Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — TRAITQRISM AND REBELLION. [ARTICLE]

TRAITQRISM AND REBELLION.

From the Innianapo.is s- 1 1 a. 1.

.Communicated I No truly patriotic citizen can view the attitude of the Republican press and the party whose principles it eschews toward the General Government without realizing with alarm the forebodings of evil and civic demoralization. Although the party is virtually acephalous, there seems to be an undercurrent of rebellion and traitorism pervading the entire life and form oi the party from its conception to the post-mortem of its rotten carcass. ‘Conceived in s f n, and in iniquity was it begotten.’ Tile same element and desires exist to-day in the Republican party which precioitated the Rebellion, and if not checked by tlie nobler and manlier sentiments of the people who believe as many of our best statesmen did prior to and at the beginning of the Rebellion —that war is a wicked thing and ought by all honorable means to be avoided — these fanatics will override tj.e Constitution aud bring on another internal and devastating war. Among the shaded pictures of eventuality and on the golden pages of American history are recorded the names of the most astute Republicans, the greatest journalists, the foremost statesman, and the best jurists of that party.— They are the class to whom Daniel Webster referred when he said' If these infernal fanatics and abolitionists ever get the power in their hands they will override the Constitution; set the Supreme Court at defiance; lay v.olent hands on those who oilier with them in opinion and dare question their infallibility, and finally bankrupt the country and deluge it in blood.’ Henry Clay, that noble hearted statesman who ‘would rather be right than President,’ in recounting the acts, motives and passions of the fanatical, Abolition, Republican agitators and instigators of rebellion and disunion, said, ‘lf the Abolitionists, let me suppose, succeed in their piesent aim of uniting the inhabitants of the free States as one man against the inhabitants of the slave States, union ou one -side will beget union on the other, and this process of reciprocal consolidation will be attended with all the violent prejudices, embittered passions and implacable animosities which ever degraded or deformed human nature. Virtually dissolution of the Union will have taken place, whilst the forms of its existence remain. ‘One section will stand iu menacing and hostile array against the other. The collision of opinion will soon be followed by the clasli of arms/

Let us see what the sentiments of the founders of the Republican party were which kindled the nre of patriotism in the bosoms of Clay and! Webster, the greatest statesmen the country ever had, and j caused them to denounce these agitators and trait rs in such vindictive terms. Wm. Lloyd Garrison at an Abolition meeting in 1855, said, ‘This Union is a lie; the American Union is a sham, a covenant with death, an agreement with hell, and it is our business to call for a dissolution. * * * If the church is against disunion and not on the side of the slave, then I pronounce it as of the devil. Let us gi ;e to the winds the rallying cry, No Union with slave-holders socially or religiously, and np with the flag of disunion And again Mr. Garrison said: I have said again and again that in proportion to the % owthot disunionism will be the growth of the Republican or Free Soil party.’ Wendell Phillips said in 1849: ‘We confess that we intend to trample underfoot the Consti-

| tutionof this country. Daniel I Webster says you are a law--1 abiding people; that the glory ! of New England is that it is a law- a b idi 11 g community.’— j Shame on it, if this be true: if j even the religion of New En i gland sinks as low as the stutI ute book! I say we are ‘not’ a law-abiding community, and God be thanked for it.’ In 1855 Senator Wade, of Ohio, in a speech at Portland, Ma. said: ‘There is no Union with the South. Let mjhave a Union, or let us sweep away this remnant which we call a Union.— I go for a Union where all men are equal, or for no Union at all.’ At the Republican National Convention in 1856 Senator Hale said: ‘You are assembled, not to say whether this’Union shall be preserved, but to say whether it shall be a blessing or a scorn and hissing among nations.’ Senator Sumner, in 1855, said: ‘God forbid that for the sake of the Union we should sacrifice everything for which the Union was made!’ In 1856 Tliaddeus Stevens said: ‘The cry of The Union is in danger!’ is the argument of fools to an audience of idiots.’

In 1859 these same men adopted the following as one of their resolutions: ‘Resolved, That in advocating the dissolution of the Union, the Abolitionists are justified by every precept of the Gospel, by every principle of morality, by every claim >f humanity; that such a Union is a covenant with death, which ought to be annulled, and an agreement with hell which a just God cannot permit to stand.’ These are some of the ephemeral sentiments of the instigators of the war. he bailie was fought, tlie victory won and the war ended; and however much good may have resulted from the war; however sincere these agitators may have been, and notwithstanding their consciences may have been relieved of many burdens, and though the Union was restored, liberty established and a great nation formed of its shattered frame, yet the principles which underlay the moving elements of the precipitators of that or any other civic war were traitorism and rebellion. In view of all the sad events of the war, the irreparable wrongs, the entailed evils and influences on coming generation, the Republicans of to-day are agitating another internal con vulsion. A t

Blaine’s lamentation' meeting a 1 Augusta he proclaimed what the press ot his party heralded across the continent as the ‘key note fop 1888’—The Rebels are in power.’ We wish to say to our contemporaries, who advocate sectional differences, stir up animosity, attempt to engender reciprocal bitterness and promulgate doc trines derogatory to the harmonious union o£ the States, that the Union is in power and that they who agitate strife and instigate contention are ' traitors to the Government and 'Rebels to the Union. The ; Democratic party are to-day in favor of a Union without a war, and believe that every Rebel ought to be hanged.-*-T 1 lose Republicans, who, in ; 1°49 to 1860, advocated rebel lion, exhibit a vast deal of | cheek when they talk about j what glorious deeds they performed as Union men! Ye gods! This country is a Union with a big ‘U,’ and the Democratic party intends to main- ; tain it ‘with its life if need be ’ 1

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