Year: 1867

tions. They went with the current be
cause they desired to ride on tho cur
rent. They could not afford TO cleave
to principles in minorities. These mon
brought the country to revolution, have
kept it in revolution and are unable to
get tout Of revolution.


But the other agency of destruction
extreme opinions, all of which vari-
Gus kinds include III the generic term
been, from the begin
ming enmity to the Constitution. Mu
tuaI concession for the common good
is the soul, the very being, of the Con-
stitution. tits the breath which was
breathed as life into il. BY concession
alone was it formed, and in that spirit
alone can it ever be safely or peacefully
But extreme minds new
er concedc. They hate concession and
trample on compromises. Therefore
these extreme plinds ut the North de-
nouuced the Constitution as va cove
nant with hell and league with the
devil;" and extreme men at the South
denounced the Union as the source OF
all evils TO the South.


These men were much more numer-
ous at the North than at the South, but,
loft to thcmselvs, they would have re-
mained powerlcss in both sections
But they adroitly watched every oppor-
tunity to get control ofthe great office
seeking parties of the country. And
the managers Of the parties corruptly
pandered to the respective extreme
opinions to get their help in securing
the Offices. The repeal of the Missou-
ri Compromise furnished the long de-
sired occasion to scgregate the sections
The extreme men of the South took
charge of the Democratic party to bring
about secession. The extreme men of
the North organized and took charge
of the Republican party to destroy or
bring about reformation of the Con-
stitution; and the politicians-our So
called great men--wcre perfectly will
ing to be taken charge of, if thereby
they could be placed in the offices, and
did not care, on either side, one fig
whether slavery was extended or not
extended, destroyed or not destroyed,
so they could keep the offices! The
majority Of the people of the South
were made perfectly crazy with the idea
of their great right to carry slaves to
Kansas, and the majority of the North.
ern people were made equally crazy
with the alleged faith of the aggressive
spirit of slavery. The minority in each
section who declared that this whole
agitation was pandora 'boX" opened
upon the country, leaving scarcely hope
believed, were laughed at rs visionary.
So fanaticism bought up demasogueism
with the offices, and the two together
rushed the country into civil war.-
These are the chief men whom our in.
stitutions have produced! And what
are the results? Instead of honor
prosperity and independence, we have
humiliation, pauperism, and disfran
chiscment; instead Of Il union of har
mony and goodwill and the spirit o
concession, we have despotic frag.
mentary conclave ruling with Cerberi
an hate. We have slain million o.


whites and doomed four millions OF
heretofore happy contcnted blacks to
starvation, barbalsm and death; and
to accomplish this work we have dc.
stroycd property and expended money
more than sufficient to have bought the
whole African race in America three
times over at open market-valuc! Ant
are they statesmen and philanthropistS
and patriots who are not known by
such works ? No, no; they are thu
double shaped monsters which tho
demagogue and the fanatic have bego


by seduction of the people, and by rap'
upon the Constitution!


The art Of deceiving the people so n


to get their votes, has been the chic
means by which nearly all the politi
clans who have become prominent dur


ing the last twenty-five years, have beel
enabled to succeed and get the name


and places of leading men. This MAJ


Butler of Massachusetts, became know


throughout the country before the wa


almost entirely because OF his success


with the aid Of one other, also from tha


State in building platforms for his par


ty, which could be construed to suit CIV


cry section, every opinion, and ever


prejudice Yet this man was not on


whit more unprincipled in politica


morals, nor any further below the stan


dard of a true statesman, than were TIL


many all through the land who availe'


themselves Of his deceptive work to &C


the offices. He is as guilty who uses


fraud as he who originates it. As dc


ccptions brought on the collisions be
tween the sections, it is not at all won
dcrful that deception prevailed through
ont its progress and still continue


The leaders have profeSsed to desir


what they did not intend should be &C


complishcd. The people listened l.


the profession, and could not be mad
to see or believe the intention. There


fore the people Of America have bee


made to do, with energy and great sac
ritice, those very things which of a
others they most hate. They have bee
made to cut their own thrOats unde


the belief it was the only way to saw


their own lives; to use force to prcserv


a union Of consent; to indulge feeling
of hatred and distrust as the only mean


of preserving harmony; and now th
proposition Of these Military Bills is t


tramplc on the Constitution as the onl


way to peace and safety; to disfranchis


and humiliate the white man as the OF
ly way to enfranchise and elevate til


black man to rush into anarchy as til
only way TO find security for perso
and for property; and to subvert Ii
government rs the only means of pr
serving it. The authors and defender
of thoco Nilitarv Riua aro xviso lilo III