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DtliTtrtd Urforc tlie Ptmociallc A noc la t on. l-'H.row-CmzKSs: AVI ion 1 accepted lli.' invitation to speak with others at this meeting, we were promised the downfall ut Vi-k.-.ljur;r, the the opening of the Mis-ci-ippi, the probable capture of the Con t'. iliMt.- capital, :ind the exhaustion of the rebellion. ly common consent all parties bail !ix'il tijHin this day when the results of the caiaimign should be known, to mark nut that Vuw of policy which they ti lt that nr oauvUv should pursue. But in the moment ut exacted ictory there came the nii.Inil.f cry for help from Pennsyl vania to save ils desjioilcd fields from the invaJirrir fi", nnd almost, within sight of this great commercial metropolis, the ships of your merchants were burned to the water's e.!-e. Since that time I have ecu;; Lil , he-;;;-, to the point of physi cal c.!iaurii.n. to ra'.ly cur trocps to the re.-oi of aa a !j .ii;ii;g sister State, (tre iui .pphii: -r ;) to organize the inili ti:i of our nv.'ii State for our own defense, to plaei N. w York in that condition 1 1 ili.'uiiy i,:nl power which a great State linul I eer h 'Id that truly tvsjieets its ewii rights, (diva! applause.) 1 -have oiicenied myself with those measures tliat I thought weii- calculated to protect l!ie coiniiieice of this great city. I stand t' tore you. then, upon this occasion, not one jinimuti d with expected victories, fit feeling as all feel who arc now within the .-ound of my voice, the dread uncer tainties of the conflicts which rage around S not alouo iu l'ennsylvania, but along ti t' lung line of the Mississippi contests tliat arc carrying down to bloody graves " many of our fellow-countrymen, so many .f our friends that are spreading n-wed mourning throughout this great iirnail hmd of ours. Under circumstan iv? like these I shall allow to go unnoticed many topics uon which I meant to sjeak 'n tins occasion. They might seem to with the solemnity of the occasion. TW 'elmg-i which now press on each breast "I imrs. I'.nt there is one subject to which ,k,,n now I feel it my duty to call your ""'ntiun. There is one appeal that I now want to n:iku to this whole community, "'respective of party, and I pray that you "ay liear that appeal. V few years ago we stool before lhi iniipinity to wani them of the dangers actional strife, but our fears were 'Ik-'I at. At a later day, when the ''"iMs of war overhung our country, we ""plore.I those in authority to compromise "wt difficulty, for we had been told by a J-Teat orator and statesman, Burke, that "';re never yet was a revolution that '"'r'l't not have bvn prevented by a com l'r "nise made in a timely and graceful 'itanni r. (( J reat applause. ) Our prayers unheeded. A;'ainwli n the contest va3 0iiKHl, wc jn;okw thosit Who had the conduct of uf lrs nut t(J uuderraUr the power of the u 'yrsiu-y iRt to underrate the courage 'urces, and endurance of our sister Hcs. All this warning was treated as "ipathy with treason. You have the ults of these unheeded warnings and ""lieedcd prayers ; they have staimxl our !"' w'idi uIocm! ; they have carried inourn "'g '"to thousanls of homes, and to-day '"7 have brought our country to the very vre of destruction. ')nce more I come before you, to offer ?lia nn pnniot hrovw lurl vin tr listen to a - ... - . I J 9 . j . iaK Skventt Five Cents, if not paid. u.u;noT. months ; and Two Dollar if warning. Our country is not 77E BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE TUB only at this time torn by one of thebloodi" est wars that has ever ravaged the free of the earth, or of which history gives an account, but, if we turn our faces to our own loyal States, how is it there ? Do you not find the community divided into lolitical parties, strongly arrayed against each other, and using with regard to each ether terms of reproach and defiance ? Is it not said by those who support more particularly the administration, that we who differ honestly, patrioticly and sin cerely, from them with regard to duty, are men of treasonable purposes and traitors to our country? " Hear, hear." But on the other hand, is it not true that many of our organization look on this adminis tration as hostile to our rights and liber ties ; look on our opponents as men who would do us wrong in regard to our sa cred franchises? I need not call your at tention to the one of the press or the tone of public feeling, to show you how, at this moment, parties are thus exasperated, and stand in almost defiant attitudes to each other. A few years ago we were told sectional srtife, waged in Jimcs like these, would do no harm to the country ; but you have seen the sad and bloody results. Let us be admonished now in time and take care that this irritation, this feeling which isgrowing up in our midst and about our homes. 2ow, upon one thing all parties are agreed, and that is this ; Until we have a united North we can have no successful war. Until we have a united, harmonious North we can have no benificent jteace. How shall we have harmony? How shall the unity of all parties be obtained 1 wish to say a few words to you on this joint, which, I firm ly believe, is one of the most important considerations to which I could call your attention. Is harmony to be coerced ? I appeal to you, my 1 republican friends, when you say to us that the nation's life and existence hangs upon liarmony and concord here, if you j'ourselves, in your serious moments, believe that this is to be produced by seizing our persons, by in fringing our rights, by insulting our homes and by depriving ns of those cher ished principles for which our fathers fought, and to which we have always sworn allegiance 7 Great applause. I do appeal to you my 1'opublican friends, and beg that you will receive this apjeal in the same earnest and patriotic spirit which prompts me to make it I appeal to you if you are not doing yourselves and voiir country a great wrong when you de harmony and unity of parties are essential to save the nation's life, essential to the highest interests of the land, and yet stigmatize men as true and honest as yourselves and whom experience has proved to have been wiser, too, as men who do not love their country, and who are untrue to her institutions. I low, then, tln are we to get this in dispensible harmony this needed unity ? It is not to be obtained by trampling upon the rights; it is not to be obtained by threats ; it is not to Ikj obtained by coer sion ; it is not to Imj obtained by attempt ing to close our lips when we would utter the honest purposes of our hearts and the warmest convictions of our judgment. But, my liepubHean friends, there is a mode by which it can Ik; reached : there is a mode by which the nation's life can be saved: there is a mode by which, in the end, we will restore this Union of ours and bring back those glorious privileges, which were so wantonly thrown away. We come to you in no spirit of arrogance. We do not come to you asking you to make any concession of advantage to us. On the contrary, we only ask of you, holding in your hands and in you control almost all the political power of the coun try, to exercise is according to your char tered rights. Tremendous applause. We only ask that which you claim for yourselves, and that which every freeman and every man who respects himself, will have for himself freedom of speech, the right to exercise all the franchises con fercd by the Constitution on an American. Great applause. Can you safely deny us these things? Arc you not trampling on us and uion our rights, if you refuse to listen to such an appeal ? Is it not revolution which you are thus creating when you say that our persons may be rightfully siezed, our property confiscated, our homes entered ? Are you not exposing yourselves and your own interests, to as great a ieril as that with which you threaten us? Hemenilicr this, that the j bloody and unreasonable and revolution ary doctrine oi public necessity can be pro claimed by a mob as well as by govern ment. Applause. Ivemember all the teachings of history ; and we implore you with regard to our own interests, to stop and inquire if you arc not doing yourselves and your own families, and all that you hold dear to you, an infinite wrong when DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, j'ou sustain propositions that tear away from them, as well as from us, all the protections which the Constitution of your country has thrown around public liberty. Great applause. Can you tell mo when ambition, love of plunder, or thirst for power, will induce bad and dangerous men to proclaim this principle of neces sity, as a reason why they should tram ple beneath their feet all the laws of our land and the institutions of our country? I ask you again to think if measures like those give power, dignity, or strength to our Government ? I ask you, on the Other hand, if those governments have not lived out the longest periods, which, in times of public danger, instead of shrink ing back from the principles of liberty and the barrers of order have raised aloft these groat princiles, and battled under them, and thus given strength to the hearts of the jeople and gained the respect of the world? Applause. I ask you if it is not an evidence of weakness, de feat and discomfiture, when, in the pres ence of armed rebellion, the administra tion is compelled to assert that the very charter by which it holds its power has ceased to have a virtue that can protect a citizen in his rights ? Suppose wc accept this doctrine, what will be the consequence to this govern ment. To-day the great masses of con servatives who still battle for time-hon-cred principles for chartered principles of government, amid denunciation, and contumely, and abuse, are the only bar riers that stand between this government and its own destruction. If wc accept to-morrow this teaching if we to-morrow should acquiesce in the doctrine that in time of war Constitutions are suspend ed, and laws have lost their force, then we should accept a doctriue that the very right by which the government adminis ters its power, has lost its virtue, and we would be brought down to the level of rebellion itself having an existence only by virtue of material power. Would not a vital blow be struck to liberty 1 If we should accept this doctrine, what would be the consequence ? When men accept despotism, they may have a' choice as to who the despot will be. The struggle then will not be, shall we have constitu tional liberty ? But having accepted the doctrine that the Constitution has lost its force, every irstinct of personal ambition, every instinct of jersonal security, will lead men to put themselves under the pro tection of that power which they suppose most cumpetant to protect their jersons. And then this administration would find that, in putting military rulers over us they had made military masters for them selves ; for this war teaches us that will betray the liberties of the people for the purpose of gaming the lavor ot power, will, when opportunity seize power itself. (Applause.) I came here to-day to appeal to you, who may be politically opposed to us. Don't do 3-ourselves a wrong. Don't do your own administration a wrong, and push us from tliat position which we arc trying to hold. Do not use abuse and contumely against our persons and threats against our property, because we stand up to sav that you, and we, and all shall have our rights ; because wc stand up to say, the family circle shall not be entered, and in Lnirhsh parlance, every man s home shall be his castle, within which he is safe from intrusion. (Applause.) Why, what is the glory of a people and the glory of a nation f it is not the mag uitude of its iowcr ; it is not the extent of its dominions. It is the-fact that the humblest home is safe under its protcc tion. The proudest boast ever uttered by Briton's proudest statesman was this- not of martial achievements not of the triumphs of the field not of that won derail dominion upon which the sun never sets no! it was this: that the British Monarch could never enter with out permission the humblest home in the land, although its broken ceilings might give but scanty shelter to its humble t in mates. (Applause.) For what are governments constituted tint for this? not for dominion, not for Tandeur, but in order that these great ends mijrht be reached ; that every man should enjoy the rights of person and se curity of home, and freedom ot con science and the enjoyment of his property, Knbiect to the laws. These are the great obiects of government ; and any govern ment. and any system that conies short of this, fails in its objocts ; and any de claration tliat assails or endangers ftiese obiects is treason against human rights. (Applause.) But is said that there is a law ot ne cessity that in times like these suspends our Constitution that war is unfavorable to liberty. It is not true. Liberty was DlfmiBUTED ALIKE. UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW. THE RICH AND born in war, it docs not die in war. " Great applause." I iberty was wrougl 1 1 on the battle held. lhat wonder ful people who founded this great State the Hollanders, who for eighty years bat tled against the martial laws and martial powers of Spain, made it a principle which sustained them during that lon contest, and enabled them to render their nstory glorious in the annals of mankind. "Were personal rights and personal liberties suspended by our forefathers during our revolutionary contest? You heard the words of that Declaration of Independ ence, which said that men had a right to trial by jury ; that the military au thority should never be exalted above the civil jurisdiction ; that men should not be transported abroad for trial " tre mendous applause" that they should lave all the rights and privilege? known to l-nglish jurisprudence and English law ; and yet to-day we are told that the men who put forth that declara tion of rights and of independence amid the roar of battle, when our nation was struggling into existence in all its weak ness, who declared and they made- their declaration good by their conduct through tliat contest that these rights were to be be held sacred in war, that these men who uttered this declaration in war made a Constitution that dies and shrinks away in war that men learned in the perils of revolution had formed a government, under which we live, that was not equal to the very highest purpose for w hich governments are constituted. I tell vou it is a libel upon our fathers. " Great applause." So far from it being true that those who formed this Constitution contemplated that these powers should be suspended, you find in all these provisions articular care for all the dangers and the exigencies of war : you find numerous provisions that are meant to guard against the very dangers that now men ace oj: ..".Your attention lias been called to the fact by the gentlemen who pre ceded me. Why was it that they so carefully guarded all your rights amid public disorder if they meant that the mere existence of disorder should suspend the barriers of public order and private rights ? This doctrine of the Constitution this doctrine of the suspension of the laws, is unconstitutional, is unsound, is unjust, is treasonable ! " Tremendous applause and waving of hats aad hand kerchiefs. A voice : That's just the word !" I am one of those who are full of hope for the future Not that I underrate the dangers which threaten us not that I do not deplore as much as living man can the terrible ravages of this war. But wny uocs war rage m our lanu r it was because because the people of this genera tion have lost the virtues, and patriotism and wisdom of their fathers. It was be cause we had become indifferent to those great truths which we have now laid be fore us as if they were curiosities in legal literature, instead of being principles that should be impressed uion the heart and mind of every American. I tell you why I am full of hope that our liberties will be maintained, our nation restored, and order once again prevail over this land of ours. It is this : Examine your selves, and 1 ask you, how many men there are within the sound of my voice, who knew twelve months ago what the Constitution of this country was 1 I do not mean to say that you did not under stand it intellectually. I do not mean say that it was not imprinted upon your mem ory. I not mean to say that it had not received your assent ; but it was not imiil we were made to feel, as our fathers felt, the value of this declaration, that they had put forth, that any of us could ever see the significance of the Constitu tion of our country and the Declaration of Independence. (Applause.) We have accepted it, as I said, mentally and intel lectually ; but why was it, when these familiar words sounded upon your ears on this occasion, as you have heard them often before on the anniversary of our country's liberty, that they stirred your very hearts within you, and made your blood tingle in your veins ? My friends, wehavc not now a more intellectual knowl edge of the Constitution we do not give it now a mere mental support we have now, upon that subject, a vital, living piety that makes us better men and better patriots ; and wherever you go, all over this land, you find these sentiments now exist in the minds of more than a ma jority of the American people. They are now fervent in their faith ; fixed in their purpose fanatics, if you please, for the great principles of liberty, and fanatical in their determination to see that thoso rights and liberties are established. (Great Applause.) Wc have seen, in our land, two small 1863. parties, each an inconsiderable minority, in the section of our country where they existed, but men of purpose men of zeal men of fanaticism. Wc have seen them wage a war upon the Constitution of our country, with a persistance and power that has at last shaken it to its very foundation, and brought us to-day to the very brink of National ruin. We have seen what zeal and purpose could tlo when it was opposed only by a dull men tal acquiescence m great truths. What may not wc hope that we may do when the great majority of the American peo ple have a fervent and vital tiith in these principles which you have heard and read, and who propose to maintain them at every cost and at every hazard? (Great applause.) Do you wish for peace ? Do you wish for victory ? Do you wish for the restoration of our National privileges Here lies the pathway, and let the Ameri can people once learn the full value of their liberties as our fathers did, and the battle is fought and won. Without this, my friends, wc can bring j-ou no success peace can give you no quiet, until the American jcople are thus educated nnd elevated until that takes place, war or peace are the mere incidents of the great underlying causes of convulsions which have affected our land and shaken our institutions to the very centre. Your particular views may lead you to attrib ute it to one special cause, but there is one great underlying general cause of this war which must be' removed' before the country can be restored, and that cause was indifference to our rights, in difference to our liberties, and want of an elevated wisdom that could understand the duties of American citizenship When you have gained this, peace will have been restored ; when you have gained this all the world can see that we have gone bae-k to the wisdom of our fathers, and that we are again sustaining institutions that invited the whole world to their shelter and protection institu tions that made us but three short years ago the most glorious nation on the face of the earth When we have again re stored that virtue and that intelligence our country will again be restored to its former greatness, and its fonner glory. (Great applause.) But, my friends, any thing short of this will disappoint your hopes. No victory can restore greatness, and glory, and power to a people who are unworthy of liberty. No jeace will will bring back prosjH'rity to a land which cannot understand the great principles upon which governments should be pro tected, snJ the great objects for which governments are instituted. But, my friends, I must close. (Go on! go on !) Let us now, ujKn this sad and solemn, as well as glorieius occasion re-dedicate ourselves to the service of our country in pure and fervent patriotism, putting aside- passions and prejudices as far as we may, and preparing ourselves to assert and maintain the great principles stated in the Declaration of Independence, and secured to us by the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Let us restlvc from this time on to do our duty, and to elemand our rights. Great applause. In all that dignifies us, and so far as they are acting in the sphere of their constitutional powers, let us be obedient to rulers, let us submit ! cheerfully, patiently, and willingly to to those command which they have a right to issue, whether we like them or or not. When we have done our duty let us claim our rights in all their fulness, in all their completeness, and in all their pcrtection lie who uocs not elo ins i duty without regard to the misconduct of others is untrue to his country. lie who elocs not claim his rights is untrue to lib erty and to humanity. Applause. j Uur pathways are dear bclorc us it wc will accept the simple and wonderful teachings ef our fathers. From this time, let us resolve that we will uphold all the just K)wers of the general government, and the rights of the States, applause. and the rights of persons, and, above all as their best and surest shield, the inde pendence and purity of the judiciary. (Applause.) We stand to-day, amid new madti graves ; wc stand to-day in a land filled with mourning, and our soil is satu rated with the blood of the fiercest con flict of which history gives an account." We can, if we will, avert all these disas ters, anel these calamities, and evoke a blessing. If he will do what? Hold that Constitution, and liberties and laws are suspended be untrue to them shrink back from the assertion of right ? Will that restore them ? Or shall we do as our fathers did under circumstances of like trial, when they battled against the powers of a crown ? Did they say that men might be elcprived of the right of trial by jury ? Did they say that liberty THE POOR. VOL. 10 NO. 34. was suspended ? Did they say that men might be torn from their homes by mid night intruders? (Tremendous and con tinued applause.) If you would save your country, and your liberties, begin right, begin at the hearth-stones, witch are ever meant to be the foundation of American institutions ; begin in your family circle ; declare tliat their rights shall be held sacred ; and hav ing once proclaimed your own rights take care that you do not invade your neighbor's rights.' Claim for your own State that jurisdic tion and that government which we, bet ter than all others, can exercise for our selves, for we best know our own inter ests, and that which w ill do the most to advance the happiness and prosperity of our country ; and when you decide that, take care that you do not invade your neighbor's rights. (The speaker was here interrupted from a cry from a person in the audience, which was followed by shouts : " Put him out" I thank my friend yonder that my appeal has stirred his heart enough to say that men should respect the rights of others. All- the the le ssons of political wisdom are very few and very simple ; they arc, for meu to respect their own rights and to respect the rights of others. Great applause They are to declare that the great princi ples of government were not holiday affairs, meant merely for a period of calm ; but that they are great truths that can battle a sterm as well. When wc have determined this, as I said before, we can hope that our country will be re stored to its former greatness and former glory. Once more, then, vou, my Kepublican friends once more, this whole commu nity, I elo invoke you to ask yourselves whether, in giving way to your passions and your prejudice s, you will not endan ger you own safety and your ovyn'homes? Once more I ask those who are'politically opposed to me, if. Lanm honored with tho attendance of one such, that they will inquire if, in attempting to strike down my liberties, they have not struck a blow at their own also ? (Great applause.) I ask all such if they can hope to stop the mighty ball of revolution precisely at that point which may suit their passions, their prejudices, and their purjses, and if they are not admonished that "if they still set such an evil example, and declare that laws and constitutions have lost all their virtue to defend us, they have equally lost their virtue to elefend them ? " The Cambria county volunteers ncedL no defence at our hands. They are loyal gentlemen, and bore themselves with pro priety under insulfs irJiirJi Vie I&Iford ,Se cexsiovisfjt heaped vpon them." Johns- TOWN Ti:iBCNE. The ''insults" heaped upon the Cam bria county volunteers by the people of Bedford, consiisting in those volunteers be ing lodged in our houses and fed at our ta bles. Nolnxly in Bedford county -sent for the Cambria county volunteers. They came here without any request from us. When they did come, however, our peo ple treateel them kindly and gave them a hearty welcome. They came here, as wo understand it, not so much for our defence, as to cover their own homes from attack. We gave them our soil for entrench- j meats, our bread for food, our dwellings, churches, and public buildings for lodging places and camps. In return, they stole our horses, wantonly and wastefully killed our cattle, wickedly destroyed private pro perty, and now hav ing returned home, tell their friends that the people of Bedford " heaped insults " upon them ! They are doubtless, very " oy(," and quite likely are " ijeniclemeu," w hen measured by the standard of the Johnstown Trilune. ii-auy mere were manv do and upright men nninnir ih who elepricated the conduct of their comrades. To those, of course, we da not re fer." But a goodly peirtion of them "will steal."- ld,ord Gazette. -5 A chap down iu Connecticut, after the passage of the Conscription act, got married to evade the draft 1 le no.vy says, if he can get a divorce he will cja list, as, if, he must fight, he would rather do so for his country. This fel low has evidently made a mistake matri monially. 3" A downeaster sold another man a horse for a certain number of slieep, to be delivered on such a day. They came promptly, but to the purchaser's aston ishment, all nicely sheared ! It was a j c00' transaction, especially for the sheep. KJ- When every ouo takes care of him self care is taken of all. d Prejudiced judgement. . opinion ia fatal to Bi 3 1 ' h ,4 r I
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