dhe Thatcham.
P. GRAY MEEK, } Editor
BELLEFONTE, PA
Friday Morning, Feb. 27, 1863.
17 Through the neglect of our ‘‘paper
men” to forward us the usual quantity of
paper, we have been compelled to issue a
half sheet. We regret this very wuch, but
have done all in our power to furnish the
un ual amount of reading matter. Our ad-
ver isers have had to suffer a little, but we
will try and make that right in the future.
The VU. L's.”
We would warn our fiends and readers
to beware of the attempts of Abolitionists
to reorganize their God forsaken party, by
init ting thew into the mysteries of the ‘UL
L's.”
Their Union League is simply a Union
WITII DEATH, and a League WITH HELL
gotten up to support the infamuos Adminis-
¢ a ion in ita crusade against the rights of
white men—to assis’ it in freeing the blacks
and enslaving the whitea—to drive the labo: -
ingelas-es into the war and murder them
t"a* negroes may [ll their places at home.
a ¢ to rob farmers and others to fill the pock-
ets of men who are bitter fitted for the pen-
jtentiary than to fi'l prominent positions in
ur government.
Thi Administration cannot be fastened to
the backs of the people, vither by myst ries,
oaths or sceret organizations, and its frivnds
my as well kuow if now, as at any other
time. The’eflects of the success of Know-
nothingism is to fearful to permit wen who
are xnewn to be hitter encmies of the prin”
¢i)'es upon which our government was { un-
ded, to meet in the dark and plot how to
dispose of hone: t patriots. Too many dem-
cerats have been butchered a'ready in this
cursed cause of abolitionism. There are too
_ many now stflering in Camps and THospit-
als and subject to the dict tion of cld Abe
or his minions. who were deluded from their
homes by falschoods and cunning holiticians
ma'e to believe that they were engazing in
a war for the “preservation of the constitu-
tior.” and the ‘enforcement of the laws.’
We as Amcricans hive never lived m
«{imes like these’’—we have never had men
to udminister the laws who disregarded
them and trampled upon the plain provisions
of our Constitution—we have never before
had our country filled with traitors who ap-
planded every attempt of usurpers to over-
throw our government, and-rear upon its ru
ins a Central despotism—we have never be-
fore had a Robespeirre to reign over us, ora
«council of ten” to enact laws, but we hae
all of these now, and it becomes us to be on
the alert. “E-ernal vigilance is the price
of liberty.” Sicret orginjzations should
not be permitted, men who work in the dark
should be taken care of. Persons who join
the + U.L’s” should be an1 WILL be attend-
ed to, Let them beware, there are times
when ¢ forbearance cca<es to be virtue,” and
that time has come with (ruc patriots. Cen-
tre Coanty can nevcr be disgraced with con-
claves sworn to support this Administration.
a
"Roll onthe Ball.
Thaik God, the people are at last begin-
n'n: ro see things as they realy exist—they
ars getting their eyes opened to the true
_state of aflairs, and the sentiments express-
ed in Peace meetings, held in almost every
part of the country, under Federal juris-
diction, shows plainly the state of feel-
ing throughout the North. A mans “pa‘ri-
otism,”’ 18 no longer measured by the mass-
es, by the length of hisdenunciations ot dem-
ocruts, nor his love of country denoted by
the size of the flig fastened to some
poriion of his inhabitation. Co nmon sense
15 begining to resume its sway and we may
ere long cxpect some glorious resud’, fro
this happy change. Let the ball roll on,—
Patriots of ‘old Centre” your duty is to fail
in, and work fur peace, you have seen and
felt the effects of car, why then will ye sit
si'ent and uncomplaining while your own
children are being butchered and the little
ya have aeqiired by hard Libor eaten up
with taxes :
gserned while the very life bloud cf your
country is oozing out at every vain! MN:
ver, Never, will this war cease until the
praple demand that il shall he dome. Look |
10' to the men who claimed to be your lea-
dirs in times of peace, they have failed to
stand up for yor rights. They have deser-
ted you in the hour of emergency, hike But
| r and Dix and Dickenson and Tol and
Staunton. Many lave proven themselves in.
compent and rotton— not fit for exponents,
of the great principles of Democracy, not fi*-
to be leaders of the party that labors for the
good of North and South East, and West.
Wait for none to mova. Make to yourselves
leaders or be leaders in your own. persons,
Call meetings and attend them, let your voi-
ces go up through petitions and resolutions,
demanding an armistice, Demauding 3
peace, Let foal mouthed abolitionists de-
nounce you as ‘‘traitors,” heed them mot,
you have regarded their threats to long al-
ready, truth snd right, justice and honor is
with you, future generations will rise ud
and eall you blessed, work then for peace,
‘let us have it on some terms or oth-
er.
en
It is a no'iceable fact that no less, than
three of the Brigadiers who served as part
why stand yz and gaze uncou- |
Will the People Subu.it?
After all the bombast and bragadocia of
Northern fanatics about their “rower” and
“ means’ to crush out the people of the
South, and overthrow their institutions—af-
ter all the ravings about bravery,” “pa-
triotism,” “will,” and ‘“determination,” to
assist their Abolition Gods, it must be hu-
miliating, if to them anything can be so, to
admit, which in the passage of the conscript
bill, the virtually do, that they are not able
to carry through what they commenced.—
We argued from tbe beginning that the
South could not be whipped, and for so do-
ing was presented by a Grand Jury of these
self-same patriots (?) and arrested as a *‘trai-
tor.” Time has proven that we were right,
and those who attempted to crush us out,
MUST admit it now, for after using all their
« power” and squandering all their “means,”
they are compelled to ak their “colored
bredren’ to come to their assistance, ard
fearing that the acquisition will prove insuf-
ficient to carry out their schemes, they re-
sort to force to compel white men to sup-
port them. Whether this will be submitted
to time will tell. For our part, we do
not believe it will. The masses of the peo-
ple understand as well what this war is
carried on for as thosecon lucting it do, and
they cannot be induced by any argument
whatever, to assist in its further prosecu-
tion. Balls and bayouets cannot compel
them to fight side by side with negroes in a
cause which they know is cursed by God fo”
ity wickedness, and can bring nothing bu:
disgrace to those officially ciizaged in it.—
The whole population of the North are not
fawning sycophants that will lick the hand
that is raiged to smite. They have suffered
much for the sake of peace, but a will”
that cannot Le overawed, and a *‘determina-
tion” thai cannot be shaken, has taken hold
of them. Abram Lincoln and his hungry
horde of abolition backers, ‘are not able to
put in force their conscript act. Not a man
that we have heard speak, 18 willing to sub-
| mit to it—all are willing to do and die, rath-
er than Le compelled to assist in this infa.
mous crusade agaist the rights of others.—
John Brown could have raised as many men
to aid him in exterminating the South, as
can the old tyrant at Washington. This
war is “pliyed out.” emphatically ‘played
out,” notwithstanding the fiolish blabber-
ing of these who still claim to be its sup-
porters. Pennsylvania will furn sh no more
men. [If there is any fi zhting to be done, i!
will be within her own borders, to resist
those who attempt to drag her citizens from
their homes ana compel them to take up
arms against persons who are defending
theirown hearthstones and property. If the
insatiate maw of abolitionism has not becn
appeased by blzod, it will be left to satisly
its cravings from the veins of those who have
not spirit enough to stand for the'r rights—
it cannot further gorge itself by appeals and
deluding theories. We the people, under-
stand now, what is meant by the cry, ‘sup.
port the government,” and intexd to act ac-
cordingly. Let those in power remember
this. It is thesettled, the fixed determina-
tion of the masses of the people throughout
the entire North, to end this frightful war in
some manner or other. They will no longer
countenance any movements that provides
£ r its prolongation. Too many firesides
have been robbed of their dearest boons-~
too many parents have been made childless
and children fatherless—too much treasure
has been squander-d—too much want and
misery, produced with no good resulting to
insure any aid or encouragement towards its
continuance.
To those 1n power we would say, you have
inaugurated a war, which you knew at the
beginning was “unnecessary and unealled
for.” You have deceived che people by say-
ing it was for the “restoration of the Union,’
and the *“‘enforsement of the laws.” You
have plead “‘necassity’ to justify the most
wanton and wicked outrages upon ourrights.
You have sobbed us of our brothers, our fa-
thers, and our sons, and butchered them in
cold blood. to gratify your own infernal de-
sires. You have stolen our money, and fas-
tened a debt cpon us that our children's
children will not be able to pay—and you
now seek to drag us from our firesides and
friends, our business, and property, to offer
us up as sacrifizes to your Abolition Moloch.
Do you think we are cringing cowards, that
will
¢ Bend the suppliant knee,
That thrilt may follow fawning !
Do ye consiler us pliant tools that will
come at your ncd, and depart at your dicta-
tion ? Do :e look vpon us as serfs, willing
to surrender our rights, rather than dare
maintain them 2 Do ye vegard us as white-
livered slaves, ready to tremble when ye
frown, or applaud when ye approve? We
| can tell you we are NEITHER! (ar fath-
ers reddened the fields of the Revolution
with thew blood, that we, (heir unworthy
descendants, might enjoy the blessed boon
of liberty, You have sought to tale it from
us ~think you we will submit withoat re.
sistance ? Never! NEVER!
L —eosee-
Oyster AnD Farting Satoox.—Mr. Frank
| Fisher keeps an elegant oyster and eating
i saloon on Bish.p street, directly under Mr.
Cummings's new hotel. Everything that
is good may be foand in profusion, with po-
"lite and attentive waiters to administer to
the wants of the inner man. Mr Fsher’s
advertisement will appear next week,
oe ——
177 At the request of several members of
the Institute before which the Essays of
Ms; Reese and Mrs. Ward were read we
give them a place in our columns. We do
not endorse all the Ideas contained in them
but wali leave the rea lrs to form their own
| con-lusion.
| Ee Yoo von
{07 Hofier Brothers hawe re: ceived a lot of
New Goo: s, to which they invite the atten-
tion of the public. They embrace gvery varie-
ty of style, and will be sold as cheap if not
cheaper. then can be procured any wherelse.
Call and sce.
eee A mee ena
17 The Ladies Aid Society at Daaville.
of the cert which found Msjor-Geoeral Por- | r.alized the ¢ 1m cf three hundred and for-
ter gr ily Yave ict beer rade Ma
cals
1-Gen-
t 24 1;va 5 their Fair Leld during the
| ty-eigh
frees
«day
~ 17 In the Harrisburg Telegraph of the
25th inst., we observe a communication
from this place, dated the 231 inst., and
signed « Felix.’ Who Felix” is, we do
not know, nor do we care, One thing, how-
ever, is certain: heis a most unconsciona-
ble liar, and his statement in regard to the
result of the Spring elections in this coun
ty, is a tissue of falsehood from beginmng
trend. He quotes the defeat of the Democ-
rac in the boroughs of Bellefonte and Miles-
burg. as a great Republican triumph, when
the fact is, these towns never go any other
way. The only instance 1: which the De-
mocracy have carried this borough for many
years, was at the election last fall, when
Mr. Furey, our cand date for Commissionor,
carried it by a majority of about ten votcs.
Milesbarg ‘is a regular Black Kepublican
hole, and as far as Spring township is con
cerned, the Democracy have carried cne-
half the offices there, according to *‘Ielix's”
own admission, which is somewhat of a sur-
prise, when we consider the fact that that
township has gone Republican ever since
the advent of thatinfamous heresy, Know-
Nothingism. Now, where is the Republi-
can triumph? It don’t exist. The real
facts are, the Democracy have carried near-
ly every township in the county, and this
« Felix” knew when he penned his lying
communication ; but as lying is one of
the fundamen al principles of the Repub-
lican party, there is no danger of any de-
ception being practiced upon the people
by such contemptible and intentional false-
hoods. Centre county will poll fifteen hun.
dred wnjority against the darkey fraterni-
ty next fall. Mark that, Sir © Felix.”
"PLAIN TALK.
Tn the Cincinnati Enguirer we finda long
article on New Eag'and, from which we
copy the following: When the West was
assaulted by the British ard Indians in -the
war of 18i2, and when our women and
children were being murdered, who came to
our relief? Did New Eagland 2 No! She
was meeting in the Hertford Convention to
concoct measures to withdraw from the Un-
jon, and to ally hersell with Great Br Wn,
The Southwest came to our relief most gal-
lantly, and our plains drank up the- gener-
ous blood of its sons on the fields of the
Raisin, the Tippecanoe and the Thames.—
There was never any political diflerence be
tween the West and the South until the Pu-
ritan spirit of New England, which, always
intermeddl ng and persecuting, o'iginated
it. That spirit, which hung Quakers, ban.
ished Baptists, burnt women for being witch-
es, and which, ia modern times, wants to
prescribe the driuk, religions, and morals of
the whole world; which burnt Catholic
convents, and dispatched State inquisitorial
committees to pry into Catholic nunneries ;
which daring the past year rode Democratic
editors on rails, tarred and feathered them,
and mobbed Democrats simply b:cause they
were Democrats, took, on a sudden, the idea
into its head, that its mission was to set
free the servants of other peopie and othar
States. [ts devilish ingenuity in fomenting
this question has brought all the trouble
apon ns, No people could ever get along
with the Puritan spirit of New England.—
The I lland Dutch of New York had a
complaint against it two hundred years ago.
So had the Swedes and Fins, who settled in
Delaware and New Jersey, and also the cav-
alicrs in Virginia. It was a persecuting.
intolerant, hateful and malignant spirit, that
drew down upon it the hatred of the whole
world. It was sour, narrow-minded and
illiberal. We are not a hater of New Eng-
and. We admire the industry, frugality
and economy of her people. We admire
their great characteristics, especially their
enterprise, shrewdness and vigor that have
assisted to make them so vealthy and pros-
perous, But we dislike their interfering
p.opensitics, and especially their notion
that the whole world must have precisely
their ideas in mcrals and religior, or else it
ghall be punished with fine and 1mprison-
ment for its contumacy. We think New
England, when it tries to regulate the mor-
als of the whole world, and prescribe them
drink and diet, has undertaken a task great-
er than she can perform, and will only
bring trouble as long as she persists in it.
We think she is rich enough to live without
any bounties or tariffs, or government pro-
tection of any kind, except that ‘ protec-
tion’ which we all receive. If she contin-
ues to abide with us, she will have to give
up her tariffs and agree not to meddle with
the local interests of other communities.
She will have to give up tariff robbery and
negro stealing, or go out in the cold by her-
self. 3
tee pr
7= Who can tell us why some of the pa-
triots (2) about here. are not engaged in re-
cru ‘ing a company of “free Americans of
Afiican descent 2 There is certainly
enough of them in town to begin on. Where
is the chivalric McAllister 7 the brave (?)
Brown? Where the host of lesser lights
that cirsle around them 2 The ‘government’
needs their services, *‘why stand they here
idle 2” “Iu God’s pame,”’ can there be
nothing done ? :
LoEs's Bie Ox.—Probably the largest ox
ever brought to this town, is the one slaugh-
tered yesterday by the Messrs. Loeb. We
believe ita live weight was 2500 pounds. and
it cost those enterprising gentlemen 190 dol-
lars. It was quite a curiosity.
ete
[75 The Prince of Magazines, Harpers has
been received. We have not had time to peruse
it yet, but know from a glanse at the “table of con-
tents,” that the March number is as interesting
as any that have preceded it. Harper is too well
known already, for usto add a mite to its popu.
larity or praise. Every body knows ii, every
body should read ic.—Address, Harper & Broth-
ers, Franklin Square, New York. Price $3 per
Annum.
ete $i p orraes
[55° The everwelcome Knicks bocker is again
upon our table, filled to overflowing with the
choicest articles the bost of Amerizan authors
apd interesting Magazine, we would recommend
the Knickerbocker Address Kinnahan Cornwal-
J lie 87 Pork Row, N. ¥. Terme: 33 per year
can furnish. To those who wish a sound, reliable |
Who Are the D sunionists?
BY J P.M.
NO. V.
Isthere not some chogen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with nncommen wrath. to blast the man.
W ho owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!
— Addison.
The leaders in the secession movement at
the South leoked upon disunion as revolu-
tionary ; they did not claim & right under
the Constitution to withdraw from a Union
which, in their opinion, had ceased to serve
the purposes for which it was formed. The
Black Republican party has always been
the dtsunion party in this na ion ; they ad-
vocated doctrines that led "as certainly to
the dismemberment of the Confederacy as
that those they now advocate lead to the
eternal destruction of freedom. Long be-
fore the great statesmen of the South had
broached the subject of disunion, the lead-
ers of the Republican party were laboting
constantly to convince them of its practica-
bility, and that it would be permitted ard
sustained by the Northern people. The foe
Democracy is struggling with to-day is the
legitimate offspring of that which sprung
up in the first days of the Republic and has
ever since been striving, under various
names, to overturn our government. We
have shown by the leaders of the Republi-
can party that the great principle which un-
derlies its organization is violent, unchang-
ing. eternal warfare upon the institution of
American slavery, with a view to its ulti-
mate extinction throughout the entire lan;
the irepressible conflict was to be waged
until the Southern cotton and rice fields
should be cultivated by free labor, or until
the rye fields of the North should be culti-
vated by slave labor. We now propose to
stow who first proclaimed disunmon. We
shall begin with Nathaniel P. Banks, once
Governor of Massachugetts, who was elect-
ed Speaker of the House of Representatives
in 1850, and has since made his name novo -
rious by his military operations in the pres-
ent war, which he did all in Lis power to
produce. The American people will not
soon forget bis grand advance on Harper's
Ferry down the Shenandoah: may he be
equally successful at New Orleans. His
hand 18 now raised fur the destruction of his
brethren, because they accepted the doc-
trine he taught. Hell might blush to own
so base » being as its instrument. Let us
look for a moment at his sentiments. In
1855 he said :
Although I am not one of that class of men who
cry for the preservation of the Union ; though I
am willing, in a certain stateof circumstances,
70 LET IT SLIDE, I have no fear for its perpetua-
tion. But lot me say, if the chief object of the
people of this country be to maintain and propa-
gate chattel property io man—in other words, u-
mn slavery—tiis Union cannot and OUGHT NOT
TO STAND,
In 1850, in a speech ‘in Massachusetts,
we find him predicting a state of things
which are now almost upon us. He had no
faith in the stability of free institutions, or
else was wise enongh to see what would be
the result of fits teaching. Hesaid :
I can conceive of a time when this Constitution
shall not be in existence , when we shail have an
absolute military dictatorial government, trans-
mitted from age to age, with men at its head who
are made rulers by military commission, or who
claim an hereditary right to govern those over
whom they are placed.
Is General Banks now aiming at such a
result # He holds a military commission ;
Is he striving to be one of the dictators of
this Republic ?
Senator Wade, of Ohio, ata mass meet-
ing in Maine, 1n 1855, gave utterance to the
following : .
There is no galvation for the Union but in di-
vesting it entirely from all taint of SLAVERY.—
TuegRE 1S NO UNION WITH THE SouTH. Let us
have a Union, or LET US SWEEP AWAY THIS REM-
NANT waicHa WE CALL A UNtox. I gofor a Union
where all men are equal, or for no Union at all,
and I go for right.’
Judge Rufus P. Spaulding, delegate to
the Convention that nominated Lincoln, in
1856, used the following language :
In case of the alternative being preseuted, of
the continuance of slavery, or a dissolution of
the Union, I aM ¥oR DISSOLUTION; and I care not
how quick it comes.”
On the 19th and 20th of May, 1856, ina
speech delivered in the Senate, Mr. Sumner
held this revolutionary language :
Already the muster has begun. The strife is no
longer local, but national. Even now while I
speak, portents hang on all the arches of the her
izon, threatening to darken the broad land, which
already yawns with the mutterings of CIVIL
WAR. The fury of the propagandists of slave-
ry and the calm determination of their oppcnents.
are now diffused from the distant Territory ever
wide-spread communities, and the whole country
in all its extent—~marshaling hostile divisions, and
foreshadowing a strife, which, unless happily
averted by the triumph of freedom wll become
WAR—FRATRICIDAL, PARRICIDAL WAR
—with an accumulated wickedness beyond the
wickedness of any war in human annals.
Following in the same strain and for the
same purpose, Senator Seward said:
The solemnity of the occasion draws over our
heads that cloud of disunion which always arises
whenever the subject of slavery is agitated. Still
the debate goes on morc ardently, earnestly and
angrily than «vir befors. It employs mow not
more'y losis. rep o ‘hb manace, retort and defi.
ance. BUT SABRES, RIFLES AND CANNON.
Do you look through this insipiznt war quite to
the end, and gee there poace, quiet and harmony
on the subject of slavery? Ifso, pray enlighten
me, and show me how aug the way is which loads
to that repose. {eo who found a river in
his path, and sat down to wait for the food to pass
away, was pot more unwise than he who expects
the agitation of slavery to cease, while the love
of freedom animates the bosoms of mankind.
After showing that war must inevitably
follow, Mr. Seward suggests to the Pacific
States that then would bo their time to se-
cede. He says:
Then the Froe States and Slave States of the
Atlantic. divided and warring with, each other,
would disgust the Free States of the Pacifio, and
they would have abundant cause and’. justifiés-
tion for WITHDRAWING FROM A UNION productive
no longer of peace, safety and liberty to them-
solves and no lenger holding up the cherished
hopes of mankind.
Again, 1n a speech at Albany, New York,
Cctober 12, 1855, Mr, Seward said :
Slavery ig not. and can never be, perpetual It
will be overthrown either peacefully and lawfully
under this Constitution, or it will work the sub
version of the Constitution, together with its own
overthrow. Then the SLAVEHOLDERS
WOULD PERISH IN THE STRUGGLE.
Again, in a speech in the Senate, March
11, 1850, Mr. Seward threatens the South
with ¢¢ civil war,” unless they emancipate
their slaves. He sad:
When this answer shall be given. it will appear
that the question of dissolviug the Union is a com-
plex question ; that it embrace the fearful issue
wether the Union ehall stand, and slavery, under
| the steady, peaceful action of moral, gocial, and
| pritical causes. be removed by gradual, volunta-
I ty effort, and with compe ieation, or whether the
|
UNION SHALL BE DISSOLVED, and civic
WARS ENSUE, bringing on VIOLENT BUT COMPLETE
AND IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION, We are now ar-
rived at that stage when that crisis can be fore.
seen—when we must forelee it. It is directly be-
fore us. Its shadow is upon us.
Yet this is the great leader of (he Repub-
lican party ! If that is not disunion, in the
name of tleaven whatis it? In the ex.
tracts we have given from his specches, we
see laid down the bloody programme they
are now seeking to carry out above the
wreck of our government, and by the sacri-
fice of thousands of its citizens. Oh, is
there not some chosen curse ?” But we are
not done. Gen. James Watson Webb, ed-
itor of the New York Courier and Inquirer,
was a delegate to the Convention that romi-
nated Fremont in 1856, and Lincoln in 1860,
In the former Convention he made a speech
from which we quote the following :
Our piopleloping order, loving law, and will-
ing to abide by the ballot box—come together
from all parts of the Unior, and ask us to give
them a nomination which. when fairly put before
the pols, will unite public sentiment, and thr’o
the ballot box will restrain and repel this pro-
slavery extension. and this aggression of the slave-
ocracy. What else are they doing? They tell
you they are willing toabide by the ballot box,
and willing to make that last appeal. If we fail,
there, what then ? WE WILL DRIVE IT BACK,
SWORD IN HAND, and, so help me God, be-
lieving that to be right, I am with them. North-
ern gentlemen, on your action depends the result.
You may, with God's blessing, present to this
country a name, rallying around it all the ele-
ments of the opposigion, and thus we will become
so strong that, Hurvugh the ballot box, we shall
save the country. ut, if @ name be presented
on which we may not rally, and the consequence
is CIVIL WAK—nothing mere, nothing less,
but civil war—I ask then, whatisour first duty ?
From a speech of John P. Ilale, delivered
in the the Senatein 1856, we extract the
following ;
I thauk God that the indications of the present
day seem to promise that the North have at last
of to the wall, and will go no further. I hope so.
he Senator says there may be a power that shall
ery,” ‘Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.'—
Good! Good! Sir [I hope it mill come ; and if
it comes to hlood, LET BLOOD CUME. No, sir,
if that issue must come, LET IT COME , and it can
not come TOO SOON. * Sir, Puritan
blood hag not always shrank from even those en.
counters . and when the war has been proclaimed
with the knife, and the knife to the hilt, tue
STEEL HAS SOMETIMES GLISTENED IN THEIR HANDS;
and when tne battle whs over, they were not al-
ways second best
We could give the language of hundreds
of the party, but all advocate the same eter-
nal hostility to the South, and the idea that
the Con: t tution of the United Sates is a
gmall obstacle when the emancipation of the
Southern negro 1s in question. Horace Gree-
ley claims to have made Mr. Lincoln Presi-
dent, We shall conclude these extracts by
a few from the columns of his paper :
[From the Tribune of November 9, 1860. |
If the cottcn States shall become satisfied that
they can do better out of the Union than in it. we
insist on letting them go in peace. The right
to secede may be a revolutionary one ; but it ex-
ists, nevethelegs. * %* ¥* * We must ever resist
the rightof any State to remain in the Union and
nullify or defy the laws thereof. To withdraw
from the Union is quite another matter; and
whenever a considerabla section of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall re-
sist all coercive measures designed to keep it in.
We hope never to live in a republic whereof one
section is pinned tc another by bayonets.
[From the Tribune of November 26, 1860.]
If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish
to withdraw peacefully from the Union. we think
they should and would be allowed to do so. Any
attempt to compel them by force to remain would
be contrary to the principles enunciated in the
immortal Declaration of Independence, contrary
to the fundamental ideas on which human liber-
ty is based.
[From the Tribune of December 17, 1360.]
1f it (the Deelaration of Independence) justified
the secession from the British empire of three mill
ions of colonists in 1776, we do not ses why it
would not justify the secession of five millions of
Southerners from the Union in 1861.
[From the Tribune of February 23, 1861]
We have repeatedly said, and we once more in-
sist, that the great principle embodied by Jeffar-
son in the Declaration of American Independence,
that governments derive their just power from the
consent of the governed, is sound and just; and
that, if the slave States, the cotton States. or the
Gulf States only, choose to frm an independent
nation, they have a clear moral right to do so *
* *% Whenever it shall be clear that the great
body of the Southern people have become concla-
sively alienated fi on the Union, and arxious to
escape from it, we will do our best to ferward their
views.
Now. is the question answered, ‘Who are
the Disunionists 2’ Ilas Democracy ever
advocated such doctrine ? But acts speak
louder than words, On the Ist of February
1850, Senator Hale presented two petitions.
praying that “some plan might be devised
for the dissolution of the American Union.”
It received three votes, that being the num-
ber of Republicans then 1n the Senate. They
were JouN P. Hag, Wu. H. Sewarp, and
SaumoN P. Case ; the present position of
these men, especially the latter two, an-
swers the question fully as to “who are the
Disunionists 2’ They are the LBADERS oF
THE BLACK REPUBLICAN PARTY. and without
the interposition of Heaven, their infernal
designs will, mn all probability, succeed. It
is a duty Democract owes to Heaven, and to
their fellow men, everywhere to resist every
usurpation, and to strive to save our coun-
try from the despotism into which it appears
to be drifting.
Howarp Pa. )
Feb. 23d 1863, §
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Sn lll i
S®. Tho body of Lemuel Holt, who died with
fever at Nashville, we understand was brought
home on Monday. His remains were interred in
the comotery at Milesburg, his former home.—
This young wan figured conspicuously in the bat
tle at Murfreesboro, captoring a Confederate stan-
dard. He was just in the vigor of manhood, and
had only participated in his first battle. His life
was short, but the laurels he won at Murfreesboro
will ever be remembered by a grateful people.--
Peaee to his ashes.
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times, and improvement, in herouward marth to
profoction, never catches him sleeping. As us-
ual, his Magazine is filled with the choicest tit
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upon our table. Although not agreeipg with it
in the views expressed regarding the present Na-
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be most ably conducted periodicals that comes
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0 Man, Whe Art Thou?
OR
REFLECTIONS ON PEACE A” D WAR.
BY JUSTICE.
(Continued from last Number.) }
Well, reader what mors can we say about the
great demon, WAR Much has already been
said and much more can be, and mnch more will |
be, so long as tho dreaded monster continues
among us.
The soldier abandons himself to all the fury |
which an assault Autherizes. He strikes, he slays
—nothing can impede him. All the horrors
which accompany the capture of a town by storm
are repeated in every streat, in every house.—
You hear the cries of violated fomales calling in
vain ter help to those relations whom they are
butchering. No asylum is respected ; the blood
strcamz on every side; at every step we meet
with human beings groaning and expiring. Says
the Historian of the war in Spain: “The habit
of danger made us look upon death as one of the
most orditary circumstances of life—when our
comrades had once ceased to live, the indifference
that was shown them amounted almost to irony”
Now go and examine the history of the cam-
paigns in Poland: “The ground between the
wood and the Russian batteries, about a quarter
of a mile, was a sheet of naked human bodies.
which friends and foes had during the night mu:
tually stripped, not leaving the worst rag upon
them, although numbersot these bodies 'still re-
tained conscicusness of their situation. It wasa
sight which the eye loathed, but from which it
could not remove.”” Now, turn another page and
read of the “ Campaigns in Russia,” and you are
farnished with the most horrible details of pala-
ces. churches and streets enveloped in flames—of
hundreds ot blackened carcasses of the wretched
inhabitants whom the fire had consumed—of hos.
pitals containing 20,000 wounded Russian soldiers
on fire, and consuming the misorable vietims—
of numbers of half-burned human beings crawl-
ing among the smoking ruins—of females viola-
ted and massaered—of parents and children, hal £
naked, shivering with the cold, flying in conster
nation with the wrecks of their half-consumed
furniture—of roads covered for miles with thous-
ands of the djing and the dead heaped one upon
another, and thess scenes rendered still more ter-
rifio by the shrieks of young females—of mothers
and children who united their piercing cries in
invoking death to put an end to their agunies.
“Unconditional Union Men.
The monarchial party in this ccuntry have a
great deal to say, just now, about “unconditional
Union mei.” Now, what is an “unconditional
Union man?’ As nearly as we oan get at it, he
is one who cares nothing for the principle of eon-
stitutiona! liberty, and goes it blind for the des-
pot of the hour, whoever he may be, or whatever
he may do To him, a Union of subjugated and
tyrant-ridden States, with every natural right of
the people trampled in the dust, and every ves-
tige of manhood and independence crushed out. is
just as good as any. A coercive Union is jest as
| valuable to him a3 one of mutual interest and con-
gent. So it be a Union, he takes it ‘“‘unconditicn-
ally,” he asks no quesiions. If there is any such
a thing as an “unconditional Union man,’’ such
is the kind of a character he must be—a man ob.
livious to all sense of right, justice, freedom in-
“dependence and manhood. This is the kind of a
man Greeley & Co., want every toiling, tax pay-
ing voter to be—a pliant, meek, submissive, un-
questioning tool to the deepot of the hour. This
is what they mean by the phrase, “un-
conditional Union men.” Have we any such ?—
Alas ! we have too many; but they are growing
less ind less every day. By skillful manipula:
tion of the negro, Greeley & Co. have clouded
the intellects and dulled the preceptions of large
numbers of honest, hard-working men ; and they
have taken ad vantage of this eclipse to drag the
nation into a bloody war for the overthrow of
Demoeratic institutions. They have hoped, and
still hope, to consummate their wicked design by
raising false cries, and by making false accusa-
tions against all who oppose them. But the
sales are falling from the oyes of the producing
masses, and the ranks of the “unconditional Un-
ion men’’ are rapidly dwindling away. They are
beginning to perceive that a Union without con-
ditions is a delusion and a snare. Its symbolis a
helpless victim groaning beneath the weight of
his chains in the dungeons of a horrible bastile ;
ite seal is a death’s head and crcssbones We
want no such Union men as that, which Greeloy
& Co. tell us isthe “Unio as it should be.” We
want a conditional Union—the ond UNioN of
white men, based on th conditions of peace, fra-
ternity, equality and natural freedom. This ia
the kind of Union thinking people waut; and
thisis the only one worth trying to preerve or es-
tablish. But Greeley & Co. want no Union, un-
less it be on the condition that they are allowed
to dictate the terms and the people submit wr
conditionally. They insist on conditions for
themselves, and a:suming infallability, hiss like
Schiller, in his history of the Thirty Years’
War, thus describes the capture of Malgeburz. | to revolutionize this gove
« Exasperated by its long resistance, the com-
mander of the besieging army, on entering if,
abandoned the city to the unrestrained rage and
lust af hit soldiers. and a scene of horror ensued
which history has no language, poetry no petoil
to portray. Neither the innocence of childhood
nor ths tho helplessness of old age, neither rank,
sex nor beauty, could disarm the fury of the con-
querors. Nothing could afford protection. Fifty
tnree women were found beheaded in a single
church. Some of the soldiers amused themselyes
with throwing children into the flames, and oth-
ers with stabbing infants at their mothers breasts.
Heaps of dead bodies strewed the ground —
Streams of blood ran along the streets ; and the
city being fired at once in several places, tha at.
mosphere soon glowed with such intolerable heat,
as compelled even the soldiers themselves to seek
refuge in theircamps. More than five thousand
bodies were thrown into the river to clear the
streets. There perished in all not less than thir-
ty thousand. Madgeburg, one of the finest cities
in Germany, was a heap of ashes; and the next
day some of the few survivors wore seen crawling
out from under the dead; children wandering
about with heart rending cries in search of their
parents, and infaats still sucking the dead bodies
of their mothers.”
On our own continent the wars that have occurr-
ed daring the present century, have recorded in
characters of blood, the tact that the custom is
still wedded to barbarity, that cruelty and perfi
dy aro its legitimate offspring, and that civiliza-
tion has removed but few of its horrors, or abated
but few of its miseries.
What a picture for humanity, for reason, for
mercy to contemplate! And yet he who dares to
raise his voico against the monster, is a * trai-
tor,” ¢ disloyal,” &c. So says the war advocate.
So says the present political power, whose acts
are now and have beenand will continue to be,
baptized in blood, bathed wich the tears of wid-
ows and countersigned with the cries of orphans.
Say not you who are now filling high places, that
this awful ard deplorabls situation of our once
happy country could not have been avoiled.—
Nay, you cannot say #0 and give utterance to the
wrath. You know that this effusion of blood and
misery could have been prevented, which for al-
most two years has deluged our once b loved
conntry, through the acts of those who have be-
come traitors to the God of Love and Humanity.
It is impossible for any one to read the narra.
tive of the wars produced by the revolutions in
South America, without having the conviction
forced upon him, that the executions in cold
blood, the countless massacres, the treachery,
tho perfidy and contempt of the most solemn oaths
and engagements, of which the Spaniards were
guilty in every colony and almost in every dis-
trict, bear a fair comparison with the barbarous
and oxterminating hostilities of the Genghiy
Khans and Tamerlanes of Asia, and now follow
the Gen. MoNeals of America, with hosts of oth-
ers that could be added to the record. Many ev-
en of European birth, were, when they fell into
the hands ef the Spaniards, immediately shot or
brutally treated, and from the year 1810 to 1825
one million of human beings suffered death by
the sword in Spanish America.
But for examples of cruelty, treachery, perfidy
and contempt of solemn promises, that would be
dirgraceful in the most barbarous community, we
have only to look at the war in Florida, where tha
maxim that any means are justifiable which may
be employed with advantage against an enemy,
was practieally adhered to.
Look at the history of the crusade by the French
in Africa. Thousands upon thousands of soldiors
perished there. Over a thousand millions of
francs were expended, and at the end of fifteen
years, the writer says, *‘ we are hardly more ad-
vanced than on the first day.”” ** Nay,” says he,
+ we have retrograded. The crueltissof the mil-
itary leaders, the devastations such as the barba-
rians would hardly have committed, prisoners
butchered, women and children burnt to death in {
caves; all these ferocious deeds have kindled in |
the breasts of the people an implacable hatfod.
Blood oalls for blood ; crime provokes crime, and
our country expends in vain all its military and
financial resources ; everywhere is met a threat-
ening enemy, ready to renew unceasingly the con-
test, eager to take signal vengeance for the evils
he has suffered.”
¢ For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall
be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it
shall be measured to you again.” —MATTHEW VII
chapter, 2ud verse '
Remember this, YOU, at whoso command men
are led out and shot down like brutes.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Sere A Er.
I~ “The Age,” a new Domocratic Daily,
which was to have been started in Phila. the |
1st inst. has been delayel on uccount of the mar. |
nfacturers failing to complete the Power Press a* i
the time contracted for. The firs: number will |
not be issued now before late in the month of
March. \
Hon. R. F. Barron will please except: u hanke !
for a copy of of the “Burgeon General’s .usport,’ |
al30, for copies of the Legislative Record.
i
| by our
vipers at all who refuse to subit and allow thom
rthed us
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foref:
| wisdom
| tho me
tion of this monstrous
cred rights, must be “unc
—unconaitional fools or mud
witli
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ROL. ~— wibC isbn.
en
Abou; Advertising
The Alton Democrat makes the following ap
propriate suggestions about advertising. a mer-
chant who declines to give notoriety to his busi
ness by advertising, virtually declares he does not
desire the custom of the public, and the publis,
in the aggregate being a very sagacious individ-
ual geldom goes where he is not invited :
A Few Worps To our READERS —Always
read advertisements. It is to your interest to do
80.
In nine cases aut of ten the most honest, up-
right, trust-worthy liberal dsalersare those who
advertise the mos) extensively.
To advertise is to extend money prudently, and
the most sncoessful and liberal business men know
it and act accordingly.
Look over onr advertising colums daily and buy
of none you do not find there.
Narrow minds and misers are ¢sldom adver-
sare The liberal, frank, and freeways
a
a.
Tf a man does not think enongh af your en :tom
to ask you for it throngh yor eity paper hs is ua-
worthy of your patronags.
When you find 4 man who ia too cluse and stin-
gy to advertise, you san safely put him down as
to selfish to deal gencrously, and very fairly or
honestly.
Those who do not.advertise ask the largest yrof-
its and turn their money seldom.
Those who never advertise somstimes sell sta.
plo artitles at carrent prices but ther will i
you on articles where you are not familiar with
t he prices
You will save money by dealing with those
who advertise and refusing those who do
not.
Remember the above, and never deal with mon
who do not advertise at home.
mitment
CoxVENTION OF State PrisoNers.—Mr. D-
A. Mahony, (editor of the Dubuque. [owa) fler-
ald, and a vietim of the Bastile) who signs him-
self ¢ President Prisoners of State Association,”
has issued a proclamation, which, after enumera-
ting the tyrannies of tha administration, ¢. n-
cludes as follows: “Thoerefore, by virtue of au=-
thority vested in mo by the Prisoners of
State Association, composed originally of a por-
tion of the victims of despotism incarcerated in
the Old Capitol at Washington, but designed to
embrace every citizen who was made a victim of
arbitrary power for political opinion’s sake, I do
hereby canvine, on the 4th day of March next, in
the city of Now York, all such persons as have
been arrested without ehirge, imprisoned irith-
out trial, and discharged from confinement on the
mere order of Abraham Lincoln or of some of his
subordinates, for the purpose of devising, adopt-
ing and putting into practical effect such means
as might be deemed best to obtain satisfaction for
the outrages to which we, prisoners of State, have
been subjected, and reparation for the injuries
done usin person and property, and for the fur-
ther purpose af doing what becomes us as Ameri-
eau patriots to preserve our Constitution and gov-
ernment from total subversion. and the liberties
of the people from subjection to arbitrary power
Done at the city of New York, this 10th day of
February, 1863, and inthe second year ofthe su-
perceden ca by arbitary power of the Federal Con-
stitution. 3
in Ei A ee mr
New Verison of an ‘Old Rhyme.
Could we with ink tho osean fill;
Were the whole sky of parchment made
Were every single sticka quill,
And every man a seribe by trade—
The sea of ink, the paper sky,
Tha scribes and sticks would not suffice
. To write the Bluct Kepublican
Frauds, fallacie; and lies —Ex.
Cox's Epitaph on Lovejoy.
Beneath this stone good Owen Lovejoy lies,
Little in every thing except his size ;
What though his burly body fills this hole
Yet through hell's key-hole ciepthis little soul.
Ths Logan Gazette asks :
Pray, Mr Cox, rumove eno painful doubt.
Did T.owaioy’s little soul eroep in, or
our?
trees ec
Soldiers Daily Prayer.
Our Father, who art ia Washington. Uasie Ab-
raham; be thy name thy victory won ; thy will be
dono at the South as il 13 in the North ; give us
this day our daily rations of grackers and potk,
and forgive us our short-comings as we forf§ive
our qua termasters; for thine is the power {the
goidisse and negroes. for the space of three year?
—Amen!
EF In respect to pues affairs, the faction
now in authority may be fairly reduced to three
classes. Politically speaking, some are knaves,
some are fools, and the rest are both kuaves and
tools. Le: no one say this judgment is harsh. —
It is the judgment of the public opinion of this
country ; it 18 the judgment of the public opinion
of the world ; and it will be the judgment of pos-
MARRIED.
terity. — Ez.
On the evening of the 10th inst, by the Rey. R.
Hamill, Mr. George M. Boal, of Co. D. 148th
Reg’t, Penna. Volunteers to Miss. Elev, daugh-
= of Col, W. W. Love near Centre Ilill, Centre
o. .
On the 5th inst, by the Bev. R. Hamill
Mr. C. Boal, to Miss, Knte M. Slack, al! of Potts:
Township. :