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Democratic TKIu!.
Assembly,
CYUUS I.. FEKSUIXc;. of Johnstown.
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Cumnitissli ii.r,
LD. 11. Dl'NNTK.AN.cf Clc.utiild 'lp.
Iivit.it: Jfin.rtur,
(iLOUUK OUKlS.of Richland Tp.
JOHN A. KilNNLBY, of Carrobtowm
P. S. N"(MN Chairman.
(ijxr.y lKl.snv. .1. S. Mardis. Ccrgc ('.
K. ,ahm, lV.a Hubcr, Philip Miller, .Vmi
i:. MoKcs.y.ic, Jo-cph I'.ohc. del n I mu I m.
Bavid FarinT, ih'iry l'rifilthn. I". .I .iia
Stoui;li, Kli.-ha riinniiKr. I.oa-'i.s i;.!t r-,
lieorc (.Unit 5"'-i M.-icniiit. Siiiin
Duiin.ver, V. A. Kri.-c. Th. s. l Mcd-.u.k.
Jacuh 'FrotihoiM r, .f. I'. C-inlm, .h'hii M:in
iitor;, V. 'Fiitl. h;u!
Diver, .h'hu White, Henry T.'j.j.er. Ni' i..
last'amian, M. -I. Tl-tt. .1. Y. C u.:. n.
l.n 'ul Cntair. Win. M.-Cu-i-key. l H
luU!iel'.y, Anthony L-irj,, J .ha Mar.sh.
Jlass Meeting.
Tin peu.le of Ou.Lria V .unity, who r.u
Oj tf tlse titfi'otic snul tyriiuiiical a!-
miiii. tr it;":i i-f Al.raham Line !n; aici hi.s
ti:.'i"ly ami it j.crte.l t l.iM ::i f the 0 li
stitiUiMii ( T tlie I'nileii Sia'i an.: who .we
iu fav.T I the fivcihmi i f sj cet.li, the f:e
.loin f li e jiies-s, an. J the libt-rty f tin
titizei:; and who desire an l;o!n rah'.e jieaee,
I ascd ; .. .ii a fair, just and e..iti:utional
Hdjutint'-.t of our Xati..n:d difficulties,
wirhunt further .!r.ifts r Merc hlwniKhe.!.
are rciueted to meet in mass c-nventieii in
the borough of lhMi.-hui -fr, i n Tl'll A Y.
tins lf.th day of SKI'l EM HF.ll mxt.at one
o'tl. ek 1 M., t.) niw exoie.-ri. il t their
hostility to tl:e old rapes whhh have hecn
1 erpetratcd MMn a free pei'h uu their
c nteinpt fur an Adminih at:m which re
fuscj t entertain iropn5itions of j eace un
less'slavery bo ab.indor.t d.
The iiK '-tin will lv iwh'.rissed bv H. ii.
W. II. WIT'lK. Ib.n. II. I). FOSTKK,
Hon. WM. A. WALLACE, and other dis
tinguished advocates of the tights of the
i eoplc.
PHIL. S NOON,
Chairmai of lein. C. Coin.
Ehciibbin - Aup. 21, lbOl.
Monsieur Toulon Conic Again.
"If ;i timely ii inforec inent of two hun
dred thousand men had been sent to ( !rant
and Sherman, say a month no, liieh
inond and Atlanta would now bo our?,
and (JranC would be pursuing Iaic's broken
army into North Carolina, and Sherman
would bo cliasin the frapmeuts of I Lood'
army into South Carolina."
We cut the above paragraph fi)in an
Abolition papT. It is tlte same Syven
song with which the jK'op'e have been
beguiled for the last two years. When
Lincoln issaed his emancipation procla
mation on the first of January, 18:5, it
was hailed by I lorace ( Jtvely, Clovci uur
Andrews, Charles Simmer, and other
moon 5-truek fanatics, r.s the certain har
binger of a speedy downfall of the rebel
lion, although Lincoln himself had de
clared tj the Clerical committee from
Chicago, that ii would prove poVvih ss, or
to use his own jx cnliai- language, that it
would have about as much i ll'vct " ts tin-'c-s
hull i-junt t.'ii! ca.itrt. ' That pro
clamation fell still born throughout Jijir.
It has nev r, of its own vitality, given
freedom to n single slave. I is only ilfcft,
us foreseen by every n Meeting mind, has
been to unite and exasperate the South
and to divide and distract the North. One
year n-jjo a call was issued for (.'ii;e Itnu
ibxtl tnjiiHih'l .HHii ! It was then confident
ly indicted by the Abolition press, by
Alhtkii orators and by the loyal leagues,
that the "'Aift ho;ij" of the relnllioii
would be efft:tiircjyJrukcn in si sty or
iuitr.li days, 'llio contefct-was to be slmip,
quick and iledsits-t but l!ierfult of Uic
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war did not quite come up to the high
pounding spirit of the manifesto. The
lar.k lone, of the Confederacy was at one
time said to be Vicksbiirg well, Vicks
burg was taken, but the rebellion survived.
It was then located at Charleston, where
more powder and iron have been wasted,
than the French and English armies ever
expended on the fortifications of Sevasto
pol. Fort Sumter has been demolished,
reduced to a heapless pile of rubbish at
least a dozen of times according to news
paper dispatches, and yet, it still frowns
defiance at the iron clad fleet of Commo
dore Dalghren. In the spring of the pre
sent year, the enormous number of seven
hundred tiomntnd more men were demand
ed. The squelching of the rebellion, in
the estimation of these same papers, was
then a lixed fact ; there could be no doubt
or cavil about it. Excessive government
and local bounties were olfered to secure
enlistments and the result was, that on
the first of May last General CI rant and
(ieneral Sherman were at the head, re
spectively, of two of the largest, best
drilled, and bet equipped armies that
were ever marshalled on this Continent.
Grant crossed the Itapidan liver on the
sixth of May ; his destination was the
Ilebel capitol, Kiehmond. He is a brave
and gallant general, but lie has no regard
for the destruction of human life ; not
more than was attributed to Marshal
lilucher, and that was precious little,
After lighting battles almost innumerable,
with inlinite and profitless carnage, esti
mated by the .Yulional Iuti.uijciicer, to
amount to one ftundrtd tousi;id, in killed,
wounded and prisoners, his army has come
to a dead-lock b. fore Petersburg, and
Kiehmond is intact. General Sherman
started from Chattanooga about the same
time to take Atlanta, the Kiehmond f
Georgia, and aitei making a march al
most unparalleli d in military history, and
after almost daily fighting with the enemy,
lias been confronted and brought to a
stand still before that stronghold by Hood's
army. He is unable to take it by assault
and the papers now announce that he will
remain on the defensive, until Grant has
taken Uichnjond. If that is so, his situ
ation is most certainly not to be envied.
A short time preious to the adjourn
ment of the last session of Congress,
Senator Wilson, from Massachusetts, who
is Chairman of the Committee en Military
Affairs, stated in a speech, that since the
17th of hist October, Sky in Hi n1'1:ki
Ti!hsni soldiers had been mustered
into the service of the I'nitod States, mid
that Grant, after he crossed the Papidan,
had been reinforced with j'urUi-ijht Ijo-i-.-niid
nan. S'nator Wilson is familiar with
this whole business, because his duties re
quire him to be so and his statement,
startling as it seems, has never been con
tradicted. And now, after all these promi
ses and after all this unparalleled sacrifice
of hiiimi i life to the grim Moloch of war,
the country is called upon for Jive htun
dred t;t.(ind more, and that too, with
the same broken pledge, that the rebellion
is reeling and tottering on its last legs and
will be soon numbered amongst the things
that' were. In the language of a Phila
delphia Abolition sheet, "the President
has assured his J'neid, that the jrcenl will
he the bit call jlr trofj-s that ivii he made.
.fost or' our (laterals believe that the war
will end with the jweseiit y iti', and the rebels
arc of' t'w sm.ie opinion.'''' Let the Jew,
Apella, believe it. Tho belief that the
rebels are of the opinion that the war will
end with the- present year, was certainly
not d. rived from the recent interview
which Col. Jnqucs an 1 Mr. Gil more had
with Jefferson Davis and dudah 1'. ben
jamin, at Kiehmond. They spoke quite
a ililli rcnt language. Oar views as to
the ability of the North to conquer and
subjugate the South are well known. The
bloody struggles in La Vendee and Poland
are not to be ignored or forgotten ; they
are history teaehiug by example. Every
act of this administration, every heartless
edict of Abraham Lincoln, the emancipa
tion proclamation, the amnesty proclama
tion, the confiscation bill, the enlistment
of negroes in the army, but above all,
Lincoln s manifesto " To ivhoni it mui
Concern" have so united and knit to
gether the entire Southern people; have
so perfectly made them of one mind and
one soul, that the idea of conquest or sub
jugation is simply a delusion. Had this
war been prosecuted for the purposes
avowed by Abraham Lincoln in his in
augural address, a different result might
have been attained. Uut that day has
J passed, auJ the country can only hope I
that tho gordian knot of this rebellion will
be cut, -when this administration is hurled
from power. War can never bring jcaee,
for war is eternal dissolution. We can
not more appropriately close these re
marks, than by quoting a passage from a
speech delivered by Senator Cowan from
this State, in the Senate, on the 27th of
Juno last. Mr. Cowan is an honest man
and an able far-seeing statesman, and a
member of the Kepublican party. He is
opposed however to Lincoln's policy in car
rying on the war, and said, in the course
of his remarks " where does history show
the failure of' any uniteit people, numberiwj
jive or six millions, ivhen tiny en'jaje.iu rt vo
lution? Xowhcre ; there is no suc't case."
Tlie Mass Meeting.
Oar readers are already aware that a
Mass Meeting of the Democracy of this
County will be held in Ebensburg on
Tuesday the 13th of September. The
result of the Chicago Convention, its
nominee and the platform, will then be
known to the country and the campaign
will have fairly commenced. We urge
upon our Democratic friends throughout
the County to go vigorously at work and
prepare for the meeting. It is important
that every township in the county should
be represented. Such a result can be ac
complished if the necessary effort is made.
These are times that try mens' souls and
ought to impress upon every friend of the
Union and the Constitution the necessity
of making a last and united effort, to re
store the one and preserve the other. Let
the young Democracy especially take this
matter "m their hands, and come up to the
good work in all the majesty of their
strength. Surely, Surely, they can allbrd
to spend one day in an honest cflort to
rescue their bleeding country from the
perils which surround it. The II-n.
William II. Witte will be present and ad
dress the meeting. It is no disparage
ment to others, to say that he is regarded
as the most fearless, able and eloquent
defender of Democratic principles in the
Commonwealth. We trust that this ap
peal will not go unheeded and that ' The
l''ru,-ty ''.? oj' Tluiid' i-,"1 will be present
in such numbers as will give the friends
of the Slate and National Administra
tion a foretaste of th ; crushing out that
awaits them in October and Xovcntbiv.
I'titii Joiv Weed wa Ahoiitiimita).
When S'.r.h men as lJeiijamin F. Wade
of Ohio, and Henry Winter Davis of
Maryland w ho have heretofore been the
noisy defenders of Abraham Lincoln's po
litical iniquities, undertake to denounce
him in a public manifesto as a d jx,t ;
when Thaddeiis Stevens, whose notions
of political honesty are well known to the
people of Pennsy Ivania since the days of
the memorable JJueJc Shut War, and whose
hatred to the Constitution as it was, has
become a chronic disease, is willing and
anxious to see him (Lincoln) thrown over
board for a new man, it may fairly be in
ferred that there is something " rotten in
Dciu ir.." AVe can scarcely pick up a
paper without reading the announcement
of the defection of some leading and in
flueneial member of the Abolition party.
Thurlow Weed, whose name heads
this article, was the able and accom
plished editor of the Albany Keening Jour
nal, the organ of the Old Line Whig
party in the State of New York. He
supported Lincoln in 18fi0, and continued
to do so until he saw the evil and destruc
tive consequences, which Abolition influ
ences were producing, both in Congress
and the Cabinet. Like an honest man
and a true, patriot, he has abandoned the
waning fortunes of Lincoln and in a re
cent letter to the Journal is thus forced to
confess that the war, commenced for the
restoration of the Union was soon per
verted into one for the sole purpose of
abolishing slavery. Mr. Weed says :
" We have been involved for nearly
four years in an abolition war. The in
fluences that drove North Carolina and
Tennessee from the Union extorted an
emancipation proclamation practical and
ellectivc in giving union, strength and de
termination to rebellion a proclamation
to which the first slave has not owed hi.s
freedom, for it is only operative where our
armies go, and without it tlie armies
would have gone faster and farther. And
let it be remembered that all the w hile
the Abolition demagogues and fanatics
were aiding lioth rebellion and slavery.
The North united, and free of the incu
bus of Abolitionism, would have crushed
rebellion, and with it the cursed institu
tion which struck at and sought to divide
the Union. If the South avert the pun
iahmcnt duo to the great national crime of
rebellion they will owe their escape to the
insanity of Abolitionists. It is thus that
antagonisms work together.
" I did not, three years ago, mistake or
magnify the evil of Abolition influences,
nor, though fiercely denounced, did I
shrink from the duty of warning the peo
ple. What then was only prophetic is
now history. Abolition influences in
Congress and in the Cabinet have doubled
the millions of dollars and deepened the
rivers of blood spent and shed in a war
which, so long as such influences and
counsels sway the Government, promises
nothing but an interminable conflict or an
inglorious termination."
Chicago.
We have no definite news as yet from
the Convention. The tenor of the tele
grapic dispatches would seem to indicate
the nomination of General McClellan,
but the wish of their authors may per
haps be father to the thought. They all
however, represent that the utmost good
feeling prevails and that there will be lit
tle, if any difficulty in adopting a sound
and acceptable platform. We earnestly
hope that so desirable a result may be ac
complished with the greatest unanimity.
It will be the certain forerunner of suc
cess in the coming campaign. The crowd
in attendance is represented to be im
mense, and is numbered not by hundreds
but by thousands.
Posrsciarr. Since writing the above
we learn that Gov. liigler was the tem
porary chairman of the Convention and
Gov. Seymour of New York, permanent
President. In his remarks to the Con
vention, Gov. liigl'T used this emphatic
language, ' this Administration is neither
jit t C'ieiuct (i war (r make a jicace."
This is the whole thing in a nut-shell
.John V. I reitiuiii.
A committee of six Huston Abolition
ists have addressed a letter to (ieneral
Fremont, asking him whether he will
withdraw from the canvas, if President
Lincoln will also retire. The Pain
finder replies, that he is unwilling to do
so until he consults " the patriotic and
earnest party," that conferred the nomi
nation on him. He suggests however,
that an understanding b( had between the
supporters of the Inihanore and Cleave
hmd iioni'n- .-, in order that the friends of
both may coalesce and unite upon an
early day for holding a convention, to nomi
nate a new man. The meaning of all
this is simply, that if Lincoln refuses to
swap horses while crossing a stream,
I"rcuiimt wi'.l hu; p.jt luck with him.
" Li v on MacdnfF ;
Andd d he h-;ll that first cries, Ilohl,
enovuli.'''
TlIE CoM.Kl S-tONAl. CuM KIM NCK.
We understand that no definite time
has yet been fixed for the meeting of the
conferees from this Congressional District.
The conferees have been elected in Cam
bria, Huntingdon and Mifiliu. The P.lair
county convention will meet to-morrow.
The conference will be held as soon after
P.lair county elects her delegates, as the
place and time can be designated. We
have been informed that at the delegate
election held in Hlair county last Saturday,
the friends of K L. Johnston, Esq., were
successful. This will me him nine votes
out of twelve in the conference and of
course secure his nomination.
1J. L. Johns res. We notice that this
gentleman is prominently spoken of as the
Democratic candidate for Congress in the
district composed of the counties of IJIair,
Cambria, Huntingdon and Mifllin. The
State can boast of few better men than II.
L. Johnston, of Cambria, and as Mr. Mc
Allister, the presi nt member, declines a
re-election, and as Huntingdon has already
instructed for Johnston, we look upon his
nomination and triumphant election as
almost certain. It would be an eternal
disgrace to the district to discard such a
man as Johnston for such a bundle of
f books as old P.arker. Cltorfied lit publi
can. Facts fob the Crmors ! Every
seven years, we are told, the human body
is renewed ; every particle of which it
was composed at the beginning of that
period will have disappeared before the
end of it, and fresh matter will have been
drawn from the earth, air and water, to
supply the void. So with the sea, it is
continually ascending to the clouds in
vapor and descending in rain. Even the
clothing upon our backs comes to rags,
and from that to paper, and that paper
may have printed upon it advertisements
of the very place where that clothing was
formerly bought, as at E. J. Mills &
Co.'s cheap cash store, mentioned in the
notice. Who Lave a large and cheap as
sortment of good?, call and see them.
Poor Richard's IJeasoiiS for
Uiiylng United states Seen
rllies. The other day we heard a -rich neigh
bor say he had rather have railroad stocks
than the U. S. stocks, for they paid
higher interest. Just then Poor Ilichard
came up, and paid that he just bought
some of Uncle Sam's three years notes,
paying seven and three-tenths per cent,
interest. My rich friend exclaimed,
"You I I thought you had no money to
buy with." " Yes," said liichard, " I
had a little laid up, for you know it is
well to have something laid up against a
wet day, and I have kept a little of my
earnings by me." Now Poor liichard is
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Known xo an uie country ronuu io w.- .i
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very prudent and industrious, and withal,
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wise man : for
Iiiehard never learned
anything he didn't know how to make
use of, and wisdom and prudence had
become a proverb. So, when he took out
his savings and bought the notes, more
than one was surprised, and it was no
wonder rich Mr Smith asked why. So
Poor liichard in a quiet humble way
for he never assumed anything replied,
" I suppose Mr. Smith, you know a great
deal better than I do what to do with
money, and how to invest : for I never
had much, and ail I g A I had to work
hard for. But I have looked round a
good deal upon my neighbors, and seen
what they did witli their money and I
will tell you some things I saw and what
I thought of it. One very rich man was
always dealing in money, and he made a
great deal, but was never satisfied without
biyh interest. So he lent most of his
money to Some people who he thought
were very rich, at a very high late ; and
he often to! 1 how much he got, t'hl one
day the people he lent to went to smash.
11 got bael; about ten cents on a dollar
of his money. I know another old gi n
tleman, who had some bank stock and he
went to the bank and got ten per cnt.
dividend. The President and everybody
said it was the best stock iu the country
paid ten per cent. Hut what did the
old man do but sill hi.s stock the next
day! Why? why? sail everybody.
Because, it j:iy too mte'i dn-idtinl. And
in six months the bank went to smash.
Now, that 1 know to be a fact. Well.
Mr. Smith, you say railroad stocks are
best, because they pay lmj dividends .'
Can you tell how long they will pay them
I like railroads. I helped to build one,
1
an t 1 go in tor uselul tunics.
I I tro in for Useful thin-s. But I tell
vou what I kuo;r about them.
Oi
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ofthe railroads don't pay any dividend,
and two-thirds (and some of them cracked
up, too,) do not pay as much as Govern
ment stocks. Now that brings me to th
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i lovernmeni securnies ami i Wiitctvou ... ii, i, ..... ,r ..u -,, l
- ; ever rose to animate the hopes- oi civme i
why I prefer them I take it you will i m:ili. Nor should these Abolitionists
admit, Mr. Smith, that in the long run i tl. liter themselves that, if they can s;v
the investment which is b-st should have i (Vl''1 iu their object of uniting the people
,, I- I I,, if the free States, they will enter ihe eoa-
these qualities : I- irsf.it should be i r- I . . . ' . . . .
i test with numerical superiority that mu t
jlctly secure: secondly, that the income j ;nsllIV vu.lory. All history 'and experi
s.hould be uniform and ieriininei(t not up once proves the hazard and uncertainty of
one year and down the next : ami thirdly, ! war. And we are admonished by holy
that it should be ntarki !ibie, so w le-u vour
wet day conies, and you want your money,
...... ... n,i : i . .a. .. i t . i i. . i. , . .
w.. v..... b.i .1 O.H.V. .1,.,, t uuus. uiese
notes or bonds have got these qualities
more than any other kind of personal
property you can name. Try it.
ii i:,.f !... t i i ..a :
a list, in.. -ii. x null: lieen lOOKIII 11IIO (
that great book you call the Census Sta-
tistics. I used to think it wasn't worth :
much ; but since I began to study it, I telj
you, I found out a good many things very
useful for me to know. I found out, by
looking at the crops, and the factories and
shipping, &.C., that we (I don't mean the
Ilebel States) are making a thousand mil
lions of dollars a year more than we spend.
So you see that (since the increase of debt
isn't half that) we are growing rich in
stead of poorer, as John Bull and the
croakers would have us think. Then the
debt will be paid, anyhow, no matter how
long the w:ir is. Besides, did you ever
hear of a Government that broke before
the people did ? Look info your big his
tories, Mr. Smith, you will find the peo
ple break before the Governments. Well,
then, I call the stock jicrf ctly secure.
"Secondly, you want the income uni
form and permanent. Well, I want you
to take up a list of banks, railroads, mines,
insurance companies-anything you choose
and tell me (honor bright, now !) how
many have paid a uniform income for ten
or twenty years. Not one iu a hundred
Mr. Smith, and you know it.
" Now here is the Government will
pay you without varying a tittle.- Now
I like something that gives me my income
every year.
" Thirdly, you want something which
is marketable any day in the year. Now,
if you ask any bank P.esident, he will
tell you that Government stork arc the only
kind of 2rojicrty that is always sdeabb, he
cause they will sell anywhere in the world
Now, 31 r. Smith, this is why I put my
little savings in (i-ovcrnment stocks. I
confess, too, that I wanted to help that
dear old country, which is my home and
my country." " I confess," said Mr.
Smith, " I hadn't thought of all this.
i There is a good deal of sense in what vou
say, and I will go so far as to put two or
three thousand dollars in United States
stoc ks. It can do no harm."
We left Mr. Smith Going towards the
i..,,a. i,, . i .
oanu, ami 1 oor liichard returning home,
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wim mat calm ana nlaci i air winch nidi-
i tliil u -, . f ... ... ,
v...v.v. ji ma uisposmon ami
the consciousness of doing right towards
Iiis country and fellow man.
A Ii-oiJiecy.
The following extract is taken from a
speech delivered thirty years ago, by
Henuv Ci.av, on the question of receiving
Abolition petitions by Congress. It fore
shadows with prophetic accuracy the evil
and blasting eflects which Abolition fanati
cism has brought upon our once happy
an 1 prosperous people.
Sir, I am not in the habit of speak
ing lightly of the possibility o( dissolving
this happy Union. The Senate knows
that I have deprecated allusions, on ordi
nary occasions to that direful event. The
country will testify .hat, it there be anv-
j thing in the histoiy of my public care r
worthy of I"-.'collection, it is tlie trut'i an !
sincerity of my ar h nt devotion to it- !...-;-ing
presi nation. Bai we should be la!-'
in our a!h ei:u:ee to if we did not !i--eiimioate
between the imaginary and i :.-.
dangers bv winch it mav be as- iii. ;
Abolition should no long' r be regard d a
an imaginary danger. The . I k d i 1 1' :!-;--.
let Hi-", suppose, sueeed in their pfe.-ei.t
aim of uni uig the i.niabitauts of the '.:
States as one- m m ;::;in-i the "mi.ahiiaaTs
of the slave States. ' nioa on the on
side will b. get maon on th other. An 1
this process of ieeiproe;d consolidation
be attended :th all the vi .lent prcjii h . s,
embitter' d passions, and implacable ani
mosities which ever degraded or deformed
human nature. .V virtual dissolution of
the Union will have taken place. !.':!
th
mis of its existence remain. The
m v aluable eh meat of union, mutual
kiwdoess. the feelings of sympathy, lb
i'ratunil bonds, which now h.,ppiiy unite
will have b 'en exiiiejuished forever.
: )t.,
section will
'. i 1 in nu naein j: and
hostile array against the other. 'I he 1-
lisioti ot opinion wi, I b.' quickly tohowe.t
I. 1 II f I'M......
! u !!l ' t',:,-i 01 :iI,n- . 1 "V1 "" u
to oh sen! K. scenes whicu now tiappuy !:
! concealed from our ieW. Abolitiolii.-t-
j them.-e'.ve would shrink back in dismay
; and horror at the contemplation of der
lated fields, conflagrated cities, murdered
I inhabitants, an 1 the overthrow of' the
i fairest fabric of human gov ernm. nt that
writ that the race is not to tlie swat, nor
! the battle to the strong. But if they were
i to conquer, whom would they conquer ?
i 1 . . . .J . .
, A r,,.,, fue om w,o had insulted our
tlag, invaded our shores, and laid our
country waste ? No, sir, no, sir. It
wouiit no a
Id bo a conuue.-t without laurels,
I without irlorv a self, a suicidal conquest
a conquest of brothers over brothers,
achieved by one over another portion et
the decendants of common ancestors, who,
nobly pledging their lives, their fortunes
liid their saefed honor, had foiieht and
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bled, side by side, in many a hard battle
on land and ocean, severed our country
from the British crown, and establi?hed
our national independence.
The inhabitants of the slave States are
sometimes accused by their Northern
brethren with displaying too much rash
ness and sensibility to the operations and
proceedings of Abolitionists. But, betore
they can be rightly judged, there should
be a reversal ot conditions. Ixt me sup
Iose that the people of the slave Stales
were to form societies, subsidize presses,
make large pecuniary contributions, send
for the numerous missionaries throughout
their own borders, and enter into machi
nations to burn the beautiful capitols, des
troy the productive manufactories, and
sink in the ocean the gallant ships of the
Northern States. Would these incendiary
proceedings be regarded as neighborly and
friendly, and couMstent with the fraternal
sentiments w hich should ever be cherished
by one portion of the Union toward an
other ? Would they excite no emotion ;
Occasion no manifestations of dissatisfac
tion, nor lead to any acts of retaliatory
violence? But the supposed case fal'S
fur short of the actual one in a most es
sential circumstance. In no contingency
could these capitols manufactories, and
ships rise in rebellion and massacre the
inhabitants of the Northern States."
Mark tho prophetic language-! Who
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