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The South Cannot be Subjugated--The
Prospect of Peace.
From the London Horning Star.
The principal circumstances which
w ould make us hope for an early pence
between the American belligerents appears
to have been overlooked. We do not al
lude to considerations of justice, reason
and humanity. In the heat of a deadly
i'eud, especially among kinsfolk and friends
ho have quarreled, such considerations
count but little. That the South are fight
ing a defensive war for independence and
self (Government is not likely to weigh
much, apart from a conviction of the iin-
possibility cf conquest, with twenty mil-
!i ;! of infuriated Republicans fighting for
empire and revenge. But there is one
consideration which we should think
must have great force, even with the
Northern enthusiasts. It is, that by this
time the entire North must have become
awakened to an appreciation of the real
nature of the war. They mast by this
time have learned, and learned to their
cost, that what they have to do with is
no mTe section of Southern politicians,
but the whole united people of the South.
Su.-h H people can never he conquered nor
get rid of by extermination.
The '.ear was originally undertaken and
I r.s the-y
i bv four
now stand revealed, and proved
years of ineffectual and fruitless
I fighting. The theory upon which the
' North plunged ir-to the war, was, in the
presence ol t!ie tacts as they presented
themselves to tlie impartial eyes cf Kuro-pt-an
spectators, one of the oldest and
most whimsical it is possible to iniatrine.
j Ti at theory was that half a dozen dospe-
J rate men in the South had seized ujon the
j whole power of the country, against the
wishes :.!' the will of ninety-nine huu
j drcdlhrt, or rather nine hundred an i nine
I ty-nine thousandths of the population,
j They then pressed the llower of tlie SoUth
i era yurh and manhood in the army, and
J comp them to wage a reluctant war
against their l;retliren ot the Tsorth, and
their lawful sovereign, the Federal Go
vernment. How half a dozen private individual?,
the ::: re. citizens of one half of a Demo
cracy upon n perfect equality with the rest
of the Southerners, with no official char
acter or authority, without an army, or
even a police force to support their daring
u.-urpalion, could work such a miracle as
this, neither the Northerners themselves,
nor their partizans on this side of the At
lantic, ever seemed to think it worth w hile
to explain. Indeed they do not seem to
have given it a thought, or rather they
were not apparently in a state of mind to
reflect at all. "When there is a struircle
between two parties in the same State to
get possession of the existing Government,
the one that drives out the previous hold
ers of power steps into their place and in
vests itself with their authority. The
successful party becomes the Government
? J'acto. It lias the army, the navy, the
police, the executive, and evcrv apiiendae
of the Government in their hands, and
therefore, can control the people. This
is intelligible enough.
The mass of the people may be indiffer
ent, or divided in their allegiance and
opinion, or even inimical to the new Go
vernment, but so long as it wields the
civil and military resources of the. State
and all its engines of power and authori-
ty, it can have its own way, and com
mand the obedience of the people. Hut
this was nothing like what existed in
America. There was no established
Government in the South no army, no
navy, jio civil power, no executive, no
nothing that goes to make up a Govern
ment. Whatever of these things existed
in the South belong to the Government of
the United States that is the Govern
ment in contravention and hostility to
which the Southerners acted. Mr. Davis
and his colleagues had to create these
things, and their only material for crea
ting them was tho will of the Southern
jK'ople.
What there was in tho South that en
abled them to do what they did was State
rights and individual rights, based on and
growing out of the great American prin
ciple of the sovereignty of the people, and
that no Government is lawful or legitimate
without the consent of tho people. Tho
theory that it was a half a dozen of dis
contented politicians who did it all, and
made eight or nine millions cf people re
volt against their will and against a Go
vernment they approved, and then pressed
the flower of their manhood to create an
THE AMERICAN
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
army, and made that army fight against
their brethren and kinsmen, is as certain
ly unfounded as it is certain that it was
once firmly maintained by the North and
its partisans, and was, indeed, the great
stimulus for plunging into war.
Had the real facts, as they have eince
been disclosed and demonstrated, been
known in the North from the first, it is
doubtful if, with all their vexation about
losing the profits they had been accus
tomed to extract from the South, they
would have brought upon themselves the
dangers and the ruin of this fruitless and
hopeless war. liut these facts were igno
red ; the Northerners shut their eyes to
them. They believed and loudly asserted,
and their friends on this side of the water
took up the cry, that the Federal armies
would no sooner appear on Southern soil
than the majority of the population would
hail them as' deliverers and join their
ranks. The secessionists were to sink at
once into insignificance to which their nu
merical inferiority doomed them. The
I'nionist party, consisting of the great
bulk of the Kople, too long kept down,
and its voice stifled by a small but noisy
and violent party of disloyal and desperate
adventurers, would rise in its dignity and
its might, and crush the malcontents.
This was the theory that was persistently
dinned into our cars by the Northerners
and their friends.
Hut it was not merely tho Unionist or
Loyalist party that was to rise in its
streiv.t t and dwarf the handful of se
ditions "rebels"' who hail profanely
sought to destroy the best Government
Providence had ever permitted to be es
tablirhci npou this earth. Another fr-
midabie coadjutor of the North was to j
appear directly the liberating armies set
their foot ou Southern soil lor it was
not as conquerors and invaders that the
Federal troops were to go forth 011 the
crusade it was as liberators and deliv
erers : they were to emancipate the great
mass of their Southern brethren from the
usurped authority and gaiiing tyranny of
the Secessionists. lul this deliverance
and emancipation were to extend beyond
the whites, and hence the seejnd ally
which was to rise up to bid the crusaders
welcome, and receive them with open
arms, while secessionist malcontents were
to perish under the ruin of their blazing
homesteads this formidable idly was no
other than tlie negro.
It was confidently expected and loudly
asserted that he would rise on his master
directly after the contest began, and with
out waiting for .a sight of his pretended
liberators. Hut four years of useless,
impotent war, without profit in the past,
or promise for the future, has dissipated
this theory as well as the other. The
fact now stands patent to all the world
mat tne secessionists are noi a party in
the South, but the whole Southern people,
and the nesrro will not rise and cut his
master's throat, or burn him in his bed.
Such pleasing illusions must by this time
have been completely dispelled in the
North, which has now, the real nature of
the struggle it is engaged in. It must see
that a restoration of the Union by the
consent of the South, or by the conquest
of the South, or by the extermination of
eigni muiiou 01 people, i3 nn utter mi-
" i "lit. r 1 -
possionny. inn ooum wm not come
back, and cannot be made to come back ;
neither can it be converted into a Poland,
and its people lettered and manacled, be
cause this would not pay ; nor into a Cir
cassia, and its people driven en mutsc, be
cause that is impossible.
It is on these considerations by this
time, we should think, understood and ac
knowledged in the mind of the North,
not openly contessed and admitted that
the chief chances and hones of peace
must rest. The North must now see that
it entered upon thi.s war laboring under ;
serious delusion. Its policy was foundc
on a sad mistake. It thought there was
only a faction, consisting of a handful of
secessionist malcontents, to be met and
crushed ; whereas it finds itself face to
face with eight millions of people, who
will only sell their independence with
their lives. It thought that at least the
negroes would rise and assert their free
doin against their masters with fire and
sword, it and finds they will not stir.
also finds that, though it may do the
South great harm by coins on with the
war, it will bo doing itself much greater
harm, Above all, it Gads that the South
is merely lighting a defensive war for in
dependence, and wants nothing more than
to be let alone. Directly tho North leaves
off moles' ing and iniurinn the South, the
South will lay down its arms, and apply
itself to the pursuits of peace. It is in
these considerations, appreciated by the
North, that a termination of hostilities
may be looked for.
SPEECH OF
HON. JAMES G U T II 11 1 E
Address Delivered at New Altanj-,
Ind., Sept. 1 5 Tlie Meaning of the
ChlcagoPlatform Peace ou the BatU
of the Union.
Fkixow Citizens or Indiana : Ken
tucky bids you God speed in this great
work of saving the nation. I have been
in Chicago. 1 ijnow the platform there
adopted by the assembled Cemocracy.
I assi.-ted in making it. I know what it
means. It means peace. It means peace
upon the basis of the re-estab!isement of
the Union in all its integrity. Who
would give up the mouth of the Mis.-is-ippi
and the grave of Jackson for a peace
whicn divided this this Union ? Who
would give up the glorious Constitution
of our fathers for a peace which separ
ates this glorious Republic? Not tlie
Democratic and conservative masses now
arrayed under the standard of that hero
statesman, George H. MeClellan. No,
fellow citizens, it is an other party which
would thus disrupt this nation if its hide
ous dogmas of Abolitionism are not ac
cepted by tlie people of the South. Tlie
Chicago platform, and the letter of ac
ceptance of MeClellan mean that the
President of the United States, and every
omcial 01 the lovernment, either 111 the 1
civil or military department, shall be as
obedient to the Constitution as tho hum
blest citizen or soldier. It is a peace.
piatlunn on the basis ot tne Lmc-n, the
Constitution and the laws. Who dares
be against such a platform ? Who dares
ay we shall not have peace upon the !
basis of tho integrity of the Federal
iiion ? If the South is ngaiit such a j
'ace : 11 sue ret use to accept tie otter ot
1 a peace ; 11 a irann, earnest, ana !
lerpis'.ent el'ort to obtain ther-e objects
1
houid fail, then the responsibiiU y ul
terior consequences will fall upo.i those
who remain iu arms against the Unloi.
ut the Union must be preserved at ail
lazarus. uch 13 the construction 01 tho
Chicago platform as given by General
;uccivi.atj, tlie nominee o! the conven- ;
tion. Such is the construction 1 i iaco
upon it. Such is the construction placed 1
. 1
upon it by the Democratic and conserve- ;
the masses of the country. We will
ever give up the Mississippi for Jetf. 1
Davis and all his crew. I know him 1
well. 1 tie rouiii are ior peace, cner
, .' 1 , . . , . , ,
take it yes take it with loy, and return
, . J., . T . '." ... ,. '
to their allegiance. It is the principle oi ;
, . . , A .'.,
the Constitution that the majority shad 1
. . 1 I
rule. It is not for one man to say that
we shall not have peace. Who is it that
reverses this principle of the Constitution,
and say that the majority shall not rule ?
Abraham Lincoln and his party ; he who
denied the people the right of free speech
uid the liberty of the press. This is ths
hr.-t time since Abraham Lincoln was
elected the fir?t time since he violated
the Chicago platform in 18G0 since he.
violated the laws of Congress since he
violated the Constitution, that the Demo-
cratic party has had a change to speak,
and now it will speak until it saves this
great republic this precious Constitution.
It will speak at the ballot box, the great
and sacred lorum lrom which every
American citizen may speak with power.
1 have a right as a Kentuckian, to speak
of Jeff. Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
They v.-ere both born in Kentucky, and
both have disgraced that noble common
wealth, and her principles of equal rights
and just laws. Iioth of them take men
against their wills to fight their battles.
Lincoln is doing this now forcing men
to fight for the abolition of slavery, not
for the restoration of the Union sending j
men into your houses with bayonets to J
hold in awe peaceable loyal citizens. I Ie j
has to-day scattered throughout the loyal j
States of the North soldiers enough to
subjugate Jeff. Davis' confederacy, to
dominate over a free people. I am for
peace for a peace which will give us
back the old Union under the Constitution.
I was a member of the peace Congress in
18G1. In that Congress I was for peace,
concession, and renewed guarantees to
all the States. I believed then, as now,
that the great waste of precious blood
which has taken place would not restore
the Union.
I ask that the seven border free and the
seven border slave States might propose a
basis for tho settlement of all difficulties.
They could have proposed such a basis as
would have been a full, final and honora
ble, and satisfactory settlement. Hut tho
radicals in that Congress would not con
pent to it. Neither the Abolitionists of tho
North nor the Secessionists of the South
would consent to it. They would have
nothuig but blood. Well, have we not
had Wood to the heart's content of the
5, 18G4.
nation ? Even the preachers have preach- j across those rivers just proceeding im
ed war, and desolation, and blood ; the j portant elections, in order to preserve
temples of the meek and lowly Jesus have j order at the polls and enforce obedience
been made the temples from which war, to power. The Government is now
and rapine, and blood has been preached,
hy minsters with hands dripping m blood.
This must be ended. We will hold out .
the olive branch like a great, ami mag- ! consider a troublesome border State, and
nnnimous, and powerful people. We will filling them with negro soldiers mainly re
otfer to the South their ri-dits in the Union cruits from loyal citizens in the State.
unucr me on-tituuon. c win guar
antee those rights and di.-pose of conlliet
ing and vexatious questions, so that, never
again will ihe tocsin of war be sounded
winch shall arm father against son, and j
brother against brother. We have a noble ,
leader to inaugurate this work of the re- .
generation of the nation. (leorge F. M'- '
Clellan is a young man but thirty-eight
years old ; but he is a good man. lie is '
a statesman, an able general, a great com- .
mauder, n Christian gentleman. It is by
Ids nobleness of heart that he has attach- '
ed his soldiers to hiin, so that they regard '
him a a father rather than as an austere i
commander. He is tlie soldier's friend. ;
Such is tlie noble M'Ckdlan, the standard
bearer of the Democratic parly. He will, ,
no doubt, get the votes of the soldiers and '
all honest Democrats and conservatives ; ,
but ho w".il not got the votes of the shoddy '
contractors i-ai-l those who are making i
mints of money off" of the adversities of '
their country. I need not tell you to-day.
i my fellow-citizens, how we have suffered
in Kentucky under the iron rule of this
weak, vaciilaling an 1 tyranical adminis
tration. Oar desolated Ik-ids the blood
of our sous the destruction of
perty the alnu.st total supensii-
our pro
n cf vL,r
trad:, are known through..!'.', the laud, if j
a c'nicii dares to utter complaint against j
this wholesale outrage liiid iolation of :
rights he is spotted by the niiraiidons of
ind 1 incarcerated 1:1 the ihuigeon -
of the felon. What agonies untold the i
i people of Kentucky have snU'ered, remain i
1 to bv told bv the future historian, when ;
lie comes to writvs out the history of thi:.; ;
terrible rebellion. Hut this tyrannic poll- '
cy of lh. party in power has been review
d
in
our resolutions at Chicago. V e
j n 1.1 iiuvv jr.,. ; .e.i: .ew
g".,,; I man ua.i
ihe Frcsi-.L"i:!:.d chair, a man wno, had he
1 been sustained with the povr that Grant
has Le -n sustained, would have given the
country peace t wo yi ars ago. There is
an upheaving of the masses, and I be
lieve we would be los than Aiicrican
citizens it' we did not make an ellort to
i change
present state of affairs in
tla
countrv. I lie bauot-box is the great
11.-
weapon of tne American people. It 1-
' r ,;. . , - .
Foe weapon of peace. Jo it -et us appeal
,, ' ' .
to tor a redress of guevances. lut tlie
The ballot-box is the
uay
mad
might come when the etl'ort may bo
; to sinle the voice ot the peopie at
the ballot-box. I hen 1 will not to-dav
sav what the people should do.
united zeal and exertion for the can
the country and liberty. All the p
e ot
jple
must work to the same end. You have
only to November to work. He earnest,
then, and zealous. 1 speak to you thus
because I believe that upon the result of
this election is suspended the fate of the
: 1.1:.. i.-. 1 . t.:
j post every man to his duty ; then all
j will be well, and peace and happiness will
I be again restored to the country.
better frc:iEIoii. J-efclle C'oomfe.i,
FwANKioKT, Ky., Sept. 18, 1SG-1.
My Dicau Sir: Your letter of the
18th. bcin-r directed to I e:ungton, did not
reach me till last Saturday, when I paid ;
mv weeklv visit to mv children and
i grand-children. You may remember that, !
I in 18(1(1, the Union party, with the wri- !
! tcr as their candidate, carried this State
j by over 23,000 m.ijoritj-, against the 1
whole power of the national and State !
administrations, and, of course-, I cannot j
allow myself to neglect my official duties j
then assumed. Our court commenced an !
adjourned term a week sin e, and will
probably hold on far three weeks yet to I
come ; after that, I shall be foot-loose, j
and feel disposed to devote my whole j
time and energy to the great cause in
which our hearts and judgments art ail ;
engaged. I have never spoken to rn !
audience in your State, should be cspn-
cially pleased to meet my old Whig
friends and consult with them freely on
the terrible state of the times, and the '
eventful future soon also to constitute his- !
tory. j
In my deliberate judgment, if Mr. ;
Lincoln is re-elected, we shall have a !
military despotism fastened ujxwi us and j
aur children, with a standing army of free
negro janissaries. At first, they may be !
confined to locations south of tho Suque- '
hanna and Ohio, but unless we agree to :
be taxed also with a standing army of
white men several hundred' thousand
strong they will, now and then, be sent
VOL. 11 NO. 40
erecting strong permanent fortifications, at
the cost of millions of dollars, through-
out Kentucky, which tho Abolitionists
The same thing is being done, you know,
from Cairo to the Halize, so that when
the rebellion is crushed out, and the white
rebels " extirpated " for that is the pro
gramme the whole Southern country
will be under the exclusive control of the
free negroes, with State lines and consti
tutions obliterated or held for naught.
The western and northwestern States will
find, to their sorrow, when the Mississ
ippi river is thus under this ignorant Afri
can control, they will be forced to submit
to the degradation and danger, or aban
don all Southern trade.
The black troops are everywhere the
pets and favorites of Lincoln & Co.
Hwry Abolition political General lauds
them to the skies, and yet I have never
heard of their whipping white troops
single handed, and never expect to hear
of it.
An instance- of naked favoritism came
; un.kr my own observation in Lexington
j within the last three days. On Saturday,
1 as i landed from the cars, a large negro
regiment, mainly Kentucky slaves, were
I parading tha alreels, with a full band of
music, mounted on good, fat horses, finely
i dressed and with fancy caps, armed cojt
: Yesterday I eaw tl.:ve regiments cf
white cavalry, or mounted infantry, as
they were termed I think iVom Illinois
and Indiana iust returi.ir.r lrom Stone-
man's rai
(f.r they
were all on foot,) and razeed
1 ' o '' ; )
clothe and dirty shirts, wending their
way slowly through the city to some tem
porary camp, until they could be sent on
another expedition to the front, while the
negroes would be left behind, marauding
thro'.'.h this country to bedexil our citi
zen." and he.-p our families iu constant
te; ror.
1 think my oU Whig friends north of
the Ohio, if they could witness what I
have described, would rush in solid masses
to the p:;!!s in November, and help to save
the country, by voting once for a Demo
cratic ticket, as I intend to do.
I folly reciprocate your kind expressions
. ot
:
:
1
j
personal regard, and subscribe m-seif
Very truly yours,
LksI.IK CoOT.IIiS.
D. II. Finney, Joliet, Illinois.
P. S. I annex an extract of a letter
jii! received by a friend from a soldier,
we'd known in this city as a brave and
tr;
thin! yoimg man, w ho has been in all
.1
ie principal battles ia or near the Mis-
' sissipoi river, having been seriously wound
ed at Yickshurg, which you are author
', ized to publish if you choose, as well as
my letter. Lr.si.iK Coomhs.
j "M. .!;r. vnza UhNi, La., Sept. o, 18C4.
j "We arc strongly fortified
' here, but now they are completed, they
are During negro troops into them. Uncle
Sam is "jetiinir very partial to the niggers,
j Th -y are going around here with tlie
j nicest blue uniforms and white collars.
! In a few days from now I expect a nipger
i vtni vote and white men can't. I don't
j know when we will get paid, they say
I there is not a cent of money in this de-
partmcnt."
How to K.Mst: a Lu:;k Ahmy. Let
Mr. Lincoln place a ri.'le in tlie hands of
each of his six hundred thousand office
holders, and order them to the front.
Most of them have had much experience
in ritling, and all of them know how to
charge. Album A rqus.
Two little boys were looking at
the elephant in a, menagerie when one
said, " What is that he takes up his hay
with V " Why said the other, with a
knowing air, "that is his pitchfork?"
A wit says new clothes are promo
te! s of pi- ty. The young lady with a
new bonnet or dress would not miss going
to church for ail the world.
CwT Setchell the comedian says he was
present at the White House, the other day,
when the following wan perpetrated: An
old firmer from the West, who knew
President Lincoln in days gone by, called
to pay hii ivsjvocts ai the Presidential
mansion. Slapping the Chief Magistrate
on the back he exclaimed :
Well, old boss, how arc you ?"
Old Abe, relishing a joke responded:
" So I'm an old boss, am I ! What
j kind of a ho.-s pray I
j " Why an old draft hos to be pure,
was the rejoinder.