.
When will they be ready for the truth, if
you continue to teach them a lie? But the
people are ready, they are always ready for


the truth. 1t is the cowardice or treachery
OF the politicians that has confused and de-
moralized the ranks of the people. The
meaning ofthis word policy is lie, it is the
last refuge of a coward and a scouudrel. If
the word was not made in He'll, it ought to





cheat a man out Of his virtue. 1t was not
policy that won liberty for these States. 1t,
was principle. The policy mongers said
wait! the time is not yet. The true man
said, strike the time to be free is now and
forever! On no lighter was liberty ever pre-
served. The true policy of the Democracy
is to stand by its own principles of State
sovereignty and State equality. These are
the found atiops of our Government. Strike
them down and the whole superstructure
falls. When Federalism, or centralized
despotism obta iped control of the Govern
ment in 1898, under John Adams, it COM
menced a war upon the sovereignty or
equality of the States, which threatened as
now, tho destruction of the Constitution.
Under the lead Of Jefferson and Madison,
the one the father Of the Declaration OF In
dependence and the other of the Constitu-
tion, tho Democracy rallied around the ban
ner of State Sovereignty, defeated the usurp
ers and buried Federalism so deep, that it
lay quietly in It's grave for more than sixty
years. But now Federalism has come to
the surface again, and is wagiug its old war
upon State Sovereignty with fury and a
malice that threatens to strike the sun of
liberty out of the sky OF Columbia. This is
the paramount object Of the war. Opposi-
tion to secession is a secondary matter with
the party waging the war. They know
that war is neither a constitutional nor a
possible remedy for secession, and they have
the frankness to declare they will never
consent to the restoration of the Union un-
der the Constitution as it is. Therefore the
war is for disunion, forthe overthrow of the
Constitution, and for the destruction of the
sovereignty of the States. 1t is as much
a war against the organic being of the
Northern as of the Southern States. 1t is |
a war upon State sovereignty, and thus far
in its progress it has been much more sue |
cessful in subverting the sovereignty of the
Northern than of the Southern States. Be-
hold the pitable condition of Governor Sey
m our, of the once proud sovereign State Of
New York, now humiiated, sitting dis
graced and silentin the dust surrounded by |
Federal bayonets, its citizens dragged be-
yond the jurisdiction and protection Of its
courts by Federal officers, its courts super
seeded by the President, its jails filling mp
with Federal priso uers, tried by no jury and
sentenced by no court of justice, but by mil
itary comm ission at Washington. Do we
men of New Jersey shudder at the humil-
iation of our sister State? Let Us shudder
for ourselves, for we are DO better off. We,
TOO, are reduced to military district, in
which the Federal Government appoits crea-
lures to watch US. who always occupied the
social position of thieves in our midst; and
patient people that We are, one b cad has
answered e ach of these satraps for a good
many months now. The State of New
ersey has ceased to exist; it is only mill
tary district. What made US a State? Not
the sky above us; not the slopes and glades
and fruitful fields within our border. Our
and laws constituted us State,
and these have been suspended by the Fed
eral Administration, and it can take one or
all of you whenever it pleases and send you
10 be the equal ofsa negro or to dungeon.


New jersey is already just such a thing
as the Abolitiobists threatened TO make of
each Southern State, Federal colony, or
military district. Mr.. Lincoln has succeed
n doing to US what he has been unable to
10 to the people of South Carolina, suspend
I'd the habeas corpus and abolished trial by
ury, in such cases as be pleases. Now, the
var has been made the excuse for all this
outrage and depotism. But we know this
iespotism is really the object of the war;
Every Jerseyman in favor of this war is a foe
o his own State, and to the very principle
If government on which the Union of the
States was founded. Then, show us a JERSEY
n an who dare oe anything but Peace m an;
stand him up, and let US look at him. Mark
lim well, for the time must come when he
will be held to an awful responsibility for
he part he has played in carrying on a war
hat is confessed to be for the destruction of
he Union, and is known to be for the over
hrow Of the rights of the States. We are
opposed to the war, because we are in favor
,f the Union as it was and the Constitution
Is it is, and because we are for preserving
he sovereignty ard honor of the State oil
New JerSey-nay, of defending that sover-
,ignty and honor against whatever power
lare violate them. If any man say we are
opposed to the war because the mean to
abandon the Union, we hurl the falsehood
back into the liars teeth. We tell him that
ne knows his falsehood, and we charge him