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Editor.
P. GRAY MEEK,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, Jan. 23, 1863.
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05 The card «f our young friend, Capt,
Doras, will be found in another column, —
Tom" keeps good *“ rigs” and those who
wish to take a pleasant ride, would do well
to give him a call.
———r teen
(I= It will be seen by reference to our
business dircctory, that Capt. Brown, late
editor of the Centre Democrat, has conclu-
ded to resume the practice of his profession.
The Captain is so well known in this and
surrounding counties that it is unnecessary
for us to say aught of his abilities as a law-
yer. We wish him success,
—— OO.
07” Our thanks are due to his Excellency,
Governor Curtin, for a pamphlet'copy of his
late annual messtge. Also o the Hon. R,
F. Burron for several valuable pullic docu-
ments.
> Ions. James T. Hale, M. C. and Henry
Johnson, of the State Senate, have our
thauks for not sending us anything.
——— a.
077 No news of importance from the ar-
my this week. It is rumored, however that
Gen, Burnside has again crossed the Rappa-
hanno.k at Fredericksburg. If 80, no doulit
we will soon hear of another butchery. —
Some of the pipers report a * brilliant vie-
tory” at Arkansas Post, won by Gen. Me-
Clernund. Dow much truth their is in it.
we do not know, bat from the source from
whence the news was derived, (a *¢ rehiable
gentleman’) we are inclined to believe it to
be a hoax.
a a
{= A bill was introduced by Burnham to
aid Maryland in the abolishment of slavery.
which appropriates $10,000,000. and Sena
tor Willey's bill appropriates $2,000,000 for
a similar purpose in West Virginia. The
latter provides $200,000 for the deportation
and scitlement of slaves.
Thus it goes. The negroes must be pro-
vided for though it takes the last cent from
northern white men and leayes their wives
and children to perish for want of food and
clothing. How long can these things last ?
How long will the laboring white men per-
mit their representatives to tax and ro
them for the benefit of negroes ?
“oso rr)
GuNerAL Suorr.—-A New York paper
says :—The centre of mili-ary interest is
now at the Fifth Avenue hotel. In one of
the commodious apartments the hero of
wany wars is laid aside to die. No longer
is his ¢; e unlimwel or his natural fore:
unabated. Gen. Scott is fast yielding to the
infismities of age. 1s goes out but seldom,
and sees but little of society, The noble old
warrior like the lion Duke,” kept in the
harness as long as possible, and yielded to
the infirmities of the body only when they
became inexorable and would not be appeas-
d. The death of Mrs- Scott has had its influ
ence, and already the old hero feels that he
is alone in the world, and his activity over
and his usefulness ended. With great
calmness and settled composure he warts
his time.
Toleration.
© Acertain military (!) gentleman intimates
his surpris c¢ ‘Lat the publication of this pa-
per is tolerated in this county! Tole ation’
is a word ured only by tyrants and slaves.
The one, if it suits his royal pleasure, con-
descendingly grants it to Ins subjec 5; the
other eringingly supplicates for it from his
master. The word is not found in the’ vo-
cabulary of freemen. We do not and neve®
will ask toleration from any human being, —
What belongs to us of right, we will have ;
beyond that we desire nothing. ** We know
our rights, and knowing, dare maintain
them,” And woe be to the misirable mis-
creant who shall presume to interfere with
usin saying or doing anything wi hm the
limits of those rights. Let the cowardly
minions of the despotism at Washington,
talk und whine about toleration—for our-
sclves, we will have n ne of it.
Tue Svan Pox. —This much dreaded
epidemic appears to be spreading over the
county with rapid and alarming strides
Our sisler towns both un and down the
country, we understand, bave been visited
by the disease, and a number of deaths’have
occured. Ttis gratifying, however to know
that 1t does not appear to be so fatal this
season, as it has Leen heretofore, and we
earnestly Lope that it may be checked en-
tirely. We learn that a child of Mr. Meiss,
at Fillmore in this county died on Mond .y,
night of the discase, aud we also under-
stand that there are or has has been, se-
veral cases at Pie Grove Mills
We are glad to be able to state (bat,
asyet, there have Leen no cases of it in
Bellefonte but we do not know low soon
it may be among us, and therefore, we
“feel it our duty to warn this ‘community
to be on their guard. Let the children
and all those who have never been vaccin-
ated, have this invaluable operation perform-
ed at once, and all necessary care be taken
to secure us ageinst its ravages.
We do not wish to cause any unnecessary
alarm among ovr people, nor do we think
there 18 any occasion for itat - present ; but
we do wish to impress upon them the impor
portance of being prepared for it, so that
when it does come, if it comes at all, it yay
be met in the proper spirit. :
Bead this line lass,
Lincoln and Sew:rd.
There is nothing which we deprecate
more in the conduct of public journalists,
than the indiscriminate, wholesale atuse of
public men, when hey belong to the oppo. '
litical party. The results of thisprac-
tice are most pernicious, The popular mind
becomes so surfiited with invectives and ac- |
cusations, that it fails to discriminate be-
tween well founded charges and the most
malicious calumnics, The adherents of one
party receive as verity, whatever 1s alleged
against their opponents h ,wever false and
groundless it may be; while every thing
said against their own public men, is scoffed
at as the reckless fabrications of desperate
men moved by the most malign party an-
imosities.
tory of the administrations of Jeiferson,
Jackson and Polk, of the federal government,
and of MifHin, McKean, Snyder and Shunk
of the state governient, he cannot Bfail to
see the evils resulting to the country from
the fierce and malevolent assaults so con.
tinually and repeatedly made against the
privata characters and public acts of these
great men, to whom the nation and state
are more indebted for their recent prosperi-
ty and greatness, than to any other equal
number of chief magistrates who have ever
been called upon to preside over , them.
We make these observations that our rea
ders may know that what we have said and
intend yet fo say against the conduct of
those men now in power, is written deliber-
ately, and with the proper appreciation of
our responsibility to the people and the gov-
ernment, when we arraign with seeming
bitterness persons holding high positions m
the state and nation, for asts done in viol -
tion of the constitution
a course of procedure which we verily be-
lieve was intended to wo k the destruction on
this, the best government ever constructed
by human wisdom and skill. Tt is not be-
csuse we were in no way instrumental in
elevating these men to the high offices they
severally hold, that we thus impeach their
acts and motives, but because if we remain-
ed silent and refused to contribute ow mite
to arouse the attention of the people to the
wrongs of their fellows, and the danger to
themselves, we would be false to our daty
| are being butchered upon the battle-field, to
1fdny ore will turn to the his- |
and laws, and for |
|
rand j kos while thousands of our citi
carry out the plans of him and his Secreia-
ry, while in every township in the North,
_ wives are being made widows and children
i orphans, and the very life-blood of the na-
i tien is gushing in torrents from every ar-
tery.
We see marks of these two men in almost
every actof government for the last two
years. Previous to Lincoln’s “inauguration.
bat afier it was generally known that Sew-
ard was to be his Premier, the future Scc-
retary made a speech in the United States
Senate, which was principally stolen from
diffrent numbers of the Federalist, in
, which he advocated compromise and concil-
| iation, alleging that it must come to that
even if we did go to war and fight each
other for two or three years, This speech
. was undoubtedly made in order to J
the Southern people off their guard and in-
duce them to rely upon the conciliatory dis=
position and pacific desires of the incoming
administration, until it should be too late
| to make any resistance ageinst their revolu-
tiopary and atolition purposes. This is ev-
idenced by his subsequent course in repre-
senting the Southern movement as a mere
‘‘ tempest in a tea-pot” which would subside
or be crushed out in ninetys days. Then
| cume the President’s inaugural, full of
| school-boy questions with no answers, and
with such an indefinite and non-committal
statement of his future policy, as to leave
statesmen like DovsLas in doubt whether
he meant coercion or not. Afier the call
| for seventy-five thousand troops to defend
the federal capital, we had his special mes-
sage of July 4th, 1861, in which with great
complaisance and apparent triumph, he d.-
tails the arts and tricks to which he had re-
sorted to induce the South Carolinians to at-
tack Fort Sumpter, by means of which he
, Succeeded in inflaning the mincs of the
, Northern people to a frenzy of madness
which set reason anda common sense” at de-
flance and closed th last door to reconilia.
|
tion. Then came along ard tedious dis-
play of bantering and coquetting with the
ultra abolitionists ; the appointment of most
radical men to high offices both civil and
military ; countermanding ths proclamations
| of Fremont, Hunter and Phelps ; relieving
as a public journalist and to our obligations , Fremont {rom his command in Missouri:
as a citizen, i
Lincoln and Sew rd. in the President's
| Soon after appointing him to one 1n Virgina
and relieving him again ; appointing Me-
own language, “cannot escape history.” — | Clelian to the command of the army of the
Occupying the highest positions in the giv- | Potomac, deposing him, re-appointing and
ernment in consequence of the temporary | deposing him again ; the appointment of
delusion and madness of a majority of the ‘Pope to a command in Virginia and his
Northern people, the one being noted for | early transfer to a more congenial war with
his stupidity, and the other for a high de- | savages ; the preparation of a message ve-
gree of yankee smartness, they have been | toing the Confiscation Bill on arcount of al-
makmg a history which in any are or land
would sink them to the depths of eternal
leged constututional scruples! the trick by
which those affected scraples were removed
infamy. In order properly to understand | by a joint resolution of both houses of Con-
the principles and practices of these two gress ; and finally, the two proclamations of
men, it is necessary to recur to some things
the 22nd and 24th of September last, by
which transpired previous to the elections | which Lincoln throws himself into the arms
of 1860.
During the ever memorable debate on the
‘‘compromise measures’ of 1850, those acts
of pacification and ahjustment which pre-
served harmony and concord in our land
for ten years, William H. Seward put forth
the detestable dogmas of the hagher law”
and the “irrepressible conflict.” [le then
said it was immoral to carry out the pro-
visions of the Constitution, requiring the
rendition of fugitives from labor, and that
the Union ought not to, and could not re-
main half frec and half slave. Tuat the
people of the North would and should war
upon the irstitations of the South until
they were exterminated or the Northern in-
stitutions overthrown in the atteropt. This
bloody programme, mereiy antounced and
foreshadowed at that time, ten years after-
wards he and bis colleagues in crime at. |
tempted to carry into practice.
13th of March, 1850, that veteran states.
man and patriot, Lewis Cass, said in the
Senate chamber, that the Constitution and
Government would last scarcely a day, if
Senator Seward, with his avowed principles
of action had the control of them! How
fearfully truce was this prediction! How
litttle did that sagacious man then imagine
he would live to see the fulfillment of his
own prophecy ! From that hour to the pres-
ent, Seward has apparently been actuated
by the sole desire to accomplish the treas-
onable purposes then avowed, of destroy-
ing the Uonstitution and overturning the
Government established by our forefathers,
inorder to erect an Abolition structure upon
their rains.
On the
From 1857 to 1839, Abrahum Lincoln, |
then an obscure county politician in Iili-
nois, 11 most of his public speeches, enun-
ciated the same bloody and brutal doctrine
of the «irrepressible conflict,” until it be-
came a question both among his political |
friends and enemivs whether he was not
the author of it instead of Seward, The
obscurity. and consequent availability at
that particular juncture of public affairs,
neminated the one for the presidency in-
stead of the other. It was, however, a
matter of indifference which was nominal- |
ly President, for it required the peculiar
characteristics of both combined to success-
fully cirry oat their schemes. The one is
endowed by nature with the requistte abil.
ity and skill to succeed in all kinds of po-
Ditical trick management and chicanery,—
These naturalen dowments have been cultiva-
ted by him to the nighest possible point of
perfection. Withove the first requisite of a
great stalesman, Seward is a magnificent
polilician,. His mind and genius were ne-
cessary to enable any abolition administra-
of the anxious and expectant abolitionists
like a courtezan herself into’the arms of a
~ebaucliee, after inflammng his passions by
{ the pretense of virtues she never possessed.
Had we space, we would als) mention in
| detail the mancwaverings of the administra-
| tion with the cabal of abolition ‘governors,
and give a history of the pre ended con serv-
"atism of Seward. This lagt item is suffici-
ent for an article in itself, and we may, in
the future, refer toit again. There is one
| thing, however, which we must not ‘omit —
the recent alleged diffizu- ties in the Cabinet
, —which every observing man knew would
end as they did, in the retention of every
member in his origisal position. This was
;one of Seward’s sharp practices. Resign
the offize of first Secretary, let the resigna-
tion be made public, in order to create an
excitement, and then have it arranged that
the resignation shall not be accepted. The
( members of the Cabinet gknow fhat their
. énly salvation consists in continual agitation
and excitement, and if the butchery of men
: eaused by the blunders of their generals in
the ficld is insufficient, they must promote
| artificial commotion by reported dissensions
| in the closet. We trust and hope there will
i be no change in the Washington cabinet.—
The President and his chosen advisers are
| too well matched ever to separate. The in-
terest of the country and the ‘good of pos-
I terity require that they should all hang to-
4 gether.
*
A Move in the Right Direction.
The following is the form of a petition
| Which, we lean, is being largely circulated
over this State for signatures, and whicp
| will doubtless meet the approbation of men
| of all parties. :
To the Honorable the Senate and Huse
"of Representatives of Pennsyloania, in Gen-
i eral Assembly met :
The Peation of the undersigned, Citizens
County,
0
| RESPECTFULLY SHOWETI :
| That Whereas, the unhappy condition of
| the country at this time, is ‘due to causes
| which, in the opinion of patriotic men re-
quire certain deiinite action, for which the
i Constitution itself makes ample legal and
| peaceful provisions, Therefore we earnestly
desire and request that in the interest of
peace and harmory, the Legislature of
| Pennsylvania do now enact a Constitutional
call for the holding of a National Convention
| of the people of the United States, to consid-
| er and effect such measures of pacification
| and reunion as may arrest this discord and
heal the political wounds which now divide
land are rapidly ruining our country—a
| country favor-d by Ged beyond all others,
i and destined, unless destroyed by its own
crimes, to live throughout all the beacon
| star of hope to all nations and the heaven-
tion to involve this country in the deplora | commissioned regenerator of minkind. And
ble condition itis now 1m. Common blun-
dering could never have done it,
is favored with the insensibility,
feclings and he absence of the ordinary in- |
stincts of humanity, which enable him to |
witness the downfall of a great nation, the |
destruction of a great government, and the
ruin of amighty people, with the same ex-
hibition of low, valgar mirth and merri- |
ment, with which the antics of a monkey |
are watched by a clown. It is said (hat!
+‘ Nero fiddled while Rome was burning,” |
hut Lincoln liughs and tells his ribald jests
|
The other |
to ihis end your petitioners pray thas your
honorable body will take the lead in “this
! great movement, inviting all of the other
want of | States to unite with Pennsylvania in this on-
ly remaining means for accomplishing a
purpose so much desired by us—and would
doubiless meet witha WORLD-WIDE AP-
PROVAL. And as in duty bound we will
ever pray. %
[RLS
Maxirest Error, —The papers have an
article headed Te Abraham Lavpamus.—
This is incorrect. It shonld read: Tg Ab-
raham GAU-p'AM-US. — Logan County Gaz-
ella,
[For the Watchman |
Thoughts on the Crisis.
So much has been said and written about
the instrnment which radical Republicans
have got in Washington to work out their
hellish schemes, commonly known as Abra-
ham Lincoln, and labelled as President of.
fhe Uuited States of America ; and the re-
cent elections have so effectually crushed to
deat! the monszer that sought to steal away
our liberties, that we dislike to disturb the
filthy carcass which yct remains unburried
and pollutes the atmosphere of our Capita]
and spreads its noxious stench to the re-
motest corners of the nation. But to show
the wisdom of the great statesmen who con-
structed and guided our ship of State thr'o
the greatest tempests that ever nation expe-
rienced, we are willing to come in contact
with the infernal rottenness of an adminis-
tration filling the place of the brightest lu-
minaries that ever shed their light upon the
world, and presiding over the mightiest peo-
ple that ever united under one flag, just as
the noxious toad-stool flourishes m the rich-
est foil.
low zealously the fathers of the Repub-
lic labored to devise some means by which
the election of Chief Magistrate would be
given directly to the people, for, says one of
them, ‘‘a President elected by a minority
cannot enjoy the confidence necessary to the
successful discharge of his duties,” One
would think, on reading of the efforts made
by these Statesmen, to whom, though our
nation be blotted from existence, the world
will ever point, as men whose names stand
highest upon the rollof fame ; that they
pierced the future and saw the shadow of the
coming tempest which has now burst so
fiercely upon us ; that they saw the time
when a fanatic, abolition minori y should
triumph over the majority, and thus, by a
departure from the principles upon which
government is founded. endanger its exist-
ence or plunge us into the horrors which
now throng so darkly upen us. Nothing
speaks so strangely in favor of the departed
spirits who ruled our country in its first ex-
istence, as the troubles which have now fall-
en upon us. Washington, Jackson, and a
host of lesser lights in the spirit of prosper-
ity, pointed out to posterity the dangers they
must meet, and the bess possible manner of
avoiding them. How truthfully have the
great warrior Presidents, Washington and
Jackson, depicted the terrible times through
which our nation is now struggling. Heaven
save us from the fate pointed out by the lat-
ter as awaiting us, if two por ioms of the
country ever waged war upon earth other,
eternal despotism and chains. afer each was
exhausted by the {ratricidal contest,
Every Democrat may claim with honest
pride. that he isa member of that party,
which for halfa century has stood up for
the rights of man. and guarded our Consti-
tution against the attacks of the hydra-
heaped monster, which with as many names
as beads has sonzht since its first existence
and since first the foundations of the temple
were laid, to overthrow it. In an evil hour,
by a union of all their hell-hounds, they
succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the
guardians of fieedom, and naw every house-
hold and fireside in the land is made to wail
because of it.
In the olden time, when Heaven wished
to punish a nation for pride or politizai sins,
it was always accomplished through the im-
becility of rulers, and from dications, we
are led to think that there has been no de-
par ure from that method.
Our guardians who dated the first years
of their lives i. times when the earth was
shaken by fierce revolutions, who had seen
the birth-and unprecedented growth of this
Republic, but whose wise opinions were sey-
ered and thrown aside as the croakings of
* old fogies,” had long foreseen the day
when this nation would pass through its
present fiery trial. They had seen the time
when “offices were created solely for the
good of the people,” when a Statesman
would shrivk as from a serpent, from at~
tempting to procure an office for mercenary
purposes, or from coining money from the
sufferings of the people. They had hved io
see the time when elections were but “mar.
kets vile where slaves, self-bartered, were
bought and sold,” when money and not the
people controlled -the ballot box, and know-
ing full well that *“whom the Gods would
destroy they first make mad,” they saw in
all this our total destruction or may be fear-
ful punishment. flonorabie men could no
longer be clected to office on account of
merit, and so retired to private life while
the agitated politics like a boiling cauldron
cast the scum to the sarface, and the fearful
peril that is now upon us, is the result, But
thank God, strong arms are yet in this na-
tion, mighty intellects as ever woke a peo-
ple to a sense of the perils that surround
them, or taught them how to cscape, are
even now working cut in silence the salva-
tion of our Government. The frightened ad-
ministration is beginning to bend before the
tempest ; their trembling, blood-stained
hands cannot much longer hold the helm, to
which they have clung, to the awful danger
of the best free government. When they
drop nerveless to the deck from fear and
exhaustion, or are borue overboard by the
mad demon of the storm, giant hands will
seize the ship of State and conduct it safely
through the surging waves of fanaticism, to
a harbor safety, where, upon i's broad base,
wiil be reared a government to last through-
out all time. Democracy is not dead, thank
‘God, the staunch old party that for thirty
yearg has stood a living rampart between
our Constitution and its foes, is yet in exist-
ence, and the element that saved our Union
in 1820 and again in 1850, when mad fanat-
icism had carried it to the very verge of dis-
solution, will yet restore to us our freedom,
The darkest hour is just before day, and
surely our prospects can grow no darke us
than at present ; may we not hope the light
is near at hand ? 4 re
After the armies of the infidel Saracens
had marched over the best portion of Europe,
sweeping all that presumed to stand before
them ag chaft before the hurricane, when
christianity veiled her form behind thick
clouds of darkness, and the faith of Mahom-
werghip of Christ, the light came, swift aud
irresistible as the bolts of Jove ; when the
great battle of Tours was fought and won,
and the innumerable hosts of the Moor were !
broken and the pride of thiir army left upon |
the bloody field, where the power of Mahom- i
edanism in Enrope wont down forever ; when
the English armies occupied the capital of
the French, and extended their power thr’o-
out the entire kingdom ; when the whole
world looked upon-France as ever thereafter
dependant upon England, and upon her glo-
ries as but a jewel to give new lustre to the
British crown ; 1n the very darkest hour the
light burst forth, as the sun at midnight
and Joan of Arc, a woman without rank or
education, led the armies of her country
against the invincibles of England, and car.
ried its banners to a prouder height than ev-
er, above the wreck of an invading army,
In the latter part of the 18th century, when
France was in convulsions, while all the ele
ments that can conspire fo bring destruction
upon a na ‘ion were busily working out for
her a dark destiny ; when the who'e civil-
ized worla stood appalled at the display of
all the worst passions of man in the nation,
the intellect of Napoleon was preparing to
lead her mighty resources forth and crown
her with laurels such as no nation ever be-
fore received.
So, now, when the light of liberty is well
nigh extinguished , when loyal patriots are
suffering indignities und ‘imprisonment for
the sake of principle ; when
“Murder has bared her arm and rampant war,
Yoked the red dragon of his iron car ;’
when the great energies of our country are
expended in the destruction of our own citi.
zens ; when mothers are weeping above the
graves of their lost sous, wives wailing that
their husbands are no more, children crying
in vain for their sires they shall never see
again ; when the soul of Washington is
looking down upon the wreck of the great
institutions he left us, and the imbecile Ty-
rant we have placed in his seat ; when the
groaning victims of tyranny have lost sight
of the light that formerly guided them to
the shelter of our shores; when wai'ing
millions are sending up prayers to heaven
for the removal of those who, amid all these
horrors, are building for themselves fortunes
from the people's blood ; when the genius
of American Liberty is weeping above the
wreck of our institutions. and our star has
become a bale fire to light the bloody bat-
tle field, and glares upon the heart sickening
sight of brethrea meeting in the shock of
battle and strewing the peaceful plains with
their mangled bodies ; when discord reigns
supreme where all was harmony and the
machinery of government has ceased to work
for the people’s good ; even in this darkest
of dark hours, may we hope that great intel-
lects are somewhere amid the general wreck
striving 1n silence for the nation’s salvation,
and will, ere long, burst forth and guide
this people by their transcendant radiance
to a prouder position than they ever attain-
ed before, God grant that it may be so,
and that the last of the Presidents, like the
last of the Ceasars, may not be the weakest
and most despotic.
Howarp, Pa,
Jan. 15, 1863.
et up
[Prepared expressly for the Watcaman. }
0 Man, Who Art: Thou?
OR
REFLECTIONS ON PEACE AND WAR.
BY JUSTICE.
(Continued from last Number.)
Waris the law of violence. Peace the
law of love. Choose this day which ye will
serve. One is the work of the old Serpent,
the Devil—the Father of lies, whese end is
eternal misery and everlasting destruction.
the smoke of whose torment never ends—in
short the broad road to everlasting death
and destruction. Choose ye then this day
between the two. Peace the law of love
the narrow path of eternal life, That law
of violence prevailed without mitigation,
from the murder of Abel to the advent of the
Prince of Peace. We might have imagined,
if history had not attested the reverse, that
an experiment of four thousand years
would have sufficed to prove, that the ra-
tional and valuable ends of society can never
be attained, by constructing its institutions
mn conformity with the standard of war, —
But the sword and the torch had been elo.
quent in vain. A thousand, ah, thousands
of battle fields, white with the bones of bro-
thers, wero counted as idle advocates in the
cause of justice and humanity. Thousands
of cities, abandoned to the craelty and licen-
tiousness of the soldiery, and burnt or dis-
mantled, or razed to the,ground, pleaded in
vam against the law of violence. The river,
the lake, the sea, crimsoned with the blood
of fellow citizens, and neighbors, and stran-
gers, had lifted up their voices in vain to
rm the folly and wickedness of war.
e shricks and agonies, the rage and ha-
fred, the wounds and curses of the battle
field, the storm and the sack. had scattered
in vain their terrible warnings throughout
all lands, Yes, warning after warning has
been given us through all history. but not-
withstanding all this, we are at present min-
gled to-day in an awful strife, brother butch-
ering brother, brought upon us by the acts
of men filling high and important positions.
These are facts beyond all contradiction. —
For alinost two years have we been lending
our aid and support to this unholy crusade.
Have you gained anything ? You, who are
preaching up war ; you, who have traveled
over the country holding war meetings, and
making war speeches 2 What, ah, what
have you gained ? Look around you—the
answer is upon’ you. Yes, look upon
that distressed mother who is leading her
children by the hand. She bas been made
‘a widow by your acts. Her husband was
butchered at Fredericksburg, Your eye
can no longer behold this sight, and you
turned away from it; but another falls
upon you, still more distressing, The mo-
ther has died of a broken heart, ana those
children are now orphans ; their home has
been desolated, ant they are wanderers, —
Peace and happiness a few months aga
reigned in this fanuly circl:, but, alas ! it
W.P.M.
ct was proclaimed in temples reared for the
has been destroyed, and thousands apon
thousands of families in like manner have
been destroyed. Thus bave you been in-
struments] in bringing on this misery ; and
this is what you gained. Great was your
appeals to the people—brining all your elo-
quence to bear in shielding the hydra head-
ed monster, and inducing fathers, sons and
brothers to enter the field of conflict, and
threatening, to use your own words, to
“mark,” or “spol” every man whe would
dare to lift his voice against this crusade of
destruction. How compares your acts of
cruelty with the following injunction :—
*¢ For the son of man is not come to destroy
en's lives but to save them.”’— Sr. Luxe,
7X : 56. And who are the marked ones, and
who are they that are the spotted ones ? But
they who preached death, misery and de-
struction, and that, too, under as false a pre-
tense as that in which peace was dethronod
from the Garden of Eden.
Thus for almost two years, Political Cor-
ruption has been doing her work. Sacrifice
upon sacrifice has been made, to satiate
your political ambitiou, baptized with the
tears of widows and cries of orphans, and
the grim visage of your idol has been smear-
ed with the blood of the mnocent.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield your-
selves servants to obey, his scrvants ye are
to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness.
—RomaNs x1: 16. Stop now, before you
proceed any further, and ask yourselves
whose servants ye are. You have caused
brother to butcher brother, and their blood
cries from the ground against you. Ah!
deluded mortals, your day will isoon close
upon you, and your night will be made hid-
eous with the glittering glow of innocent
blood upon the grim visage of your idol, star-
ing you in the face, with the tears of many
widows, and the cries of many orphans
haunting your dying couch. An! what an
awful scene is this to contemplate. Your
mind carries you back to ponder upon the
following injunction :
‘ And I say un 0 \ou, my friends, Be
not afraid of them that kill the body, and
af er that have no more that they can do.
But 1 will forwarn you whom ye shall fear.
Fear him which after he hath killed, hath
power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto
you. tear him.—Sr. Luks, x1, 4th & 5th.
** Milivary necessities” and political proc-
lamations render but litle comfort now—
but your race is run, and now you reap your
reward. God is not mocked ; such as ye
sow, such shall lye reap, You advo ated
war, you preached war, you were mstru-
mental in the destruction of your brother,
whose blo d is now crying from the ground.
Vengeance is upon you. and you have work-
ed out your own condemnation. You caus-
ed many sacrifices to be mad , yea, thous-
ands upon thousands have fallen beneath
your acts of pollution, sealed with the tears
of widows and cries of orphans, and now
that still small voice which you heeded not,
sounds in awful tones that you have been
raitor to God and humanity ; and thus ends
your mad career upon earth. Reffect upon
this, you who are now filling high places, —
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
been wanton ; ye have nourishod your
hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have
condemned and killed the just, and he doth
not resist you.—Jas. v: 5 & 6,
But again another plea is offered to justify
your ac.s of bloodshed and murder. You
are endeavoring to make it appear that it is
no more absurd to believe that the Deity
should make use of the sword in the hands
of men to accomplish his purposes in the
punishment of the wicked, than that he
should use the whirlwind, and the fire for
the same ends. If it could be proved to be
‘the intention of the Deity to destroy human
life, by making use of the elements of exter-
nal nature, this argument would still be
sufficiently absurd to refute itself—the cases
are no nearer parallel than two divering lines
starting from the same poin‘, which widen
the further they are extended. The earth-
quake, the whirlwind, and the fire. are
great natural agents, subservient to regular
natural laws. Man is a moral and account-
able being, the subject of a moral and spir-
itual law. The earthquake is not forbidden
to kill, neither is the fire not commanded to
burn—man is expressly told by the moral
law. “Thou shalt not kill.” Fire was
made to burn; the whirlwind and the
earthquake have their appointed offices in
the economy of the universe. They are as
nature as the sunshine and the shower. —
They are governed by natural laws, which
have had their originin the will of the Deity,
and if these laws were to be suspended to
suit the follies or the ignorance of man, the
beautiful universe we inhabit would soon be
reduced to confusion and chaos.
The religion of Mahomet, by its doctrine
of fatalism, teaches its disciples to despise
the calculations of prudence, and to disre-
gard even ordinary efforts of security against
danger. “No man,” says the Mahometan,
“dies one moment before the right time,”
and it mattors not whether he comes to hig
end on the gicken couch, in the battle field,
or by whatever casuality may happen to
him. If he dies beneath the ruins of a fall-
ing temple, or perishes in a sinking ship, or
is burried by the eruptions of a volcano, he
dies mn the faith of his fathers, and believes
it 1s all in agreement. of the will of heaven.
This doctrine 1s at war with nature—it pays
no respect to her laws—it promises no good
to man. Shall we engraft this absurd no-
tion on the christian system, or shall we not
rather consult those laws, and by a more at-
tentive study of nature, be enabled to avert
the dangers which mankind are too much ac.
customed to view as judgments from the Al-
mighty. Has he who gave wings to the ea-
gle, and at whose command she mounts up
and maketh her nest on high—in the crag of
a rock in a strong place, been less mindful
of man—less provident to furnish the means
of his safety and preservation from dangers ?
Certainly not. If the laws which he has
rat pra
necessary pkenombnon, wou s00vVQe
to.be the effets of ihicir legitimate causes.
and while they would be led to adm @ (1;
infallable certainty with which these oflects
follow the causes that produce them,
they
would digcoyer great wisdom and benevo-
lence on the part of the Creator, without any
hostility towards his ereatu 2
who will presume to say that
power given him to shun the effcic of
earthquake, the storm, or even the «peg
lence which walkcth in darkness.” Do we
not see, as he is attentive to the *‘still smal]
voice,” or in other words, “the light that
lighteth every man that cometh into the
worid,” he is preserved from moral evil in
himself, and can we doubt the effets of lis.
tening to it, when physical difficulty maj
approach him.
In addition to this “still small voice,” the
Deity has given to man the principles of
fear to gaurd him against rasi/y exposing
himself to destruction, or placing himself
unnecessarily in the way of any of Hig gen-
eral laws, by which he may he injured. —
Shall we then charge God foolishly. and say
he is the author of man’s destruct be-
cause man neglects the means appointed for
his preservation, and in defiance of the dic-
tates ot fear, of prudence, aud of reason, lo-
cates his dwelling where earthquakes from
immemorial time have been his destroyers.
The* burning mountain and the undulating
earth, forewarn him of danger. If he disre.
gards all these admonitions, upon what
ground can he charge his destruction on his
Creator? The laws of Deity govern abso-
lately and invariably. If it were not so, it
would a constant series of miracles (o pre-
serve man, who is continually placing him-
self within their influcace.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom "
TO BE CONTIN
$50,000, per Day,
car
This is the sum wh: tis
Government pays out daily, to =
runaway negroes, called contr
within our lines.” Thuse cre
of being imployed in useful and profita
labor on the plantatoins of their mastic 3,
are now spending their time mn idleness,
living upon the charity of the Government.
The white men and women of the North,
are taxed to support these now worthless
creatures. At the rate of $50,000 per day,
the sum total for one vear will be $18.250,
000! Such arethe bitter fruits of the Abo.
lition policy which has now ajmost ruine d
the country. The final result of this poli-
will be, not tne (reedom of the black man
but the enslavement of the whight laboring
man! He will be enslaved by the immense
taxation which the Abolition policy has
brought upon this country. It is Taxation
which crashes and enslives the lab ring
masses of Kurope, and binds them hand
necessary tothe physical arrangements of
aed foot to the car of monarchy and aris:
which they are ruled, Abolitionism, in its
blind and crazy attemp to se: free a leg mil-
lions of African slaves, better off here®nthe
condition of slaves than in their native coun
has brought the terrible ealawity of su stan
tial slavry upon the masses of our labor-
ing whiic men and women. Every succes-
sive year will demoustrate the truth of what
we say: -Think of chis, white men of the
North, and redeem yourselves at the ballot
box if possible, from the utter ruin which
imreuds, over yourselves, your wives and
children.—Greensburg Democrat
Ci en
GuxeraL Buren leit Now Oiloans follow
ed by the imprecation of every man, woman
and child in that city, except contractors,
whose plunder he had shared. The follow-
ing acrostic gives a fair ido of the es-
timation in which he ig held it the Crescent
City :
Brutal and vulgar, a cowvar d and knave—
Famed for no action noble or brave.
Beastly by instinct, a tyrant and sot,
Ugly and venomous—on mankind a blot—
Thief, liar and scoundrel, in highest degree,
Let Yackeedom boast of such heroes “as thee -
Ev'ry woman and chill will for ages to come’
Remember thee, monstar—thou vilast to scum :
i wea.
REVOLUTIONARY. —Abolitionism is never
scrupulous about means to secure its aim,
but one of its blodest and most revolutiona-
ry attempts to disiegard the verdlets of the
people, was a movement made in the State
Senate on monday, by Mr. Lowery of Frie,
to adjourn over uutil Wednesday, and thus
prevent the election of a U. 8. Senator,
which the Constitution says shall take
place on the 2d Tuesday of January.—This
was a bold attempt to defeat the will of
the majority on jomn:-baliot. What is
stranger still is the resolution passed by a
partly vote—every R-pnblican voting for
it.
ANDO
New UNitep States Sexarors.—During
the week several of the State Legislatures
have elected United States Scnaors. In
Pennsylvania, Hon. Charles R. Backalew,
Dem., was elected in place of Ion. David
Wilmot. In Illinois, Ilon, Wm. A.Rich-
ardson, Dem., was elected; in Delaware,
Hon. James A. Bayard, Dem., in New Jer-
sey, Jamés W. Wall, Dem., in Indiana, Hon
T. H. Hendricks, Dem., and David Turpie,
Dewm., the latter for the short orm. In
Maine, Hon. Jot Merrill, Rup, has been re-
elected. Minnesota elects Hon, Al er
Ramsey, Rep. An elec ion for Unit ates
Senator is pending in the California Legisla-
ture,
te ees
[While his mother lives, a man has ono
friend on earth who will not desert him'when
he is needy. Her affections ~~ flow from a
pure fountain ang ceaso only at fin of
eternity.
= The mai who would try to stab a
ghost would stick at nothing.
05 To be angry is torevenge the fuulis
of others upon ourselves.
077" What key will unlock most men’s
minds ? Whis-key.
0Z= W hich of th» reptiles is a mathe ma-
tician 2 = The adder.
BH N. M'ALLISTER. JAMES A. BEAVER.
MPALLISTER & BEAVER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PENNA
ORVIS & CORNE,
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW,
Tock Haven |
impressed upon matter as well as mind,
were rightly understood and regarded, man-
the intention (o destroy hfiman life, by these |
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kind, instead of charging the Creator with |'care will by
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