I p m v. 4 THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS Of HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE mail AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. KEW SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 18G3. VOL. 10 NO. 3G. EMOCRAT tfc SEXTWEU 1 1? 1 TT T 1 -1 IS puonsneu every vveunesuay at ONE POLLAR AND FIFTY CkSTS janu"1, payable in advance; Onk Dol- ive exts, II not paid and Two Dollar if frter us-" is .;n six months ; paid until tne termination of the year. a subscription will be received for a . , . t ' it. . 1 er period man siv. monins, ana no riber will be at liberty to discontinue naper until all arrearages are paid, ex- , lt the option of the editor. Any per subscribing for six months wil be cliar j 0" Dollar, unless the money fniid in Advance. ' Advertising Rates. One inserCn. Two do. Three do lMMrttri2 lines $ 50 $ 75 $1,00 Llmres.f 24 lineal 1 00 1 00 2 00 Iaures,f36 lines 1 50 2 00 3 00 jiinworless. i ,u uu io uu f glares, f 36 line 6 00 I ilf column, 13 00 Ore column , 4 7 9 12 22 60 00 00 00 00 9 00 12 00 14 00 20 0C 35 01 Rhea this Cruel War Is Over. BIC11A1II.ES G . S A W T E U . IVirest love, do you remember. When we lat did meet, Hw you told me that you loved me. Kneeling at my feet 1 Oh! bow proud you stood before me, In your suit tf blue, Wlo you vowed to me and country, Ever to be true. Cuoiti a Weeping sad and lonely, Hopes and fears how vain ! et praying, When this cruel war is over. l'raying that we meet again Wheu iVe iuamver breeze is sighing Murvifu'Ay along; Vt mVten &uunn leaves are falling, SaJly bteau.w the song. Oft in dreams I see thee lying Ou tlje Initio plain, Lunelv. w.itirxM. even dving. Callinj; but iu vain. Cnom s Ww ping, sad, &c. If ami.l the din t.f b.ittle. Nobly yen should fall. r'.ir.uvsv front ltn" who love VO'I. Njiie ta hear you call "ii!d whiMffT words of comfort. l.'i w..(ib! s. mthe your pain ? Ah ! the inaiiy cruel fancies! Evi r in my brain. I'liuuo Weeping, sad, Ac. Bit our country c died vou. darling. Anvils cheer your way ; Wi.iie our ii;iti..s sons are fighting, can only pray. . strike for God and Liberty, Let all nations see H-w we love our starry banner, Enbleai ( f the fice. Choiu s Weeping, Fad, Xc. well be proud of that Union of the people. The Hon. Franklin Piekce presided, and upon taking the Chair made the fol lowing remarks : Mu lrknds and IUouConidifinien : While I have come to preside at this meeting, at your bidding, oermit me say that no command less iinperitive than your wish on such an occasion would have brought me here ; and I trust that in view of the great aggregation of . ierson al relations whichthirty years of manhood life have formed between us, you will re cognize in this fact a warm reciprocation, on my part, of the respect and affection winch, m ail time, 1 have never failed to find on yours. We meet on the anniver sary of a day hallowed by solemn memo ries, and sanctilied as that of the birth of the American Union. The Declaration of Independence laid the foundation of our political greatness, in the two funda mental ideas of the absolute independence .1 - A - ....... 1 . oi me American people, ana or the sov ereignty of their respective States. Under that standard our wise and heroic fathers fought the battles of. the Revolu tion ; under that they conquered. In this spirit, they established the Union, having the conservative thought ever pres ent in their minds, of the original sover eignty and independence of the several States, ail with their diverse institutions, interests, opinions and habits, to be main tained intact and secure, by the reciprocal stipulations and mutual compromises of the Constitution. They were master builders, who reared up the grand struc ture of the Union, that august temple be neath whose dome three generations have enjoyed such blessings ot civil liberty as were never before vouchsafed by Provi dence to man ; that temple before whose altars you and I have not only bowed with devout and prrateful hearts, but where, with patriotic vows and sacrifices, we have so Irequemly consecrated our selves to the protection aid maintenance of those lofty columns of the Constitution by which it was upheld. Applause.J No visionary -enthusiasts were they, dreaming vainly ot uie impossible uni formity of swme wild, L topia of their own imaginations. No desperate reformers were they, madly bent upon schemes which, if consummated, could only result m general confusion anarchy and chaos Oh, no high-hearted, but sagacious and practical statesmen thev were, who saw society as a living fact, not as a troubled vision ; who knew that national power consists in the reconcilement of diversities of insti tutions and interests, not their conflict am obliteration ; and who saw the variety and adaption of parts are the necessary ele ments of all there is -sublime or beautiful in the works of art or nature. Majestic were the solid foundations, the massive masonry, the columed loftiness of that moving planet-like, in the orbit of its proper place in the firmament of the Union. Then we were the model Repub lic of the world, honored, loved, or feared where we were not loved, respected abroad, peaceful and happy at home No American citizen was then subject to be driven into exile for opinion's sake or arbitrarily arrested and incarcerated in military bastiles even as he may now be -not for acts or words of imputed trea- Vallandigham, to discuss public affairs in I tion of a great object ; and they sought J we will cling to it "as the mariner clings S l K E C II O F FRANKLIN PIERCE AT THE CONCORD MEETING, 'N THE FOURTH OF JULY. maimificent structure of the Union. lie r- Minn TKist avs that the Mass Mrtinr ,,f Democrats at Concord, New ""iiliiip, on Saturday, the glorious an niversary of our National Independence, in every respect one of the most en th'iMastir, cheering and significant gather- ver held in the good, staunch old 'ffanite State. The Democracy gathered tvery city town, hamlet in the State, nd whether viewed in point of numbers, '"thus'iasm, a profound, steady determina tion to ptand by the politicid principles of fathers of the country, or the time and place in which it was held,- it was a "KM remarkable and mcmoriable assem Hut not alone were the free Juntain sides, the busy manufacturing ?recincto, the extended agricultural dis cts of the State, the various walks and locations represented, but all New Eng Janl, New York, and Indiana and other Pwions of the country sent up their sons, 0n again, on the Sabbath day of the on, to baptize their faith, and take "iel together in the trial hour of our Coun7. It was an inspiring and hope fol eight to thus witness full twenty-five wuani Democrats met lor a common na noble purpose. Concord New Hamp New England, the nation itself may Glorious was the career of prosperity and peace and power upon which from its very birthday the American Union en tered, as with the assured march of the conscious oilspring of those giants of the Revolution. Such was the Union, as conceived and administered by Washing ton and Adams, by Jefferson and Sladi son and Jackson. Such I say Was the Union ere the evil times befel us ; ere, in the third generation, the all-comprehensive patriotism of the Fathers had died out, ami given place to tne passionate emotions of narrow and aggressive sec tionalism. The Eastern States covered the sea with their ships, the land with their farms and their manufactures ; so did the middle Atlantic States, with ad dition of their general wealth of coal and iron; while the -Southron States, with their bright soft climate and congenial soil, raised up the creat staples of cotton, A.K.ifv ripp. rn which are the life of VWV-vj ' J J commerce and manufactures; and the great regions of the West to be granaries o" Europe and America, and still further on was rsvealed the land of gold and sil ver, on the remote shores of the 1 acme. TIi..a wprp. the. material elements of our son, but it he uo but mourn in silent sor row over the desolation of his country applause no embattled hosts of Ameri cans were then wasting their lives and re sources in sanguinary civil strife ; no sui cidal and parricidal civil war then swept like a raging temptest of death over the stricken homesteads and wailing cities of the Union. Oh, that such a a change should ever come over our country in a day, as it were as if sill men in every State of the Union North and South, East and West were suddenly smitten with homicidal madness, and " the cus tom of fell deeds " rendered as familiar as if it were a part of our inborn nature ; as if an avenging angel had been suffered by Providence to wave a sword of flam ing fire above our heads, to convert so many millions of good men, living to gether in brotherly love, into insensate beings, savatrely bent on the destruction of themselves and of each other, and leaving but a smouldering ruin of confla gration and of blood in the place of our once blessed Union. I endeavor some times, as I have no doubt you do, to close my ears to the sounds, and shut my eyes to the sights of woe, and to ask myself whether all this can be to enquire which is true, whether the past happiness and prosperity of my country are but the flat- enng vision of a happy sleep or its pres ent misery and desolation haply the de lusion of some disturbed dream. Une or the other seems incredible and impossible; but alas, the stern truth cannot thus be disicllcd from our minds. Can you for "ct, ought I especially be expected to for get, those not remote days in the history of our country when its greatness and glory shed the reflection at least of their raj s upon all of our lives, and thus ena bled to read the lessons of the Fathers and of their Constitution in the light of their principles and their deeds ? Then war was conducted only against the foreign enemy, and not in the spirit and purpose of persecuting non-combatant populations, nor of burning unde fended towns or private dwellings, and wasting the fields of the husbandmen, or the workshops of the artisan, but of sub duing armed hosts in the field. Then the Congress of the United States was the creat Council of the whole Union and of all its parts. Then the Executive Administration looked with impartial eye over the whole domain of the Union, anxious to promote the interests and con sult the honor and just pride of all the States, seeing no power beyond the law, and devoutly obedient to the commands of the Constitution. I low is all this changed? And why! Have we not been told, in this very place, not two weeks ago, by the voice of an authorita tive expositor ; do we not know that ran of our calamities is the vicious intermedline of two many of the citizens of the Northern States w ith the constitu tional rights of the Southern States, co operating with ihe discontents of the peo ple of those -Mates T xjo we not kuuw that, the disregard of the Constitution, and of the security it affords to the rights of States and of individuals, has been the cause of the calamity which our country is called to undergo! And now, war ! in its direst shape war sucn as u makes the blood run cold to read of in the history of other nations and ot other t'imes war, on the scale ot a million oi men in arms war horrid as that ot bar baric ages rages in several ot the States of the Union, as its more lmmeuiaie fiohl. and casts the lurid shadow ot its national power, each State with its ditter ence of -.ntercsts cooperating with the others to constitute one harmonious whole. And so the various European ... . .1 i- i-.ee. : races, co-exist ing nere, mougu uiucuuS in blood, religion, temper, the l'rotestani and the Catholics, the Puritan and the Cavalier,-yet by their very differences hnrnrter. afforded the mental and moral clement of the power of the Union Glorious, sublime above all that history records of narional greatness, was the spectacle which the Union exliibited to th world- so lonff as the true spirit of the Constitution lived in the hearts of the people, and the Government was a Gov ernment of , men reciprocally respecting , one another's rights, and of States, each Ohio; (applause;) aye, even here, the temporary agents of the sovereign people, the transitory administrators of the Gov ernment, tell us that in time of war the mere arbitrary will of the Pre&ident takes the place of the Constitution, and the President himself announces to us that it is treasonable to speak or write otherwise than as he may prescribe ; nay that it is treasonable even to be silent, though, we be struck dumb by the shock of the ca lamities with which evil counsels," in competency and corruption have over whelmed our country I Applause. I will not say this without referring to the authority upon which I rely. In his let ter of June 12, lSGo, addressed to Eras tus Corning, and other citizens of the State of New York, the President makes use of the followinff extraordinary lan guage : "Indeed, arrests by due process of courts, and arrests in cases ot rebellion, do not proceed altogether upon the same basis. Ihe former is directed at the small percentage ordinary and continuous perpetration ot crime, while the latter is directed against the Goverment, which, at most, will succeed or fail in no great length of time. In the latter case, ar- arests are made, not so much for what has been done, as for what probably would be done. Applause. The latter is more for the preventive and the less for the vindictive, than the former. In such cases the purposes of men are more easily understood than in cases of ordinary crime. (Laughter.) If not hindered, he is shure to help the enemy ; much more if he talks ambiguously talks for his country with 4 buts and ifs and ands.' " It is seen by this letter, at least, that there is no longer doubt as to where the responsibility for those unconstitutional acts of the last two years, peqK-trated by subordinate officers ot the l-ederal Gov ernment, both civil and military, properly attaches ; but who, I ask, has clothed the President with power to dictate to any one of us when we must or when we may spe:ik, or to be silent ujwn any sub ject, and esrecially in relation to the con duct of any public servant ? Ry what right does he presume to prescribe a for inula of language for your lips or mine ? It seems incredible, and even with this authenticated paper before us is amazing that any such sentiment should have found utterance from the elected re presentative of a free Government like that of the United States. My friends let those obey such behests who will you and I have been nurtured here among the granite lulls and under tne clear skies of New Hampshire, into no such servile temperment- Applause. True it is that any of vou, that I myself may be the next victim of unconstitutional, arbi trarv. irressponsible power. lui we, nevertheless, are free men, and we resolv ed to live, or if it must be, to die such Falter who may. we will never cease to hold up on high the Constitution of tl Union though torn to shreds by the saen lipious hands of its enemies. Applause How strikingly significant, how suggestivi to us, on this occasion, is the contempla tion of that august spectacle ot the re cent Convention at Indianapolis, ot sev-ty-five thousand citizens calmly and bravely participating in the discussion of the great principles underlying their sa cred rights as freemen neither awed by cannon frowning upon their liberties, nor provoked by threats into retaliatory violence. I would say to you, fellow-citi- its accomplishment with a stern, devoted to the last plank when night and the tern self-sacrificing spirit They were anima- pest close around him." No matter what ted bv that determination which in a may have been done North or South to righteous cause of self-defence and self- J produce it, this terrible ordeal of blood vindication is invincible. Thev knew the I which has been visited upon us ousht to " mf I ' condition of the Provinces in point of men be sufficient to bring us all back to con and munition, and they had a clear pre- sciousness ot responsibilities and dutics. ception of the colossal power which they were to confront liut neither one nor the other consideration, nor both com bined, shook either their faith or their courage. They compensated for the want of numbers, arms, and all which under ordinary circumstances goes to constitute the sinews of war, by the jrlory of their The emotions of all good men are those of sorrow and shame and sadness now, over the condition of their country, .when they retire at night, and when they open their eyes upon the dawning day, struggle against them though they may. v hy should they attempt to disguise it ? Solici- tuue which hinges upon apprehension ot patriotism and the strength of their pur- ersonal danger or personal loss, and that pose. To be sure, they fought for their alone, is contemptible. Trifling men may rights, but their endurance and energy were quickened by an incalculable power ; they fought for their homes, their hearth stones, their wives and children behind them. I trust it may be profitable on this occasion, as the call of your meeting sug gests, to revive the memories of the heroic epoch of the Republic, even though they come laden with regrets, and hold up that indulge in trifling words and thoughts, while the foundations laid by the Fathers are crumbling beneath their feet ; but the artificers who laid those foundations found no time for trifling while engaged in their grand and serious work ; nor can you. They could lift up their souls in prayer but they had no heart for levity and mirth. Mv friends, v-ou have had, most of period of our history in contrast with the you have had great sorrows, overwhelm present. Though they come to remind us of what were our relations during the Revolution, and in later years, prior to 1 80 1 , to that great Commonwealth which we were ac customed to refer to bv the name of " the mother of Statesmen and of States ; and of what those relations now are. Can it be that we are never to think again of the and where the dust of Washington and 'atrick Henry, of Jefferson and Madison repose with emotions of gratitude, admi ration and filial regard ? Is hate for all that lrgnna lias -taught, all that lrginia ias done, all that Virginia is, to take the place of sentiments which we have cher ished all our lives? Other men may be isked to do this, but it is in vain to ap peal to me. So far as my heart is con cerned, it is not a subject of volition. While there may be those in whose breasts such sentiments as these awaken no re- ponsive feeling. I feel assured, as I look over this vast assemblage, that the grate ful emotions which have signalized this anniversary in all our past history, are not less yours than they are mine, to-dav. Iiet us be thankful, at least, that we have ever enjoyed them ; that nothing can take from us the pride and exultation we have felt, as we saw the old nag untold over us. and realize its iilorious secretion of death and lamentation athwart the whole expanse, and into every nook and corner of our vast domain. ior is mai an , for in those of the States which the roar of the cannon, and the rattle of the mus ketry, and the groans of the dying, are beard but as a faint echo of terror from other lands, even here in the loyal States, the mailed hand of military usurpation strikes down the liberties of the people, and its foot tramples a desecrated Con stitution. (Applause.) Aye, in this land of free thought free speech and free wr:tinT in the Republic of free suffrage, with liberty of thought and expression as the very essence of republican msUtuttons n tJiASA free States, it is inadecriminal for a citizen-soldier, like gallant Edgcrly, of New Hampshire, to vote according to his conscience; or, like that noble martyr of free speech, zens. emulate tnat exJiiouion oi wistiom and patriotism, lie patient, but resolute. Yield nothing of your rights ; but bear TT x . 1 a. ami ior Dear. Liei. your aciion snow ui the world that, with courage to confront despotism, you have also discretion to avoid inconsiderate action in resistinc its advances. George Washington and Sam'l Adams. Mathew Thornton and Charles Carroll, George Reed and Roger Sher man, Philip Livingston and William Hooper, Benjamin Franklin and Edward Rutledge, George Walton and Richard Stockton, with their associates of all the thirteen then independent sovereign States, stood eighty seven years ago to day, in that simple but most memorable room, where the Declaration was signed, like the people of the States whom they represented, with the solemn granduer of high resolve, if apparently weak, yet with stars from the original thirteen to thirty- four ; that we say much, when we say, in the language of New Hampshire greatest son it we can with assurance say no more, " The past at least i? secure Rut if we cannot be joyous, my friend as we have been on this anniversary, let us show that it is our privilege, with the blessing of God, to be considerate, brave and wise. If there be anything of the great inheritance, under existing circum stances to save, may we not in an humble, earnest way contribute to that salvation ? If we cannot do all for which our hearts yearn, may we not at least approach its consummation, in the spirit of devoted loyalty to the Constitution and the Union which we feel ? Ix;t the disreirard of others for what the Revolutionary Fathers achieved, and for the compact which they made, subdued as they were in all things but a sense of right and honor by the suf ferings of a seven years' war, now stand out before us. Iet the people realize what this constant ringing in their ears of the charge that "the Constitution is a cove- nant with death and a league with hell has brought about. And then let them sec and tec! what we had in eighty rears of unexampled prosperity and happiness under that Constitution. ing personal sorrows, it may be true but none like these, which come welling up, day by day, from tho great fountain of national disaster, red with the best and bravest blood ot tho country, North and South ; red with the blood of those in both sections of the Union whose fathers fought the common battle of Independence. Nor have these sorrows brought with them any compen sation, whether of national pride or of victorious arms. For is it not vain to so apjeal to you to raise a shout of joy because the men from the land of ash- ington, Marion and Sumpter, are baring their breasts to the steal of the men from the land of Warren, Stsuk and Stockten, or because, if this war is to continue to be waged, one or the other must go to the wall must be consigned to the hu miliating subjugation? This fearful, fruitless fatal civil war has exhibited our amazing resources and vast jmilitary pow er. It has shown that united, even in carrying out, in it widest interpretation, the Monr-e doctrine, on this Continent, we would with such protection as the broad ocean which flows b tv.eon our selves and European power? affords, have stood against the World in anus. I speak of the war as fruitless ; for it is. clear that, profociifed upon the basis of the proclamation of Sept. 2 2d and Sept. 24, 18G2, prosecuted as I must understand those proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred brood which has followed, 'upon the theory of emancipation, devas tation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in everything except the harvest ol woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerloss Republic. (Applause.) Now, fellow-citizens, after having said thus much, it is right that you should ask me, what would you do m this fearful extremity ? I reply, from the be ginning oC this struggle to the present mo ment, my hope has been in moral power. There is repofes still. When in the spring of 18G1 I had occasion to address my llllow-citizens of this city, from tho balcony of the hotel before us, I then said I had not believed, and did not then believe, agyssion by arms was either a suitable or possible remedy for existing evils. (Applause.) All that has oc curred since then has but strengthened and confirmed my convictions in this re gard. 1 repeat, then, my judgment im pels me to rely upon moral force, and not upon any of the coercive instrumentalities of military power. We have seen in the experience of the last two years how fu- Lct them look back upon those eighty years of civil liberty, of the reign of con stitutional law, eighty years ot security to our homes, of living in our castles, hum ble though thev may have been,, with no power to invade them by night or by day, except under the well defined and exhibit ed authority of law. a written, publish- ea law, eraciea oy tnemseives ior me punishment of crime and for their own protection, eighty reais of the great ex neriment which astonished the world. I f the people will do this, I cannot, I will not believe that we are so smitten by ju dicial blindness, that the great mass of our population, North and South, will not some day resolve that we come together their armor on and their hearts strung again under tne old "oonstitution, with the for the contest of civil liberty. If we old Hag. (Applause.) I will not believe cannot be iovous and exultant on this an- that this experiment of man's capacity ' . I rt , . .... niversary of that day, it may do us good tor sen-government, which was so success- to remember that toy and exultation were xuuy illustrated until all the revolutionary far from the hearts of the bravo men who I men had passed to their imal reward, is to sanctioned the Declaration of Indepen-1 prove a humiliating failure. Whatever dence, and then fought seven years to r others- may do, we will never abaudon the maintain it No! they are not joyous nope that tne union is io oe rcsiorcu i-.ii .,irir.5nm' Thev felt the insnira-1 (Applause.) Whatever others may do TL"lAfa uv,.Vlii4v' J T " x x A a r lie r.re all our eitoas to maintain the Union by force of amis ; but even had war been carried on by us succesi-fully, the ruinous result would exhibit its utter mpracticability for the attainment of the desired end. Through peaceful agencies, and through such agencies alone, can we lope " to form a more perfect Union, es tablish justice, insure domestic tran quility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves ami our posterity," the great objects tor which, and for which alone, the Constitution was formed. If you turn round and ask me, what if these agencies fail, what if the passionate anger of both sections forbids ; what if the ballot-box is sealed ? Then, all efforts, whether of war or peace, hav ing failed, my reply is, you will take care of yourselves ; with or without arm?, with or without leaders, we will, at least, in the efforts to defend our rights as a free people, build up a great mausoleum of hearts to which men who . yearn for liberty will in after years, with bowed heiwls and reverently, resort, as Christian Pilgrims to the sacred shrines of the Holy Land.
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