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Only another sword
Dripping with human blood ;
Only another drop
Swell 'ng the crimeon flood.
Only another tear
Wiped from the face of time;
Only a brother dear
Lo tin hismanhood’s prime’
Smoothly the garments fold
Over the silent breast,
Only another soul
Gone to its dreamless rest.
Miseellangons,
Wn the Crims.]
IS IT NOT ENOUGH?
Mg. Epirer :—Governor Seymour stated
in a speech made a few months ago, that
about 250.000 of the troops which had been
furniched by the loyal States to put down
the present rebellion, had fallen by the acci-
dents of war. Since this estimate was
made 1t is safe to say that those who have
died mn the military hospitals throughout the
country, together with those who have been
slain in the various battles since fought, in
Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and Vir-
ginia, would add 75 000 more te this num.
ber, making an aggregate of 325,000 Union
troops who hove perished. in little over a
year. On the other hand, the South has
lost yerbaps 175000. Thus waking a
grand total of 500,000 lives which have been
sacrificed to a bind fanaticism, which is
about fifty times as many as were lost in
batile during the seven years revolutionary
war, which resulted in the :chicvement of
our independence. In addition to ail this,
the country has been precipitated into a
state of financial rum, from which fifty years
of prosperity cannot extricate it. And yet
this is vot all. These are the
greatest evils which have been brought
about by this war. When as christians s nd
philanthrop sis we survey the moral deso-
lation which has teen inflicted upon the
country, it is absolutely appalling, and be-
yond computation. Reason has been de-
throned. Civilization has been retarded. —
The altars dedicated to the worship of the
great Creator have been profaned. The be-
niga influences of religion, have piven place
to those m~lignant” passions, which, until
now, were 'hought to find lodgment only in
savage breasts. Helpless females have been
violated. © And yet abolition fanaticism looks
calmly on, contemplating, without dismay
or perturbation, the ruin which it‘ has
wrought ; and actuated by that same puri-
tanic spirit. which, a century ago. possess-
ed their fathers, who. with a ca/m delibera-
tion, would consign the helpless victims
suspecied of witchcraft to the 1clentless
waves, arrogantly boasting that they were
doing God service. When we contemplate
the magnitude of the evils, political, moral
and religious. which this war has brought
upon the country, and then cect that all
might have been avoided by a spirit oF con-
ciliation ani eompromise, founded upon
principles of justice and equality, we have
some faint conception of 'he fearful respon-
sibility which attaches to those who refused
that justice to the South, which was pro-
posed by the Crittenden Compromise, and
who would listen to no terms but snch as
were dictated by Republican fanatics—now
the complete overthrow of Southern institu-
tions. As we now lock upon our bleeding
and dismanued country, with her broken
laws and violatcd Constitution ; as we lis-
ten to the plaintive cry of tens ¢=honsands
of helpless widows and orphans ; as we look
upon the maimed and mutilated soldiers ev-
ery where to be seen upon our streets ; as
we think of our sons and brothers, whose
bones lie unburied upon many a battlefield;
as we behold the gloomy and loathsome
prison, which shuts the light of heaven from
those whom envy and malice have hunted
down : as we think on these things. we
may well ask ourselves, Is it not enough ?
Is it not enough ? Or ghall that bind fan-
aticism. which actuates such men as Beech-
er and Parker and others, who prostitute
their holy calling to the basest purposes,
continue to rule. Shall the voice of fanati-
cism alone be heard 2 Shall the freedom of
the press through which the people find ut-
terance, and which the Constitution declareg
shall not be abridged, continue to be fetter-
ed by military despotism 2 Surely it is
time we should awake to a realizing sense
of our condition,” For eighteen months we
have waged a civil war against our brethres
because they have unwisely separated from
us! Not, however, without cause. For w®
have persistently withheld from then what
they have a constitutional right to claim.—
And Northern aggression has constantly in-
dicated that they should yet be more
and more restricted ! We have boasted that
by our supe:ior numbers and less effemmi-
uate sons we would whip them into obedi-
ence. We have raised vast armies, with
which we have overrun their country, and
tlevastated their homes. Our Government
has issued proclamations by which their
property has been confiscated, aud their
Saves declared free. Ang yeu we hase ac.
complished nothing tuward restoring the
not even
Union. The results of eighteen months
have only demonstrated what many saw at
the beginning, viz--that the means which
have been employed, are not only not the
best to restore the reunion of the States, but
that it cannot be accomplished by such
means. To garrison and hold so vast a
sountry as is possessed by the South, would
require 1,000,000 of men, hence gur superi-
or numbers and other advantages cannot
avail us.
In August last, I addressed a manuscript
letter to Mr. Seward, from which I extiact
the following —
** Sir, more than a year ago yon gave as-
surances to the people that within three
months from that time our national diffical-
ties would be brought to an end, and that
peace and prosperity would be restored
throughout the land. And though the peo-
ple had nobly seconded the efforts of the ad-
ministration, and the nativns of Europe had
stifled the cry of her starving subjects, what
do we now bebold 2 Twelve months have
passed away, and tho rebellion, instead of
being subducd, has assumed yet more fear-
ful proportions. The rebels, so far from be-
ing dispirited. are more hopeful and san-
guine. Their necessities have but develop-
ed their resources, while the sacrifices they
have put forth have challenged the admira-
tion of the world. The South has not only
resisted all our efforts at her subjuga fon—
put forth on the most maguificent scale—but
to-day she presents an unbroken front, while
we have been thrown upon the defensive. —
Thue far she has sustamed herself by her
own unaided efforts. What, then, may we
expect when foreign aid is no longer with-
held ? And as rational thinking men, how
much longer can we expect the nations of
Europe to resist the cry of their people for
bread through courtesy for us 1"
See Mr. Adam’s correspondence with Mr.
Seward, in which he says he feels it his duty
to inform the Secretary that unless import-
ant results are achieved by the first of Fob-
uary, intervention must follow, ‘And we
cannot close our eyes to the fach that when
recognition does come, it will bring with it
the gravest complications. Sir, I repeat it,
our diffizulties cannot be brought to a happy
settlement by the means now in operation ”
Since the letter fiom which the abi ve is ex-
tracted, was addressed to Mr. Seward, four
months have passed away, and I am bat
more conflrned in the position then assum-
ed. Itis true that since then Mr. Seward
has addressed a circular letter to the Euro-
pean powers in which after his peculiar fe-.
licitous style, he seta forth the straightened
condition of the rebels, aud refers to the
newspapers of the country to prove our
great financial prosperity. Bat, unfortu-
nately for Mr. Seward, the report of the Sec
retary of the Treasury—Mr. Chase -does
not exhibit this financial prosperity. nor do
subsequent facts sustain him, as to the con-
dition of the rebels. We have shown our ca-
pahility to collect together vast armies,
600,000 more troops have been called into
the field, by which we have been able to se-
cure our Capitol from falling into the ha"ds
of the rebels, but we have made no progress
towards ending the rebellion. We have, in
obedience to the demands of a blind fanati
cism, removed our most able commanders,
because they had not accomphshed impossi-
vilities, and those who have been called up-
on to take their places have beea goaded on
by a besotted faction to lead our sons and
brothers on to slaughter. General Burnside
yielding to outward pressure, has mado an-
other ‘forward movement’ toward Rich.
mond, and with what results let the groans
of the dying, and the lamentations of mo-
thers and sisters, weeping for their sons and
brothers among the slain, answer. One of
the finest armies that the world ever 5aW,
has been broken and despoiled, and again
driven toward Washington, while thousands
and thousands of our brave troops have been
uselessly slaughtered, 1s it not enough 2—
Or shall we collect and organize another
vast army and place it under General Fre-
mont or some other impetuous leader, that
the work of slaughter may still go on. Is
it not enough 2 Mr. Editor, is it not befit-
ting that those whom God has called forth
should cast themselves in the breech and
stay the tide of desolation. O! that God
would spire those not yet bereft of reason,
with moral courage to meet the exigencies
of the times, und enable them to stand forth
and while pouring oil upon the troubled wa-
ters, cry peace, peace. Then would the
voice of the nation, from North to South,
from East to West. catch up the glad sound
which would re-echo from the rivers to the
ends of the earth, peace, peace. The hopes
of the country are now directed to the Dem-
ocratic party, which has shown itself to be a
national conservative party. In two months
from this time I trust the voice of reason
will again be heard in the halls of Congress,
unless, indeed, the administration should de-
cide to thwart the hopes of the people, by
refusing to call Congress together after the
first of March. Surely what the Republi:
can party bas accomplished in eighteen
wonths, is enough for all time. May God
ever afterwards deliver the nation from Re-
publican rule, OLLVER.
[Z” Beeher, of the Independent, and
Wilkes, of tha Spirit of the Times, having
discharged their batteries at McClellan, are
now bombarding Seward. It is a curious
combination—a religious organ and the of.
gan of borse-jockeys and thimble-riggers —
black-leg and puritan.
BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 23, 1863.
NO HOPE FOR AMERICA AS LONG AS
THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN OF
Exeept in the event of death orof a rev-
olution, Mr. Lincoln will continne to hold
the office of President until the beginning of
1866, and may, noiwithstanding the oppo-
sition of his Congress, pursue whatever
course he or his advisers may think best.—
As, however, we are reluctant to believe
thatthe war will be protracted until the
President’s term of office expires, and as we
are not less confident than heretofore that
the effort to subjugate *he South must prove
futile, we anxiously seek an indication of a
change in the present policy. The position
of the ex-officio Commander-in-chief ot the
Federal forces is perplexing in the extreme.
With {a large and well-appointed army
within a few days of the Confederate capi-
tal, he feels ashamed of withdrawing 1t into
winter quarters, or disbanding it by agree-
ing to terms of peace, without previously
attempting to inflict some damage on his
resolue foe, It has become sn article of be-
lief with Mr. Lincoln's advisers that a oon-
tinuance of hostilities 1s essential to their
retention of power. Nor are they mistaken
in this respect. They have goue too far now
to retract, and the frank avowal of having
misled the public, long after their own eyes
were opened to the folly of the enterprise
in which they were engaged, would of ne-
cessity insure their overthrow. For months
past it has been a struggle between selfish-
ness and patriotism, in which the former has
been predominant. Now, however, a plaus.
ible pretext is afforded to the government of
retreating with the semblance of dignity,
though with the loss of power, from the
false position in which they have placed
themselves. If the vote or want of confi.
dence which has bea passed at the recent
elections;was received and acted on by them
in a becoming [spirit, they might console
themselves with the reflection that they had
done all in their power to retrieve their past
errors, War 1s an evil to whose magnitude
the’ American nation is now enabled to bear
strong testimony, and to have shortened
the present unhappy atruggle, even by a few
months, would in itself entitle the outgoing
Government to no littie praise. The army
which is now anxicusly treading its way
through the valleys of Virginia might yet
be saved from the indiscriminate slaughter
for which it seems to be intended. We
fear, however, it is vain to expect that those
who at present direct American aflairs will
spontaneously acknowledge the errors they
have committed. Until the Government
are forcibly ejected, we can entertain no
hope of the war being brought to a close, —
London Morning Post.
tg irene
A PRAYER FOR STANTON.
We find the following telegram in the
Tribune of Saturday :
““ A number of prominent gentlemen from
the different parts of the North and West,
representing the intelligence as well as the
wealth of the country, are here, bent upon
the common object of insuring a more vig-
orous prosecution of the war. They declare
a change of men in high places to- be the
necessity of the hour.”
Of course this means that the friends of
the administration are bent upon the remov-
al of Stanton, who now rules the war, and
through the war the pation.
Against this removal we dofmost earnest-
ly protest.
When the tyrant Dionysius was reveling
in the hey-day of his power to which he had
climbed with ro much art and so much pa-
tience. punishing innocent jokes with a se.
verity which would have made Mr. Lincoln’s
life a burden to him had he dwelt in Syra
cuse, and crowding his /autumie almost as
full as Fort Lafaye'te, he was one day as
mach astonished to find an old woman de-
voutly praying before his statue as Mr.
S anton will doubtless be to find the World
deprecating his departure from power.
* Why do you pray for me, my good
woman ?” said Dionysius.
I pray for you,’ replied the pious old
soul, ** for this reason : Before your time I
prayed to the gods to remove your predeces-
sor, who was a very wicked man, and used
:he people cruelly. The gods, alas, heard
wy prayer, and sent you, who are infinitely
worse than he. Should you now be remov-
ed, what might they not inflict upon us!”
The country was weary of Cameron.—
Cameron went, and the republicans gave us
Stanton. Were tho Tribune's prominent
gen lemen now to displesse Stantun, what
might they not inflict upon us 2—N. York
World.
The experience of the old woman of Sy-
racuse should not be lost upon us, and there
is food for reflection in the fear which the
language of the Wiurld implies. Neverthe.
less we vote for Stanton's removal, willing
to risk much en the chance that even the
gods would be puzaled to find a worse, or
even ag bad a man..— Harrisburg Patriot &
Union.
07” Prentice says: * The difference be-
tween a pig and an abolitionist is is that the
one’s kink is in his tail and the othor's in
his head. Between an abolitionist and »
nigger that difference don’c exist.”
17" The substance of a verdict of a re:
cent coroner's jury on a mau who had died
in 8 state of inebriation, was, ‘Death hy
hangiug—around a rum shop.”
HON. C. R. BUCKALEW. ]
The Legislature yesterday elected Chas
R. Buckalew, of Columbia county, United
States Senator for six years from the 4th of
March next. The election was made on the
first ballot by a strictly party yote—67 for
Buckalew, 65 for Cameron and one for Wm.
D. Kelley.
We make the announcement of this great
Dec r:atic triumph with no ordinary degree
of pleasure and pride. With pleasure, be_
cause—contrary to the expectations of ouy
political opponents—the result was attained
without disturbing in the least the harmony
of the party, 8nd without prolonged strife ;
with pride, that a gont!éman whose ability,
hovor and purity arc unquestioned, was
chosen, at a cris’s so momentous, to repre-
sent this great Commonwealth in the higher
branch of the National Legislature, the most
distinguished honor to whi h a citizen can
aspire.
Tne United States Senator elect, Hon. O.
R. Buckslew, was born in the year 1421, in
Columbia county, in this State. In 1845 he
A HORRIBLE SPECTACLE.
The Mankato (Minnesota) Record brings
us full details of the execution of the thirty-
eight Indians at that piace on Friday, Dec,
26, by order of President Lincoln. So great
was the excitement fn the vicinity avd so
large the crowd of spectators flocking to the
scene, that martial Isw was declared as ear-
ly as Wednesday. On Monday before the
execution, Colonel Miller read to the con-
demned Indians the death warrant of the
President.
The day before the execution, the Indi-
ans were conversed with as to their past
crimes and coming death. Some of them
were much affected, and many of them pro-
tested their mnocence, claiming that they
had been falsely accused, or misinterpreted
when on trial, They said thac the guiliy
had generally escaped, while they, relying
on their innocence, had been left to die.—
The generel justification urged by them was
that they were comp: lled, in order to save
their own lives, to accompany their chief in
i his attacks upon the whites, and of this
filled the office of prosecuting attornev._ of | there seems to be no donbt.
his native county. In 1850 ha was chosen
to represent, in the State Senate, the district
then composed of the counties of Columbia
and Luzerne, and in 1853 was re-elected. —
In 1856 he wasa Democratic senatoriaj
elector from this State. In 1857 he was
again sent to the State Senate from the dis-
trict composed of the counties of Columbia,
Montour, Northumberland and Snyder, and
filled, in the sume year, the position of
chaira.an of the Democraiic State Commit-
tee. In 1858 he resigned h's seat in the
State Senate as well as the appointment of
commissioner to revise the criminal code of
the State, and accepted the post of Minister
Resident to the Republic of Ecuador. In
August, 1861, hereturned to his home in
Bloomsburg, Columbia county, where he has
remained up tothe time of his election.
Mr. Buckalew 13 the author of severa
amendments to the State Coustitution,
adopted in 1857, an of numerous publish-
ed reports and speeches, as well as many
popular and political addresses. In 1855 he
was the Democratic :andidate for the U. 8,
Senate against Simon Cameron, at which
time the election was postponed by the ac-
tion of the legislatiye body.
In Mr, Buckalew's career as a public man
he has shown evidence of the highest inieg-
rity aud the most dis inguished ability, He
has always been a steadfast opponent of the
fanatical, abolition party, and a firm sup-
porter of Democracy and its measures. His
parliamentary reputation 1 the State, is
second to that of no one within its limits,
and as a consistent and able politician, be
stands in the foremost rank As a states
man, his rising genius inspires tte undivi-
ded confidence of th: whole Democratic par-
ty in the State, who look to his future ca
reer with unusual interest and expectation.
We congratulate tbe party and the State,
upon the elevation of a man, so worthy in
all respects, of the high pesition to which
bo has been chosen. Abovo all, we feel the
deepest rejoicing at his success, as a pure-
winded. capable statesman, over the arts
aud deaucheries of corruption, and corrupt-
os,
The election is all, ini s result we could
have wished. We look upon it as upon the
dawning of a better day in the history of
this Commonwealth. The power of a temp-
ter's geld has lost its prestige, and we hope»
passed away forever. Pennsylvania may
swell be proud cf her redemption.— Patriot
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nion.
MAJOR GENERAL BANKS.
The appointment of this gentleman to
succeed Gen. Butler at New Orleans, is put-
ting the right man in the might place. He
has been, theoretically, in favor of letting
tthe Union slide,” fora number of years,
and from the position he now holds, he will
be enabled to learn the practical part of his
pet theory. The theoretical and the practi-
cal Union Sliders ere thus brought face to
face, and the future will reveal to the world
the results.
The appointment 1s proper in another
light. New England, though slow in farn-
ishing her quota of troops and enforcing the
draft, is far in the advance in the way of
contracts and plundering the Treasury. For
all such purposes their patriotism is not
equalled by the balance of the nation. Is
the reports in Administration circles are
true, the firm of ‘Gen. B. F. Butler and
Staff” have realized, while they inhabited
New Orleans, by dealing in cotton and con.
fiscating property, the snug sum of $5,000,-
000—enough in all conscience for one firm
of this size. This is no doubt the view the
Administration has taken of the matter,—
hence the removal cf Butler and the ap”
pointmcsi of Banks— another New England-
er—in order to divide the profits of confisca.
tion among a new class of cormorants, and
that class 18 consequently rendered less nu-
merous about Washington.—Clearfield Re-
publican. *
0” The Postmaster General, Mr. Blair,
has rescinded adl the orders her. tofore made
excluding from the Post Offices and mails of
the United States, certain newspapers pre-
sented by grand jaries and otherwise repre-
sented as disloyal to the Government.
CF Do you want your audiences atten-
‘then give them
tive ¥*’ g3id the shrewd old Dr. Emmons!
something toattend to."
At ten o'clock the condemned were mar-
shaled in procession and marched through
files of soldiers to the gallows, which had
been so eunstructed that all the culprits
could be hung at once. They marched ea-
gerly and cheerfully to the fatal spot. As
they ascended the scaffold they chanted a
death song, which was truly hideous, al-
though it seemed to inspire them with fresh
courage, One young fellow, who had been
given a cigar by one of the reporters, just
before marching from their quarters, was
smoking it on the stand, puffiog away very
coolly during the intervals of the hideons
*Hi yi, hi-yi-yi,” and even after the cap
was drawn over his face, he managed to get
it up over his mouth and smoke. Ano her
was smoking his pire. The noose having
been promptly adjusted over the necks of
cach, all was ready for the fatal signal, The
scene at this juncture was one of awful in-
terest. A pairful and breathless suspense
lield the vast crowd which had assembled
from all quarters to witness the execution.
Three slo v, measured, and distinct beats of
the drum, and tho rope was cut, the scaf-
fold fell, and thirty-eight lifeless bodies
were left dangling between heaven and
earth. One of the ropes wag broken, and
Rattling Runner fell to the ground. The
neck had probably been broken, a3 but lit-
tle signs of lite were observed, but he was
immediately hung up again.
The bodies were then cut down placed in
fourarmy wagons. and taken to the grave
prepared for them, among the willows on
the sand bar, nearly m front of the town.
They were a'l deposited in one grave, thirty
feet in length by twelve in width and four
in depth, being laid on the bottom in two
rows, with their feet together and their
heads to the outside. They were simply
covered with their blankets, and the earth
thrown over them,
twtr
[T= Among the patients in the general
hospital, at Philadelphia, is a secesh soldier.
He was very sick when first brought here,
but is now doing better. He is a crabbed
customer. Now that he is recovering, his
surliness begins to show itself in a manner
that his comrades don’t care about putting
up with—at any rate from a secesh.
In the same ward with him is a Union
soldier —an adopted citizen from the land of
kraut. The other day Union German said
something to secesh. Secesh vouchsafed
only mn reply,
“ Go to—-."
*“ Do yat 2”
Sceesh repeated his remark.
The German wag not at all exasperated-3
“ Ah 1’ said he, “mine frien, you ish too
kind. 1 cannot go to dat place.”
“ Why not 2”
“It ish now full. Itish very crowded
dere. Sigel he fill it up mit dead rebels. —
Even der tayful has to sleep out o’ doors,”
The laugh came in here from the boys
who were lounging around. Secceh had no-
thing more to say.
0Z™ A country school teacher, preparing
for an exhibition of his school, selected a
class of pupils, and wrote down the ques-
tions which he would put to them on exam-
ination day. The day came, and so did the
young hopefuls. all but one. The pupils
took their places as had been arranged, and
all went on ghbily until the question came
for the absentee, which the teacher asked :
* In what do you believe ?
‘ Napoleon Bonaparte.”
“You believe in the Holy Catholic
Church, do you not 2°
** No,” said the boy amid roars of laugh-
ter, “the boy who believed in the Church
didn't come to school to-day ; he 1sat home
sick.”
077 A certain divine who was more emi.
nent in his days for the brillancy of his im_
agination than the force of his logic, was
preaching on the “Ministry of Angels,” and
in the peroration he suddenly o served: «1
hear a whisper I” The change of tone 8 ar.
tled the deacon, who sat below, from a
drowsy mood, and springing to his feet, he
said, “I guess its some of those boys in the
gallery.”
ee is
SINOB the removel of McClellan the Ar-
my of the Potomac has moved, according
to the Venango Spectator, on an average,
ut tventp.twn inches ands half p
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CROSS READINGS.
These must emanate from an honest man !
—*“Honest, Honest Abe!"
1do not want to issue a document that
the world will see must necessarily be in-
operative, like the Pope’s Buil against fhe
comet. — LINCOLN.
I declare that [ have no purpose directly
or indirectly, to interfere with the institu.
tion of slavery in the States where it exists;
that 1 believe I have no lawful right to do so
and have no inclioation to do s0.—Asg’s Ine
AUGURAL.
Oa the first day of January, in the year
of cur Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, all pers ims held a¥ s'aves within any
States or any part of a Siate, the people
whereof shall be in rebellion against the Uni-
ted States, will be thenceforward and for-
[ ever free. — ABE'S PROCLAMATION.
Any people, anywhere, being inclined and
having the power, have the right to rise up
and shake off the existing Government and
form a new one that suits them better —
This is a most valuable, a most sacred right
—a right which we hope and believe is to
liberate the world. Nor is this right con-
fined to cases in which the whole people of
an cxisting Government may choose to ex-
ercise it. Any port on of such people that
can, may revolutionize, putting down a mi-
nority intermingled with, or near about
them, who may oppose their movements. —
AB's Speech IN CONGRESS.
After reacing these extracts, who will
ca'l in question Abe's h-0-n-e-g-t-y 7
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BTAND BY THE CONSTITUTION.
If the people stand fast upon the rock of
the Constitution. the country is saf:, the
government is safe, the Union is safe, liber-
ty is safe. The waves of popular commo-
tion can never overthrow us while we stand
there firmly. Light-headed mon may get
confused with the noise of the waters foam-
ing madly about—and tumble overhoard. —
The venal and corrupt may be lured hy the
rummbow lights that flash upon the spray of
the tarbulent sea around—and be lost. The
wrecker flames may tempt the credulous to
steer for dangerous ports in their anxiety to
escape the dangers and duties of the hour
But those who shall icling to the nation’s
great law of peace and liberty shall alone be
finally recorded as the trusty mariners who
saved the ship in its peril.
Stand fast then by the Constitution! It
is God himself who commands it. It is a
holy and religious daty. Ttis a duty we
owe to unborn generations of our ow. land
—to the oppressed millions jof other lands.
Stand by that party which makes the Con-
stitution its platform- -by the men who r=
vere it as sacred and perpetual law. Let that
instrument be the pillar of fire to guide our
wandering feet through this aa:kness. Let
its sacred provisions brighten our pathway
to unity. Union and’ perpetual liberty and
peace. Refuse to do this ard our own bay-
onets become blunted before used ; the ears
of the civilized world will daly thicken up-
on our path; the arms of our enemies will
be nerved to sterner resistance, and we shall
become a divided people and a terror to no-
body but ourselves.— Milwaukie News.
WHAT MUST BE DONE.
There is an honest candor about the ab-
olition organ at Wash'ng 01, tho Republi-
can, which compels our admiratien. It has
a fashion of speaking right cut what it means
and ought thus to put to shame those who
seek the same end by indirec ion, Here is
a specimen
+The slaveholding aristocracy are, by po-
sition, our implacable enemies. We must
crush them by liberating their slaves, and
by a jacquerie among the poor whites. We
must carry revolution into the very bosom
of Southern society. We must confront
revolution by revolution, fire by fire. Noth-
ing short or this will save vs, aad if we hes-
itate much longer we are lost. That lulla-
by of knaves and fools, ‘the Union as it
was,” has outraged the common sense of the
country long enough. Tne Union, as it
was, i8 buried in a grave from which there
is no resurrection. No Union is now possi-
ble, except of free States.”
GEN. PORTRR ACQUITTED. —TLe court mar,
tial which has been sitting at Washirgton
for some weeks past, trying Gen. Fitz John
Porter on charges preferred by Gen, Pope»
has finished its labors and sent its decision
to the President. Tae rumor is that the
court entirely exouerated, Gen. Porter from
all the charges preferred.
Tue Wayne country. (0) Democrat, of
the 26th publishes a list of the names of
sevenly-six negroes who voted the Repub-
lican ticket at the late election in Ob.
erlin, and challenges a denial of the asser-
tion.
GARRISON’S “LiBeRaTOR,"—The John
Brown school of Abclitionist will be grieved
to learn that Mr. Garrison’s organ, the
Laderator, is much distressed by lost of pat
ronage.
eee Prem isn
[T~ A farmer likes cold weather at the
proper season, but an early frost in autumn
goes against his grain.
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177 A man without some sort of religion
is at best » poor reprobate, the football of
(dusting, with no tie binding him to infinity
NO.3
WHERE WE STAND!
By ‘“we™ is meant no: the editorial ‘wes
but “we the people” of the late Uniteu
States. “We” editorial, in the FrrrpMan's
Jorryat, need no farther instruction to
know that the *‘truth is not to be spoken at
all times.” [tis always wrong to 11 un
truth, but it is right and proper, at tim.s.
to reserve the truth. It ought not to be
spoken when 1t is sure to do harm, and not
likely to do any good.
But, as “there is a time to be silent,” so
‘there is a time to speak.” The time to
speak some things, has come. Our politics,
are the politics of truth, not of cunning. —
I'he crisis nuw on us cannot be met by cuu-
ning. It has need of broad truths. We
propose, in thia article, to put some of these
broad truths —indisputadle truths, before
our readers.
The Federal Union is disrupted. It was
formed by the free consent of soven ign
States. Tt continued end prospered by free
consent of 8 wereign States. It has hen
disrupted and dislocated by the resolute
and concerted »ithdrawal of a potent num.
ber of sovereign S:ates. In this
that 13 where we stand.
The dislocation of the old Union hs
thrown the States into a fever. Here at the
North—especially in the North flasi-—-thore
is an excitement produced by the war.
which stimulates the strength’ of health. -
The people are busy : paper, called money,
is freely circulating, many are amassing
fortunes, and these latter cry cut that we.
the people, are actually prospering by the
war] To dissipate tLat delusion, it is enough
to recur to first principles, and to call 1
mind that this tremendous energy of a wo -
derfully prosperous people, is exerted in
the work of destruction. War is simply de-
struction, Somebody must pay for this de-
structive array. The abolition scheme of
New England was to over-run, and eonfls-
cate tho property of our late fellow-citigens
at the South— and 20 pay for the war —
But, events prove. that, however wo may
afflict, or damage, the people of the South,
the abolitionists will never succeed in get
ting them to pay the expenses of this war.
[t remains, therefore, to be decided wheth®
er those who have trusted the agents of Gov:
ernment—the Executive and Legislative—
in a debt not authorized by the Constitution
are to pay the forfeit of 3 misplaced conti-
dence, or whether the people —the hard-wor-
king farmers—the day laborera—the “poor
women with fatherless ¢ iildrer, sewing day
and night fof their scanty bread —and eolus-
8(8 such as these, are to be taxed and hur-
dened for ali coming time to pay interest on
the huge debt created in favor of the fiw
capitalists. Plainly, it becomes a simple
question as to whether the people are to ve-
enter on a system of self-goveanment, or
whether our government is to be revolu-
tionized, and the masses of the people, be
reduced to the condition of serfs, wearing
themselves out in the production of rents,
taxes, interest money, &e. for the benefit of
a favored class—the favored class enfor-
cing their behests by a large standing ar-
my whose business. as in Europe, will be
to stand with loaded muskets and bayonets
pointed at the breasts of the 1:boring peo-
ple, to keep them at work? It is wot 700
soon to begin to present this pregnant ques-
tion. In the great North-West the people
already recognize it, ana they have, even
now, taktn their stand. In the Central
States, the labor, and the industry and on.
terprise, have no interests different from tle
North-West. ;
What things the Northern people produce
are now, nominally, about the sams price
they were two years azo. Really they are
lower, because the price must be taken in
a wretehedly depreciated and fluctuating.
currency, What things they need to -
port for consumption have gone up fab | ne.
ly. Cereals and flesh-meats—the chief pro-
ductions of Northern soil-—sre hardly high-
er than two years azo. Wheat flour that
was then $7, it now 88 —ina currency that,
if exchanged for gold, would, this day, be
only some $5,50 ITudian eal that was
$3.50 bas not increased nominally to $4° 1
the same depreciated currency. Pork. in
most places, commands a lower price than
two years ago—bucause the Southern de
mand for it is genc—and beef 15 hardy y
higher. ”
In the meantime, coffee has gone from 18
cts to 50 cts, or for Rio, from 12 ats to 30.
Molasses has gone to from double to trip.e
ita former prices, while c.tton has run from
12 cts to 67. With a currency constantly
depreciating, and which no wise man wish.
es to hold even from day to day. it is not
hard to see that we stand on the very verge
of universal ruin, if we he not, already, un-
wittingly, sipping down the Yawnine gides
of the gulf. A single week may ! rin ; this
green- back. paper to a discount of over fifty
per cent.--it has already depreciated 42 per
cent.—and, paper that is worth only fifty
cents on the gold dollar. every business man
knows, cannot be used, and will not be ts.
kea, In «financial point of view, this is
where we 8 and.
If we stop short now, and act with cool
determination, aided by the marvellous re.
sources of the country, we may escape un-
told disasters. If we go on, recklessly de-
stroying, nothing bata heriible run ean
await this whole North. ‘Only suppose ons
short crop of cereals next year! en, wo-
men, and children, would perish of hunger,
voaided, in the very strects of New York |
The supposition is not impossible, We ghud.
der when we think how near'y it may be
considered as very possible. Te rg coass
to tempt God, Let us, as mon as rational
beings. call out to stop the proc-sss of gi-
gantic destrnction—let us call out for
res ect
PEACE! Soon imay be too late.— Free.
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