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ADDRESS
OK TUB
Democratic State CeutraS Committee.
To tiik Citizens of Pennsylvania :
A prescribed duty, as well as long es
tablished us:io, impels us to uddre.-s you
in regard to the questions involved in the
several elections now a hand. In dis
charging this duty, we shall speak plainly
and candidly what we know to be truth.
In this, the fairest, richest, and (until
lately) the most favored laud of all the
earth ; here, when; the last footprints of
civilization had been planted ; in this land
alone of all the Christian nations of the
world the fell spirit of war is now raging.
Our proud and unexampled career of
prosperity as a nation has been thus rude
ly cheeked ; our industry, that is not de
oted to tlte purposes of a destructive war,
has b. come paralyzed ; our financial con
cerns l;avo be ii thrown into utter confu
sion and debasement ; we have hence
forth probably forever to stag'T under
a load of debt greater, and under taxation
more onerous, than that of any otli -r na
tion on the globe ; coniidence in the sta
bility of our institutions is everywhere
.sadly dimmi.-hid in line, gloomy lore
bodiin:R as to the future, alarm, einbarass
ment, and distress have taken the place of
the happy peace, confidence, security,
good order, und contentment we so lately
enjoyed.
Nor can hope find a resting place in
contemplating the men who now control
our Government and administer its laws ;
and it turns sickened and sadly away from
the audacity, arrogance and tyranny it
finds in high places, even in the very cita
del of the. nation. Sciolists in govern
ment ; atheists in religion ; men who are
free lovers in one sphere, and free thieves
in another ; renegades in politics, and
scoikrs ii every well settled principle of
public riiiht and private virtue, now sway
the destinies of this Kepublie, and are
ciuhing out the very life of American
freedom.
For three I ng, fearful years have the
best blood and sternest efforts of our peo
ple been freely given in a civil war 'which
has no parallel in the history of the world.
When this war commenced, the Demo
cratic party in the North, as such, was
proslr:.l.' under recent defeat, which re
sulted from its own unfortunate divisions.
Hut what a grand and inspiring spectacle
was pro.-Tited on hearing the liibt thunder
of rebellious M-ins! Political and parti
san feelings, even in that hour of .art'
humiliation, were all laid upon the altar
of the, country, and the sun of 1L aven
never r-hone upwn a people more united,
resolute, and deierniined than those of the
Northern St.:tes at the period we refer to.
Whatever might have been the views
of the Northern Democracy in regard to
the causes which ultimately engendered
this unhappy (strife ; however much in
their inmost souls they deplored the mad
and reckless career of Abolitionism ; how
ever deep was their detestation of the
course of those party leaders, who had
been for years sweeping up the low, lurk
ing elements of bigotry and fanaticism,
and directing their vilest efforts against
the rights, interests, and institutions of the
Southern jeople still, the attempt of a
portion of that people in consequence, to
break down the authority of the Constitu
tion over the whole country, and destroy
the Federal compact, was a criminal act
which could not be tolerated or justified.
The amplest remedies for the wrongs com
plained of were not only within hope, hut
at hand. Two millions of voters had
just recorded thoir ballots in a general
popular election against Abraham Lincoln
and one million who supported him and
his policy. There was besides, a Demo
cratic majority in one, if net in both
branches of Congress, which would render
him powerless to inflict any permanent
evil on the country.
The right of secession, claimed by the
South as the remedy for their grievances,
is a 'political heresy, condemned by Madi
son with his latest breath, nnd by many
others of our ablest statesmen in all sec
tions of the Union. Call the Constitution
a compact, if you will as does Jefferson
in the Kentucky resolutions of '98 but
it ia a compact of sovereign States, made
with each other as such, having no right
of secession " nominated or constituted in
the bond." The Union thus formed was
in its nature, if not in terms, perpetual.
Secession, then, in view of the compact,
is simply Revolution ; and the breaking up
of the Union our fathers bequeathed us,
was, under all circumstances we have de
tailed, nnd the thousand other considera
tions and consequences which must crowd
every intelligent and patriotic mind, not
only treason at law, but against the best
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
hopes of mankind. We could not then
cannot hoic and Kiev e it will consent
to it.
In this spirit of determined l-.yalty to
the Constitution and the Laws, the De
mocracy of the North, with scarcely an
exception, relying upon the pledges given
by President Lincoln, yielded him their
ready and efficient support. What were
some of those pledges ? First, in his oath
of office: "I will support the Constitu
tion of the United States, so help me
God." Then in his Inaugural Address,
and with this solemn adjuration fresh upon
his lips, he said :
I do not quote from one of my speeches
when I declare that " hare no jmrpose,
ilireclthj or indirectly, to interfere with t!e
institution of da-cri in the Staf;s where it
exist. 1 RELIEVE I HAVE NO LA Ws
FL'L RIGHT TO DO SO. AND I HAVE
NO INCLINATION TO DO SO." Those
who nominated and elected me did So with
full knowledge that I mode this and similar
declarations, and have never recanted thfin.
now reiterate these sentiments ; and in dos
ing to, 1 only pre.ss upon the public atten
tion the mot conclusive evidence of which
the case is susceptible, that .& properly,
peace and security of no section are to le in
any v.i--e endangered by the tiou iceonnng
Aduai.i: rr.itien. I ad. too, that all the pro
(fctioT! which. Consistently with the Consti
tution vA the laws. c;m he given, will be
cheerfully given to all the Slates, when law
fully demanded, f .r whatever cause :-s
cheerfully to one section as to another.
Thee repeated public pledges brought J
voluntarily to the standard raised in behalf j
of the Union, hundreds of thousands oi as
brave men as ever breasted a bayonet.
The armies thus raised were precipitated
on the South, with varied fortunes of
victory nnd defeat ; and war, civil war
ahno.-t the most, bloody of all human
strifes has ever since raged over some of
the fuirest portions of that unhappy re
gion. Hut the Ion'' cherished pchr-mes of fa
naticism for the extinction of African ser
vitude could not be given up. No matter
if Massachusetts, sixty or seventy years
since did sell slaves to the people of tlic
Southern States, under the guarantees of a
Constitution which she helped to form
still, Massachusetts meddlers, both in
Congress and out of it, now determined,
j-ince they could not ''rail," they would
rend "the seal from oil' the bond.' The
gallant "three th-u-and clergymen of
New England " (worthy disciples of the
Prince of Peace !) raiiic i to a man, in
the new crusale of lanatlcistn, and
wrought, side by side, with infidels, who
h:vc f,r y.-ars b .-.:'. m tlr- daily habit of j
sn'-erintr at the Christian's faith, ri lleu'ing !
the Christian's Uibh. and blaspheming the
Christian's God !
The fears of our timid and facile Presi
dent were worked upon, as well as his
vanity and de-ire of re-election, by the
extreme and radical mt mbers of Lis party,
and the emancipation and confiscation
measures were forced upon him, ;md
made a part id his policy in the conduct
of the war. Every effort of the friends
of peace put forih in Congress was de
feated. The hr.stiiily of the Abolition
leaders to serfdom in the South to em
ploy the words of the lamented Douglas
"was stronger than their fidelity to the
Constitution." They boliewd that a dis
ruption of the Union would draw after it,
as an inevitable consequence, civil war,
servile insurrections, and finally, throu'di
these, an utter extinction of slavery in all
the Southern States ; and, it would seem,
they acted even on this terrible belief.
Look at the record: On the 18th day
of December, 1SG0, Senator Crittenden,
of Kentucky, the bosom friend of Henry
Clay in bis life time, introduced into the
Senate of the United States a series of
resolutions, as a basis of settlement be
tween the two sections of the Union. The
secession of South Carolina took place on
the 20th of the same month, and her
members of Congress retired from their
places. We are thus particular in refer
ence to this subject, because our opponents
through their Central Committee in this
State, have introduced it into a late ad
dress to you; and there is a specious
effort made in that address to turn aside
from the Kepublieans, th3 just obloquy
and reproach which the defeat of Senator
Crittenden's proposition has fastened npon
their party.
The offered compromise would, in
terms, have sealed more than three-fourths
of all our territorial domain against slave
ry forever placing about 900,000 miles
under the provisions of the Ordinance of
1787, more recently known as the " Wil
mot Proviso" leaving the remaining
300,000 miles subject to whatever laws
those who' settled upon it might establish
for themselves, whenever they became a
State. All the other features of the pro
posed compromise were nothing but re
affirmancee of the plainest powers and
provisions of the Constitution, save, possi- j
bly, the fair and equitable stipulation that '
slavery should not be abolished in the '
District of Columbia, us long as it existed j
in Maryland and Virginia, the two States ;
which had ceded that District to the Gene
ral Government.
On the loth of January, 18G1. Sena
tor Clarke, a leading Kepub'ican, moved
to amend the Crittenden proposition by
striking out all the material provisions
certainly all that contained the olive
branch of peace, and inserting a single
resolution breathing war and threats
toward the South. This amendment was
carried by a vote of 2."J in favor, all lie
publicans, .'igainst '23 Democratic votes.
Hut, says the address of the liepub'.ican
Committee " six Southern Senators re
fused to vote at all on the proposed amend
ment ; aud then, with a degree of cool
assurance remarkable even in these times,
it goes on to tell the people of Pennsylva
nia " that had these six Southern m:n
voted against the Clarke amendment, it
would, have been defeated, and the Crit
tenden Compromise might have been taken
up and carried by the same majority."
General Cameron, who puts forth the
Address, cannot be very proud of his own
share in this record, or he would not have
kept out of view the fact that he himself j
voted for this very Clark amendment, j
and the same day moved a reconsidera
tion ; and, then, when this question was
called up only three days afterwards, he
rot' d oyaitid his oim motion to rcconmda:
It was carried, however, with the aid of
at least ttvo (Johnson and Siideii) of the
"six" named, and the Compromise was
again in stut't mo before the Senate. Jt
was finally taken up n the 3d of March,
aud defeated many of the Southern S.-n-ators
having withdrawn from the Senate
in the interim, their States having seceded
from the Union.
Now, General Cameron, who i.-sued
the Address, knows just as well as did
Senator Cameron, who sustained the Clark
amend ment, that it required a two-thirds
vote to give vitality to the Crittenden
Compromise. He knows, too, that every
llepublican vote, jncludiug his ow n. in the.
Senate, was given against the measure, j
in effect, from first to last. He knows '
further, that' she Republican Senators re- !
fused Senator P:gier's proposal to srb.mit j
this question to a vote of the people as i
instructive of Congress. He ki.ows also j
that Mr. Clemens, of Virginia, on the j
17th of February, before that Slate j
adopted secession, endeavored, . the j
House of Representatives .it Wa.-hii;gtep.,
to obtain a similar arrangement in that j
iiuoy to test Hie question oi compromise
before the people, and it was oted dow n
by 112 Republicans against 80 Demo
crats every Republican in th-2 House
voting in the negative. They would not '
they did not dure to trust the people, j
the legitimate source cf power, on this f
question :
m i
At the hazard of furnishing unr.eressary
proof (... (his point, we beg attention' to j
the c'er.r and explicit evidence of Senator i
Pugh, a extemporary of the author of the j
Address, in the Senate of the United j
States. In the course of his speech in j
the Senate, in March, 1SG1, lie savs: j
The Crittenden proportion Iras been en- j
dor-ed by the almost unanimous vote of the I
Legislature of Keiitueky. It lias b een en- j
dorscd by the noble old Common wealth of j
Virginia. It has been petitioned fr by a I
larger l umber of the electors of the United j
Stares than any proposition that was ever j
be-fore C-jugress. I believe in my heart to j
d.iv that it wonld carry an oveVwhelmirf
majority of the people of my .State, eye. sir, j 1
ot iieaviy every MateMn the Lnion. Ecfoi't
the Senntors from the State cf Missis.-ipi.i j
letttlus enami er, 1 beard one of them, who j
assumes at least to be President, e.f the
Southern Confederacy, propose to acce; t it,
and mainta;n the Union, if that proposition
could receive the vote it ought to receive
from the other side of the chamber. There
fore, all of your propositions, all of your
amendments, knowing as I do, and know ing
that the historian will write it down
at any time before the first of January, a
two-thirds vote for the Crittenden resolu
tions in this chamber would have saved
every State in the Union except youth Caro
lina. Georgia would be here by her repre
sentatives, nnd Louisiana tlv.se two great
States which at least would have broken
the whok column of Secession. Globe, page
1300. -
Upon the same point, on the same day,
the clarion voice of the patriot Douglas
bore testimony as follows ; J ' '
- The Senator ("Mr. Pugh) has srdd that if
the Crittenden proposition could have been
passed early in the session, it would have
saved all the States except South Carolina.
I firmly believe it would. While the Crit
tenden preposition was not in accordanea
with niy. cherished. views. I avow ed my
readiness and eagerness to accept it iu order
to save the Union, if we could unite upon
it. I can confirm the Senator's declaration
that Senator Davis himself, when on the
12, 1864.
Committee ef Tuirteeu wa.s ready at all
times to conq roriiuv on the Crittenden pro
position. I will go further, and say that
Mr. Toombs was als"). Globe, page 1391.
I low preposterous at this day then, this
attempt of one of the leading actors in
that eventful drama thus to stifle con
science, and to seek to rescue his co-conspirators
from the recorded verdict of his
tory, and the deserved and inevitable con
demnation of a Let rayed people ! The
controlling spirits -jf the Republican party
never meant peace from first to last, at
any time or in any form, save upon the
one drear and devlish condition of turn
ing loose upon our laud three and a half
millions of black semi barbarians under
the siecioi!S pretence of freedom ; while in
reality it was, only to tear so many of
these poor creatures away from their
homes of comparative happiness and
peace, to find starvation, misery and
death in an inhospitable clime !
President Lincoln lias but recently de
clared, in very definite terms, he will lis
ten to iu propositions for peace which
eloes not include this African millenium,
notwithstanding thuse plain prohibitions
of all right on the part of the General
Government thus to i.itervtne, which he
himself, with the. oath of office fresh upon
ids lips, declared he ''had no hgal rigid
and no inleidioiC Vj d'uxegard.
If we were to credit the ravings of the
chief advisers of the- President, or least
those wdio sem to influence him most
fully, Sumner, Heecher and Philips hu
man reason has been making such rapid
strides in these latter days, that the haven
of human perfection must be near at
hand. Uui alas! when we listen hope
fully for the ble.-sed uale which is to bear
us onward in its course, wo hear nothing
but the loud breath of the - tempest; see
nothing all around us but the amrry and
trouble 1 sea everywhere sparkling -with
foam and surging in its madness ; and we
are almost tempted to ask, can this in
deed be
"The wind and
word!"
the storm fulfillnq his
These men are mistaken and mad, or
are traitors of tho deepest dye, deserving
a traitor's darkest doom. This equality
of the black nnd white races which they
are seeking to establish in this country is
an absurd and idle dream,
Contrast of their rrogre.-s
le d;-e.!!o whieh 1 .rT. -i"
in 1 peculiari
ties must dis:vl ii'om every thoughtful
mind.
A little more than two centuries since,
w hen our fathers first planted a few g .-ms
of our race at scattered points along the
Ntrth American cast, the whole number
of that race in the old world did not ex
ceed six iniliins. England Scot lend arid
Wales then numher.-J fewer inhabitants
than Ne.w York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
do now. Mark th-- progress : in North
America at this time (including a
wh.Jesoisif CMtic infusion), there ss'u at
iea.si thirty millions, mid in iho whole
world (confessing there :t!si the same in
fusion), ironi eighty to r.;ue;y millions of
people, substantially Anlo-Saxon la their
origin. We are o ervw 1; .re thu.- displa
cing the. more siUTiiish races, or hemming
theia in e n evt i v
d at this
rent rate of increase, in one hundred and
fifty years from th: tim-', will run up to
eight hundred millions ef human beings
all .-peaking the s.mie language, re
joicing in the same high intellectual cul
ture, and exhibiting the same inherent
and inalienable characteristics!
On the other hand, the African race
ms never, any w tiere, given any proot ot
its capacity for a self-sustrined civiliza
tion. Since the sun first shone on that
continent it lias remained in the same
state of unbroken mental gloom. Cruel,
brutal, voluptuous, and indolent by nature
the African has never emerged a single
step beyond his own ravage original.
Sktvovj hits ever Incn, ami to this hour con
tmuea to he, !.-' normal condition, throughout
ivcry clime he cui call Jus o-vn And vet
they have had as many opportunities of
improvement, as the inhabitants of Asia
or Europe. Along the shores of the
Mediterranean was once, concentrated the
Literature and Science of the world.
Carthage, tho rivil of imperial Rome in
all the arts of commerce and civilization,
existed for many years en the African
border. The Saracens, the most polished
race of their time, founded and main
tained for centuries a contiguous empire.
Still, for all this, the. African has contin
ued to prowl on through his long night of
barbarism? and thus, in all human proba
bility, he will continue forever. Tell us
not that his want of progress in civiliza
tion is tho result of leng established Ik.hi
dnge. So, for centuries, was . our own
raca bound to iho earth under various
modification cf predial vassaltigeJ lint
tho white soul expanded, nnd mounted
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above all its burdens and trammels, and
finally, in this country reached fhe full
fruition of republican freedom.
We grant this mental inferiority of the
African (we forbear, in the spirit of so
briety, any physical contemplation or con
trast ) does not give a Jomiuant race the
right to convey him from his own be
nighted land to a foreign bondage, even
under the forms of purchase from his
African master. But this natural inferi
ority must be considered by the statesman
in framing laws, and adopting Constitu
tions for human government. In Penn
sylvania we have always affirmed this in
feriority in our fundamental laws ; and
the same ha3 been done in almost all the
free States of the Union generally ex
cluding the African from the right of
suffrage. This necessity of duly regard
ing the law of races, is thus forcibly com
mented upon by Lamartine (a scholar and
a statesman, always in favor of mau'a
largest liberty) in a recent work :
The more I have traveled, the more I am
convinced thai races of men form the great
secret of men and manners. Man is not so
capable of education as philosophers ima
gine. The influence of Government and
laws has less power radically, than is sup
posed, over the manners and instincts of
ny people. While the primitive constitu
tion and blood of the race have always their
mfiuenee, and manifest themselves thou
sands of years afterwards in the physical
loim-atioii and habits of a particular family
or nile. Human nature flows in rivers and
streams ia the vast ocean of humanity; but
its waters mingle but slowly sometimes
they never rningle, and it emerges again,
like the Rhone from the Lake e.f Geneva,
with its own taste and coi r. Here is in
deed an abyss of thougLt and meditation,
and at tho same time a grand secret for
legislators. As long as they keep tfic spirit
of the race in view they sua-:cl ; but they
fji! when they strive ag dust this natural
predisposition : nature is stronger than they
are.
But why thus cnlargo upon a topic
which has undergone so much, aud such
frequent discussion ? Why because thia
idea of working out negro equal ty on the
part of our opponents is the vtry busis of
our present j'oldlcal struggle. Let no man
be mistaken. This is really the leading
issue at the present moment between the
two parties. To earn out tiis idea Juis
fo.vij at lad to le the rui ng, if not t.'ie sole
j'Hipos nr' the w-ir ich,c;: iV now Jditffino
U-:d .-HA fr.mal Ih-dS For thi-T.
the Coti-titution and the reserved rights
ot the States and the people have been
:uoc!vlncly trampled underfoot; for this,
l.vth imperious and imperial edicts, such
a wo'u.d send t) the block any monarch
ia J "nglar. 1, have been is-ued bv the Presi
dent, aud so-ugh t to be enforced ; for this,
S -crotary Seward's boast to Lord Lyons
"I can touch my ollice bell at any
moment, and order to be arrested anv
citizen of this country" has been all too
frequently realized !
The extent to which the party support
ing the President are willing to go in ne
gro aililiation, finds a memorable illustra
tion i:i the proposition made by Secretary
Cameron, the llit of the several occu
pants of the place of Se.cre-i.uy of War
under President Lincoln. IIj coolly pro
p i.-ed, iu his first and la.-t annual commu
nication, to free, and then to arm the
whoi- black population of the South,
and turn them against their white mas
ters in a work of indiscriminate butchery !
Think of a horde "of rude and reckless
savag's, with their darker natures arous
ed, then1 appetites whetted with the thirst
of slaughter, given a license to go forth
to devastate, to kill, and to ppare not !
And this is the jo'icy of white men, pro
posed to a Chrisliau government! As
well turn loose to prey upon society the
howling maniacs of a mad-house,' as to
make the African master of Lis situation,
and place in his hands the means of law
less wantonness and outrage ! To whom
would he be responsible ? To wliom woald
he owe allegiance ? With such power once
in his hands, and filled with the purposes
of revenge and lust, or crazed with the
stiinuloiis of blood and plunder, what
power short of death could stay his hand
or stop his demoniac career ! This truly
infernal suggestion was not adopted by
the President when first proposed, but it
has since, been acted upon in more in
stances than one.
We have charged the party nt present
in power, fellow-citizens, with tyranny
ai:A usurpation. We now go further, and
solemnly assert our belief, that there is a
deliberate design to change the character,
if not the. foiiu of our government. The
lea ling papeus in the support of the Ad
ministration ejK-nly advocate a modifica
tion which w ill place greater powers in
the hands of the President ; and if their
advice should be adopted by the people,
in a short time tho chains will bo liric'jf
rivited, and our libel ties completely -
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