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tration in all its 2onstitutional effortsto put
down rebellion, biit when the party which
that Administration represents, said ‘‘neces-
ity” demanded the setting aside of the
Constitution of the United States—that “ne
cessity dertanded that men should be throw~
into prison Without being permitted to en-
quire the cause or ask an investigation—
that ‘necessity’ demanded that the people
be deprived of the privilege of petitioning
Congress for a peaceful settlement of our
national difficulties—that “necessity” com
pelled the trampling under foot of the free-
dom of speech, and of the press—that ‘‘ne-
* Here shall the press the people's rights man- | cessity’’ justified mobs in the commission of
tain,
Unawed by party or unbribed by gain ;
Pledged but to truth to liberty and law,
No favor sways us and no fear shall awe.”
re lp lA At.
DEMOCRACY— A sentiment not to be appaled,
erupted or compromised. It knows no baseness;
it cowers to no danger ; it oppresses no weak-
ness. Destructive only of despotism, tt os the
sole conservator of liberty, labor and prosperty.
It is the sentiment of Freedom, of equal rights,
of equal vbligations—tho law of mature perva-
ding the iaw of the land.”
the most wanton outrages upon persons and
property —that ‘necessity’ demanded that
United States Marshals should have power
to declare what constitutes ‘‘treason”—and
necessity’ compels them to ransack mails
to ferrit it out—well knowing that “‘necessi-
ty ”” has always been the tyrant’s plea,
when this ery of military necessity was ta-
ken to rob the people of their rights, I, as an
American citizen, claiming that blessed boon
= | of liberty bought us by the blood of our
SL ALTRATIM | Editors and Publishers.
P, G- MEEK
forefathers, raised my voice, feeble though
it was, to warn the people of the encroach-
ments the executive was making upon their
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR SENATOR.
WILLIAM H. BLAIR,
OF BELLEFONTE.
ASSEMBLY,
ROBERT F. BARRON,
OF FERGUSON.
ASSOCIATE JUDGES,
SAMUEL STROHECKER,
JOHN 8. PROUDFOOT,
OF MILES AND MILESBURG.
TREASURER,
JOHN B. MITCHELL,
OF BELLEFONTE.
COMMISSIONER,
AMOS ALEXANDER,
OF PENN.
AUDITOR,
GEORGE BUCHANAN,
OF GREGG.
rights. It was for this that I denounced the
course of the Administration, and if I have
been bitter in my denunciation of the Re-
publican party, its leaders have been reck-
less in their haste to plunder the people. If
I have spoken freely and openly it was be-
cause it was my privilege and duty asa
public journalist to do so. For thus exer-
cising the right guaranteed by the Consti-
tution, a bare majority of Grand Jurors pre-
sents the WarcamaN and its editors, as
ssympathisers with treason,” which throws
our paper liable at any time, to be excluded
from the mails, thus stifling the voice of
Democracy in this County.
In justice to Mr. ALEXANDER, [ may here
state that the articles which appeared in
this paper that grated so harshly upon Re-
publican ears, were my writing or my selec-
tions, many of which I know did not meet with
his entire approval. [I donot wish to shirk
any responsibility. Iam willing that my
record thus made, rhall stand and be judged
by those of another generation, who will
have learned by our example, to appreciate
the blessings this generation] is trampling
under foot.
VALEDICYORY,
In resigning my position. as Junior Edit-
or of the Democratic WaTORMAR, a due re-
me
briefly to state the reasons that have prompt.
Although, young, ia
years, I have been taught to honor and re-
vere the principles of Democracy—the his-
tory of the past—the glorious career of our
teachings of WASHINGTON,
JacksoN—all have shown
me that these principles, pure and uncon-
tamunated with isms of any kind, alone are
suited to preserve and protect our free in-
gard for public opinion requires
ed me in so doing.
country—the
JEFFERSON and
stitutions.
My connection with this paper has been
brief, and in reviewing the course pursued
the few months I have been associated with
the Democracy of ¢ Old Centre, "I have
nothing to regret, but that 1 was not an
a ”»
UBC.
abler advocate of the “good old
Those who have not endorsed us in repudi-
ating a Union party—those who, for the
sake of office or emolument, would barter
the success of the Democratic party, and sel}
their political birtkright for a mess of pottage,
1 would ask if yeu have forgotten that
the Chicago platform is the basis upon
which the party you would affiliate with,
Have you forgotten that this same
party has declared time again that the ¢ Un
on was not worth supporting in connection
with slavery.” Have you forgotton the
snsults offered you last fall by the lamp-
stands.
The threats daily uttered by the advocates
of mobocracy against this press, have in-
duced me, for the sake of the property which
belongs to other persons, to withdraw. —
Were it my own, it would be different. —
After the action of the Grand Jury, there
were but two ways left—either to blandly
remain silent. [I have chosen the latter.
In resigning my position, I do not surren-
der my principles, neither will 1 cease to
labor for the success of the Democratic
party. Ido not give up the idea thata war
of invasion will result in the *‘final eternal”
separation of the States, and the ruin and
desolation of our whole country.
hours of trial, I take my leave.
P. GRAY MEEK.
ntl
Our Ticket.
The Senatorial Conferees, which met at
Lock Haven on the 4th isst:, nominated
unanimously, upon the 6th bailot eur fellow
townsman, Wx. H. Brae, Esq. Wehave
now a full ticket in the field— a ticket which
can support without a single exception.
Senate, is a Democrat—a gentleman—a pa
praise the Administration in all its acts, or
With a prayer for the success of Demo-
cratic principles, and the speedy return of
peace, with a kind wish to the fraternity,
and many thanks to the patrons of the
WATCHMAN, for the encouragement given in
every Democrat and every Union loving man
WiLLiam H. Brag, the nominee for State
lighters clothed in: their livery, as they
passed you by, contemptously sneering ag
you as a “ Union saver.” Have you forgot-
ten that men,who hoped our soldiers (in
the Mexican War,) would be ‘¢ welcomed
wish bloody hands to hospitable graves,” —
men who, under certain circumstances, were
willing to let the ‘Union slide,”’—men,
who considered our Constitution a ‘Yankee
Trick,” a ¢ Wooden Nutmeg,” are now
among the leaders of the party with whom
you would unite ? The time for crimina-
tion and recrimivation ay be past—the
principles of the Republican party may for
a while be hid in the folds of onrstarry em-
blem and in the din of conflict go unnoticed
yet these principles, which have blackened
the pages of our nation’s history and kindled
the flames that are now destroying our tem-
ple of liberty cannot be forgotten. If we
triot—and a soldier—worthy, in all respects
the confidence and support of the Democracy
of the entire Senatorial District. Mr. BLair
has held several important positions as gifts
from the people, and on every occasion has
done Roner to himself and the party he rep-
resented. Ie is known to be a Union man,
one who weuld willingly sacrifice his all for
the preservation of our Constitution and our
For Assembly, we have Roserr F. Bar-
RON, a man against whom nought can be
said. One better suited to represent the
Democracy of Old Centre,” in the halls of
Legislation at Harrisburg, could not have
been selected, and the people of Centre
county may feel proud that they have such
Mr. BARRON has always
been a true Democr-t, and consequently a
We pity the person that
a man to support.
would save our country we must look to the
cause that endangered it,
1 entered upon the duties of a public jour-
ralist, when the distant rumblings of a frat-
ricidal war had just began to grate fright-
fully upon the ears of the American pe ople.
XE &sponsed the cause of peace, believing
that compromise and concession alone would
save the Union, and that by 8 Natinal
Convention, our difficulties could be set-
tled: T deprecated the idea of a war of in-
vasion, feeling assured that such a policy
would drive from the Union the remaining
Slave States, and crush out the last ray of
hope from the minds of Union men in the
I: bel. eved then, and firmly believe
to-day, that the policy laid: down by the
Administration:to vigorously prosecute the
war, neither entertaining nor proposing prop-
ositions of peace, until. the seceded’ States
are subjugated and ley down their arms,
will result in final Separation and total de-
I cordially en.
+ orged und heartily supported the Adminis-
South.
struction of our Republic.
rans against him.
For Associate Judges, we have sterling
candidates —SAMUEL STROHECKER and JOHN
8. Prouproor—men well known for their
upright principles and pure Democracy
men whom the voters of Centre county can
support without fear of misplaced confilence
—uen eminently qualified to fill, with hon
or, the important position for which they
have been nominated—and men, whose de-
votien te our whole country, is second to
none.
For Treasurer, we have Capt. Joux B.
MiteRELE, a true Democrat and an uncondi-
tional Union man. The fact of his having
beex neminated upon Lhe first ballot. speaks
volumes in his favor, and the fact that he
will be elected by an overwhelming major-
ty, willbe but another complitzent that the
poeple are: willing to pay to: ntem who so
richly deserve them, nor need fear to vote
for Capt. MicneLr, His Democracy—his
patriotism—his honesty—none dare ques
tion.
Anos ALEXANDER, the nominee for Com-~
missioner, is 4 man, whom to know is to
respect. We do not believe that there could
have been placed upon our ticket a man
better qualified to fill that office than he is.
His Democracy and love for our country
canhot be'surpassed, antl with Mr. ALEXAN-
pER for Commissioner, the people may rest
assured that their interests will be well
cared for.
Gen. Geo. Bucnanay, who was nominat-
ed by acclamation for Auditor, is known
throughout the County as a man well fitted
for the office. His business qualifications,
which are unsurpassed, and the interest he
has always taken in the welfare of the citi-
zens ot the County, are recommendations
than which noue can be higher.
Altogether, our ticket is a good one, and
will, we trust receive the hearty and undi-
vided support of all who desire the election
of competent men, and the success of our
principles. A number of highly esteemed
competitors for the several offices have, of
necessity, been defeated, but they are now
as earnestly laboring for the suctess of the
ticket, as though they themselves had been
placed tipon it.
McAllister’s Letter:
1t is with feelings of regret, that we are
again compelled to wield our pen in defence
of ourselves ahd the Democratic party, from
the libellous chatges preferred against us by
fi. N. Mc’Allister. This man, who sets
himself up as the model of patriotism and
wisdotn in this community, has addressed
us a letter which we never saw until it ap-
peared in print in the two Republican coun-
ty papers. It is but a rehash of his speech
at the Union meeting, with a few additional
tugs at his suspenders added. We have re-
plied twice already to this same speech ;
our readers, therefore, fully understand it,
and appreciate the motive with which it was
made. It is therefore, useless; nay, ’tis
worse than folly, to trouble them the third
time with what they always are disgusted.
We may be permitted, however, to refer to
a few facts in connection with the history
of this would-be patriot, which will go far
to colighten some of lus admirers (which
are, fortunately, very scarce) as to the real
motive of the man, in making the sweeping
charge, that all who happen to speak tke
word peace, are the sympathisers with, and
in league with the rebels. We shall not go
back very far into the past, or bring up the
unpledged opinions of his yotith in testimo-
ny against him. He has made a history in
the last four years sufficient for our present
purpose. In the Fall of 1856, there was 4
rope, the one end of which was fasteied to
his chimney, upon which hung suspended
the first secession flag w¢ evet s@w—i flag
with but sixteen stars upoi its azure field,
which was then the emblem of a divided
Union. The Democratic party was then in
power, striving to hold this Union together
through the moral force of 1ts northern con-
servative element. It was striving to rebut
the infamous doctrine “that the Union could
not exist Half slave and half free,” advocat-
ed by a Northern sectional party. It was
then opposed to the secession of the North
from the South as strongly as it is now op-
posed to the secession of the South from the
North. Democrats were battling with the
weapon of moral suasion against the politi-
cal heresy of Garrison. That the “Consti-
tution of the United States was a covenant
with death and an agreement with hell,”
against the doctrine of Seward, that the
Union cannot exist half slave and half free—
against the doctrine of Burlingame, and
Banks—that, under certain contingencies,
‘they would be willing to let the Union
slide, and the doctrine of other kindred
spirits, who opposed the decision of the Su-
preme Court of the Umted States. The
Union wae then m danger as these doctrines
were openly advocated from the stamp thr’o-
out the whole North. Where did the patriof,
who new denounces all Democrats as trait-
ors, stand then # While . Democrats were
striving to rebut these revolutionary doc-
trines, counseling obedience to the laws,
and devotion to the Union, this self-same,
chivalric, patriotic man had suspended from’
his chimney the emblem of a divided Union.
Later in his life. after secession had reared
its monster head in the South, and before it
exterded further than in the conflnes of rg-
bellious South Carolina, and. when all true
patriots, Judge Hale included, were striving
to pass a compromise to prevent it extend-
ing to the whole South, this patriotic Mec
Allister was heard to say that, “rather that
accept the Crittenden Compromise, he woutd
see this Union broken into ten thousand pew
es.” This is a queer kind of patriotism, It
is the patriotism of all croaker who, rather
than obliterate one principle of their politi~
cal organization, would see the Union forev-
er separated into two ‘fen thousand” con-
tending ¢'fragments.”’ These were the sen-
timents four years ago, and even last Fall,
of this man, who now professes to have a
new born love for the Union ; and how zeal-
ous he isnow in his new born faith—new
converts are always zealous. But itis gen-
erally the casd, that the most zealous con-
vert is the one that first backslides. We
don’t object to his being zealous, but we do
object ‘0 such new converts setting them-
selves up as teachers of patriotism, They
are generally bad teachers, for instead of
converting men to the faith, their ferocious
reasoning has a tendency to drive them offt
Such is the case with McAllister. His nat-
ural vindictiveness, together with his crook-
ed, churlish disposition and virulent tongue,
are repugnant to men of finer sensibilities,
and instead of following in his lead, they are
apt to take the opposite direction.
That this man McAllister, is unfit to be
set up as a model of patriotism, is evident
from the fact that maity things he does is a
play into the hands of the rebels. For in-
stance, he circulates to the world through
the columus of a newspaper that Centre
county is full of traitors. What good news
this will be to the rebels when they get to
hear it | What a comfért for them to know
that the Democrats up here sympathize with
them in their unholy effort to break up the
Union ! It will give them a new determi-
nation, and iustil a new vigor info their ev-
ery action, which can only tend to prolong
the struggle. because they must be beaten,
and we tell: them now, that .there is not a
word of truth in what McAllister says. If
they build up their hopes upon McAllister’s
imagined sympathy with them here, they
aie bound to be blasted, because we don’t
believe there isa Democrat in this county
that has any sympathy with them, ahd ev-
ery renewed effort that they maka in tonse=
quence of what McAllister says, Will otily
make their defeat the moue terrible.
If that “rich Baltimore relative’ Bets
copy of the last Central Press, whith his
rich Bellefonte relative here may send hin,
to show his cousin's mighty effort, hat a
rejoicing they will have at Richmond, upon
the glad tidings that there is a divided North.
We tell them it 18 not true, there 1s not a
divided North —we know and can speak with
confidence, that trie Democratic party in
this county at least, are opposed to secesv
sion, and are doing all they can, and will
continue to do everything In theif power to
whip them, until they yield their doctrine of
secession, lay down their arins, and meet
us once more like brothers in a National
Convention, wheil tHe Democracy will see
too it, that in ‘the compromise” they have
their full constitutional rights, H. N. McAl-
lister to the contrary notwithstanding.
Now, we take it that the man who is will-
ing to turn this wai’ from its true object.
which we understand to be the putting down
of rebellion, and to naintain the Union upon
the Constitution of our fathers, into a cru-
sade against the rights of the people, and
the destruction of the constitutional nstitu-
tions of the Governmeut, recoghized as such
by existing laws is as mnch a tiditor as any
rebel in the South. The Abolitionist of the
North are straining every nerve to have this
war turned from its true purpose, and to ef-
fect by it the abolitition of slavery. A ma-
jority of the last Congress declared that the
war should not be carfied on for this pur-
pose, They who, therefore, say that it shall
not only oppose the Administration, but fa-
vor the trampling under foot of the Censti-
tution of our coithitry, and according to mod
ern teaching are “traitors”
We advanced an opinion somewhat like
this before, and we find it cut deep in a
quarter that we did not expect,
in the famous manifesto of Hughy Nelson
McAllister, dated Bellefonte, Sep. 3d, 1861,
quotes the language to which we allude;
thus : “Since the affair at Bull Run, the
Abolitionists are making desperate efforts to
have the war asenbed to the right cause—
the abolition of slavery. The country is
not going to destruction fast énough for
them.” He is terribly alarméd at the above
sentence, and thus defends the Abolitionists
from the charge : “If you and your Demo-
cratic friends propose to aid in the vigorous
prosecution of the war,by editorials and
from vour help.”
Because we say the Abolitionists are striv-
ing to prevert this war from its frue pur-
pese, and mai it effect the abolition of sla-
very, he prays Gods to save the country from
our help. Why does he not want oar help ?
Evidently because we say the war musl be
prosecuted just as Congress said it should —
for the purpose of preserving the Union, and
not for the abolition of slavery.
Now, we would like to see any sane man
that.can come to any other conclusion, than
that he is opposed to the congressional idea
of this war, and in favor of the abolition
idea, although the fact has long been known
to us, that he never employs white labor
apon his farm, notwithstanding there are
plenfy of white men in our midss who are
actually suffering for the want of work—
we never supposed he was an Abolitionist.
The fact, ot least, stands forth in bold re-
lief. Another act of this very ‘chivalric
patriot” —which certainly shows great des
votion to our country—is in the fact, that a
certaiz young gentleman whose father is the
captain of the Virginia Staunton Infanty,
recently left the Farmer's High School, and,
through the aid of his friends, found his
way through our lines into: the Southern
Coufederacy. Rumor says his uncle pro-
cured him a pass. Fhis if so. is aid of the
material kind to the rebels, to’ the extent of
one able bodied young man; who, no doubt,
will make an excellent rebel soldier, and,
for anght we know, is to-day in their ranks
along with father, with his bayonet turned
upon the capital. Is there a Democrat in
Centre county that has done a thing of this
kind # If there 1s, kick him out of the par-
ty at once ; he is not fit to be a Democrat.
Yet this man claims to be a patriot. We
think it is our time now for a little prayer.
May God save our country from the help of
such patriotism.
SECRETARY SEWARD’S OPINION OF THE
Democracy.—¢ ‘I know the Democracy of
the North. [ know them now in thelr wan-
ing strength. I'do not know a possible dis~
unionist among them all. I believe they
will be as faithful to the Union now as they
were in the bygonedays when their ranks
were full and their chillenge to the contest
was always the warcry of victory.” —Speech
of Wm. H. Seward, Feb. 28th 1860.
publications like this, God save the country
The Abolition Press and the War.
17 « There ctantot, and never will be,
peace again in what ofice formed the United
States, as long as slavery exists in the South.
This is the decree of God himself, who has
declared an eternal antagonism between
right and wrong! !
[7 «To talk of peace, therefore, as long
as slavery exists on this continent, in con-
junction with freedom, is both foolish and
impracticable ! 1 I”
[= ¢ If we intend to be free, ihe soon
we go to bork to overthrow and banish the
winstittition of slavery, the longer our freedom
will last and the nobler it will become ! ! |”
he above extracts we have taken froin
the Harrisburg Telegraph, the official organ
of the Secretary of War. Notwithstanding
Congress, at its last session, declared that
1t was no part or purpose of the present war
to interfere with or abolish the institution of
slavery, the special organ of the Secretary
—which everybody believes to speak the
sentiments of that high functionary—de-
clares openly, as does the Tribune, and other
Republican papers, ““ to talk of peace, there-
fore, as long as slavery exists in this conta-
nent, in conjunction with freedom, is both
foolish and impracticable.”
We cordially endorse the resolutions of
Congress declarative of the objects of the
war, and it is only these attempts of some
of the high functionary members of the cdb-
inet, and others in the confidence of the
Administration, to make this an abolition
war, that we have opposed. We wish it
therefore, to be distinctly understood, once
and for all time to come, that we, atid the
Democratic party are opposed to this war
being perverted from its ofiginal purpose
into a crusade agawst slavery. We are,
therefore, in favor of defendifig the Govern-
ment till the last. We ate for the Constitu-
tion of our country as it is, and oppbsed to
its violation by any and every person,
whether high in authority or in the walks of
civil life, whether in the South by Secession-
ists or in the North by abolitionists. These
have always been the sentiments of the
Democratic party, and they are our own
sentiments. Yet Democrats are called trai-
tors by those who, like the Telegraph above,
are daily counselling a violation of the Con-
stitution. It does appear to us that itis
because the Democrats are such good consti-
tutional, law abiding citizens, who are not
willing to see this war perverted from its
original purpose 1ito a crusade that would
result in the entire destruction of the gov~
ernment for which we are fighting that they
are denouuced as traitors. We hope the
Administration will not permit those fanat-
ical mischief makets, such as the Tribune,
the Harrisburg Telegraph and other Kindred
sheets, to mislead them into such Unconsti
tutions] measures.
eee tle ee.
The Objects of the War.
A large number of influential Republican
papers still insist that the present war shall
not cease until the institation of siavery is
entirely wiped out.” If the war is not car-
ried on for that purpose, why are these
papers permitted to misrepresent its true ob-
ject. Read the following extracts from the
leading Republican journals:
The impression gains ground that there
can be no end to the present war, no com-
promise, no peace, which leaves the cause of
it in existence. The irrepressible conflict
having taken this sanguinary character, tan
no more be staid whhile slavery exists.—New
York Times.
+ Why the extreme anxicty of some Re-
publican politicians to avoid the charge that
they sustain a war against slavery ?
* * #* The North is in arms against
slavery. It is fighting against the slavery
interest and nothing eélseé. "—| Rockland
(M¢.) Gazettt.
There cannot and there never will be
peace again in what oncé formed the United
States as long as slavery exists in the South.
— | Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph.
{¢ have po hesitation in sayifig that our
present difficulties can only be settled by
arms. * * The armies which are now
opposed to each other dré opposed on PRIN
cree. The one believes mn freedom, the
other in slavery, as the normal condition of
a large portion of the family of man. Be:
tween these two principles there can be no
such thing as real compromise ; for they are
in themselves antagonistic and will continue
their struggle until one or the other has
achieved a permanent trinmph.—[ Portland
(Me.) Advertiser.
Antagonistic principles, that have been
approaching each other for half a century,
cn this continent, have at last met in deadly
strife. The ‘irrepressible conflict” is here,
more, we believe, by the ordination of Prov.
idence. than by any human agencies. In
the course of events the hour has arrived for
settling the question whether the inherent
despotism of the Slave Power, or a republic
true to freedom, shall rule from the Lakes
to the Gulf, from Ocean to Ocean.— [Boston
Transcript, ;
* * "We hold that Slavery is the cause
of the war, and that is the duty of those in
whom lies the power to rid the dsuntry of
the curse with the strong arm of its power
in the rebellious States, but with the milder
form of full compensation in the slavehold.
ing but loyal States.—[Delatvére (N. Y.)
Express. 3
‘A nation’s war cry has been changed
from restoration to that of revenge !| When
the American people first rushed to the res-
cue in obedience to the suthindns of the
Gdvernment, it was for the purpose of re-
storing the Union and recovering the public
property that had been stolen by the rebels.
Three months ago our war cry was for re-
storation, now it is for revenge.’ —([Harris~
‘Sitrg Talegraph.
[—————
FLORA TrMPLE SE1zED.--NEW YORK Sept. 3.
—The racing mare, Flora Temple, was yes-
terday seized by Deputy Marshals Hunt and
McCoy on account of a lible filed agamst
Flora by the assistant United States Dis-
trict Attorney, she being the property of Mr.
William McuUonald, of Baltimore, at the
present time an officer in the Southern army.
ee pee
War News is scarce and unimportant
The rebels are still entrenching themselves
in the vicinity of Washington. i
Col. Harney’s Union Party Proposition.
The Louisville, Ky., Democrat, edited by
Col. Harney. who led on the Union ticket
which so signally triuthphed over secession
ism at the late election thete, thus points
out the only way in which a successful union
of political parties for the restoration of the
Uhio ca be forined. ** Abolitionism and
Secessonism must be burried in the’ dat
political grave,” says the Democrat. Thai's
the talk! And while the Democracy ofthe
North are ready to contribute of their mén
and money, more than their share td #nswer
the repuirements of the government to re~
claim and protect public property, let thetn
wage ceaseless war against Northern sec-
tionalism; at the ballot box, as they have
done in days gone by. The Democrat says :
« The Democracy of New York-wrefase to
ithite with the Republicans in political action
although the latter made an overture for
that purpose. It is certainly desirable that
party strife should cease everywhere except
on the issues involving the salvation of “he
country ; but the way to effect it is not by a
tinion of incongruous elements that are en-
tirely antagonistic to each other. It would,
perhaps, be thought preposterous, but we
nevertheless suggest it, that the Republicifis
disband and sapport the Democratic ticket.
THey have made the experiment of 4 purel
sectional party, and they see its fritits. i
threatens to cost them their country. They
can’t have a Union with sectional denomina-
tion. No matter how juts atid oh a
sectional party may rule; its dominatith is
itself the vice that a country will endure.—
All men are not philosophers, and the millen-
jum has not come yet. Even up and down
town boys have ceased to wrangle and fight.
The present contest is reduced to just such
a fight. No rights are involved ! you can't
get a secessionists to go back to the original
cause of the complaint. They are too insig -
nificant before the startling magnitude of
the contest, and the immense sacrifices they
require, Itis a blind; wicked, wicked, sui-
cidal war of sections, with fo rational basis
but blind hate. A statesman must despise
the puenlity of the contest, whilst he finds
in the nature of man enotgh to account for
it: I
¢ This Republican party is organized and
built tp of the antagbnism of sections, and
whilst it lives, the animosity its existence
engenders will not die. Its partisans have
plunged recklessly on; sneered at Union sav.
ers, and discredited those who sounded the
alarm of dangers dffead. They derided the
cry of wolf; Totgetting that in the fablé the
wolf did come at last. The first step to a
restoration of the Union ig a dispersion of
the Republican party, a disorganization of
the whole concern, a repydiation of the ba-
sis of its existence. Perhaps. 5 entire
breaking up of parties in the Noftir might
in the end answer the purposé : bf & union
with the dominant pdrty there would be ta-
ken at the South as an acquiescence on the
part of the minority in the purpdse and
objects of the majority; The whole North
would be written down etfemies. That the
Republican party must die, ff thé Union
lives, and that it will die we believe. Its
cistence costs the country {60 mich, and
the sooner it condents to pass away, the
sooner will the calamities of wir passaway.
Do they expect one section of the Union
to dominate over the other at discretion, and
that upon principles that cause all the hatred
and animosity of the other? We submit te
all sensible men that this is impostible.—
We make ro apology for this wicked effort
in the South to destroy the Government.—
We grant the necessity of suppressing it;
but Abolitionism that has produced it must
also be suppresfed. Al0'it onisii and Se~
cessionisti must bé burried in the same po-
litical grave. The patriot who loves his
country must consent to sacrifice them both.
Seward said, * parties, plattorms and men
must be sdcrificed to the Uniof,” and he
told the truth that once. ‘I'he Union men of
the South have made the sacrifice. We nave
given up parties, and separated from old
party friends. e have givén old party
creeds and platforms to the winds to save a
country and fre¢ institations. The people
North must make the same sacrifice, no
matter under what name théy go. Whilst
we acknowledgé thé necessity of armies,
sectiondl antagonist must be smothered out
and burried. We want iow a Unfon party
North and South, composed of men ready to
sacrifice all, except the cardinal doctrines of
free institutions, to the one object—the
preservation of the Union.” +d
Will those of our Northe:n Republican
newspapets which have so loudly exulted
over the election of Col. Harney, and the
success of the Union ticket in Kentucky,
republish his views, as given above. Te
ed ——————— ee © fe i
What the Republicans Prophesied
The Republican press and orators. during
the last Presidertial campaign, prophesied
that the election of Lincoln, ol >
« Will give peace and quiet to the country
of which it is sadly ir need ; ’
« That all branches of industry will re-
viva, business wilt be good and wages high ;
That it will kill off the heresey of seces-
sion for all time to come 3 ;
+ That it will strengthen the Union, re-
stér confidence and friendship between: the
people of the North and South ; 4
“ That we will have an economical and
pure administration, and so conduet, gffairs
as to reinaugurate the times of th" garlier
Presidents.” a
What the Democrats Prophesied:
The Democratic press @hd speakers, on
the other hand, told the peopl that thE elec~
tion of Lincoln, : pa
Will result in the disréptiba of the Union;
In the destruction of all’ trade’ dnd’ com-
merce ; ;
Widen the breach betwee’ thé North and
South ;
Throw the laboring masses out of exdploy~
ment ; $
Bring down the price of produce, abd in-
crease the taxes of the people;
And worse than all, would be likely to
create a long, bloody and expensive civil
war between the sections.
Reader, Lincoln was elected. Judge for
yourselves whether the Republicans or Dem-
ocrats were correct in their prophecy.
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