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and insulted country, haYe been the very Molochs of their race. You may excite pitty and compunction in the heart of a famished cata- mount, but never in the obdurate spirit of a Tory. He knows no humanity- he feels no compassion. · The tears of the widow is as wine to his lips & her wailings, as music to his ears. He can stamp his own iron heel upon the bosom of beauty and suck the blood of her blue-eyed infant. And after nil this- after aiding the marauderers in the ruin and desolation of his native home- the loveliest of a thoui;:and lands; where the sons are all brave and the daughters all beautiful-after filling it with mourning and lamentation, perchance be will say grace at his meals-perchance he will offer up prayers to 'Heaven, and bless his God that he was not a traitorous Nullifier! My mind can frame no possible apology for any who shall madly J>lunge into such a horrible policy as this; I know of no justification for him who shall in one breath declare that his State is wronged and at the next, draw his sword against her to perpetuate the injuries. The tories of the Revolution who pursued this course, plead in justi- fication of their conduct that as they owed allegiance to the British Government, d1tty forced them to fight for it and it was treason to fight against it. This too is the language of the Orange men of Ireland who take sides with the Govt. against their own oppressed land. .So speakes the renegade Pole and the recreant Greek; all say that they :are only for their legitimate Government and opposed to anarchy re- bellion and treason! And this flattering unction the Submission may lay to !tis soul, for any enormities which he may commit in a crusade against his invaded State; he is only avoiding treason and discharging his obligations to his legitimate Govt. where his allegiance is due. But whether the plea be sound or not, it shall never be made in my defence; for "I am persuaded that neither height nor depth, nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come shall be able to ,separate me from the love of" my State. l\ly heart has been with her in every quarrell for her rights, and I hope to be with her in the last- I stand in her defence tho' the world rise against her and her false friends betray her- When her rights shall be trampled on, her dig- inity insulted, her ·character reviled- when the Army of the United :st~s shall be let loose upon her soil, to despoil her of her sovereignty to force upon her unconstitutional laws, and to gather tribute im- properly from the hired hell-hounds of her oppressors, instinct will rally every manly breast in her behalf and teach the fearless hand where to strike. The Submissionist may bellow treason! treason! and strike where he pleases, but the blows of the true spirited patriot will fall on the side of the invaded insulted & oppressed,-in defense of bis home, his fire-side, his wife, & his children- his blows will be for violated liberty and an outraged State. The leaders who control and direct the policy and principles of our opponents, repudiating the characteristic cognomen of Submission, have formally adopted, what they conceived to be a more popular name of Union men. To this 1 have no objection to urge, more than the title is quite a misnomer. They clcny that the Government is ·an Union o{ States- yet, say they, the Union must be preserved.- . I would ask, what union do they menu? If they mean the people .en mass, it woulrl be more appropriat<' to say the Con.~olidation must
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