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CIVIL WAR

433 L Jan. 1; ed: 3/3 - The old year has closed its eventful march and we stand upon the threshold of the new. The horizon of the new year is bright with promise, and we need look but a little way ahead to see the utter discomfiture of the despoilers of our homes and of our national and individual peace and prosperity.

434 L Jan. 10; ed: 2/1 - Webster said:

I place them together.

"The Constitution and the Union! If they stand they must stand together; if they

fall they must fall together."

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The Dayton EMPIRE quotes these words approvingly, and yet opposed the only practicable mode of preserving the Union, the suppression of armed rebellion by force of arms.

435 L Jan. 16:1/1 - In a letter to the editor, "Essex" says:

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From a lady who has recently returned with her husband from Richmond, I have had some account of rebel atrocities that exceeded anything I have ever before leard or been willing to believe.

About the facts of the story there can be no doubt, as the lady is incapable of exaggeration. I am not permitted to give her name nor the whole account, but I am permitted to say that when she went on to her husband on the day after Bull Run, bearing a flag of truce in her hand, she was met with every insult by officers whom she had known in society to be gentlemen. (8)

436 L Feb. 1; ed: 2/1 - The London TIMES says: "The impression in this country is that both sides in the States have acted as ill as could be; and it is not for England to decide which of them bears the balm for insolence, outrage, treachery, and folly.'

Of course the TIMES couldn't see which was the more honorable and righteous - to endeavor to break up a government, or to endeavor to maintain that government and preserve its life. (3)

437 L Feb. 10; ed: 2/1 We gave in full a few days ago the speech delivered in the House on Jan. 27 by the Hon. A. C. Riddle of this district.

"In our opinion the argument by which he proves the condition of the Negro slave to be a legitimate subject of Congress, is unanswerable.... But while we most heartily commend this portion of Riddle's speech, we cannot join with him in his sharp criticisms of President Lincoln and his conduct of the war. We believe President Lincoln to be thoroughly in earnest in the war and to be devoting his strongest efforts to the unconditional surrender of the rebels, and we would urge upon our readers the necessity of the most implicit confidence in the Executive head of the department.'

438 L Feb. 19; ed: 2/1 - "Ralph Waldo Emerson thinks that the American Eagle will come out of the war much less of a peacock. This is hopeful, surely. We shall be more natural, more simple in our lives and habits, truer, and, therefore, more soundly happy."

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439 L Feb. 20; ed: 2/1 - Victories multiply more rapidly than they can be recorded. Every where our lives seem to be drawing closer around the already strangling Rebellion. Western Virginia is free from Rebel interference. "Less than a year has elapsed since our armies were gathered from the fields and work-shops and counting rooms of a peaceful land, and all these glorious results have been accomplished. Let selfish and meddlesome Britain scan this record, and say whether it is safe to provoke an unjust quarrel with such a people. Let the artful Napoleon become familiar with the achievements of the American armies and the exploits of the American navy, before he decides whether he will meet the American people as friends or encounter them as foes." (12)

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440 L Feb. 26; ed: 2/1 - "We have entered into this war to free ourselves from the reign of terror and despotism which the South would have spread over the whole country; let us see to it that no half way work is made with it. Let free speech and a free press be the criterion.... Until this can be done, the work of crushing the rebellion will be but half accomplished, for its germ will be ready to start into new life whenever opportunity presents itself." (8)

441 L Mar. 3; ed: 2/2 Parson Brownlow said at Cincinnati that he was glad Freemont was going to East Tennessee.

"The Parson is a slaveholder, but he has seen enough of the infamy and horror of secession, not to be particular about the means employed to wipe it out." (1) 442 L Mar. 7; ed: 2/1 - The Rebels are calling for a change of policy from a defensive to an offensive war from defending their own homes to invading the homes of the North. Throughout their whole northern frontier the grand army of the Union is pressing steadily, irresistibly on, like the solemn and terrible roll of the car of Juggernaut upon and over its Hindoo victims. The threat of aggressive warfare by the Rebels at this time is but a hollow cry of desperation and despair. (8)

443 L 4pr. 5; ed:2/1 The people of Charleston and South Carolina are looking forward with fear and trembling to the anniversary of the cowardly and treasonable attack upon Fort Sumter, the attack which opened active

war.

"It would be a fit and righteous celebration of the day if the same Stars and Stripes, which upon that fateful day was torn down by the seven thousand rebels, who invested the garrison of seventy men, should be again hoisted upon its ramparts, to wave there in triumph until the last vestige of opposition to its supremacy is crushed from the land."

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444 L Apr. 14; ed: 2/1 Yesterday, a national day of Thanksgiving a whole nation offered praise and thanksgiving to God for the victories which he has vouchsafed to give us over our enemies. It is the thanksgiving in the camp

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which especially made the day a notable and memorable one.

"New strength will be put into their arms and new faith in their hearts by this fitting ceremony." (4)

445 L Apr. 22; ed: 2/1 - The Cincinnati ENQUIRER says that the men clamor for slaughter, while the wives and daughters of the country unsex themselves by the display of a temper, cruel and bloodthirsty.

"The bloody hand of cause less rebellion smites thousands of the loyal hearts of the nation, sending woe and desolation to countless Northern homes, and yet 'the wives and daughters of the land, whom rebellion has widowed and orphaned, must not speak a word of encouragement to the soldier of the Union, else this masked battery of treason will denounce it as 'the display of a temper cruel and bloodthirsty. "" (3)

446 L Apr. 22; ed: 2/1 "The fire-eaters, says Prentice, never did like the employments that the Yankees engage in and particularly dislike their pursuits just now."

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447 L Apr. 29; ed: 2/1 - In another column we publish an article entitled 'Rev. Dr. Breckinridge and the Loyal North," from the OHIO STATE JOURNAL. "It possesses much interest as a history of the earlier days of the rebellion on our border, and the manner in which it was met and baffled."(10)

448 L May 23; ed: 2/2 The London TIMES, in commenting upon the newly ratified slave trade treaty, and having said that it was a victory for the South and not for the North, adds: "If the Northerners could only see their own interests, they would stop short now and treat, as they will probably never have so good an opportunity."

It is strange with that persistency the secession prints of England cling to the side of the defeated and baffled Confederacy.

449 L May 26; ed: 2/1 - The signs are thickening around us.

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Coming events

cast their shadows before, and a few days, if these signs do not fail us, will see the Rebellion, conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity, melt before the Union armies as snow before the rays of the sun. Already every port of consequence in the southern Atlantic coast is either ours or is waiting like fruit, ready ripened, to be plucked.

"Thus every where, the signs... are good. The coming, if not the present, month must see the war ended, save only the banding together of outlaws, in the shape of guerrilla parties, who, thrown out of the pale of civilized warfare, will be hunted down by our Northern and Western hunter."

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450 L May 29; ed: 2/1 - The retreat of Banks and the desperate pursuit of Jackson will be a glorious thing for the country, and will shorten instead of prolong the war, if it only has the effect of stirring up the powers that be to go into the fight in earnest. The battles of the war have been something like war, because there our brave soldiers, who enlisted to put down the Rebellion in the shortest possible time, had an opportunity to

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hurt somebody.

But it is pitiful, humiliating, disgraceful, to read of the tender solicitude which our soldiers are required to have for the Rebels when on the march or in camp. They shoot, hang, and disembowel Unionists; we guard, protect and beg pardon of Rebels for trespassing upon their grounds. They bayonet our wounded and rob our dead; we beg their permission to bury our dead in their cemeteries.

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451 L June 2; ed: 2/1 The provost marshal of Wheeling and the commander of the post arrested a dozen or more of the prominent secessionists of the city, and required them to take the oath of allegiance or go to jail. "This most prudent step is taken at this time, in consequence of their having manifested joy at the defeat of General Banks."

452 - L June 18; ed: 2/1 - "Certain anti-Administration Democratic Journals are endeavoring to inflame the opposition of the people to the war by exaggerated statements of the taxes which are to be imposed throughout loyal states for the support of the Government, and they succeeded in frightening some superficial readers by parading the sum of two hundred millions as the yearly revenue from taxes. But in reality the sum to be raised, enormous as it is in the aggregate, will be so distributed that it will hardly be felt by the payers."

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453 L July 4; ed: 2/1 The disasters of the Richmond campaign will wake the people up to a spirit that will demand no more concessions, no more dallying, no more conciliatory policy towards traitors who utterly refuse to be conciliated.

The rebels will not abate one jot of their implacable hatred of the Union and the federal government for all the protection which the veriest pro-slaveryite can afford them.

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And it is not alone in the field that we demand that no more kindness and toleration be shown to traitors. The North today is liberally sprinkled with cowardly semi-secessionists, who glory in secret or in fellowcongratulations, one with another, at every rebel victory. The day for those has gone by, and no toleration need now be shown to those who dare to show their ill-concealed sympathy with treason and traitors.

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454

L July 12; ed: 2/1 We regard as serious, rumors of strong secret organizations against the prosecution of the war.

"No doubt the order is widespread in Ohio and its extension favored by treasonable writings of Democratic papers.

"Let these presses be watched and their conductors made to feel and fear the wrath of the people and of the Government unless they suppress their accursed heresies."

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455 L July 19; ed: 1/1 - "Whenever a Union soldier dares to raise the

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hated emblem of tyranny, tear it down and rend it to tatters!" says Governor Moore of Louisiana.

"This will form a fit text today for any speaker that imagines softpowder will put down the rebellion.

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L July 22; ed: 2/2 The Ashland UNION says: "The object of the war is now plainly enunciated. Our soldiers are to fight for niggers. Three hundred thousand more men are wanted for this purpose. You, that desire it, you that are satisfied with the purpose, should enlist at once."

(L) We put this on a par with the attitude of the Dayton EMPIRE and regard it as a definite attempt to interfere with recruiting.

The people of Ohio are not in sympathy with these traitorous claims. They know the war is not being fought to free the slaves but to save the Union though they would rejoice if such a worthy object be accomplished. It is indisputable that the war has been conducted for a year or more with tender solicitude that slavery should not be harmed or touched.

The policy of non-interference with the peculiar institutions of the South has not stopped the Rebellion, though it has stopped the southern newspapers' contention that the government's main object was to free the slaves. That contention is upheld now only by traitorous newspapers in the North.

"The people and the army know that the war was begun with the restoration of the Union as its basis and object. The rebels have been persistent in thrusting the negro question into the war and into the face of every general and soldier until they have succeeded in abolitionizing them. This is why we hear such moanings by the apostles of the sacredness of human bondage."

457 L July 24; ed: 1/2 - Mr. Jacobs of the Ashland UNION denies that he ever said, "This is a damned abolition war; Abe Lincoln is as big a traitor as Jeff Davis."

In his number of July 11, 1862, he calls the President the "Thief Lincoln" and speaks of him as "assuming the distinguished clemency of a despotic conqueror."

We will not bandy words with Jacobs. We know he said so. The sentiment which he denies is only excelled by language more atrocious and treasonable.

458 L July 24; ed: 3/4 In a letter to the editor, "Willard" from Charlestown, O., says: The country has just passed a two weeks' suspense

of fear and doubt.

Following closely upon a succession of military triumphs unparalleled in the history of the world, the federal army has been severely repulsed when before the great goal of the campaign. This has occasioned great sorrow, but nothing has issued from it in fact which might serve to intimidate the loyal hearts of the nation.

We have been among the farmers for the last 12 days. Here one strikes

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