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THE BLESS IS GS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVES, SHOULD BE
sie i: c ii
OF
Mr. EMERSON ETHEUIDGE,
AT PIIIL.AOK1.PI1IA.
Fellow-citizens indulge nie as best you
can with jour silence. I am a stranger
to you, unknown to distinction and un
heralded by fame 1 come ro-night to min
gle in your rejoicing upon this sacred soil ;
to join with you in ratifying those nomi
nations upon which depends the preser
vation of the holy Constitution of these
United States. Applause. If the spirits
of good men from earliest history who
years ago, on this spot, proclaimed
to the world the Constitution which
has been the only bond of union among a
free and glorious people could they once
more revisit earth they would be here in
their glorious presence to look approvingly
upon you, their children, who meet this
night to ratify again that noble Constitu
tion, upon the preservation of jyhich de
pends the life of liberty throughout tho
world. (Great applause.) Not one of
those noble spirits would be at Washing
ton, mingling with brazen-faced courte
zan0, greasy contrabands and greedy con
tractors. (Laughter and applause.) Not
one of them would smile at a smutty
joke, but they would 1x5 here to-night,
witli earr.e-t hearts, imploring you to
save the Ship of State and to preserve the
lilierties of a noble people. Cheers.
You have heard to-night a distinguish
ed statesman of New York, who has told
you that Abraham Lincoln is a condi
tional Union candidate. That is the only
expression he uttered to whi h I shall
make any elissait. Abraham Lincoln is
not even that, he is a usurper and ft des
pot. Applause and Laughter. There
was no L'nion of States except the union
which was the child of the Federal Con
stitution alone, and you have beard so
many eloquent discourses from these loyal
leaguers in regard to loyalty, should re
member that there is not a supporter of
Abraham Lincoln to-day who is not in
degree if not in kind, a traitor equally
with Jcthrson Davis. Great applause.
No intelligent man can be an honest man
and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
Renewed applause. No man can be in
fluenced by the unholy pretences of these
nan and no man understands the theory
of this Government, its early history and
the principles upon which it was founded,
can support Abraham Lincoln and be
loyal to the Constitution of the United
States. Cries of "good! good!" and
cheers. At this very moment we are
ground North and South, by two rival
despotisms These despotisms are noth
ing but a departure from the old Consti
tution, the only national safety, a Con
stitution which I know you re-aflirm to
day in your loyal hearts. They tell you
about loyalty. There is a world of loy
alty in the Republican party. Laugh
ter. 15ut it is loyalty to a cringing slave,
to a mean and imbecile master. Ap
plause. It is not loyalty to to law. Ask
these men who preach loyalty, these
loyal leaguers, laughter, as they call
themselves, or as we call them out West,
Lincoln Liars, great laughter ask these
men what loyalty is, and they are as
dumb as an oyster. More laughter.
They know no more of loyalty than they
do of treason, but they hurl in the face
of better men that which they cannot
answer for.
What is loyalty ? It has no applica
tion in a representative ago under a form
of government. If it means anything it
means devotion to the person of a prince.
Hut the man who is loyal to the Consti
tution of his country, and I care not w ho
he is, who opposes or limits the Constitu
tion of his country, whether JetFerson
Davis or Abraham Lincoln, he is pro tanto
a traitor. Tremendous applause. Ju
nius is a name dear to liberty in every
age, and he defined loyalty in tho heart
of every Englishman as a rational at
tachment to the guardian of the laws.
Is Abraham Lincoln the guardian of the
laws of this country? Cries of "no,
no," and derisive laughter. He is the
guardian of the laws as the vulture is the
guardian of the dove, as the wolf
is tho protector of the Iamb. I not
only chargo Abraham Lincoln with being
a disloyal man, but he has had tho ef
frontery within the last three months to
repudiate law within the State of Ken
tucky, and expressly violate the . Consti
tution, and yet you who aro in favor of
the entirety of that instrument, in favor
of the Union a9 that Constitution made it
arc taunted with being traitors to that in
strument. You may suppose that if these Octo
ber elections go against Geo. B. M'CIellan
and Geo. II. Pendleton, this Government
may be preserved, but I tell you sincerely
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1864.
and honestly, that if Abraham Lincoln
be forced upon the country, if by force or
fraud for by no other means can it bo
done if by force or fraud he be declared
the President of the United States, then
there is no hope of saving the country.
Applause. The state of this country
depends upon the verdict of the people, to
be rendered in November next, and if the
glad tidings are once flashed upon the
wires, that the people of the North, un
aided by the people of the South, have
been able to vindicate the Constitution,
and rescue it from the hands of the des
troyer, when the announcement is made,
the work, of restoring the Union is more
than commenced. Applause.
I have read of seas of upturned faces,
but this is the first ocean of faces I have
ever seen. Laughter. The billows of
public sentiment are rolling high. God
grant that in November next you may
wait the Ship of State into the harbor of
safety. (Cheers.) I was telling you how
dangerous is Mr. Lincoln's election. It
is perilous to elect him. It will endanger
the life and destroy the liberties of this
great Republic, but I know that you are
all resolved that he shall not be returned
to Washington in November next. Hut
yesterday I heard from the Tenth Legion.
What news do you suppose they send
griding to their friends in Philadelphia?
Why, " we intend to keep the ballot box
e pen for a week." (Laughter.) And there
was a message from old Northumberland.
God bless her ! Said the message, "tell
the men of Philadelphia we will keep the
ballot box open until we get enough.''
(Roars of laughter. ) There is one truth
I will tell you. I have lived all my life,
before this war, among the people of the
Southern States. I know them. My
childhood, my youth, and the vigor of my
manhood has lieen passed among them,
and I tell you that to-day. in the Stales
of Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee
alone, theie are 100,000 nun, between
the ages of eighteen an 1 fifty, that are
now patiently awaiting the result of this
election. They sided with the Govern
ment at the commencement of the war.
They have resolved to stand by the Con
stitution and the Union as long a they
can find brotherhood among the free
States of the North (Applause.) They
wait with patience to know the result of
the popular verdict in November next. I
tell you that if you elect Abraham Lin
coln to four years more of tyranny and
misrule, they well know that he will des
troy the remaining features of the Consti
tution, and the Union will be gone for
ever. And when it is told to (hem
that Abraham Lincoln is re-elected thev
will look around them for their own safety
and it is not difficult now to look the mat
ter in the face and tell where they will go.
I do not tell you where they should go,
but I tell you where they will go. Mr.
Lincoln to-day cannot invoke men enough
anil print money enough to sulyugate and
trample under, and exterminate, and dis
grace, and enslave such a people in such
an age of the world. (Great applause.)
In our State we will have no vote. Why ?
Because Abraham Lincoln has used the
army and navy of the country for two
years and a half to get Tennessee out of
t ho Union, despite of the wishes of the
sixty or seventy thousand Union men in
the State. (Renewed cheering.) To-night
I arraign him as the best commissioner,
the best recruiting officer, the best prose
lyte that rebeldom has ever had. Great
enthusiasm. They are arresting men in
this country for discouraging enlistments,
but I tell you that Abraham Lincoln has
done more to discourage enlistments in the
Union armies than any ten thousand
rebels south of the Ohio River. Sensa
tion. I will tell you what more he has
done: lie has done more to stifle the
Union sentiment of the South than any
fifty thousand men who have been in
Richmond since the commencement of the
war. He has done more to disgrace the
human race than any being orcreature
that walks the face of tho earth. Roars
of laughter and cheers.
I speak what. I feel and what I know.
In this war Mr. Lincoln has caused all
the misery and su tiering of the people, of
Tennessee by his broken faith. In the
commencement of the war, Missouri,
Kentucky, Western Virginia, and Mary
land were true to the Union, and refused
to respond to the calls of the secessionists
to leave the old Government. Mr. Lin
coln to retain theso Commonwealths,
made them related pledges. The peo
ple of these States responded that they
believed in the efficacy of the ballot-box
and they said that secession was a mad
ness and a crime. They did their duty
in standing by tho law, and the Constitu
tion, but Mr. Lincoln failed in his duty
to them. If the States did not go out of
the Union it was not because Abraham
DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND
Lincoln and his Administration did not
try fo carry them out. He never made
a promise but to break it, aud he never
made a show of maintaining law but to
betray a people whom he made his dupes.
When the war broke out the issues were
clearly defined. Never in ancient or
modern history were issues so clearly
made. In other countries there have been
wars for boundaries and for claims to ter
ritories, or the right of an heir born to
the throne ; but here we responded to the
call of a country and a law, and that is
precisely what Jefferson Dais and his
advisers did. They got up a Confederacy
for the purpose of overthrowing the Gov
ernment, and that is what Mr. Lincoln
had to meet. The people came forward
to sustain him with a united impose and
a united purse. They rallied to the stan
dard, and they placed in the field armies
never Ik? fore precedented. You may think
of the fabulous armies of the olden time,
of Xerxes, with his million men ; you
have given Abraham Lincoln over two
millions of soldiers, more men than he
had votes in the presidential election.
The first pledge Mr. Lincoln made to
the people of the North and the South
was that the war should be prosecuted for
the sole purpose of putting down rebellion
and maintaining the unity of the nation,
and for this purjose you put j our sons
and your brothers and j our fathers into
the lield. They went forth for a cause
as holy as ever soldier invoked his
sword. How long did it continue ? Why,
sirs, it took George 15. McClelhm a year
to reorganise our armies. The whole of
sixty-one was spent in preparation. The
campaign of sixty-two was opened under
tin? auspices of McClellan, ami Hucll, and
Grant; and Fort Donclson, Shiloh, York
town and New Orleans proclaimed the
victories of our arms. Almost an impire
was redeemed, .-o mighty was the terri
tory restored by our aru.tes. Tho rebels
were everywhere routed, aud loyal hearts
looked witli glad anticipations of a speedy
peace. So that summer the rebellion was
broken. The rebels were retreating
everywhere. All Kentucky, all Missouri,
all Tennessee, nearly all l-rouisiana and
West Virginia were under the control of
the Union armies. In the general rejoic
ing of the times, I went to Tennessee at
the special instance und commission of
Mr. Iv.ncoln, to make an amnesty pledge
and appeal to the people of the State
Men and women came for fill' miles to
meet me. I read to them the propositions
of Congress, the declarations of the Presi
dent, the proclamations of Generals Mc
Clellan, Dueil and Grant, to prove that
the support of the war in that State did
not mean the freedom of the slaves. In
less than ten days seven thousand of my
neighbors came and took the oath of al
legiance to the Constitution of the United
States, and went home glad to believe
that the rebellion was over. Mr. John
son, now a candidate for the Vice Presi
dency on the Abolition ticket, proclaimed
to the people of the State a general am
nesty, and many of the rebels took it.
The people of Tennessee acce pted the
amnesty tendered to the in. by Mr. Li.i
coln through his military Governor, and
in support of it they sent thousands and
tens of thousands of their sems into the
Federal armies. Then Mr. Lincoln chang
ed the issues of ihe war. From that day to
this he lias employcel the military power
of tho North for the purpose of blotting
the Southern States from the map of the
world, making the war upon their life as
unholy as the war that Jefferson Davis
has made against the Government of the
United States. (Tremendous cheering.)
And in pursuance of the universal policy
of transforming the best Union men of
the South into rebels, in Nashville the
week before last, Andrew Johnson, the
satrap of Mr. Lincoln, with the loyal
leaguers of Nashville, declared that no
man should vote in the present election
unless he would take an oatli to oppose
the Chicago Convention, to oppose armis
tice, amnesty, peace, in a won!, to oppose
George R McChllan, and vote for Mr.
Lincoln. (Cries of "shame," groans and
three cheers for swapping horses.)
Now, to-day, when the fieople of Ten
nessee would return to the Union, to
which they were always faithful, and re
new their allegiance to a Government
which thev never deserteel, Mr. Lincoln is
trying to keep them out of the Union, or
at best to get up a bogus election, so that
he can count of the votes of the State.
How is it with Maryland? A few days
aso a convention met at Annapolis.
That convention was not elected by the
people. The delegates were elected by
Lincoln's bayonets. They framed a con
stitution, and they submitted it, not too
the people of Maryland. Instead of sub
mitting it to the people of .Maryland, as
the laws decided, they concluded that
such men as suiteil them should vote, and
that no others should cast suffrages in the
adoption of a constitution that was to
apply to all the people of the Common
wealth. So was it in Arkansas. So was
it in Kentucky. Kentucky lias thirty
thousand troops in the Feeleral armies
who have won impcri.-Jiahle renown, but
when the people of Kentucky assembled
for the purpose of electing a judge, what
did this loyal President, Abraham Lin
coln, do Why, he issued directions to
his janizaries, and the hirelings ordereel
Judge Duval's name to be stricken from
the poll boA, that he might secure the
election of one of his miserable pimps, a
man by the name of Denton. The pee
ple of Kentucky, though they had but
twenty-four hours' notice cf this, notni
nafeel and elected Judge Robertson, a
gentleman of high standing and ofhicial
integrity. If Kentucky could vote to-day
in her ruined homes ami her faithful
camps, ninety-nine out of every hunelreel
votes would be for Ge-o. 15. McClellan.
(Three cheers for Kentucky and Geeirge
li. MeClelhm.)
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew John
son have not a party in Kentucky and
Tennessee as large as the Pennsylvania
party of the penitenti:-.rv and they are
not a whit mure respectable. (Merriment.)
There is not an honest man in my- State,
there is n t i man with an honest repu
tation before the world, who will vote for
Abraham Lincoln. (Laughter and cheers. )
The-y think th-3 unlawful despotism of
Jefferson Davis is no more unconstitu
tional and dangerous than the arbitrary
usurpations of Abraham Lincoln
("That's so" and applause. ) They talk
to you about restnri: g the Union by force.
T! inen who tel! von thy can carry out
that idea are simply insane". Have you
not heard for ti e lut ihne venrs that the
l e behioii was eiudied and on its Ia.t legs,
that the last white boy was conscripteel
and the last e'M man shouldering a mus
ket, that famine is brooding over the land,
ar:d ruin was the; fate of the people? The
Southern people are as united to day as
they ever were before, and they cannot be
e-oi.epiered. Julius Casar conquereel at
Pharsnlia with an hundred theiusand men,
the battle's of the revolution were fought
with a handful of colonial militia, but
our president, who has emulated Xerxes
and bis countless armies, has ellecfed ne
more profitable result than the Persian
madam !
I have- said bitter things about this re
bellion. About its causeless origin, the
criminality of its persecution, but there
are worse things in the vvorhl than rebe ls.
I had rather be crtlled a rebel than a thief.
For rebellion becomes respectable if suc
cessful, and it depenels upeui Abraham
Lincoln to determine whether this rebell
ion shall be respectable or not, and it Ie
penels upon us to say whether this rcfellion
shall be respectable or net, ami it depenels
upon us to say whether Abraham Lincoln
shall be elected or not. (Cries cf " no '
nei ! he never will," and cheers.) Then
swear it, swear it as Hannibal swore eter
nal enmity to Rome, and sic te it that
veni are successful. The South are in
earnest about this war. There are no bat-tle-fielels
in the South where the bones of
Seuthern Congressmen are not bleaching.
Hut the Northern Praise-( Joel-Hare-bones,
(roars of laughter,) bang around W as'u
ington wish m -wing, puking Sambo, and
urge the people ami their phi'acteries to
wage a war the-y are too cowardly to at
tempt themselves. (.More laughter.)
We mu?t nerve for the contest. We
an? lighting bold and b;;el men. The Cejn
feelerates are arrayed against the Union.
He fore the war no Southern man ever
made war upon our liberties until North
ern aggression converted them from our
friends to our foes, anel to elay Abraham
Lincoln, stands, according to his own ele--claration,
as much opposed to the restora
tion of the l-niein as Jefferson Davis.
Lincoln says they cannot eemie back un
less under an unconstitutional condition,
while Jeff. Dav is says he will not come
back unless he can have his own way !
Now who is the weirst traitor, Jeff. Davis
or Abraham Lincoln ? (Cries of " Lin
coln," and cheers.
If you want to cnel the war and restea e
the Uniem, elect George R McClellan.
I have saiel there were meaner things than
a rebellion. Jeff. Davis decived no man.
Every young man in the army understood
the risk. While our young men went
into the army to restore the Union anel not
to destroy it, and they have been de
ceived. For; Jeff. Davis you may claim
the attribute of courage, but for Lincoln
you can claim neither courage nor hon
esty. Lincoln is called " Honest Abe,"
because those who know him know that
he has not an honest impulse in his heart.
(Cheers.) Ho never told the truth when
a lie would servo his purpose. (laugh
THE POOR.
VOL. 11 NO. 39
ter.) And he has degraek-d the Ameri
can uniform by clothing the negro. Last
New Year the emancipation was celebra
ted at Washington, by the contrabanels
calling upon Lincoln, and those who wit
nessed the scene say Lincoln stood slob
bering over the negro like an imbecile, as
he is. (Laughter.
Reco'.h-ct that the people of the South
wi'd never come back while Lincoln is in
office. If you want peace elect McClel
lan. You ask me how peace is to be se
cureel by his election ? I will tell you.
In about six weeks the army will be go
ing into winter quarters. When tho sol
diers will be dreaming of home", let tho
news go to the South that McCLllan is
cleeteel upon the Constitution as it is
anel the Union as it was ; let tho samo
news ge to your young men who are loth
to fight for the negro, anel what will bo
the result ? There are leading men of
J the Seuth who will then refer to the his
tories of the past, and pocnl will result.
Have the South, before the war, ever
made" war upon the Cemstitution!
(Voices. "never.") No; and I have the
eleicuments to show that Andrew Johnson
declareel the Republicans a gang of trai
tors, and he threatened to join tho Con
federates. He saiI there was two much jejy hero
to night to listen to speeches. Are you
teaely for the contest? " Then to your
tents, oh Israel ?" If the banner of
George R McClellan is carrieel to victory
the Union will be restored and every star
will be restored to its former brightness.
(Cheers. )
O" A good joke, says the Syracuse
Standard, is related of Miss G., a laughter-loving
pood natured lass, who was
speneling the afternoon with a neighbor,
and during supper, the conversation turn
eel on hens, eggs, &c, during which Miss
G. observed " that their hens, elid not
lay scarcely any egcrs, and she could not
tell the; reason." " Why, my hens lay
very we 11 ; I go out among them almest
ev ery day and get eggs," obsorvcel Mr. P.
" My gracieius!" was the immediate re
joineler : " I wih you would come over
and run with our hens a spell. I'm sure
father would pay you well for your
trouble."
C3 "People may say what the will
about country air being so good for 'em,"
said Mrs. Partington, "and how they fat
upon it ; for my part, I think it is owing
to the vittles Air may lo for camomiles
antl other reptiles that live on it, but I
know that men must have something more
subttantialler."
C7T' At a recent railroad dinner, in
compliment te the legal fraternity, the
toast was given : " An lamest lawyer, the
noblest work ef Goel," but an ohl farmer
in the back part of the hall rather spoiled
the effect by adding, in a loud voice,
" Anel about tho scarcest."
C5 A foreigner, who hael mixed among
many nations, was askeel if he hael ob
served any particular qualify in our species
that might be considercel universal. He
replieel: "Mo tink dat all men love
lazy."
C7T Magistrate ' What brought you
here sir?""
Prisoner '"Two officers, please your
boneir."
Magistrate5 " Then I suppose liquor
hael something tei do with it ?"
Prisoner "Yes, sir, they were both
drunk."
3" A methodist and a Quaker having
stoppeel at a public house, agreed to sleep
in the same boel. The Methodist knelt
down, prayed fervently, anel confessed a
long catalogue of sins. After he arose
the Quaker observeel : " Really, frionel,
if thou art as bail as thou sayest thou art,
I think I dare not sleep with thee."
Henry, you ought to be ashamed
to throw away bread like that. You
may want it some day."
" Well, mother, would I stanl any bet
ter chanc" of getting it then, if I tshould
eat it up now ?"
2 That must have been a verv tousrh
rooster, that crowd after being boileel
two hours, and then being put in a ot
with potatoes kicked them all out.
T w
Qlkcy. Is it the pnposcel elevation
of the negro that has raised the price of
vvoel ?
O- The latest expedient adopted in
some places for keeping bean vines green
is to paint them.
3- Cat and rat may rhyme, but they
never agree.
5