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VIJUMAK. ❑ RITCHIE PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. 137" All business in tlreene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, - entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. J. A. J. BUeHANAN NUCILASTA.N & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS AND COIINSEIJSAS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office on the South side of Maio street, in the Ohl Bank Building. Jan. I, 1862. IL W. DOWNEY nownrisir do MONTGOMDRT ATToRNEys .AND COIINSELLWIS AT LAW, 117'0ff:we in 1 edwith's Building, opposite the Court house, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. M'CONNEI,I,. .1. J. ItUFFMAN. 111t 1 CONNELL & 3117FIMULN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS Al' LAW Waynesburg, Pa. frrothce In the "Wright Douse," East Door. Collections, &c.. will receive prompt atten tio n. Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. °dice in 'Sayers Building, adjoining the Post °dice. dept. 11, 1861—Iy. C. A. BLACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PdELAN, ♦TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS Ai LAW Office in the Court House, Way iieburg. Sept. 11,1861—1 y. PHYSICIANS B. M. BLACHLEY, M. D. linrilllClAN dr. BURGEON, Oillita—Blach.ley's Building, Main St., tItESPECTFUI hY announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac tice of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, L'itit-l). DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Office iu the Old Hank Building, Main street. Sept 11, ISM —lv. DR. A. 0. CROSS WMILD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the Mollie or Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health. and stria attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg, January 8, 1861. DR. A. J... 'ROOT .. RESPECTFULLY of Waynesburg affil.alitipiix. att,a Phytticiati awl Surgeon. Office opgttinleOle . itep.ffilirart office. He tipet byik der eee nriffe lawn of ffilittlall life Ake 441 1(12t emmufee Mediemitte, end 'strict attention - Ail-merit a liberal ahareof public patronage. V . . - - . .T. P. MUUM.:* , PS. iliiP'giC , P R 4t. .; ItING . . N. ,4101111 a e aid Roberts' Daiiding, oppasite Day's 481diarditaia. V=E== DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11,1861-Iy. ICERONANTS WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail pealel is Fotviaa and IMISMS tic Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11, 186l—ly. GEO. HOSKINSON, Opposite the Court House. keeps always ou hand large stock of Seasonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Notions generally. Sept. 11, 1861—Iv. ANDREW WILSiN, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Hardware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, HOD and Nails, H o ots and Shoes, hats and Caps, Hain street, one door east of the Old Dank. Sept. 11, 1861—ly. IL CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House. opposite the Court House. Main street. Sept. 11, MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. Gro -cedes, Queeusware, Hardware and Notions, opposite {ye Greet' Mouse. Matt, street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy, OLOTELIMG N. CLARK, Dealer in Men's and It.tvs' ta,si meres, Satinets, fiats anti tms. site., Main str. et, .p posite the Court house. dept. 11. lotil-1) A. J. SOkVbltts, Dealer in Men's and Boys' Clotlane, leuthunen's Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. It, 18111-4 in BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS - - J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker. Main street. early opposite the "Farmer's and Drover's Itatili." Every style of '✓Moots and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. • -dept. 11,1861-Iy. N. 11. McClellan soot and Shoe maker, Corner. Male *treet.„ 110003 and Shoes of every variety always on hand or made to order on short notice! Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GROCERIES & VARIETIES =EMIIMMMMI JOSEPH YATER, Dealer. in Groceries and Confectioneries.. Nailing, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, Am, Glass of MI sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. !I:rental paid for good eating Apples. Elept. 111, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and- Variety hoods Generally. Wilson's Ntw Building, Maio street. • Sept4j. 18 . 1-1 - . ''." • - . ' MOMS. tr.o. • , I,' EAVES DAY, dltlioolidid Idioadlaueouo MAO, Station i- - - . Wed okd Prom. Qiie door East of . .,i -. 111 .406 Sept: 11, 1101.1=-Iy. A TERRIBLE STORY OF THE RE BELLION. A correspondent of the New York Times, who dates from Springtie4d, Missouri, tells the following sad tale of 'the consequences of the rebel lion : The tender mercies of rebellion are cruel. I have just beard the sad story of a widow who has buried two sons and a daughter since the outbreak of the war. Her three children all fell by the hand of vio lence. She lived in the White River coun try—a land ofhills and of ignorance. lu that country she and her family stood almost alone upon the side of the National Union. Her ne.ighbors were advocates of rebellion. And even before the arrival of our army in Springfield, all loyal citizens were warned that they must leave their homes or die.• It was little that the poor widow had to leave—a misera ble log cabin and a small patch of hillside—but such as it was she, was preparing to abandon it, when her sou Harvey left her, in search of em ployment. She packed his bundle with a heavy heart, took a silk hand kerchief from her neck, gave it to him, and kissed him good-bye, never expecting to see him again. He had not gone many days when her persecution began. Her little boy was one evening bringing in wood for the fire, when a shot was beard—a bullet struck the log under his arm, and he dropped it with a scream. The ball had just missed his heart. Joy at his escape from death was henceforth mingled with gloomy apprehension. Next, she heard of the death of Harvey. He had found a home, and fancying himself secure, was alone at work in the field. The family with whom he lived were absent.— When they returned at noon they found the dead body in the house, pierced by a bullet. His cap torn and other signs witnessed to the se verity of his struggle before he yield ed to his murderer. VV:01. C. LINDSEY =9 From this time the family of Mrs. Willis lived in constant fear. One day a gun was fired at them as they sat at dinner. Often they saw men prowling about with guns, looking for the young men. One ►nan was bold enough to come into the cabin in search of them. At night they all hid in the woods and slept. The poor woman was one day gathering corn in the garden and William was sitting upon the fence. "Don't sit there, William," said his mother, "you are too fair a mark for a shot." William went to the door and sat upon the step. "William," said his sister, "you arc not safe therm Come into the house." He obeyed. lie was sitting be tween tv; o beds, when suddenly another shot rang upon the air, and the widow's second sou, Samuel, whom she had not noticed sitting by another door, rose to his feet, stag gered a few steps towards his moth er, and fell a corpse before her. I never wished any one in tor ment before," she said, "but I did wish the man that killed him was there." Her three oldest sons at once left the cabin and fled over the hills.— They are all in the National army to-day. Samuel's sister washed the cold clay and dressed it for the grave. After two days the Secession neighbors came to bury hint. At first the frantic mother refused to lot them touch his body. At last she consented. The clods were fall ing upon the coffin, each sound awakening an echo in her aching heart, when a whippoorwill fluttered down, with its wild, melancholy cry, and settled in the open grave. The note so terrified the conscience stricken, superstitious wretches that for a moment they fled in dismay. Two of her children were now in the t9mb. Three had escaped for their lives. The unhappy woman was left with her two daughters and three small children, helpless and alone. She was obliged to go thirty miles upon horseback to the mill for food, and afterward to return on foot, leading her horse by the bridle, with the sack of meal upon his back. On her return she met her children about a mile and a half from her own house. In her neighbor's yard her two boys, aged ten and twelve years ; were digging another grave— the grave of an old man, murdered in her absence for the crime of loyal ty for the Union. Together with a white-headed patriot, who tottered with age, they placed the corpse upon a board, rolled it, unprepared for burial and uncoffineid, into the shal low pit, and then covered it with earth. Such are the trials of loyal citizens in the Border Slave States, and wherever rebellion has been in power. The widow now escaped for re fuge to this city. And here, to crown her sorrows, in ' the absence ,)f her three oldest remaining: sons, a dranken soldier of the Fifth Kan sas Regiment shot - her daughter i; iocttlautfits. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1862. Mary as she was standing in the door of her house. is it any wonder that this woman's hair is gray, her forehead full of wrinkles, or that she should say, with tremulous tones, "I feel that I shall not live long. The only thing which sustains me is the love of Christ." Northern people know nothing of the horrors of war. MORTALITY IN THE ARMY. There is a vague popular appre hension that to go to war is to be al most necessarily killed in battle, or maimed for life by shot or shell. It is true that war is a hazardous game, the sole aim of which is the destruc tion of life; and a man must accept that fact with a manly spirit in en tering upon his career as a soldier.— Yet it is also true, as the history of all campaigns most fully proves, that death or wounds in battle is not the great peril of a soldier. lie is in far more danger in morals and in body, from vice and from the diseases inci dent to camp life, than from the weap ons of death in the enemy's hands.— . The Sanitary Commission published a report recently on the comparative mortality amon ,, soldiers, from di sease and from wounds received in battle, that is very surprising. It states that "the statistics of armies clearly reveal the fact that a much larger number of soldiers die from disease resulting from unfavorable hygienic circumstances than from wounds inflicted in battle." Arid many instances are given in English and French miVtary history to prove ' it. Sir David Brewster mentions that "the 92d Regiment lost more of ficers and men in four months from .the climate of Jamaica, than by the hand of the enemy, in an active war of twenty-two years, in the progress of which it was twenty-six times in battle. The whole number of officers and men sent to the East by the French during the two years (Crimean war) was 309,268. Of this number 200,000 were under treatment at the ambu lances and hospitals, viz; 50,000 for wounds and 150,000 for diseases.— Serive, an intelligent investigator, writes. "The losses occasioned by the most murderous battles do not equal one-fourth of the total losses to which an army is ordinarily subject ed." In the large French army of three hundred and nine thousand two hundred and sixty-eight sent to the Crimea, as before stated, there were sixty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-nine deaths.— Of these, only seven thousand five hundred were killed on the battle field, or not afterwards heard from Thus there were eight deaths from others causes in this brave and world renowned French army, where ther. was one death in battle. We remind the public of these facts, not to give the idea that war is not a dangerous and bloody business, but to assure them that its perils in battle are greatly exaggerated, its chief dan gers but imperfectly understood, and that the citizen going to war has his life and bodily health in his own hands, to a very great extent. Ile is in three times as much danger from his own imprudence or his comunan(' ing officer's neglect, as he is from tt murderous engines of the enemy SIXTY PERSONS POISONED. At Berlin, a most atrocious and fiendish cifime has been committed, which for its irreconcilability with human nature, and even the law of crimes, may perhaps stand unexam pled in all history of moral aberra tions. There is a fashionable tavern, with a park and garden, at the West end of the metropolis, the "Thier garten," where fashionable part es are in the habit of taking dinner or supper, celebrating marriage festivi ties, and the like. Last week, when a rich Jewish family had repair there to spend the afternoon with their guests ; consisting of sixty per sons, in honor of their daughter, wl had been given away in the forenoon, as the wedded wife of a rich Jewish merchant, they began their after noon diversions with drinking c.)ffee. No sooner had they tasted thir cups than thirty of them fell into fits, and were tortured with the most agoniz ing cramps, .and contortions of the bowels, while the others who had taken ess of the coffee, came off with qualms and vomiting. The lives of the principal sufferers are despaired of. Several doctors were immediate ly sent for, and hurrying to the spot, did what they: could for the sufferers of the moment, and centred their lA tention to the coffee, parts of which had been secured for chemical test. In some cups they discovered, on ex amination, otomic residues of crys tals, which were afterward ascer tained to consist of chemically pure morphium, one of the most powerful of poisons. Inquiries by the crimi nal police resulted in disappointment, till the antecedents of the proprietor of-the tavern, the Odeum, a'young man of. about • thirty, It Maeder were scrutinized and afforded'severni causes of suspicion. Maeder is the son of a woman who is just expiating the crime of repeated incendiariem in ( house of correction. Previous to her last act of incendiarism she lived with her son close to the institution "of a celebrated professor of chemis try, where the suspected son came and went as a friendly neighbor.— One day the professor missed, to his great surprise, a phial of crystallised morphium from his carefully locked up box of poisons, and never after wards could account for the disap pearance of this chemical prepara tion, which in its crystallised form is very rare. He was waited on by an officer of the criminal police, and told that his poison had been found in the waistcoat pocket of the young Mae der, part of which he had thrown in to the sixty cups of coffee before they had been served to his guests. He has been found out and arrested, and awaits his trial as aP wilful poisoner. He is possessed of an ungovernable hatred of the Jews, and is said to have coolly signified formerly his in tention to "do for them all." A LION IN LOVE. In one compartment of the cage in which the animals perform at Van Amburgh's menagerie, is a huge, tawny Asiatic lion. his room-mate is a black female tiger.-- This tigress is small compared to the regal lion, but is highly valued as a zoological curiosity, being the only specimen of the black tiger in this country. She was purchased by Mr. Van Amburgh two years ago, and has lived with the lion ever since. The attachment between the two is remarkable. When other an imals are in the same cage, and any affront is offered to the little tigress, she runs under the lion, and woe be to the animal that dares approach her. No matter how hungry he may be, the lion never touches his share of his daily meal until his little chum has selected her share, and even this he never entirely consumes until certain that she has had enough. All the animals are as fat as moles; but this black tigress is aldermanie in her proportions, and no remedy exists for the matter. She has been twice removed from the lion; but, until she has returned, the generous beast would neither take food nor rest, while the frantic manner in which he dashes at the bars was a sufficient warning that the further detention of the tigress would be a dangerous matter. Should his mate die, the lion would probably pine to death. Once, when she was taken away, a lioness was substituted.— The lion instantly fell upon her,and at a single bite broke her spine and crushed some of her ribs. Careful nursing saved her life, and she is still living, but with her hinder parts inimovab!,zed. M! In the old burying ground at Fred ericksburg, Virginia, is a tombstone with the following inscription: "Here lies the body of Edward Hel der, practitioner in physic chirurgery. Born in Bedfordshire, England, in the year of our Lord 1542. Was contem porary with and one of the pall-bear ers to the body of William Slink speare. After a brief illness his spir it ascended in the your of our Lord 1618, aged seventy-six." LORD CHANCELLOR NotrrutNoroN suffered much from gout; and once af ter some painful waddling between the woolsack. and the bar in the House of Lords, be was heard to mat ter: "If I had known that these legs were one day to carry a chancellor, I'd baw`amiken better care of them wreaf 44" ericksburg. MEMORY. Sir William Hamilton tells some huge stories in his lecture on Memo ry. Ben Johnston could not only re peat all he had written, but whole books he had read! If we had his faculty, we should pray to be deliver ed from the full exercise of it. Nie buhr, in his youth was employed in one of the public offices of Denmark, where part of a book of accounts having been lost, be restored it from his recollection. Seneca com plains of old age, because he cannot, as he once did, repeat two thousand names in the order they were read to him; and avers that on one occasion, when at his studies, two hundred un connected verses having been pro nounced by different pupils of his preceptor, he repeated them in revers ed order, proceeding from the last to the first uttered. A quick and atten tive memory, both of words and things, is an invaluable treasure, and may be bad by any one who will take the pains. Theodore Parker, when in the Divinity School, had a notion that _his memory was defective and need ed looking after, and he bad an im mense chronologial chart hung up in his room, and tasked himself to com mit the contents—all the names and dates, from the year one, down through Nimrod, Ptolemy, Soter, Heliogabalus and the rest. Our ver bal memory soonest tails us, unless we attend to it and keep 'it in fresh order. A child will commit and recite verbatim easier than an adult, and girls than boys. To keep the verbal memory fresh,it is capital exercise to study and acquire new languages, or commit and treasure up choice pas sages, making them a part of our men tal wealth.--loOhly Religious if aga zine. MORE AGAINST TOBACCO. A large proportion of habitual smokers are rendered lazy and list less, indisposed to bodily and inca pable of much mental exertion.— Others suffer from depression of the spirits, amounting to hypochondria sis, which smoking relieves for a time, though it aggravates the evil afterward Occasionally there is a general nervous excitability, which though very much less in degree, par takes of the nature of the delirium tremens of drunkards. I have known many individuals to suffer from se vere nervous pains, sometimes in another part of the body. Almost the worst case of neuralgia that ever came under my observation arose from the habit of smoking, or. the discontinuance of which he slowly and gradually recovered. An emin ent surgeon, who has great exper ience in opthalmic diseases, believes that in same instances, he has been able to trace blindness from amauro sis to excess in tobacco smoking; the connection of the two being pretty well established in one case from the faet, that, on the practice being left off, the sight of the patient was gradually restored. From cases which havelallen under my own ob servation and from a consideration of all the circumstances, I cannot entertain a doubt that, if we could obtain accurate statistics on the sub ject, we would find that the value of life in inveterate smokers is consid erably below the average. A grave question remains to be considered. What will be the result if this habit be continued by future generations? It is but too true that the sins of the fathers are visited up on the children and the children's children. Wo may take warning from the fate of the Red Indians of America. An intelligent American physician gives the following explan ation of the gradual extinction of this remarkable people : One gener ation of them became addicted to the use of fire-water. They have a degenerate and comparative imbecile progeny, who indulge in the same vicious habit as their parents. Their rogeny is still more degenerate, ,nd after a few generations the race vases altogether. We may also \ke warning from the history of lother nation, who some few cen- ries ago, while following the ban ners of Solyman the Magnificent, were the terror of Christendom, but wtio, since then, having become more addicted to tobacco smoking than any of the European nations, are now the lazy and lethargic Turks, held in contempt by all civilized communities.—Dr. Brodie, of London. INFLUENCE. So curiously are we linked together in the chain of being, that influence passes on from generation to genera tion. A pebble dropped in the placid lake lifts a concentric wave; as that subsides another and another, with still increasing compass, swells, from the bosom of the yielding deep; nor does its agitation cease until the extended circle breaks on the distant shore. So with influence. Naught but the shores of time can stay the energy aroused by our example:— Nor they indeed, for SS the wave, overleaps their crumbling verge, the waters of the illimitable beyond rise and sink, swell and subside, in ceaseless pulse forever. Mir Be just and fear net, What One Woman Can Do. Mrs. Thaddeus Bradley, of Johns ton, Trumbull county, Ohio, has given at different times five hundred pairs of woollen socks to the "Soldiers' Aid Society." Her husband is an exten sive dealer in wool, and the old lady "appropriates" accordingly. She has at present ten ladies engaged in knitting socks. She has five sons, fourteen nephgvs, and twelve grand sons in the Seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and she volunteered to goto the hospital as nurse, but on ac count of per age—seventy-one—was refused by Gov. Todd. When re fused she immediately sent the Gov ernor $1,500 to apply toward reliev ing the sufferings of our noble youths who have gone forth so gallantly "to battle for the right." Be Truthful to Children. Some people tell lies to children with a view of enjoying a laugh at their credulity. This is to make a mock at sin, and they are fools who do it. The tendency in a child to be lieve whatever it is told, is of God for good. It is lovely. We should rev erence a child's simplicity. Touch it only with truth. TOOK THE OATIL—About five hun dred of the Tennessee prisoners have been discharged from Camp Morton upon taking the oath of allegiance and giving bond for their good behav iour. As they were leaving, the Ken tuckians gathered around them, hoot ed and threw clubs and stones at them and a riot was prevented only by the coolness of Col. Rose in ordering in a heavy guard. sair"lf you want to paint your face all over with tracks, you have but to. harbor vicious thoughts; but if you want to be good-looking, be good."— Horace .ilann. ADDRESS OY THE Democratic State Central Committee To the Democrats and all the other Friends of the Constitation and Union in Pennsylvania. (Concluded from our Lust.) In further prosecution of the emancipa tion project of the Abolitionists we have the proposition to arm and enlist the ne groes as soldiers. Indeed, we are inform ed, from official sources, that one General in the army has organized a full regiment of negroes. We forbear to discuss the question, whether such soldiers (?) are not a burlesque upon the name, and whether clothing and arming negroes as such, be side the waste of clothes, arms, and other supplies, ie not exposing us to defeat in battle, from the clearly established fact that the negro is utterly disqualified by na ture to stand the musketry and artillery fire—not to speak of the bayonet charge— of modern warfare. The subject has infi nitely greater proportions when regarded in its effect to discourage enlistments by our own race; resulting from the com mendable repugnance of the white man to placed upon an equality of military rank with the negro. But not the least objectionable consider ation is the fact that this inferior race, having their minds and passions inflamed by the tales of real or imaginary wrongs, which Abolitionism is too careful to im part to them, will, with arms in their hands, perpetrate the atrocities of "the indiscriminate slaughter of all ages, sexes and conditions"—barbarity in warfare— of which our ancestors complained against Great Britain, who had employed against them the "merciless Indian savages." The history of negro wars and insurrec tions in St. Domingo and other West In dia Islands, is replete with the barbarities of rapine, and slaughter of helpless wo men and infants, that shock the sensibili ties of the lowest development of humanity in the white man. And yet, should the negroes in the Southern States be employ ed and armed by the Federal Government against the white population, then the atrocities of the West India Islands we may naturally expect to be repeated here, on a vastly more extended scaAe. Against such a fiendish policy would not only the moral sensibilities of all the whites of the Northern States who have not become bru talized by the devilishness of Abolitionism, be most painfully shocked, but the whole civilized world would condemn us, And probably, in the cause of humanity, rise to stay atrocities so disgraceful. But what sane man can doubt that un der such policy the last spark of Union sentiment in the South would be extin guished, and the entire Southern popula tion become united as one person against the Government ? It were the merest folly to suppdse otherwise! How then would such fighting bring back the revolted States in the Union? Can the 8,000,000 of white people there be held, under our re publican form of Government, in subjuga tion ? Is it believed that the people of the North sari be maddened into the effort for the extermination of eight millions of people with whom we have hitherto lived in Union held together by fraternal bonds, and most of whom are bound to members of our own population by the closest ties NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 13 of condanguinity ? If we were exhaust all our physical resources and all our pecu niary means, could we, if we would, ac complish such purpose of extermination? Can we hold the Southern States or people in subjugation without overthrowing our Constitution and the Union; without, in fact, establishing a Government the moat despotic ? We need not answer for these inquiries. We know what must the eeeponee of every mind not demented by Abolitionism. Have we not shown, then, the policy of Abolitionism, if carried out, is the over throw of our Constitution and Union ? That Abolitionists are the enemies of the Republic? Believing we have done so, it remains to inquire : What is the relief for us in this our hour of gloom for our beloved country ? We answer : Remove the causes; remove Abolitionism and Se cessionism. Put down the former at the ballot-box ; put down the latter (backed by arms,) by force of arms. In the exe cution of the latter, insist that the Gover nment shall stand by its plighted faith—to conduct the war to uphold the Constitution and the Union, and not, as Abolitionism would have it, to make disunion complete, and to overthrow the Constitution ! As Pennsylvanians, you have probably a greater stake in the preservation of the Union than the people of any other State. Should the co-operative, yet, in some sense, hostile movements of Abolitionism and Secessionism succeed, and disunion become an established fact, Pennsylvania, owing to her peculiar geographical posi tion, would be exposed to the desolatiori and become the battle-field of conflicting forces that might undertake to settle all questions that would remain as the her itage of disunion. These, however, we will forbear now to contemplate ; for we are unwilling to be lieve that "that God who presides over the destinies of nations" will permit such a terrible dispensation to befall us. We are unwilling to believe that the people of the free States will ever become so maddened as to aid the spirit of Aboli litionism that seems now to brood over us like some evil genius, that would control us to our destruction. It cannot be that we are to have a doom worse than befell Babylon after she had "become the habi tation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit." The only excuse offered by Abolitionism for its policy is the plausible fallacy that "slavery is the cause of our threatened disunion." To those who look only to immediate and approximate causes, this position is captivating; but to those who remember that the original Union, which waged the war of the Revolution, was made up of thirteen slave-holding States; that the Union at the time of the adoption of the, present Constitution, consisted of twelve slave-holding to one free State, it is very plain, that instead of slavery producing disunion that, unless it had been recognized and the faith of the whole people pledged ' for its protection, this Union would have never existed. It would be as reasonable to argue that houses and money should be exterminated. because so long as they exist titere will be incendiaries and thieves, as to argue that slavery should be destroyed, because so long as it exists there will be Aboli tionists. Houses and money are not more clearly and decidedly recognized by the Constitution and the laws of the Fed eral Government, as subject to the laws and protection of the States where they exist, as is the right of the master to the services of his negro slave in States where negro slavery is recognized. Incendiaries and thieves no more violate the recognized rights of others when they burn houses and commit robbery, than do Abolition ists, when, by the underground railroad or other devices, they deprive the slave holder of the South of that property to which the Constitution and the laws :of his State, as well as those of the United States guarantee protection. If in the at-- tempt to commit arson or robbery, life is taken, it is murder in the first degree, so too it is murder of the same grade to take life in the unlawful attempt to de prive the owner of his rights in the ser vices of his negro. And here, too, I, e will remark that the present war, if Abo litionists should succeed in diverting it from its proader purpose of upholding the Constitution ar►d the Union and pros tituting it to their cherished object of freeing negroes by killing white men, would become an atrocious murderous war, that would justly subject all who give it such direction to the penalty of the law imposed against the highest of crimes. The policy of Abolitionism, therefore, is not only unsupported by one tenable ground, even for its palliation, but judged by its objects and effects, it ie in the high est degree criminal and disloyal. By erad icating Abolitionism, we remove not only sectionalism from the North, „but damage the cause of sectionalism irlitbe South. The fall of Abolitionism, we verily be lieve, would in a short time be attended - by the fall of secessionism. Although the imaginary advantages of a Southern Con federacy, entertained by many in the re volted States, has secured for it uncondi tional supporters, yet the desolation that has already attended upon their efforts at
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