1 ilf ltl ft it ti TIIE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE. UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW. THE RICH AND THE TOOR. EY SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1863. VOL. 10 NO. 38. rfflCRA T published & SENTIN every Wednes 7EV J den, as a final settlement of the controversy, I the Administration, that an appeal is now itsday I if tendered and sustained by the Republi- j to be made to the intelligence of the peo- 4 I. X. 7- " I ' . . n i . l t r v at Ose I'ollab and r itTY uknts i vu uiciuucrs. uenre tne tenote rrvx)m- payable in advance; uoi uuuy oj our disagreement, and the only dijfi "i!t months ; and Two Dollar if r'i -ntil the termination of the year. V" . Ml , - f description win De receivea ior a ,perini than sit months, aud no vj- will he at liberty to discontinue 'ir'uutil all arrearages are paid, ex "ie option of the editor. Any per. bribing fr six months wil lie char "i Dollar, unless the money !;3 ilvance. Advertising Rales. Oneinsert'n. Two do. Three da T12 lines J 50 75 J 1,00 arti.724 lineJ 1 00 1 00 ? 00 136 ines 1 i ov i w a wu 3 months -or ess. 1 12 lines 2 50 24 lines 4 00 jres.fStJ lines 6 00 ires. :c!uir.n. 15 00 6 do. $3 00 4 50 7 00 9 00 12 00 22 00 12 do $5 00 9 00 12 00 14 00 20 0C 35 04 culty of an amicable a-ljustmcnt.is with the xiepuoucan party." Jan. 3, 18G1. I he 1 eace Congress was another means by which the border States strove to avert the impending strife. How the Republi can leaders then conspired against the peace of their country may be seen in a letter from Senator Chandler, of Michi gan, to the Governor of that State : " To his Excellency, Justin. Blair: "Governor Bingham and myself tele graphed you en Saturday, at the request of Massachusetts and Ne-.v York, to send dele gates to the Peace or Gmproinise Congress. They admit that we were right and that they were wront,; that no Republican State ihould have sent delegates ; but they are here and caunot get away. Ohio, Indi ana and Rhode Isl.tnd are caving in, and there is danget of Illinois; and now they beg us for God's saVe to come to their res cue, and save the Republican party from rupture. I hopt? you will send stiff-backed nieu or none. 1 he whole thing was gotten up against my judgment and advice, and will end in smoke. Siill I hope as a matter of courtesy to some of our erring brethren that you will send the delegates. Truly, your friend, " Z. Chandler., F. S. Some of the manufacturing States think that a fight would be awful Without a little blood-letting this Union will not. in rrv estimation, be worth a rush Washington, Feb. 11. 18tfl." In I'ennsylvama, too, the same spirit prevailed. It was not seen how necessa rily her position united her interest with the border States. She has learned it since, from contending: armies trampling out her harvests and deluging her fields with blood. Governor Curtin sent to the Peace Congress Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Meredith. Mr. Wilmot was chiefly known from the connection of his name with the at tempt to embroil the country by the " ilmot l roviso, ballleu by patriotic pie. ADDRESS OK THE nnr ratio Stale Central Com mittee. tbe 1'i.ople ok Pennsylvania : ia important flection is at hand, and ues involved m may now claim rw . . . t t ; attention. 1 ne tide oi war nas occn i back from our borders ; and with k to God, and gratitude to the skill nW which by his favor, achieved prompt deliverance of our invaded imunwealth, we may now give our tin consideration to the causes that e brought to its present condition a a:rv once peaceful, united and secure. i now the scene of a great civil war, evn Suites that lately ministered to h other's prosperity in a Union founded their common good. It was this on that save them peace at home and a.W.u. They coped successfully statesmanship, in which Clay and Web- ib Great BnUuii on the ocean, ster loined with the Democratic leaders : 1 the "doctrine" uttered by President just as Clav and Jackson had joined in the Tariff Compromise of 1833. Mr. Meredith had published his belief that the mutterings of the rising storm were what he called " stridulous cries," unworthy of the slightest attention Ry, Mr. Lincoln's election, in Novem ber, 1 800, the power to save or -destroy the Union was in the hands of his party ; and no" adjustment was ossible with men who rejected the judgement of the Su preme Court, who scorned conciliation and compromise, and who looked to mroe warned ott the monarchs oi rupe from the whole American Con- nt. Now France carves out of it an pin-, an 1 ships built in England plun- our cmniiierco on every sea. A great Ii !t ar.d a conscription burden the The strength an wealth of the i n are turned from productive indus- and con-utned in the destructive arts war. Uur victories tail to win peace, ror.wut the land, arbitrary power en- i'-s upon civil liberty. W :i;it h i wroinrlit ttie liff rniw .T : No natural causes embroiled - NorUi and the South. Their riaiucable products and com lities, ami various institutions, were roes of reciprocal benefit, and excluded "petition and strife. llut an artificial ! -s: ot dissension was found in the po Jn of the African race ; and the as ""ianov in the national councils of men Vl to an aggressive and unconstitu ral Atxjlition policy, has brought our -ntry to the condition of "the house .ainsi usen. a ne aanger to Inion began where statesman had The Abolitionists deprecate these allusions to the past. To cover up their own tracks, they invite us to spend all our indignation upon " Southern traitors;" but truth compels us to add, that, in the race of treason, the Northern traitors to the Constitution had the start. They tell us that slavery was the cause of the war; therefore, the Union is to be restored by waging a war upon slavery. This is not true ; or only true in the sense that any institution, civil or religious, may be a cause of war, if war is made upon it. Nor is it a just conclusion that if you take from your neighbor his man-servant or his maid, or anything that is his." you will thus establish harmony between you. No danger to the Union arose from sla very whilst the people of each State dealt calmly and intelligently with the question within their own State limits. Where little importance attached to it, it soon yielded to moral and economical consider ations, leaving the negro in a position of social and political subordination no where more clearly marked than in the Consti tution and laws of Pennsylvania. The strife began when people in States where it was an immaterial question undertook to prescribe the course of duty upon it to States in which it was a question of great importance and difficulty. This interfe rence became more dangerous when at tempts were made to use the power of the General Government, instituted for the benefit of all the States, to injury and iroscriniion of some of the States. It was not merely a aanger to me insti tution of slav.ry, but to our whole K- itical system, in which separate and dis- uict colonies became, by the Declaration of Independence, " free and independent States," and afterwards established , a Federal Union under the Constitution ot the United States. That instrument, with scrupulous care, discriminates the powers delegated to the General Govern ment from those reserved " to the States respectively, or to the people." And let it be noted, that in speaking of the jowers so delegated and reserved, we refer to no the mercy of new functionaries called " provost marshals." Secret accusation before these officials takes the place of I o)en hearing before a lawful magistrate, and no writ of habtas coriius may inquire " little bloodletting to cement the Amer ican Union. Till this time, the Union men of the South had controlled, witl little difficulty, the small but restless class amonir them who desired a separate na tionality. The substantial interests of the South, especially the slaveholding in terest, were drawn reluctantly into seces sion. Gen. . 1. I5)air ot Missouri, an eminent Republican, said very truly, in I f m - the last Congress : Everv man acquainted with the fact knows that it is frlacious to call this slaveholders ' rebellion ? closer scrutiuy demonstrates the contrary to be true ; Biich a scrutiny ue'monstrittes that the rebellion originated chiefly with the non-slaveholders resident in the strongholds of the institution, not springing, however, from any love of slavery, but from an an ifri.;vm of men and hostility to the idea of .J and sheltered by the Constitu- j equality with the blacks involved in simple llif-y called this conflict " irre- j emaucipatiou." if was f tie ! trmniTin or me VDOimoniMs Ot "n it ; it began in the triumpht of j tfnal party, founded on principles of j uuonarv hostility to the Constitution i.i'iaw. The leaders of this party P'ed-o f to a conflict with rights re- the cause of the arrest. To illegal ar rests b;ive be.cn added the mockery of a trial of - a private citizen lor his political opinions before a court-martial, ending in the infliction of a new and outrageous penalty, invented by the President of the United States. We need not comment upon acts like these. Tbe President of the United States has no authority, in time of peace or war to try, even an enlist ed soldier by court-martial, save by virtue and in strict conformity with the military law laid down in the act of Congress " es tablishing rules and articles for the govern ment of the armies of the United States." jtet by his proclamation of September 24th, 18G2, he has assumed to make all citizens amenable to military courts. I Ie has violated the great principle of free government, on which Washington con ducted the war of the Revolution, and Madison the war of 1812 the principle of the subordination of the military to the civil power. lie has assumed to put "martial law," which is the rule of force at a sjxit where all laws are silenced, in the place of civil justice throughout the In ml and b:i thus assailed, in some of the ! States, oven the freedom of the ballot-j will have nothing more to do with it. The box. These are not occasional acts, done, j secession leaders, and the presses under in haste, or heat, or ignorance: but a new j their control, oppose re-unien, preferring, system of government put in the place of ! perhaps, even a humble: dependence ujon of that ordained and established by the j European powers. Put from many parts people. That the Queen could not do ! of the South, and across tiie picket lines, what he could, was Mr. Seward's boast j and from the prisoners and the wounded, to the P.ritish Minister. The "military bas come the proof of a desire among the arrests" ot Mr. Stanton receivea tne ieouie ui mr ..o.n i-j u mm needed to keep them above or equal with the white race in the Southern States. Peace has no place in this platform. It proclaims Confiscation and Abolition as the objects of the war, and the Southern leader catches up the words to stimulate Jiis followers to fight to the last. It is not the interest of Pennsylvania that a fanatical faction shall pervert and protract the war, for ruinous, perhaps unattainable ends. What the North needs is the re turn of the South with its people, its ter ritory, its staples, to complete the integri ty of our common country. This, and not more devastation and social confusion; would be the aim of patriots and states men. The Abolition policy promises us nothing better than a Southern Poland, ruled by a Northern despotism. Rut his tory is full of examples how wise rulers have assuasred civil dit-cord by moderation and justice, while bigots and despots, re lying solely on force, have been bafiled by feeble opjxinents. 1 hat a temperate Con stitutional policy will fail, in our case, to reap the fruit of success in arms cannot be known until it is tried. The times are critical. France, under a powerful and ambitious monarch, is entering on the scene, willing again to play an important part in an American Revolution. The Enili.-h Government is hostile to us it has got all it wanted from Abolition, and vaue doctrines or pretentions, but to the clear provisions of the written instrument which it is the duty of every citizen, and especially of every public functionary, to respect and maintain. 1 lie protection oi , American liberty against the encroach- , ments of centralization was left to the States by the fraaiers of the Constitution. Hamilton, the most indulgent ot them to Federal power, says: "It may lc safely received as an axiom in our political sys tem, that the State Governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of public liberty by the national authority." Who can be blind to the consequences that have followed the departure from the true principles of our Government? "Abolition" vies with " secession" in sappin foundations of the structure our forefathers. In Pennsylvania, the nartv on whose acts you will pass at the - - " hearty commendation " of the Conven tion that renominated Governor Curtin : and it pledged him and his party to " hearty co-operation" in such acts of the Administration in the future. Such is the degrading platform on which a candidate for Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania stands before her people. These preten sions to arbitrary power give ominous significance to a late change in our mili tary establishment. The time-honored American system of calling on the States for drafts from their militia, has been re placed by a Federal conscription on the model of European despotisms. We would not, minister to the excitement which it has caused among men of all parties. Its constitutionality will be tested Ix'fore the courts. If adjudged to be within the power of Congress, the people will decide on the propriety of a stretch of power, on 1 'arliament stiled never ventured. On tins you will pass at the polls,and the next Congress will not be deaf to the voice of the people. For all political evils, a" constitutional remedy yet remains in the ballot box. We will not entertain a fear that it is not the very I safe in the guardianship of a free people. reared by j If men in office should seek to perpetu ate their power by wrestling from the people of Pennsylvania the right' of suf- tional relations with the people of the North. Early in the contest this desire was shown in North Carolina, one of the old Thirteen associated with Pennsylva nia, on the page of Revolutionary history. Rut the majority in Congress made haste to show that Abolition, not Re-union, was their aim. In a moment of depres sion, on the 2 2d of July 18G1, being the j day after the battle of Bull Run, they ? ii -1 . 1 1 . T . IX' aiiowea me passage oi a resolution, oiier ed by Crittenden, defining a policy for the restoration of the Union. Rut they soon ' rallied and filled the Statute iooks with acts of confiscation, abolition anil emanci pation, against the remonstrances af emi nent jurists and conservative men of all parties. Mr. Lincoln, too, yielding, he said, " to pressure," put his proclama tions in place of the Constitution and the laws. Thus every interest and sentiment which the Rritih I ot the oiithern people were enlisted on omnipotent has ! the side of resistance by the policy of a pie of the South. It would not be a ppe cious offer of politicians, to be observed with no better faith than the resolutions of July, '61 It would be a return to the national policy of the better days of the Republic, through the intelligence of the people, enlightened by experience. It would strengthen the Government ; for a constitutional government is strong when exercising with vigor its legitimate jowers, and is weak when it sets sin example of re volutionary violence, by invading the rights of the people. Our principles and our candidates are known to you. The resolu tions of the late Convention at llarria burg were, with some additions, the same that had been adopted by the Democracy in several State?, and by the General As sembly of Pennsylvania. They declare authoritively the principles of the Demo cratic party. It is, as it always has been for the Union and the Constitution against all opposers. The twelfth resolution de clares " that while this General Assembly condemns and denounces the faults of the Administration, and the encroachments of the Abolitionists, it does also most thor oughly condemn and denounce the heresy of secession, as unwarranted by the Con tention, ai d destructive alike of the se curity and perpetuity of government, and of the peace and liberty of the people, and it docs hveby most solemnly declares that the people of this State are unaltera bly opposed to any division of the Union, and will persistently exert their whole in fluence and power under the Constitution to maintain and defend it." We have re-nominated Chief Justice Lowrie for the liench whieh he adorn". Our candidate for Governor, Judge Wood ward, in his public and private diameter, affords the best assurance that he will bring honesty, capacity, firmness and pa triotism to the direction of the affairs of the Commonwealth. Long withdrawn by judicial functions, from the political arena, he did not withhold his warning voice when conservative men took counsel together upon the dangers that menaced our country. His fpoech at the town meeting at Philadelphia, in December, 18GO, has lcen vindicated by subsequent events, as a signal exhibition of states manlike sagacity. Under his administration, wc may hope that Pennsylvania, with God's blessin"-. will resume her place as "the Keystono of the Federal Arch." CHARLES J. RIDDLE, Chairman. of Cambrt easy Jrapn through the aid of insurgent : . wii3 icuaiiLc nriu i di t less soon they provoked a collison. -nA-rais anil tjonservativc strove to ! the conflict. They saw that Union M Ac paramount interest of their untry, and they stood by the great bond awn, the Constitution of the United Ue questions under it to the hich tri- 1 framed to decide them : thev pre- t to tho sword as an arbiter be- f n the States ; they strove hard to " ino titl which their opponents gave -jn scorn the title of " Union-sa-51 We will not at length rehearse r effort. Tn the Thirtv-sixth Con- p56 tbe Republican leaders refused their P-" to the Prittendpn CnmnrnmisA. this point the testimonv of Mr. Dou-?- ,"Mill suffice. He said: 1 Wliere this to be a fair basis of amt- jitlbtmpnf Tf vm nt tVio RsnnMi. ide are not willing to accept thin, nor . , I ' 1 'l Jg 1119 LJ IAII 11 U 111 XX t II " (Mr. Crittenden), pray tell us what - ..c wniing to do 7 I address the in to thp ft l.hit, in the Committee of Thirteen, a fragc ; if the servants of the people should rebel against their master, on them will rest the responsibility of an attempt at revolution of which no man can foresee the consequences or the end. Rut in now addrcssir.ir you upon the political issues y0 LCCP' he propo8itifn of my vec- u-i ne im elwuuc.j air. ivwju- over the Democrats and Conservatives tho North, that secured a like triumph to i the secessionists over the Union men of the South. The John Rrown raid was taken as a practical exposition of the doctrine of " irrepressible conflict." The exultation over its momentary success, the lamentation over its failure, had been swelled by the Abolitionists, so as to seem a general expression of Northern feeling. Riots and rescues had nulitied the consti tutional provision for the return of fu- eitives. The false pretence that slavery would monopolize the territories in which it could exist, had been used as a means of constant agitation, against slavery in the Southren States. A plan of at tack upon it had been published in "Hel pefs book." formally endorsed and re commended by the leaders of the party that was about to assume the Administra tion of the Federal Government leaders who openly inculcated contempt for the Constitution, contempt for the Supreme Court, and professed to follow a 44 higher law." Thus the flame of revolution at the South was kindled and fed with fuel furnished by the Abolitionists. It might Beem superfluous to advert now to what is past and irrecoverable, were it not that is is acainst the same men and the same in fluence, still dominant in th councils of ballot-box has trampled upon the great of personal liberty and the freedom of the press, which every man who can read may find asserted in the Constitution of the State and the Constitution of the United States. The dignity ot our Com monwealth has been insulted in the out- j of the day, we assume that the institutions ra"-es perpetrated upon our citizens. At of our country are destined to endure. Philadelphia and at llamsburg, propne- i he approaching election derives iur tors of newspajicrs have been seized at ' ther importance from the influence it will midnight and hurried off to military pris- j exercise upon the policy of the govern ons beyond the limits of the State. ; ment. The aim of men not blinded by Against acts like the.se, perpetrated before ! fanaticism and party spirit would be to the eyes of the municipal, and State au- j reap the best fruit from the victories thoritics, there is neither protection nor j achieved by our gallant armies the best redrew. The seizure of a journal at j fruit would be peace and the restoration West Chester was afterwards the subject ! of the Union. Such is not the aim of the of a suit for damages m the Supreme j party in power, uominateu oy its most Court of Pennsylvania. It came to trial bigoted members, it wages a war for the before Chief Justice Lowric. Rehears- j negro, and not for the Union. party, which, as Mr. Stevens said, will not consent to a restoration ot the Lnion, with " the Constitution as it is." It is this jo!icy that has protracted the war, and is now the greatest obstacle to its termination. " The re-union of the States can alone give them their old security at home, and powec and dignity abroad. This end can never be reached upon the principles of the party now in power. Their principles are radically false, and can never lead to a good conclusion. Their hope of setting up the negro in the place of the white man runs counter to the laws ot the race, the laws ot nature. Their statesmanship has leen weighed 5n flip, lmllancc and foand wanting; their " little blood letting" has proved a deluge. Their interference with our armies has often frustrated and never aided their suc cess, till it has become a military proverb ih.it thp. best Ihinir for a General is to be out of reach from Washington. The party was founded upon the political and moral heresv of opposition to compromise, whieh is the only means, of union among States, and of mace and good will on earth among men. In a popular govern ment the people are the sovereign, and It avows i the sound sense of the whole community i v ' i v . . - - - . i in" the ancient principles of English and I the design to protract the war till slavery corrects, at the polls, the errors of pohti- cal parties. T he jeople oi Pennsylvania have seen, with regret, the unconstitu tional aims of the Abolitionists substituted American justice, he condemned the acts shall be aooiisnca in au uje rxnuuem of the Federal officers as violations of , States ; in the language of one of its pam u. Tr.,.r t.-it lnn.ls n.likp tho private eiti- nbleteers. "how can a man hopincr. and IUC Ac tutiv i i 7 ' i it a 11 T"I fir tb destruction of slavery, do- ! for the original objects ot the war. A hey zen ami me uuuiii-iuo j . jUj...p j, , . - - tt n f.,r.Pt;n.i:ir.Ps in fids hind ' sir that the? war shall be a short on." i have seen, with indignation, many gal 1 V1& UUUMV u.. ' " . ' ( , . a ,i I t .,,w tlio ;ind none from the Mr. Thaddeus Stephens, the Republican Iant soldiers of the Lnion driven from its u:Wf flu. lowest, are above it." Im- ! leader in the last House of Represent.-!- j service because they had not bowed 111? - 1 1 V . L IV ...NS . I-" " I ... ... ... a iiey w in sev, racted in order patient at any restiaint from law, a parti- j tives, declared, "The Union shall never, ; to the Abolition idol.- 1 san majority in Congress hastened to pass with my consent, be restored under the j with horror, the war prof t an act to take from the State courts to the United States courts, all suits or prose "I n 111 Orpltnns' Court JL COLNTY. June Term, CAJ'bKlA COUNTY. SS. The Commonwealth p Pennsylvania . To Tticmas Fiiz Gibbons and Charles Fitx GibVuins, in Dodge county, Minnesota, heirs uid legal representatives of Michael Fitz Gibbons, la'e of Allegheny township, said County, nee'd, you and each of you are here by cited to be, and appear before the Judges of our said Court, at Kbensburg on the fiist Monday of September next, (being the 7th day of saiil month), then and there to accept or refuse to take the real estate of the said Michael Fifz Gibbons, dee'd. situated in said County of Cambria, and which has been ap praised and valued oy an inquest awarded by the. said Court and returned by the Sher iff of said Co'tntv, on the first dav of June. A. D. 1SC3, to wit : Premises. No. 1 situa ted in Allegheny township aforesaid, con taining one hundred and nine acres (109) ninety nine (09) perches nett measure, valu ed at S741 per aere ; premises No. 2, art-. j iirnng premise IS -i. lv containing (SG) acres and 18 perches, valued .and appraiser! at S8.41 per acre, or show cause why the same should n-'t b? sold. Herein fail not. Seal. Wirness the Honorable GEOPGK TAYI OK, President Judge of our said Court, :t "EiVnsbure, this firet day of . Time, A. D. 18C3. E. F. LYTLE. Clerk O. C. Sheriff's Office. Fbensburg, July 20, lSC3-r,t j JOHN BUCK, Sheriff. ni,i;,na "for trespasses or wrongs done i in Mr. Lincoln s late answer to or anv authority eised under the President of the United I stitutioti. States ;" and such authority was declared to be a full defence for the wrongdoer in any action, civil or criminal. The Ameri can Executive is, as the word imports, the exrutor of the duly enacted laws Yet the pretension is made that this will can take the place of the laws. The liberty, th! character of every citizen, is put at Constitution as it is, with slavery to be ! to secure the the triumph ot a party mionta.! l.vW " Thp same spirit nononrs i platform, or as Mr. Chandler paid, "to Uiuiiinu kij - " 1 I I I ' . .. f the citi- avc the Republican party from rupture." WJ - ' c" . .... , . . . a , committed by virtue or under color of ', zens of Louisiana, who desired tho re- j The time is now at hand when the voice v authority was derived from or exer- ! turn of that State under its present Con- j of the people will be heard. T he over- stitution. Mr Lincoln postpones them till throw ot tne Auoiuionisis at me pons that Constitution shall be amended. The i and the re-establishment of constitutional Abolitionists desire the war to last till j principles at the North, is the first, the freedom is secured to all the slaves : j indispensable step toward the restoration hordes of politicians, and contractors, and j of the Union and the. vindication of civil purveyors, who fatten on the war, desire liberty. To this great service to his it to last forever. When the slaves sire I country each citizen may contribute by all emancipated by the Federal arms, a his vote. Thus the people of the North i constant military intervention will 1 may extend the Constitution to the pco-jthc R. L. JonNSTON. Gl:o. W. Oatman. J0HRST0K fc-C'ATMAlV,: ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Eber.sburg Cambria County Tenna. Office opposite tiie Court House. Dec. 4. ISCl.ly. J. C. Scanlan, ATTORN E Y A T L A W , Eeexsectig, Pa., OFFICE ON MAIN STREET. THREE DOORS FAST op the LOOAN nOUSE. December 10, 18G2.-!y. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES Forth cure cf Coughs, Colds, Bron chitis. Hoarseness, Acti nia, and Catarrh. Tublic Speakers and Singrs ue them to strengthen and clear the voice. For sale by July 29, 63. II. C. DEVINEL. iri YRUS L. PERSHING. Eq. Attokkkt at Law, Johnstown, Cambria Co. Pa. Office on Main street, second floor oyer Bank. ix 2