COLUMBIA
)EMOC
AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER
Levi l, tate, editor.
"TO HOLD AND TKIM TUB TOUOII OP TRUTH AND WAVE IT O'HB THE DARKENED EARTH."
TERMS s 82 00 PER ANNUM.
VOL. 17. NO, 31.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENN'A,, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1863,
VOLUME 27.
RAT,
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CAMPAIGN SONGS.
Woodward and Freedom.
.Mi-DATTLU tjiTv" OP FREEDOM.
Yen, We'll rally round the Flaj, boya,
fcally on co again,
tehoutlng for Wooilivnrd and for Freedom;
We'll rally from (he lilllsMrs,
We'll Bather from the plains,
tth jutlng for Woodward nndfor Freedom 1
Tho Union forevur I hurrah, boys, hurrah I
Down with Oppression,
Up with the law I
While we rally round the Flag, boys,
ltnlly once again,
Shouting for Woodward and for Fuecdam I
Wo arc rallying to the polls, boya.
Three ilr;ii thousand more,
Shouting lor Woodward and for Freedom ,
And we'll march In sulld ranks,
As our Fathers did of yore,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom I
The ballot-box forever I hurrah I boya, hurrah I
Down with Opprcs.ion,
Up with the Law I
While we rally round the polls, bo) a,
Rally mice again,
Fhouting or Woodward und for Freedom 1
We will welcome to our number
The Honest, True and Dravo,
Ehoutlng for Woodward and for Freedom I
Although he may be poor,
lie shall never be n slave,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom ! ,
The Union forever, tc.
We will hurry tntho rolls boys,
From the East and from the West,
Shouting for Woodward and for Freedom,
Aud wo'll teach Oppression's uew,
With tho Niggers and tho rest;
To about for Woodward and for Freedom I
Tho ballot-box fntevcr, &c.
The Freedom of Elections.
-YANKEE DOOBJX.
While some on rights and some on wrongs,
Prefer their own millions.
The people's righti demand our song,
Hie Right of Free Elusions;
For government nud order's sake.
And law's iinpoitant section,
Let all stand by the llalht-Bcj,
For Fuir and Free Elections,
Cuom."-. -"l.nw and order" be the stakn,
With freedom and protection,
Lit all stand I y the ballot-box,
For fair and free election.
L'lirh town tnd country's wealth and peace.
Its trudc and all connection,
With sci.'iice, art niun all increase
Ily Fair and Free Elections.
Then thnt-rt tho schemes of factious har.ds,
And traitor dlsatroitlon ;
Hand up with rilling hearts and hand,
I'or Fair and Free Llcclion.
Cuor.i's "Law nnJ order," Slc.
fhould enemies b"set tu round
Of negro fierce compaction,
Undaunted wo can stand oar ground,
Upheld by Free elections.
Elections ar' to make us laics.
For tnde, peace and protection,
Who fails to vote forsakes the cause
Of Freedom and 1 lections,
Ciioiits -"Law und order," t.c.
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
EOITF.D BY LEVI '!.. TATE, IT.OI'ltlETOIl
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTODES 3, 1863.
SPEECH
O F
lion. Jeremiah S. Black,
AT THE
-Democratic Mass Coireonlioii ik Lan
caster illy, Sept. 17, 1SC3.
Fellow-citizens : I havo not accepted
this invitation to address you with any
hope of giving you now light on the issues
before tho people. There arc some things
too plain lor discu-sion, and the man who
i dues not understand the fundamental prin
ciples now in content, is below the reach
of an argument.
This Government this Constitution and
these laws were made by the patriots of
tho Revolution to secure the blessings of
liberty to themselves and their posterity.
Their blood and trcasuro expended upon
tho erection of the Government, gave them
sn inheritable estate in it which has como
down in the rcgu'ar course of descent to
tlcir heirs. We, the whito men of Amor-
I tea, arc their heirs.
Tho Government being our property,
we have the samo right to savo it from
iovenhrow, by warning one another of its
danger, that any one of you has to pre
vent the destruction of his houso by rais
ing tho cry of fire when he sees tho flames
bursting from the roof. And this is a
duty which will surely be performed ; for
the neoplo of, this country have beon so
long accustomed to speak plainly what
they believe sineerely upon tho subjects
which conosrn their temporal salvation,
that thoy could not bo silent if thoy would.
This great combination of independent
sovereignties, uniting all tho powers of a
consolidated cmpiro for the common de
fence and gcueral welfare, with all the ad-
vantages of local self government in our
Ldomostio affairs, was the grandest politi-
eal structure ever mado by human hands,
; end its preservation was the most Bacrcd
Irubt ever committed to any people on the
globe, If wo shall be compollud to close
this contost without a restoration of the
Union, our wortt mibfortunes are yet be-
foro us. . No imagination lias measured
tho full extent of that calamity, or seen to
the bottom of that ftightlul abyss, If any
one hero feels pity for-tho Southern peo
ple, lot linn bestow it ;not for tho suffer
ings they have already endured, but (or
tho evils which await them in case they mcnt by depleting its Treasury and stuff
succocd in the rash and rebellious enter- ing its money into their own big pockets,
prise of disolution. Neither can wo of , With such a mail, wielding all tho power
tho North look in tho face such a inisl'or-1 and influence of this great Staro, the Qov-
tuno without dread and terror. A simple i
commercial view of it (and that is the
lowest of all views) is enough to startlo
us. Wo lose an internal trade with the
South worth to us at least one hundred
millions per annum in clear profits. Wo
lose tho larger part of that groat foreign
commerce which heretofore made all tho
world dependent on us. A financial re
vulsion must follow this bloated system of
fictitious paper credit as surely as tho night
follows the day. With all these elements
of weakness we must shoulder a debt of
perhaps three thousand millions of dollars,
Pennsylvania paying about twenty -five per
centum as her share of the interest, a bur-
deu which even a prosperous people could
hardly expect to carry without being
cru-hed. With business everywhere par
alyzed, property universally depreciated,
in debt beyond hope of redemption, ground
to the earth by taxation, political insig
nificance in the eyes of the world, aud a
consciousness of national shame and deg
radation in our own hearts, we must begin
the world again, like a broken-hearted
man who has lost his character, his pro
perty and his hopo,
When these thiugs are recollected, let j
no man lorgct that tho Democratic party is
the only one which ever appreciated the J
value of the Union. No other over made
devotion to it a cardinal principle of its
creed. There never was a time since that
purty first came into existence, when any j
man could remain in its communion for
an hour if ho trhowed indifference, much
less it he expressed opposition, to tho
Union. When any one of its pretended
members declare his willingness to let the
Union slidu, he wes .promptly notiiod to
slide himself over to the opposition, and
he always -obeyed the order. If there be
a man among us who would not freely give
all he has und all he is to bring back the
Union to the condition in which it was threo
years ago, he is not in his proper placo ;
he ought to be in secret conclave with the
'Loyal Leaguers." plotting against that
Constitution and those laws which alone
can biud the Union together.
That vc arc as tree as ever to our an
cient faith that we have not given up one
inch of the high ground we occupied in
all time past is proved, if proof is neces
sary, by the character of our present can
didate tor tho highest olt;ce in tee State.
I think I know that gentleman as well as
one mau can be known to another. I can
savi with a profound conviction of its
truth, that no word has over been heard
from I i 3 lips, usr a line secu from his pen,
which did not breathe the most fervent de
voliou to the Uuion. Indeed, he has been
all his life tiino uncommonly sensative to
the dangers which threatened our national
institutions. The Union of the States,
'
with their rights unimpaired, and all the
liberties of the people proteo'ed, was and parly had been successful in 1800, this , tlieir pleasure and plund er us for their
is the polar star of his political course and country would now have been uuitcd, pros- - profit.
the supreme object of his affections. No 1 perous, happy and tranquil. Tho Auwr- j They avowed their purpose of destroy
man, even among tho great patriots of the can flag would havo waved orer ovory , tj,js Government more than thirty
past age, has been more eloquent in his inch of our territory, "not one star ex- yL,ars ag0 'j'i10y maj0 no sccrct 0f tUc
warnings against disunion, or predicted inguished nor one stripe erased," and no Inalignant hatred they bore to the iustitu
our present 'roubles .more accurately. In I concession to tho South would have been tioI13 established by our Revolutionary
a huudrctt conversations or a scoro ot
written communications, I, and mtny
others, have seen the evidence of his love
for the Federal Uuion and his hatred for
every species of treason that might weak
en or overthrow it. Few nersous havo
I ever been in contact with him for a short
J lime, without being impressed with tho
(great truths which make so largo a part scurity trow which tney ougut never 10 j,eaccfui village to organizo a general sys
' of his on ustronc and clear undcrstandiug. i have emerged. The Democratio party torn of butchery and actually commenced
Friends and enemies admit his sincerity, I built up this Government, kept tho Union gtootinj, ii0VYU tho unsuspecting inhabit
for feelings so intense and convictions so together for soveuty-fivo years, and was ' (m, wljilo Q niuudcl.e( th0 Government
i 1 fl, . M l! !i I
habitually urged upou others could not
possibly be counterfeited. Ho has fairly
earned tho title of a "Union-Saver." Ho
! has deserved the sneer of tho opposition
j when they said ho sat constantly "besido
1 the sick bed of the Union ;'' und if tho
Union is destined to expire in the insanity
' of civil strife, his devoted affection will
'keep there to the last "like lovo watching
' madness on tho bed of death,"
' If we had been iu any sense opposed to
' thcGovcri racnt oruufai'bful to tho Union,
1 would we have proposed such a cdndidato
' for Governor ? No; wo would havo nom
' inatcd some black Abolitionist, who be
lieves tho Constitution to be a covenant
'with hell, and who, by destroying the
Constitution, would make an end of the
( Union as certainly as you take tho life of
a man by cutting the heart out of his body ;
or wo would havo worked out our destruc
tive purposes by nominating some mighty
contractor ouo of thoso largo-handed
robbers who arc weakening tho Govern-
crnmcnt surely could not last long. In
i - w
short, if wo had any evil intent against
the Union, we would have taken any can
didate wo could lay our hands on rather
than Gcorgo W. Woodward, the Union-
saver the man ot upright character and
downright speech whoso hands arc clean
of all crime, and whoso pockets aro empty
of all gains except wkatcamo there as tho
just toward of his honest labor.
Much as wo honor and love him person
ally, it is not for his sake that wo desiro
to make him Governor. Setting aside his
fidelity ami ours to the National Govern
ment and Union, wo could do something a
great deal more for his profit than that.
Let him avow his apostacy from the faith
of liis fathers ; let him prostitute his con
science and his intellect to the purposes of
Abolitionism; let him forget that ho be
longs to tho Caucasian variety of the lni
man species aud enter tho service of the
negro ; let him make a few speeches to
show the superiority of tho African over
tho Saxon race ; let him contrive the ways
and means of promoting negro insurrec
tions, and always stand ready to tukc the
part of the negro right or wrong ; above
all, let him denounce tho Constitution as
it is, and curse the Union as it was ; let
him abandon the principles of liberty in
which lie was bred, and degrade himsclt
low enough to call every freeman a traitot
who is not willing to be a slave. If he
will do tlii; he may get a contract on which
he cm cheat tho United btates at the rate
of a hundred thousand dollars a month.
If his inexperience should make him awk
ward, and he should be detected and ex
posed so that even his confederates in
knavery arc compelled to admit his guilt,
there would still be a resource for him.
When the worst comes to the worst, we can
get him a foreign mission send him to
cool his blushes in the snows of Russia, or
harden the bronze upon his check under
the hot sun of Spiin.
But stealing the public mouey or tramp
ling on the Constitution is not his idea of
loyalty or yours cither. lie would re
store the Union by defending the Const!
tution, by giving to tho laws their just
supicniacy by guarding tho lights of the
people, aud by driving off thoso obscene
birds of prey that aro now gorgiug them
selves on the prostrate carcass of the na
tion.
I knew there are those who think that
tho Uuion can never to restored ; who
believe that the great gulf of blood aud
fire which now rolls between the North and
tho South has been made by this Admin- j
istration so wide and so deep that it will 1
rimrln fnr.irnn ininn:flln. 1 nm Tint nun
of those who regard restoration as a for-
lorn hope. Every man who has sense
enough to know his right hand from his
. . . .. .
left must bclievo that, it the Democratic
- .w.j..
Oj me uuiiBiuuuuu ur uviuaimcu uy niau
magnanimity which the stronger party
ought always show in its treatment of the
weaker. , As our troubles began with tho
advent of tlic Abolitionists to power, so
they will cud when tho people scourge
back that band of malignants to tho ob-
j "ways reauy "io suieiu u auu au i. i
nensli Mere too." J uo &awo party wm
in . i. ...i ii
r
bring back tho better days of tho Repub
lic, and remove, if not immediately, at
least in process of timo, that hugo moun
tain of sorrow which is now etching tho
lifo out of the country.
One thing is perfectly certain : that if
tho Uniou U ever restored, it must bo on
tho basis of the Constitution and laws.
Other hope of salvation to us thoroisnono
under heaven. When tho Constitution
was put aside aud another system of Gov
ernment, compounded of tho proclama
tions and confiscation acts, was substituted
in its placo, all possible chauces of tho
Union were postponed until tho Constitu
tion could bs brought back again. When
you rcquiru tho Southern people to oboy
tho Constitution and tho laws, which wcro
mado by their fathers as well as ours, it
is but their reasonable duty to submit, and
if thoy do not sco it so, it is our duty to
make them. Hut it is a widely different
thing when you offer them a confiscation
act which strips them of land and goods,
coupled with a proclamation which lets
looso four- millions of ignorant negroes,
with Abolition prcaoher3 among them to
incite insurrection and urge tho indiscrim
inate slaughter of the whito inhabitants.
Whether thoy ought to give themselves up
to this appalling fate, is a question which
I leave to bo decided by thoso who have
the authority. But that thoy will never
voluntarily consent to a union with us up
on thoso terms, I think is certain. If thoy
did, wculd that bo tho Union that Wash
ington made 1 Would not a Union without
a Constitution bo as dangerous to us as to
them ? How long would a Union removed
from the rocks of the Constitution and
rebuilt upon the sandy foundation of a
proclamation, bo able to sUnd when the
winds blow aud the rains beat against it?
That there is something radically and
fatally wrong in a war which has for its
object a negro proclamation inconsistent
with tho white man's constitution, is a self
evident truth which pervades tho wholo
popular miud. Tho negro policy has
changed the whole public feeling every
where, North and South. When Mr.
Lincoln sent his first message to Congress, race cannot possibly have any human feel
he declared it to ho his opinion that there ' ing for another. Besides, they know very
was not a majority for secession in any
State of tho Union, except perhaps youth
Carolina. He was right, Nino-tenths of
tho Southern people were then as true to
Union as any part of tho North, and far i
truer than New England over was. The
i
North was as nearly unanimous as any
equal number could be on any subject.
Where now arc our Union friends in tho !
South ? Aud where is the Northern cn
siasm which two yearn ago marshaled the !
wholo population into "ranks and squad-
rons, and, aud right form of war? Let
the Conscription law answer. Away,
then, with these negro measures. Give us
back our Coiutitiou and our laws. Let us
have these to fight for, and a million ol
true hearts will leap to the conflict, where
now there is nothing but apathy or some
thing worse.
The men whose influence brought about tloa- As,i tno man '3 tuo'r undoub
ted fatal policy have done it with the will- ' tc(J loader in this coauty and State the
ful and malicious intention of preventing i mau wu3e talents entitle him to that bad
the restoration of the Union. It was not cinincnce and he will tell you what he
a mere blunder, but a crime against the bas oflcn SJ'ltl in publics well as in pri-
country deliberately performed.
Lct us
do justice to our opponents. Tho masses
of the Republican party (so called) did
Uot mean it; even their leaders were mis
led. The President is technically re
sponsible, but not in tho souso of intend
ing all tho consequences. It was done by
tho nltra-Abulition party, whoso principal
scat of power is New England, with dis
ciples thinly scattered over
the Middle
r.nd Western States. That is tho power
behind tho throne greater than the throne
itself ; that is the influence which shapes
' all our measures of civil administration
aud regulates the flow of our blood in the
I . ....
field. These aro the men who rulo us for
ancestors, incy wrought earnestly in
80ason antl out 0f BO-1Son to CXCltO illSUr-
reotion and murder in the Southern Stat:s.
Thcy not wait for war ,0 )cg!1.jzo
Moodghod. Whcn ono of their number,
, a3 coarse a rufflai) a3 they had among
tho(U) aQ imp0St0Pj a tliiof, a traitor and a
,nuraerer) sneaked at midnight into a
propoity, tho Abolitionists of New Eng
land clapped their hands, applauded aud
rejoiced with exceeding joy. They utter
ed tho most furious maledictions agaiust
tho authorities for a-rcsting him. When
ho was hung thoy mourned him as a mar
tyr. Wbou he was buried they pronoun
ced funeral eulogies over his grave. At
this day thoy worship his memory and
sing hymns in his honor. By their fruits
yo shall know them. Thero can bo no
mistake about tho patriotism, tho honesty,
or tho benevolence, of a party that canon
izes a traitor, a thief and a murderer.
Whilo other parlies wcro discussing
questions of policy which concerned tho
prosperity of tho county, tho Abolitionists
wore planning tho destruction of the whole
fabric; whilo others wrangled about tar-
ill's, banks and improvements, they kept
aloof, cautiously and cunningly contriving
how thoy might engulf tho wholo nation in
a sea of blood. As a tiger crouching at
tho edge of his junglo waits for tho right
moment to spring upon his victim to
crunch his boues and lap his life-blood, so1
Abolitionism waited aud watched for the
opportunity to make its fatal spring upon
the Federal Government.
Tho Constitution stood in their way, and
thoy spurned it as an agreement with hell
The Gospel of God was opposed to them,
and their conventicles resouuded with ri
bald blasphomics against tho Christian rc
ligijn. Common honesty forbade tho
gross breach of faith thoy contemplated,
aud they invented a new system of moral
ity called "higher law," which, when it
came to be defined, meant nothing but the
impulse ot their own unregulated passions.
The Democracy saw through their de
signs aud warned the country against
thorn, aud thoy slandered us with all the
brutal strength of criminals.
Tho adherents and sympathizers of this
party attempt to excuse their hostility to
tho government ol the whito man by ascrib
ing it to love for the negro. But of all
the cants that wcro ever canted in this
j hypocritical ago, the Abolition cant of
I humanity to tho negro is tho most dis
' gustingly hollow and false. Tito men who
I have no drops of mercy for their own
well that a contost for negro equality in
this country must necessarily terminate in
making the negro's condition a thousand
times worse. They cannot hope to scc-thc
Anglo Saxons of America sink in their
own blood as tho Fronch inhabitants of
San Domingo did before the negroes ol
that island. No ; thoy know that when
their policy is pushed to tho last extremity,
tho negro can have no
against tho white man.
ultimate chance
Their object is
intensely and purely selfish. Thoy de
sired to kindle the flames of civil war
throughout the country, reckless who might
J suffer so that they could but remain mas
tors of tho burnt and blackened field.
I think there can be no mistake in say
ing that these Abolitionists aro opposed to
the Union, and that the measures they
sustain aro intended to prevent its rcstora-
vatc, that it sickens him to hear of the
Constitution as it is and the Uuion as it
was. Think for a moment of this most
atrocious sentiment ! Tho "Constitution
as it is" is tho fundamental law of the
laud, which they swore to obey ; acd now
they would insult the God who was their
wituess by declaring that oath to bo a
sham, and their sdemu covenant with the
country a delusion and a snaro. The
I Union as it was results from the Constitii'
tion us it h, and this nation, which lias
; hied for it at every pore, is to be told that
I a their terrible sacrifices of life and prop-
crty slla11 E for nothing, because, for-
I ., . ... I .1. f TT
I t0" injir ruicts
re sick ol the union
Tho history of the world gives no account
of any -ether people who became the dupes
of such an awful impotturo. Tho men
who proposo to perpetrate it are not only
treacherous aud unfaithful to a sacred
trust they arc remorseless to death and
cruel as the grave.
But how came it that a party so insigni
ficant in numbers and so destitutoof gen
eral conlidenco should acquire so com
plete an ascendency in tho public coun
cils ? Their own voto was probably not
one-tenth of tho people, and the other
nine-tenths would as soon havo polled all
tho mad-houses of tho country, and selec
ted tho wildest luuatics they could find to
rulo over them, as to havo given tho New
England Abolitiouists tho reins of their
Government. Thoy got their power by a
scries of base frauds, They went into tho
Chicago Convention declaring themselves
entirely satisficd with the exclusion of
slavery from the territories. Although
that would not make ono slavo more or
less, they averred that the pleasure of in
sulting and defying the judicial authorities,
by getting a decision of tho - Supicme
Court reversed by a convention of boss
politicians, would "wrap them up in mea
sureless contentmont." They agreed to
self-denying resolution abjuring all power
and all intention to interfere with tho
rights of tho States on tho subjoct of slav
ery or any other subject. How did they
keep that pledge ? If any ltcpublican
would now dare to stand on that plank of
tho platform, he would be bullied out of
countenance,
But it was necessary to gain still further
power by another falso pretonce. When
tho war broko out thoy tho samo men
who had plotted tho destruction of tho Uu-
ion for thirty ycar3 shouted for the Uu-
ion so loudly that nearly all believed
them sincere. That shout for the Union
thrilled the heart of tho whole Democracy,
and they crowded all tho ways to tho bat
tle field as if thoy were going to ti festival.
When tho disaster at tho first battle of
Bull Hun made another uprising ncces
sary,thcy put on the records ot Congress
a solemn declaration that tho war was not
for conquest or subjugation, but solely for
the Union as U was before tho war, and
lor tho Constitution with all tho richts of
tho Slates and people unimpaired. Again
the Democratic response was universal,
enthusiastic and efficient.
These repeated pledges were shame
fully broken. The Abolitionists went to
the President and insisted on having a
proclamation which would openly traniplo
them down. Tho President refused re
fused for many good reasons. Tho argu
ment by which ho justified his refusal was
certainly the most respectable one hoover
made in liH life. It became necessary,
therefore, to impose upon him also. They
promised that if ho would issue tho pro
clamation, nine hundred thousand volun-
tccrs would be forthcoming to strengthen j
the army. I am not aware that a single
man of these nine hundred thousand ever
made his appearance1. They soon threw
off the mask entirely, and got a Conscrip-1
tion law to compel others to fight the bat-
ties. When tho drafuwent into Massach-;
usctts, that State, with the "hardy ponula-1
tion" of which wo havo heard so much,
I
suddenly became the sickliest spot on tho ,
continent. Forty-seven per cent, ll think
that is tho proportion) wore afllictcd with
divers diseases, which rendered thorn
incapablu of doing military duty. The
others, when they were drafted, cither
tan away to Canada or chc paid their
commutation like the rest of us.
ll is by these repeated breaches of faith
that tho Abolitionists got the power which
they aro now abusing; The Republicans,
the Dcmociats and the Executive Admin
istration have beon successively overreach
ed by them ; and they have used their
advantages always against the Constitu
tion and Union. QMierc aro men among
us who would bo very indignant if they
wcro cheated in a horse trade or defrauded
of ten dollars by a false token, and yet
they look without emotion on the impos
tures by which the nation is swindled out
of its life. I
Not only that part of the Constitution
which affects tho relations of the States is
in danger, but thoso common liberties
which every freeman of tho race wo belong
to has enjoyed for three huudrcd years
aro in imminent peril. 1 need not en
umerate the outrages perpetrated on in
dividual rights. Tho Democrats have
steadily protested agaiust them, and resis
ted them wherever they could. Every
patriotic ltepublicau has seen them with
sadness and sorrow, and if tho Abolition-
ists have approved of tliem, it is only as
part of their general system of insult and
contempt for the Constitution aud laws.
Though none justify, and few will even
try to excuse a bold and open outrage on
the laws, there aro those who tell you that
it is unimportant at such a crisis as this
in compaiiseD with other groat interests
at stake. Do not suffer yourselves to be
cajoled out of your liberties in this way.
Every willful violation of law is a tiling
of transcendent importance if it is not
instantly rebuked aud puuished. Crimes
naiust public liberty never stop where
they begin. Those who commit them get
on a down-hill track whero there is no
halting-placo unless the people themselves
apply the breaks. One outrage begets
another. A single individual is kidnap
ped, and twenty others arc taken for com
plaining of it. All is insufficient if the
habeas corpus is not repealed, and tho Ex
ecutive must, therefore, tako upon him
self a power which the Legislature ulono
can cxerciso. Tho officers who Ftand up
for law and justice must bo deposed and
imprisoned and if a majority of votes
can bo influenced neither by venality or
fear, tho right of suffrago will be forcibly
violated. Then we aro wholly enslaved.
Tho truest man may bo dragged from his
bed at midnight and torn away from his
shrieking family to prison or to exile.
Tho most respectablo woman may bo
taken, as Mrs. Brinsmado was in New
York, thrust into a dungeon, kept there
for weeks, debarred all communication
with her family and friends, whilo she was
exposed to the daily and nightly insults of
the beastly knaves who bad her in their
power. If you think that your local
courts might still give you protection, ro
niombcr the caso of Judgo Carmichael,
who laid down tho law as he conscien
tiously believed it to be as it certainly
was- aud as ho know tho peace of society
required that it should be and, becauso
tho law did not please tho Abolitionists,
was dragged from tho bench by a band of
ruffians, knocked down with the butt ends
of their pistols, and carried awny to prison,
whero ho was kept for eleven mortal
month?.
Such has been tho history of thoso en
croachments in all past time, Thoy begin
with petty violations of justice, and swell
with frightful rapidity into tho most stu
pendous crimes. Their first victim is a
solitary, helpless and perhaps unpopular
individual, but they end by forcing tho
yoke on the necks of millions.
Tho people of Holland livo in a country
where the land is scvoral feet below tho
level of the sea. Thsy protect themselves
against constant inundation by a largo
ffurthwork, which they call a iliket ex
tending all along the coast. What thoy
arc most troubled with is a large species
of rat, which burrows under and makes
holes through their dyke. Now, a ratholo
is not a very alarming thing it itself; but
tho action of the water makes it larger
every moment. If it bo neglected for a
single night, by the time the morning
dawns the rat hole has widened into a huge
C7cvar.sc, the ocean goes pouring through
it, and tho whole land is laid under water.
So it is with the Constitution, which is our
dj- 11 luo once maao
ll ' llic cver-to.nng wave ol arbitrary
power," which is coLtinualty surging up
against it, will constantly enlarge it until
all protection for our rights is washed
away. I tell you, gentlemen, if you de
sire to save ope remnant of your liberties,
you must watch the rat holes in your
Constitution.
But there is a necessity, some tells us,
(or these violations of law. It is woudcr
ful that any man possessed of reason
could bo imposed on by an excuse so weak
so shallow and so childish. This ncces'
sity has often been urged as a reason for
acts that everybody condemned ; it has
never in all tho world's history had tho
sanction of ouo true patriot or ouo great
statesman, but it has been branded as"tho
tyrant s plea" by tho universal sense of
all mankiud. By all our ancestors in tho
old world, by all our Revolutionary heroes
by all who administered our Government
heretofore, the nccesity was always
thought to bo precisely tho other way.
The supreme necessity which presided
over all others was obedience to the law.
That is tho very purpose and the only
purpose for which magistrates arc chosen.
When a man, who is appointed and sworn
to guard the laws, and sco them faithfully
executed, tells you that ho will necessarily
violate them himself aud encourage others
lb do likewise, your plain and obvious an
swer must be that he is not fit for his busi-
j noss.
ah mrsc Heresies must do extirpated
before we can hope for peace, or protection
or Uuion, or prosperity, liut the election
of Woodward will bo tho forerunner of a
national triumph for tho Democratic party.
When that happens, though wo caunot
certainly promise, wo can reasonably hopo
for a restoration of tho Union. If our
Abolition enemies leave tho country iu a
savable btate it will be saved, and this
great nation will ttart on a new career,
whose glories will make the sp'.'-udors of
tho past look dim in comparison. At all
events we can bring back tho reign ofordcr
and law, under which every citizen who is
conscious of his innocence may breatho tho
deep breath and sleep the sound sleep of a
freeman.
tl1.1 .tr ii . ..
The Latk Ex Sk.n.vtoh Buopiiead.
The Hon. llichard Brodbcud, who died
at Easton on the 17th ult , for many years
took a prominent part in public affairs in
Pennsylvania, having represented North
ampton county iu the Legi-laturc thrco
years, his district in Congress six years,
and Pennsylvania in tho Senate of tho
United States six years. Ho was greatly
respected as a good citizces, und as a man
of honest impulses and strict integrity.
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CSaf A Republican paper says : Tho
great mass oi the Democracy of Pennsyl
vania arc not copperheads. Of course not
especially as we aro on the eve of the elec
tion, aud some ot them may pustibly bo
honey-fugled into vo ing for Mioddy'Cur
tin. The election over, howoverand they
will all no doubt again degeuerato into
"copperheads" in tho estimation of this
Abolition poscy. Fool who I
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COT Near Stcubenvillc, Ohio, tho Abo
litionists undertook to throw a railroad,
train off tho track, supposing that Hon.
Geo. Pugh, Judge Thurman, ami other
Democratio speakers, were on the cars
going to a meeting at Cadiz. Fortunately,
these gentlouicn wcro not on tho cars, but
had gone another way. The train wai
full of men, women and children.
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