Year: 1866

mEii more than they bad. No Union man S


life is safe in the South now. Memphis


and New Orleans are but faint evidences OF


this fact.


The President was invited to attend the


laying of the cornerstone of the Douglas


monument at Chicago, and accepted the in


vitaiOn. Instead of going directly. quiet


ly and mournfully to the tomb of the loved


vilified, and thence as quietly returning to


his home, he chose to convert the sad pill


grimage into riOting, boisterous, disgrace


full electioneering tour. Instead of kindly


greeting the people and congratulating


them on the return of peace and harmony


and endcavoring to heal their wounds and


sOothe their woes, he denounced their chO-
sen congressman as traitors and asked why
some of them were not hanged. He threw
aside all dignity, saying he did not care for
dignity, and banded cpithcts and hard


words with many of the people. At al
most every station he harrangued them in
favor of his policy. and at one place he jus
tilted the conduct OF mayor Monroe of New
Orleans at the massacre there, and finally
charged that the massacre was planned by
congress, and that too in the face of written
statements of Generals Sheridan and Baird
To the contrary. In several of these har-
rangues Inc proclaimed that unless the pres
ent congress was rebuked at the coming
there would he another civil
WAR, more terrible than the one just end
ell. III you have carefully read these
speeches you know these statements to be
true. Unless the president sustains it there
can be no war as he predicts. He has
charge of the armies and navies of the ma
ton. and can prevent an outbreak if he
chooses. We of the North have conquered
the foe and want no more war. and will
begin none. The president has stripped
the forts. arsenals and posts of the South of
nearly all protection, as they were stripped
by Floyd. If any war comes it will be in
vokcd by him. His policy will not, cannot
be sustained. Vermont and Maine have said
so in thunder tones. The Union men i'm
other States are working as they never
worked before. and they will sustain their


representatives i'm congress by over
whelming, even astounding maiOrities.-
They will Guido themselves. There can
be no backward steps taken in the true
policy of this government. The stars must
20 up and the traitors down. The easy
terms offered by congress wiu Be accepted by
the rebels. Union men i'm the South will
be upheld in their constitutional rights
General Grant and Admiral Farragut favor
the peoples congressional plan of re-
notwithstanding the false
hoods To the contrary. The general and
admiral will obey no unlawful command
of the president. Nevertheless, the latter
may make nar, as he has said there will be
WAR; and if WAR does come as he pre-
diets we would advise all i'm favor of il to
stand from under" 1t will he no child's
play. No rebels will chafe long in prisons,
there will be no question about the consti-
tutionality of trying traitors by court mar
tial. whether their treason be South or
North. When it comes generous and pa
triotic soldiery will feel that their hcreOic
work has been Knocked AZ, and that their
have fallen in vain, and they and
their recruits will register solemn VOW
that every vcStige of that war shall be swept
from the earth, They. seeing that the cup
of mercy has been drained. will only en-
deavor TO do justice When this day comes.
and the president: as he has intimatcd, at
tempts the dispersion of congress, his or
ders will he countermanded by his success
SOr before the echo of the command will
have died away, and he will be impeached
and hurled from power. Then, if war
comes, the call for multitudes ofvolunteers
will be Immediately followed by an order
for an almost universal draft. Then we
will have to contribute of our means as
never before.


We do not believe the war. the presi-
dent in his frantic hate of congress threat
ems, or predicts, will soon take place, but
lift do. the picture here drawn will he faint
indeed, when compared with the facts


The calamity of war, however, is to he
averted by an overwhelming defeat of the
presidents unlawful and impolitic assump-
tions. Already the leaders and managers
of his policy have fallen out Raymond,
their Jefferson, has abandoned them. The
New York Herald, Democratic newspa-
per having the largest circulation and most
extended influence of any in the country,
has abandoned the support of the presi-
dent, and urges the South to accept the
mild, reasonable and just terms offered by
congress. Other papers, both North and
South. are doing precisely the same thing.
All the States that have voted upon the
proposed by congress, and
one of them was rebel State, voted in fa
vor of them. Virginia is very likely TO do
likewise. We regard it the duty of all vo-
ters who sincerely desire peace and harmO
ny i'm our distracted country, to vote for
those candidates for office who favor the
just, humane and necessary policy of con-
gress, and thus assist in making the Union
majorities so Overwhelmingly large that
the rebels, even though encouraged by the
president Ofthe United States, will not dare,
under any pretcnce whatever, to again
plunge the country into war. Let us have
no war, let us vote down all who threaten
it--let their defeat be so utterly disastrous
that they cannot ever hope for success.


Christians cannot be Indifferent as to the
fate of their connfrv's rood cause De-