COLUMBIA
DEMOCRAT,
AND BLOOMSBURGr GENERAL ADVERTISER.
LEVI L. TATE, EDITOR.
"TO nOLD AND TKIM THE TOUGH OP TRUTH AND WAVE IT O'ER THE DARKENED EARTH."
TERMS: $2 00 PER ANNUM
VOL. 17. NO, 21.
BLOOMS BURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENNA,, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1863,
VOLUME 27.
tUnLISHED EVERY SATURDAY) BY
LEVI L. TATE,
tN' BLOOMSBURO, COLUMBIA COUNTY, TA,
offTob
7i the new Brick Duilding, opposite the
jxciiaigetoy tnc vourt House, "lemo
vatic Head Quarters."
Select Poetry.
FASHIONS KXTKAORDIMMtr.
Tho dauihtar till in the parlor,
And rocki In hrr es.y chair :
Ihc'a clad In her .Ilk. ami satin.,
And Jew.l. r In her hair;
She wlnki, one) giggle, and almpcri,
And ilmperi, and glgglei, and irink.,
Aad though .ha talki but little,
'Til raitljr mora than ilia think.
Her father goe clad In hi. runct,
And ragged and iccdy at that ;
IIli coati arc all out at tho rlbovr
Ilo weara a mo.t .hocking bad hat.
He'i hoarding and i.n ing hli ihllllngi.
Bo carefully, day by day,
While the, on her beaux and her poodlei,
li throning lull away,
She Ilea abod In tho morning
Till nearly the hour of nona ;
Then conic, down mapping and marling,
"eeauie aha was called so toon,
tier bair If alii! in the paper.,
Her cheekj .till dabbled with paint
Serualns of her laat nirht'a blutbea,
llcforo the intended to faint.
She doata upon men uniharen,
And men with the "Mowing hair ;"
She'e clomcnt over mustaches,
They give auch a foreign air ;
eii talka of Italian uiuiir,
And fall, in lore with the moon,
And though but a mouse ihoald u.rt hit,
fihe .Ink. uwny in a xvoou.
tier feet nrc .0 very llttlo.
Her hand, ore ao very white,
n.r jewel, nrc .0 rcry hcary.
And her head i. jo very light,
Her color i. niada of coametic,
Though till the never will own;
Hr bndy'a made mostly of cotton.
Her heart la mado n holly of .tone I
?h falls In lore with a fellow.
Who atrula with a foreign air;
II. mania, her fur her money
She marries linn for hi. hair;
One of the very bctt matches
lleth are well mated in lifiil
Pho gttta a fool for a husband,
And b. gets a fibl for a wife I
Columbia Democrat
KDITHD BY hKXl h. TATE, PROPRIETOR
BLOOMSliURG, PA.
Saturday, .July 25, ISG3.
'There ore not spires enough in this
"ity to avert the wrath of Heaven, if sonic
thing is not speedily tlono to lighton tho
awful misery which this mob has brought
upon our colored population,"
A". K Times.
Tho attacks which wcro made upon the
poor negroes during the recent riots were
altogether unjustifiable. Hut they arc tho
legitimato consequence of tho Abolition
polioy : and the best way to "lighten the
nwful misery'' which has been brought
upon the colored race, and the white pop
ulation also, is to get rid ef tho Abolition
party as soon as possible.
Tuosr. "Stolen Arms." Perhaps no
story has been more widely circulated or
more generally believed, than that largo
numbers of arm were stolen and sent
tsouth in anticipation of the war. Mr.
Buchanan, in his last letter to Gen. Scott,
settles this question beyond denial. He
states, and shows from a report of Mr.
Stanton, of Ohio, made to the IIouso of
Representatives, February 16th, 1801,
that tho Southern States received in 1800
less instead of more ihan their quota of
arms to which they were entitled by law,
and that three of them, North Carolina,
Mississippi and Kentucky, received no
arms whatever, 6imply becauso they did
not ask for them !
A Fact Easily Obseuved. Whcnov-
r vou find a newspaper continually de
nouncing Democrats as traitors and cop
ncrhcads. vou can ret tho editor down as
'-& coward and a fool. It is a suro sign.
i
All honorable, high-minded men never re
eort to suoh low slang and abuse. He
thinks moro of his character as a patriot
and a christian than to bo caught engaged
in such dirty work. Ho knows that
Democrats nnd Republicans fill one com
mon gravo on tho battlo field, and that If
ever this rebellion is put down it must bo
done by iho united strength of both parties,
and instead of attempting to inaugurate
civil war between Democrats and Repub
licans in tho North, ho urges them to unite
their strength and crush out this rebellion.
Fools, however, talk differently. Such
men aro a withering curso td tho commu
nity in which thoy reside, and aro, as it
wero, larriors in the way of umttBg publio'
lentimf nt.
Thaddous Stevens' PoHcy.
In a speech delivered beforo tho Re
publican County Convention, in tho city
of Lancaster, on tho 3d of September last,
Mr. Slovens said:
" Abolition ! yes, abolish tvcrytfnng on
the face of the earth but this Union ; Jree
every slave slave every traitor
BUKN EVERY REBEL MANSION, if
these things bo necessary to preserve this
temple of freedom to tho world and to our
posterity Unless tve do this tve cannot
conquer them.1"
Curses, liko chickens, corao homo to
roost so says the old proverb, and Mr.
Stevens has had it verified in hi: own ex
perience since tho rebel invasion of Penn
sylvania. While tho rcbol troops were
occupying York, a detachment of tho rebel
force crossed over into Adams county and
destroyed the Ualedonia Iron works, own
ed by Mi. Stevens, involving a loss of
from 850,000 to 8100,000 1 This vandal
policy may do well enough to talk about
when invading the enemy's country, two
or three hundred miles off, but it is quite
a different thing when wc, in turn, become
the invaded party, and have our property
the hard earned accumulation of many
years becomo a prey to tho enemy. Mr.
Stevens' prophesies and ferocious precepts,
by their pitiublo results, serve to point a
moral which tho American people would
do well to heed. It proves that he and
tho party of which ho is a conspicuous
leader are lacking in foresight, capacity,
discretion, and those higher moral quali
ties which make a people progressive, pow
crful and honored.
Loyal Leagues.
Whcro wcro the Union Leaguo organi
zations when Pennsylvania was invaded
by tho Rebels? Where? and echo may
answer Whkre ? for only from coho will
answer bo reeieved so far as tho Leagues
are concerned. It is true that a few of the
members voluntoerod, and that some Lea
gues undertook to raiso volunteer-, in
whicL they were remarkably unsuccessful.
Professing more patriotism than any body
else- specifically sworn to an extra de
gree of patriotism denyiug that admira
ble quality to every body else and siigma
Using all who do not bolong to them as
'Copperheads" organised thoroughly as
they aro and some of them are drilled ; it
was natural under these circumstances to
suppose that if the Rebels would dare to
invade, all tho Leagues in tho State
would rush to repel them. But no Leagues
turned out no majority of any League
that wo have heard of turned out only a
small per ccntagc of Leaguers faced tho
thundering cannon of tho rebels I Demo
crats wcro thcro in abundance ono in
chief command eveu 'Copperheads'rushed
to the rescue without organization, but no
organized Loyal League went in a Lo.ly !
Who would not sneer at such patriotic
organizations! Loyal Leagues Union
Leagues organized, enrolled, but nary
turn out when the Rebels came ! No they
arc organized to villify Democrats, not to
fight Jiebets J To defend and protect Abo
litionism, not the Union ! To act as a
home guard for tho women and children
while those who aro not of their organi
zation nobly fight tho Nation's battles !
Such defenders of the Union !
But tho Leagues can yet vindioatc them
selves. Let them offer their services as
organizations to the State, giving full libts
all their members, and be put under legal
oath to bo ready at any time within three
yearn to obey tho orders of the Governor
to march to any given point, at any mo
ment, to repel invasion. Wo are not au
thorised to speak, yet wc do not in tho loast
doubt but that Judge Woodward, will, un
der his administration, give them all a
chance to test their metal in case of inva
sion I That would vindicate their honor
for their remissness under Cukti.v. If
they are better patriots than the Democrats
the ''Copperheads" lot them give some
proof ol it substantial proof but no more
of their big words "of learned length and
thundering sound."
. . .
The Philadelphia North .American, in
speaking of tho riot in New York, said,
"we owo nothing to Democratic leaders
and newspapers." While tho history of
tho past few days proves that tho leaders
of tho Democratio party struggled with all
their pewer to suppress tho riotous demon
strations in Now York, the record of tho
past few years clearly establishes tho fact
that the incendiary and inflammatory
teachings of tho Abolition leaders and
newspapers originated tho present fearful
disregard of law and ordor which provails
throughout the country,
fifly It is said that with a Yankee, every
day t day of "reclining."
National Affairs.
SPEECH
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EX-PRESIDIWJL' FIERCE.
Tho following speech was dolivercd by
ox-President Franklin Pierce, on tho oc
casion of his presiding at tho great Demo
cratio mass meeting at Concord, N. II., on
tho Fourth :
Mv Friends and Fellow Country
men : whilo 1 have cotno to prcsido at
this meoting, at your biddiug, permit me
to say that no command lets imperative)
than your wish on such an occasion would
have brought mo here; aud I trust that in
view of tin great aggregation of personal
relations which thirty years of manhood
life have formed between us, you will rcc
ogtiizo in this fact a warm reciprocation,
on my part, of the respect and affection
which, in all that lime, I hava never failed
to find on yours. Wc meet on the anni
versary of a day hallowed by solemn
memories, and sanctified as that of tho
birth of the American Union. Tho Dec
laration of Iudependcuco laid the founda
tion of our politico! grcatti!S4 in the two
fundamental ideas of tho absolute indepen
dence of the American people, aud of the
sovereignty of their respective states.
Under that standard our wiso aud hcroie
forefathors fought the battle of tho Invo
lution ; undir that they conquered in
this spirit they established the Union,
having the conservative thought over pres
ent to their minds, of the original sovcr
cignty and independence of tho several
states, all divers institutions, iutorcsts,
opinions and habits, to he maintained in
tact and secure, by tho reciprocal stipula
tions and mutual compromises of the con
stitution. They wero ma ter builders,
who reared up the grand structures of tho
Union, that augU3t temple heuuatli whoso
dome ttireo generations have enjoyed ;uch
blessing of civil liberty as were never be
fore vouchsafed by Providence to man
that temple before whose altars you and
I have not only bowed with devout and
grateful hearts, but were, with patriotic
vows and sacrifices, wo have so frequent
ly consecrated ourselves to tho protection
and maintenance of thoso lofty columns
of the Uotutitution by which it is upheld.
No visionary enthusiasts w re they dream
ing vainly of the impossible uniformity of
somo wild Utopia of their own imagina
tions. No desperate reformers were they,
madly bent upon schemes which if consum
mated, could only result in general con
fusion, anarchy, and chaos. Oh, no 1 high
hearted, but sagacious and patrctica! states
men, they were, who saw society as a liv
ing fact not as a troubled vision; who
knew that national power consists in tho
reconcilement of diversities of iust tutiuns
aud interests, not their conflict and oblit
eration ; aud who saw that variety and
adaption of part aro necessary elements
of all there is sublime or beautiful in the
works of art or of nature. Majestic wi re
the solid foundations, the massive masona
ry, the columned loftiness of that magnifi
cent structure of tho Union, Glorious
was the career of prosperity and peace
and power upon which, from its very birth
day, the American Union cutorcd, as
with tho assured march ol the conscious
offspring of those giauts ol the Revolution.
Such was tho Union, as conceived and
administered by Washington and Adams
by Jefferson and Madison and Jackson.
Such I say, was the Union, cro tho evil i
times befell us; ere the madness of sec-
tional hatreds, animosities possessed U3 ;
ere tho third generation, the all compre
hensive patriotism of Fathers had died out
and given place to the passionate emotions
ot narrow and aggressive sectionalism.
The Eastern States covnrcd the sea with
their ships, tho land with their farms and
manufactures ; so did the middle Atlantio
States with addition of their mineral
wealth of co;tl and iron; while tho South
ern StatoH, with their lich, soft climnto and
congenial soil, rawed up those great sta
ples of cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice and
corn, which are tho life of commerce and
manufactures, aud the vast regions of tho
West grew to bo tho granaries of Europe
and America; and still further on was
revealed the land of gold and silver, on
the remote shore of tho Pacific These
were tho material elements of our natioual
power each stato with its difference of
interests, co-operating with the others to
constitute ono harmonious whole, And so
was tho various European races coexisting
hero, though differing in blood, religion,
t'impcr, tho Protestant and tho Cathnlio,
the Puritan aud the Cavalier, yet, by
their very differences ofcharactcr afforded
the mental and moral elements of the
power of tho Union, Glorious, sublime
above all that history records of national
g-oatness, was the speotaolc whioh the
Union exhibited to the world, so long as
the true spirit of tho Constitution lived in
tho hearts of the people, and government
was a government of men reciprocally re
specting ono nnothcr's rights, aud of
states, each moving, plant like, in tho or
bit of its propor place in the firmament of
tho Union. Then wo were tho model
ropublic of tin world, houorod, loved, or
feared where wo wore not loved, respected
abroad, peaceful and happy at homo. No
American citizen was then subject to bo
diiven into exilo fcr opinions sake, or ar
bitrarily arrested and incarcerated in mili
tary bnstilcB even as ho may now bo
no! for acts or words of imputed treason
but if ho do but mourn in silent sorrow
over the desolation of his eonntrv : nntm.
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Vi "tiled hoMi cf Amerloais were then wash
ing their lives and resources in sanguiuary
civil strife ; no suicidal nud parricidal
citil war then swept like a raging tempest
of death over tho stricken homesteads and
wailing cities of tho Union. Oh, that
such a change should have como over our
country in a day, as it were as if nil men
in every stato of tho Union, north and
south, East and Wrcst, wero suddenly
smitten with homicidal madness, and "the
custom of fell deeds'' rendered as familiar
as if it wcren part of our inborn nature; as
it an avenging angel had been suffered by
Providence to wavo a sword ol flaming
Gro above our heads, to convert so many
million of good men, living together i
brotherly love; into insenato beings, sav
cgely bent on the destruction of them
selves and of each other, and leaving but
a smouldering ruin of conflagration and of
blood in the placo of our once blessed Un
ion. I endeavor sometimes to close my
oyes to tho sight of woe, and to ask my
self whether all this is can be to inquire
which is true, whether the past happiness
and prosperity of my country are but the
flattering visiou of a happy sleep, or its
present misery aud dessolation happily tho
delusion of some disturbed dream. One
or tho other sees incredible and impossi
ble; but alas ! tho stern truth cannot thus
be dispelled from our minds. Can you
fogct, ought 1 especially to bu expected to
forget, those no.t remote days in tho his
tory of our country, when its greatness
and glory shed in reflection at least of
their rays upon all our lives, and thus en
abled us to read the lessons of tho fathers
and of their Constitution in the light of
their principles and thair deed ? Then
war was conducted only against the for
eign enemy, and not in tho spirit and pur
pose of persecuting non-combatant r.otu!a
tions nor burning uudefeuded towns or
private dwellings, and wasting tho fields
of tho husbandmen, of tho workshops of
the aitisan, but of subduing armed hosts
in tho field. Then the Congress of the
United States was the great council of
tho whole Union and all its parts Then
the executive administration looked with
impartial eye over the wholo domain over
the Union, auxious to promote the inter
ests and consult the honor aud just pride
of all tho states, seeing no power beyond
the law, and devoutly obedient to the de-
mauds of the Constitution. How is all
this changed ! And why ? Have wc not
been told, in this very place, not two
weeks ago, by the voice ot an authorita
tive cxposter ; do we not all know that
tho cause 67 our calamities is the vicious
iutcrnicddUing of too mariy of the citi
zens of the Northern States with the con
stitutional rights of the Southern States
co-operating with tho discontouts of the
people stales ? Do wo not know that the
disregard of the Constitution and of the
security it afford to the rights of status
and of individuals, has been the cause of
the calamity which our country is called
to undergo I and now, war ! war, in its
direst shape war such as makes the blood
run cold to read of the history of oihor
nations and other times war, on the
scale of a million of men in arms war,
horrid as that of barbaric occs races in
several of the states of the Union, as its
more immediate field and casts tho lurid
6hadow of its death and, lamentation
athwart the wholo expanse, and into every
nook and corner of our vast domain.
Nor is that all ; for in those of the states
which are exempt from the actual ravages
of war, in which the roar ol tho cannon.
and the rattle of tho musketry, and tho
groans of the dyiug, are heard but as a
taint echo ot terror Irom other lands,cvcn
Here in tlic loyal slates, the mailed hand
ol' military usurpation strikes down the
liberties ot tho people, and its foot tram
ples on a desecrated Constitution. Ayo,
iu this land of free thought, free speech
aud free writiug in this republic of free
suffrage, with liberty of thought and ex
pressions as the very essence of republi
can institutions even hero, iu these free
states it is made criminal for a citizen sol
dier, liko gallant Kdgerly of Now Hamp
shire to votu according to his conscienen,or,
like that noblo martyr ol free speech Mr.
Vallandigham, to dUciies publio affiirs in
Ohio, ayo, even hero, tho temporary ageuts
of the sovereign peoplo, tho iran-iior-y ad
ministrators of the government tells us that
in time of war the mere arbitrary will of
tho President tikes tho place of the Con
etitution, aud tho President himself an
nounces to us that it is treasonable to
peak or to write otherwise than as he
may prescribe : nay, that it is treasonable
even to be silent, though wo bo struck
dumb by the shock of the calamities with
which evil counsels, incompetency and
corruption have overwhelmed our country!
I will not say this without referring to the
authority upon which I rely. In his let
ter of Juno 12, 18GI), adresscd to Erastus
Corning and other citizens of tho Stato of
Now York, the Provident makes uso of the
following extraordinary language : ''in
deed, arrests by process of courts aud ar
rests in eases of rebellion, do not proceed
altogether upon tho samo bais, tho for
mer is directed at tho small percentage of
ordinary and continuous perpetration of
criiiio. whilo tho latter is directed nt f-ud-den
and exienivo upiising against the gov
ernment, which, at most, will succeed or
fail in no groat length of timo. In tho
latter caso arrests aru mado, uot so much
for what has been done, as for what prob
ably would ho done. Tho latter is moro
for tho preventive and less for tho vindic
tive then tho former. In suoh cases tho
purposes of men are much moro easily un
derstood than in cases ol ordinary crime.
The man who stands by and says nothing
irlinthe peril of his govenment is diatua-s
cd, cannot be misunderstood. If not hin
dered, ho is suro to liolp the enemy ; much
more, if he talks ambiguously talks for
his country with "buts ' aud "ifs" and
'ands." It ts seen by this letter, at least,
that there is no longer doubt as to where
the responsibility for thoso unconstitutional
acts of the last two years, perpetrated by
subordinate offircrs of tho federal govern
mcnt. both civil and military, properly
attaches; but who I ask, has clothed the
Picsident with power to dictate to any
one of us when wo must or wc may speak
or bo 6ileut upon any subject, and espe
cially in relation to the conduct of any
public servant? lly what right decs he,
jiresunio to prescribe a formula of lan
guage for your lips or mine? It seems in
crcdiblo even with this authenticated pa
per before us, it is amazing, that any such
sentiment should havo found utterance
from the elected representative of a free
government like that of tho United States.
My friends, let those obey auch honest who
will ; you and I have been nurtured here
among the granite hills and under the clear
skies of New Hampshire into no such ser
vile tcmpcramci t. Truo it is, that any of
you, that I my self, may be the next vic
tim of unconstitutional, arbitrary , irre
sponsible power.
But we, nevertheless, aro freemen, and
we resolve to live, or if it must be to dio
such. Falter who may, wc will never
cease to hold up on high the Constitution
of tho Union, though torn to shreds by tho
saoriligeous bauds of its enemies. How
strikingly significant, how suggestive to us
on this occasion, is the contemplation of
that auctist spectacle of the recent conven
tion at Indianapolis, of seventy-five thou
sand citizens calmly aud bravely partici
pating iu the discussion of the great
principles underlying their sacred rights
us freemen neither awed by cannon
frowning upon their liberties nor provoked
by threats into retaliatrry violence. I
would say to you fellow-citizens, emulate
that exhibition of wisdom and patriotism.
He patient, but resolute. Yield nothing
of your rights, but bear and forbear. Let
your action show to tho world that with
courage to confront despotism you havo
also the discretion to avoid inconsideraiion
action in resisiing its advances. Gcorgo
Washington and Samuel Adams, Mathcw
Thornton and Charles Carroll George Reed
and Roger Sherman, Philip Livingston and
William Hooper, Benjamin Franklin and
FCdward Rutlegc, Georgo Walton and
Richard Slockto i, with their associates I
of all tho thirteen then Independent sov
ereign states, stood eigty-seven years ago
to-d.iy, in that simple but raoit mcmora
ble room, where the Declaration
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uiu t uuui j nuciu hill. ivit.iu,iuu u o ' o
signed, like tho people of ihe states whom ; when they open their eyes upon rho dawn-
they represented, with the solemn grand-1 l"S day, struggle against them though
cur of high resolves, if apparently weak, c7 may. Why should they attempt to
vet with their armor on and their hearts disguise it ? Solicitude which hinges up-
stung for the great contest of civil liberty. ' on apprehension of personal danger or
If we cannot be joyous and exultant on' Frsoual loss, and that alono, is contempt-
this anniversay of that day, it may do us 'u'
good to remember that joy anil exultation I Trifling men may indulge in trifling
were far Irom the hearts of the brave men words and thoughts, while the foundations
who sanctioned tho Declaration of Indc-jlaidby ths fathers are crumbeling bo-
pendencc, and then fought seven years to neath their feet; but the artificers who
maintain it. No ! they were not joyous, i laid those foundations found no time for
bat determined. They felt the inspiration I trifling whilo engaged in their graud seri
of a great object; and they sought its ac-1 ous work ; nor can you; They could lift
omplishment with a stem, devoted, sell- up their souls in prayer ; but they had no
sacrificing spirit. They wero animated heard for levity and mirth. My friends,
by that determination which in a righteous
cause of sclfvindication is invincible. They
kuew the condition of tho provinces in
in point of men and munitions, and they
had a clear prcception of the colossal pow
er which they were to confront. But nei
ther ono nor the other consideration, nor
bjth combined, shook either their faith or
thfcir eoungo. They compensated for the
want of numbers, arms, and all which un
der ordinary circumstances goes to consti
tute tho sinews of war, by the glow of their
patriotism and the strength of their pur
pose. To be sure they fought for their
rights, but their endurance and energy
wero quickened by an incalculable power ;
they fought for their homes, their liearth
utones, their wives and children behind
them.
I trust it may bo profitable on this oc
casion, as tho call of your meetirg suggests,
to revive the memories of that heroic epoch
of the republic, even though they come
laden with regrets, and hold up that period
of our history in contrast with the present.
Though thoy o mo to remind us of what
wero our relations during the Revolution,
and iu later years, prior to 1801, to that
commonwealth which wo were accustomed
to refer to by tho came of "tho Mother of
Statesmen and of States ;" and of what
those relations now arc. Can it be that
we aro never to think ngiin of the land
whcro tho dust of Washington and Pat
rick Henry, of Jcffursuu and Madison
repose, wiih emotions of gratitude, admi
ration and filial regard ? Is hate for all
that Virginia has taught, all that Virginia
I now is, to tako the place of sentiments
I which we havo cherished all our lives ?
I Other men may be asked to do this, but it
is in vaiiuto appeal to mo. So far as my
I heart is concerned it is not a subject of
volition. Whilo thcro may be those whoso
breasts such sentiments as these awaken
no responsive feeling ; I feel assured us I
' look over this vast ossemblago, that the
1 grateful emotions which havo signalized
this anniversary iu nil our past history,
aro not lets yours than they are mino to
day. Let us bo thankful, at least, that
wo havo ever enjoyed them: that nothing
cau take from us the pride and exultation
' wo havo felt as wo caw tho old flag unfold
I over us, and realized its glorious acorctiou
of stars from the original thirteen to thirty
four: that wo say much when we say, in
the laDgusg of New Hampshire's greatest
. If wo can with assurance say no more,
ho past at least is secure." But if we
it 'j'
cannot bo joyous, my friends, as wo havo
been on this anniversary, let us show that
it is our privilege with tho blessing of God,
to bo considerate, bravo, aud wise, If
there bo anything of tho great inheritance
under existing circumstances, to save, may
we not in an humble, earnest way contrib
ute to that salvation 1 If we cannot do
all for which our hearts yearn, may wo
not at least approach its consummation in
that spirit of devoted loyalty to tho Con
stitution and tho Union which wc feel ?
Let tho disregard of others for what the
Revolutionary fathers achieved, and for
the compact whioh they made, subdued as
they were in all things but a sense of hon
or and right by the sufferings of seven
year's wai, now stand before us, Lot tho
people realize what this comtant ringing
in their ears of the charge that "the Con
stitution is a covenant with Death and a
League with hell" has brought about.
And then let them sec and feel what we
had iu eighty years of unexampled pros
polity and happiness under that Constitu
tion, Lot them look back upon those
eighty years of civil liberty. Of the reign
of constitutional law ; eighty years of
security to our homes, of living in our
castles, humble though they may have
biou, with no power to invade ihera by
nigkt or by day, except under the well
defined aud exhibited authority of law,
a written, published law. onacted by them
selves for tho punishment of crimo aud
for iheir own protection, eighty years of
the great experiment which astonished tho
world. II the people will do this, I can
not, I will not believe, that wo aro so
smitten by judicial blindness that the
great mass of our population, North and
South, will not some day fesolvo that we
come together again under tho old Consti
tution with tho old flag. I will not believe
that this experiment of man's capacity for
sclf-governniont, which was so successfully
illustrated until all tho Revolutionary men
had passed to their fiual reward, is to prove
a humiliating failure. Whatever others
may do, wc will never abandon the hope
that the Union is to bo restored. What
ever others may do, wo will cling to it "as
tho mariner clings to the last plank when
night nnd tho tempest closo around him.'
No matter what may have been done,
North or South, to produce it, this torn
ble ordeal of blood which has been visited
upon us, ought to be sufficient to bring us
all back to consciousness of responsibili
ties and duties. The emotions of all good
men aro those of sorrow tnd shame and
sadness, now, over the condition of their
countrv. when thov-retire at nirrht. anJ
you have had, most of you have bad, great
torrow.ovcrwhelimngly personal sorrows.it
may be ; but none liko these which como
welling up, day oy day, Irom tho great
fountain of national disaster, red with tho
best and bravest blood of the country,
North and South red with tho blood of
those in both sections of the Union whoso
fathers fought the common battle of inde
pendence. Nor havo thesesorrows brought
with them any compensation, whether of
national pride or of victorious arms. For
is it not vain to appoal to you to raise a
snout ol joy because the men irom the
liiuu Qi it usnuj'liuil, 1'l.u iuu, auu tJuuip-
i i r . t . l
son
tor aro baring their breasts to tho steel of -t 1 ' J
the men from the land of Warren, Stark, , 'M , , .
and & oektou ; or because, ,f this war in fc ,h co!jfnunded M ,urt, '
to continue to be waged, ono or the other
must go to the wall mu-t bo consigned . A Maine editor, having been elect
to humiliating subjugation ? This fearful, ed fence viewer and field-driver, announ
fruitless, fatal civil war has exhibited our ces that ulthotigli ho is somewhat afraid of
ainazine resources and vast military pow- horned cattle ho is great on the fence.
cr. It has shown that united, even in Any of his constituents who wi-.li any
carrying out, in its widest interpretation, viewing dope, are invited to bring their
the Alouroo doctrine, on this continent, wo fences to his office
could, with such protection as the broad
oceau which flows' between ourselves aud
European powers aitorus, navo stood
against the world in arms. I speak of
the war as fruitless ; for it is clear that,
on. t
prosecuted upon the basis of tho proclama
tions of Septoinbcr 122d and September
5i4th, 1802, prosecuted as I must under
stand those proclamations, to say nothing
of the kindred blood which has flowed,
upon the theory of emancipation, devasta
tion. Milmir-ation. it cannot, fail to be fruit-
less in everything except tho harvest ot
woe whioh it is ripening for what was
once the peerless republic. Now, fellow-
citizens alter having said thus muoh, it is than of her head depend upon it sho will
right that you should ask mo, what would nevcr amount to muoh. Hrains which
you do in this fearful extremity? I reply, ' settle in tho shoes never got much, aboyo
from tho beginning of this strugglo to tho 1 them. This will apply as well to tho mas
present moment, my hope has been iu moral culino as the feminiuo gender,
power. There it reposes still. When, in . ., , ... , .
the spring of 1801, I had occasion to ad-' S""ng t1'cm up.-A Michigan pa-
dress my fellow-cittzens of this city, from j PF Plls''? tllc following r ''lei w
tho balcony of the hotel before us, I thou c,tlz0Df' ! 1 'ou aro "loop-awaka I It
ci,i l i,n,r. i,i!nl.,i . n.wl nnr .i,n Ju "ro awake move ! It you aro mov-
; and did not then
Inn, ii,,
believe agression bv arms was either a
suitable or possible remedy for existing
evils. All that has occurred since then,
his but strengthened aud oonfirmed my
convictions in this regard. I repeat, then,
my judgmont impels mo to rely upon, mor
al fore and not upon any of the coercive
I instrumentalities of military power, Wc
j havo seen iu tho oxp rienco of the last two
years, how futile aro all our efforts i
maintain the Union by forco of :irtri3 ;
but oven had war been carried on by u
successfully, the ruinous result whold fx
hibit its utter impracticability forth a,'
tainment of the desired ond. Throu-h
peaceful agencies alone, can wo hope to
form a more perfect Union, establish jus
tice, insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote the gen
eral welfare and secure the blesings of
liberty to ourselves and posterity," the
great object lor which alone, the Consti
tution was formo 1. If you turn round and
ask mo, what if those agencies fail ; what
if tho passionate anger of both sections
forbids ; what if tho ballot box is sealed
'I hen. nil efforts, whether of war or peace,
having failed, my reply is, you will tako
caro of yourselves; with or without armi,
with of without leaders, wo will, at least,
in tho efforts to defend our righ's as a
free people, build tip a great mausoleum of
hearts to which men who yearn for liberty
will in after years, with bowed heads and
reverently, resort, as Christian pilgrims to
iho sacred shrines of tho Holy Land.
"Tub men who instigated tho fearful
riots in Now York are answerable for the
wanton and useless loss of life, not only
of innocent, but of guilty men. 1 ho mili
tary have iu every encounter defeated tho
mob, and our telegraphic dispa'ches stata
that the rioters fell in heaps bof'oro tho fell
discharges of musketry. These mhguidod
men have been betrayed into the hands of
a power which they cannot resist, nnd
which their secret lwdera know would bo
exerted. These riots are tho embodiment
ot double crime the brutality of tho infu
riated many, and tho satanic cruelty of
the heartless few."
The above precious morccaux is from
the Philadelphia "organ" of tho Adminu
tration in this city. Jt is the scvoroat blow
tho Abolitionists have yet received. Ev
ery sensible man knows that tho spirit of
mob law inaugurated by the Jacobins, anj
thaj they arc morally and legally guiltv
of every drop of blood that was shed in
tho recent fearful riots in Now York.
They have repeatedly counseled resist
enco to known and recognized laws ; and
they havo trampled upon every right
claimed by tho citizen, which came in
conflict with their own trcasotiab.e and
disgraceful doctrines. The editor of tho
Press himself said, that ''secret usurpa
tions airainst such wronna'.' ns ".1 rnnsn 5 -it
bill." which "tears the lmsbandui.m t'nm
liis nlnm. tlm istlmr rmn, i.; ,..'.;!.. .i.
i j-....., uw 111-1 tua latuuj, t IIU
son from his widowed mother, would bo
I justifiable and right, for we an) taught
j that "resistance to tyrants is obedioftco to
God I' " It is suoh teachings as these that
have produced their legitimate fruit in
j New York and elsewhere; aud public will
placo a mark of scorn upon ' tho heartless
' few," who furnished arguments for tho
' mob, and urged "tho infuriated many ' to
, array themselves ag.iiu3t the laws of their
country. The Age.
.-
An Honest OriNlOK. Said a promi-
nent Republican iho other day: "I'am
''disgusted with hearing of Mr. Lincoln a
honestv. Tho frauds wlimli nr'n unn v.
posed every dav are awful, and Lincoln is
either aware ot them or ho is not. If !u
is. he is not honest, or hn would mfnr,
them; if he is not, he is as blind as a ba
I tell you tho Administration is as r
ash III" Remember, that these wnN
aro not our own, but tho langungo a shk'
iug light iu the Republican party.
Greeiisburg Dunocrat
BSF" An Incident in a Railway Car.
Monster : "I'm afraid I'm siting on your
crinoline, ma'ma.''
I Affable young lady : "Oh, never mind
;,, -., ' ' . -. t .
i whiskey is now tested bv tho dis-
tauce a man can walk alter
tasting it -
rn, n,.w ijm,:(i n-tip.i (T.inr.lf.-W . a
to bo made of delutod alohohol. nitric acid.
. . . '
pepper and tobacco, and will upset a roan
at the distance of 4U0 yards from the dem
ijohn. I CtaT" A prominent fpor.ker at a Ttepub
lican gathering in Ohio, eaid that hu "x
peoted to spend an ct&rnity iu co i.pauy
1 with Republicans," to which a ;ipo o'd
lupuuu mm uu --miner mou-ut,
, would, unless he repented o his iiu.'"
T1 L .1.-1 1.. .1 I.
j- If a girl thinks moro of her heels
70U aro cm
ing walk! If yc
jnS-walk ! If you ore walking run 1 !
I " aro 'itnug-Uy
to tuore'cuo s i
CSay-"Attacting his Rear." "Old ng
is coming on me rapidly,1' as the lire1
said whon hn was stealing apples from t jo
old man's carden, and th owwet
(cemiug, eowhidslB band