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EJ , .J ;
The Past.
Four years have passed since we com
mitted the egregious folly of having elected
Abraham Lincoln, and such four years
may the Lord grant that we or any civili
zed country may never experience again.
We might all feel to exclaim with the
prophet Jeremiah : "Oh that my head
were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night
for the elain of the daughters of my peo
ple." The rivers of blood, the groans of
the maimed and dying, the tears of the
widows and the mothers, the cries of the
orphans and the mental agony of all,
would excite the sympathy of the most
avagc nation on the face of the earth, let
alone tho American people who boast of
a refined civilization. One million and a
half of the bravest and best of the Ameri
can people, since the election of Lincoln,
have been ruthlessly driven ' to that
bourne whence no traveler return?," or
otherwise maimed for life, so as to be a
burthen on themselves or the community,
and drag out a miserable existence, de
pendent on their neighbors to prolong
their lives.
Let us now, that the election is over
look at this matter square in the face, and
see what was the cause of all this. Whilst
we must condemn tho hasty manner in
which the South seceded, we have no
apology for the people of the North. The
Southern leaders and the Northern Abo
lit ionists, both agreed on one subject, that
(is secession.
The Southern secessionists, not the body
f tho people of the South by any means,
wanted to cut loose from the meddlin"
O
New Englanders, who were continually
harping at slavery. The New England
men wanted to get rid of the South be
cause they thought they were a burthen
on the North, and they also thought it a
disgrace to live in communion with, and
be the countrymen of those that held
slaves. They both, though they had the
most deadly hatred to each other, went
hand and hand for the dissolution of the
Union. The Northern people were the
first to d.-clarc openly for the dissolution
of the- Union. These two factions North
and South were as necessary to each other
for the destruction of their country, as the
Siamese twins, indeed, the one could not
exist without the other. They would be
entirely powerless to do mischief. The
two leading North men both at the head
of the Lincoln electoral ticket in their re
spective States, and now forsooth, call
themselves Union men, have frequently
written and spoken in favor of letting the
South go in peace. We allude to Edward
Everett, at the head of the Lincoln electo
ral ticket, in Massachusetts, and Horace
Greely, at the head of the ticket for New
York. We could quote by the page from
these Union men, now, if it were neces
sary, but every reading man knows that
they are not now.nor never was Union
men without slavery was abolished. Abo
lition is their one idea, the God of their
idolatry.
The hatred that has been cultivated by
these secessionist North and South, never
took much hold on the body of the peo
ple. The great maBsea North and South
still look on each other as brethren of one
common origin and one common destiny
For instance, as soon as the smoke of
deadly 6trife is cleared away, and the rage
of battle subsides, the Northern and
Southern soldiers will meet on picket as
brethren and take ito trading knives, cof
fee, tobacco and salt, as if there was no
enmity between them.
What have we gained in this negro
war? Have we gained anything? Noth
ing whatever. We were in a better con
dition before the first battle of Bull's Run
than, we are now. Grant has not taken
Richmond, and we may thank Providence
that Richmond has not taken Grant. The
one contingency was as near happening
as the other. None of which will ever
happen under the present aspect of affairs.
If Grant makes a few more reconnois-
sances in force like the last, he will thin
his army faster than conscription can sup
ply him. The truth is, and their lieing
Abolition papers may cover it up as they
best can. our armies, in every locality is
at a dead lock, and can do nothing, and
no prospect of their condition being chang
ed much for the better. We can't expect
that men dragged to the army by con
scription and led to it in manacles and
chains are the kind of men to fight, par
ticularly when they are fighting under
false pretences. The soldiers all know
they are fighting for the negro, though
they are told they are fighting for the
Union.
Now what is the condition of the South,
infinitely better then they were at any
time during the war. Our Government
lias united them to a man. The South
ern soldiers will fight, and fight well. We
have taught them to make soldiers of their
slaves, and they can make them effective.
We have got only the worst of them, lazy
worthless creatures who had no fidelity to
their masters. Whereas they can arm
half a million of able bodied, faithful
negroes, who will fight like turks, they
will give them their freedom and a home
stead to fight for, and wo give them free
dom and starvation. The former have
all the endearing associations of home and
childhood and country and master to fight
for, and the latter has nothing but a dis
mal future of hardships and starvation.
Does it take any philosophy to tell which
of these will do the best execution. The
Southern people are right in doing this,
they do it on the principles that a sea
captain would do if his ship was in dan
ger and too heavy laden, throw some of
the cargo overboard and lighten the ship
in order that she may safely arrive at her
destined harbor. We trust we will now
be able to bid a long farewell to Abraham
and his Abolition crew.
Election.
The election is now over, and so far as
we can judge there will not be much va
riation from our majority at the general
election. We will gain a little from the
last election enough to make it range from
eleven to twelve hundred votes.
In Republican districts, where Abra
ham's officers and Greenbacks were plenty,
the disunionistd gained a few votes.
They paid well for them. Everything is
now at an enormous price, men that used
to be got for a dollar or n quart of whis
key, were asking twenty dollars, and no
man could be got for less than a barrel of
flour, with some store goods thrown in.
These disunion Abolitionists closed with
these men on their own terms, and many
a poor scoundrel made his right of suf
rage pay well on Tuesday last, conse
quently they gained a little in these dis
tricts. Rut in the rural districts where
the honest yeomanry held sway, separate
and apart from Lincoln's ollicers and
greenbacks, there the Democracy increas
ed their majority.
The Democracy of Cambria county
deserve .he thanks of their brethern
throughout the country, for their stead
fast fidelity to the principles which made
and preserved us a nation. If the coun
try dies, as die it must if Lincoln is
elected. They can say it was not we
that did it. The allurements and bland
ishments of power and money had no con
trol over us. We had a good country
and appreciate it. We loved its institutions
and cherished its laws, and did not go
wandering after the false god 6f Aboli
tionism, and now if the country be ruined,
we have a conscience void of offence so
far as that is concerned, and we can live
in a ruined country a b well as those who
put it A ?ath. If patrtotisvn has died
out in the American people, we can say
that it has not died out here yet, nor in
deed is there any symptoms of it being
diseased. It is as fresh and vigorous as
it ever was, and even more so. We will
then rest satisfied that the result will be
right. If Providence has abandoned this
country to the keeping of Abraham Lin
coln for the next four years, then we
have nothing to say for the present. So
far as we heard, the election in this
County passed off very quietly. It was
fought up strong by both parties, but
neither went beyond the bounds of pro
priety to the best of our knowledge.
Smith's Mhju, Oct. 29, 1864.
Fkiend Hassox : Being a subscriber
for the " Democrat & Sentinel," and not
having received -a copy of it for three
weeks, I have concluded to drop you a
line. Has Lincoln suppressed the paper?
Or is some of the little Lincoln's in the
shape of Postmasters purloining the mails .
Or have you quit publishing the paper on
your own accord.
Very respectfully,
S. KLOIIE.
We have received the above note, with
several other complaints of the same kind
from other parts of the County. The
only .reply we have to make is, that Lin
coln has not suppressed the paper, but
some of the Postmasters who are now in
stalled in these one-horse post-offices are
of the class known as the beggars on
horseback." Thev, nor any of their
friends, ever held an office before, and
they think they can't please their master
sufficiently well, without doing an injus
tice to their neighbor. They are so sur
feited and saturated with lies, that a paper
that tells the truth is as severe on them as
an emetic would be to an invalid. Of
course our paper was never intended to
please that class of men, it is published
for free men and not sneaks and slaves.
We never missed one issue since we com
menced the paper only at the October
election and then we issued an extra tell
ing the result. Our paper is regularly
mailed, and we have no reason to com
plain of the conduct of our Postmaster
here. Although ho is a strong party man,
he is still a gentleman, and will do his
duty as an officer. He is none of those
whom the elevation to a picayune Post-
office would put to do " man and dis
honest tricks.
We have steeped a rod in chamber lye
for some of these Postmasters which will
le brought into immediate requisition as
soon as we can get these gentlemen treed
We intend in due time to give them that
attention that the merits of their case de
serve. We by no means make indiscrimi
nate charges against them as a body as
there are tome decent men among them,
but they are the rara avis of the concern.
There seems to be a general complaint
through the Northern States about Post-of
fiees. The Attorney General, of New
York, offered to send copies of his letters
or send them open, so as the Postmasters
would not detain them after reading them.
'Economy am. the go." One man
advertises to " save your matches and
temper by purchasing the new electric gas
bracket ;" another to " save the pieces "
by using his glue and cement, and another
with a new burner, asks you to " save
your gas." Now, we think this last ad
vice the most sound and applicable of any
thini wc have lately seen in print. We
commend it to those who are yet discus:
ing whether "war is right or not." Next
in order is the saving of money, and that
can be done by always purchasing your
goods at E. S. Mills & Co.'s cheai cash
STORE.
Died, at the Poor House, October 28,
18G4, John M'Neel, aged about 35
years.
The deceased was a Dentist, his effects,
consisting ot a sett ot instruments, a
watch and a few other articles are at the
Poor House, subject.to the disposal of his
friends, should this meet the notice of any
such persons. Johnstown " Democrat,"
please copy.
d" The Democratic electoral ticket of
Tennessee is withdrawn. It is withdrawn
because Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
J ohnston, in defiance of law and decency,
have decreed that Democrats shall not le
permitted to vote there, unless they will
swear to renounce the principles of their
party. There will be no election in Ten
nessee. There may be a farco enact
ed there which Andrew Johnson and
Abraham Lincoln may call an elec
tion, and by virtue of. which they may
claim, should the vote of the State be
necessary to give them a majority in the
Electoral College, their election to the
Presidency and Vice Presidency. In that
contingency, they will do well in prepa
ring to leave earth, for their stay on it
will be brief. Chicago Times.
The Military Campaign of 1S64.
The gloomy tapestry of the skies, the
yellow leaves drifting to the ground, the
cold winds and shifting temperature, ad
monish us that we are on the verge of
winter. Summer went long since, and
autumn has passed its meridian, so that
but a brief space separates us trom the
snows and rigor of the winter months.
So near is the latter season that, so far as
military operations are concerned, we
may consider it already here, and that
all further operations of importance must
necessarily be postponed until the spring
ot the coming year. The prominent
events which will give character to the
campaign of 18G4 have already occurred.
Those which may follow in the brief
interval between to-day and winter
will not be of a character to materi
ally alter the present characteristics of
the campaign.
A careful retrospection of the events of
the campaign of 1864 forces the unpleas
ant conclusion that we have made no ma
terial progress. If we have gained at
any one point, we have lost an equal
amount or more at some other; in fact, a
careful weighing of our gains and losses
will, we think, show a considerable pre
ponderance in the case of the latter. In
this connection, reference is had to terri
torial acquisitions or otherwise. The
balance with respect to this is easily
struck. Sherman has penetrated to At
lanta, and exercises a precarious tenure
over a narrow strip of country lying adja
cent to the railroad leading from Atlanta
to Chattanooga. This, with the capture
of the forts guarding the entrance to Mo
bile bay, is all the territory that has been
wrested from the confederacy during the
present year, and this, owing to the pres
ent disposition of the rebel armies, is a
barren victory. We are obliged to use
.1 formidable force of men to guard these
acquisitions, while at the same time we
are unable to use them for further advan
ces.
The footholds that we had in Texas
and western Louisiana have been given
up, as have the points held by us in
southwestern Tennessee," all of which con
stitute an area very many times larger
than that captured by Sherman and Far
ragut. Regarded as acr.e, the number
held by our armies at the present time is
very much less than that which we pos
sessed in the opening of the present cam
paign. Nor have we been more fortunate in
other respects. We have not improved
the ability of our leaders, the value of
our currency, our prospects for ultimate
success, or succeeded in dispiriting or de
moralizing the rebels.
Terrific and useless as has been our
losses in proceeding campaigns, they have
been stiil greater and it" jossible, still
more useless, in the season which is
about closed. The. history of modern
warfare furnishes no parallel of greater
sacrifices and fewer results than those at
tending the march of General Grant from
the liapidan to Richmond. The relxd
capital is to-day as much in rebel posses
sion as it was in May last, so that the
one hundred and fifty-five thousand men
who have fallen in the attempt to take
that place have been just so many lives
completely, absolutely wasted. From all
indications, Richmond will, continue to
defy our efforts for an indefinite period.
We have thus far made no impression
upon it, and, us it has leen able to sus
tain itself thus far, there is no reason
why it may not continue to do so for
months, or even years longer.
In the Shenandoah valley, Sigel and
Hunter, have loth suffered overwhelming
defeats. Sheridan, it is true, has won
several victories, but, despite these, he
holds less than half the valley, while a
rebel army still in his immediate front.
Our attempts in Texas, western Louisi
ana and Florida have all been costly fail
ures. e have been driven ignomin
iously from all these States with enor
mous losses in men, material and reputa-
tion.
Un the ocean, we have captured a
single relx-1 war vessel, while at the same
time, our losses in shipping are even
greater than the enormous losses of any
preceeding year On land, the rebels
hold Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston,
Mobile, and, in short, every place and
railroad of importance which they held
at tlie beginning of the campaign, with a
single exception of the railroad and posi
tion of Atlanta.
We are forced to the conclusion that
we have made no progress towards ac
complishing the objects of the war. Such
a conclusion may he humiliating, but
it is inevitable. We conimenced the
campaign with the largest and best appoint
ed armies that were ever marshaled upon
the theatre of modem warfare. We have
given those armies ceaseless employment ;
we have sacrificed their life with a pro
fuse hand ; we have reinforced them with
two conscriptions whose aggregate reaches
nearly a million men, andye we have
accomplished nothing. AH 'these lives
have been thrown away, for to-day the
South holds its possessions of last spring
intact, and presents everywhere as deci
ded and defiant a front as it did at the
opening of the campaign Kever in his
tory did a nation enter upon a war with
as vast appliances as did the Federal
Government upon the campaign of 1864.
Its only result has been the lsof several
hundred thousand men, the adding of a
few hundred millions to our nat;fnl Aoht.
and a strengthened conviction on the part
of the South that perseverence will secure
her independence.
The campaign of 1864, regarded as a
whole, has been one of the most stupen
dous failures that the world has ever seen.
Its inferences are, that another year of
such losses, failures and expenditures will
annihilate the North and secure the re
cognition of the independence of the con
federacy. The only remedy in the case
is a radical change in the politics of the
war and the administration of the gov
ernment Chicago Times.
Samples or Abolition ' Christi
anity." The Boston Traveler, a rabid supporter
of the " widow-maker," speaking of the
party which it represents, says:
4 We have been waiting for three years
for a slave insurrection, but it seems that
we might as well expect a rising in a
graveyard." Is not this a beautiful sam
ple of Abolition Christianity ? " Wait
ing to hear " that women and children
have been butchered in cold blood by bru
tal negroes! " Waiting to hear " that
defenceless innocence has been outraged
by the unrestrained lusts of a barbarous
race ! " Waiting to hear " that unborn
infants have been torn from their mothers'
bodies, impaled upon pikes and paraded
as trophies of victory ! " Waiting to
hear " that fathers have been compelled
to witness the violation of even the dead
bodies of their own wives and daughters
all these things, and many more equally
horrible, this mild, humane and genial
Boston saint is " Waiting to hear !"
Is there anything on God's earth blinder
than party ignorance, or fiercer than reli
gious fanaticism? How jt transforms
otherwise amiable people into demons, and
with unscrupulous hatred it lets" hell loose
upon earth ? It presumes to interpret the
will of God 'as familiarly as if its' devotees
were upon the most intimate terms with
the Deity. For instance Henry Ward
Beecher, not long since, impiously decla
red that God had chwseii the Abolition
party as His instrument to carry out His
purpose, and that it was the duty of the
party to rise tu the jiatr'onn on ivliich GA
stands, and thence look forward and so
determine its conduct ? A few months
pince Oliver Wendell Holmes published a
poem in the Atantic Monthly, in which he
substantially informed God that unless he
setdes this war upon the Abolition basis
he (Holmes) wants to hear no more about
Christianity. Lest we may be considered
as doing him an injustice, we quote the
lines which admit of no other fair inter
pretation :
I-iOid strangle this ruons!er that .-trilogies
to birth,
Or HiGt-k us no more with thy kiiyluin vu
earth."
We could multiply instances similar to
the above almost indefinitely, but jieihups
the most monstrous specimen of Abolition
blasphemy is the" following, purportir g to
be a dream, written by one Mary II. C.
Booth :
A hundred thousand soldiers,
bt'xxl at tlie right of God ;
AnJ Ol'.l John Bn icn he stood before,
Like Aaron, with his rod,
A slave was there Weside him.
And J nis Christ was there;
And over God. and Christ and all,
The banner waved iu air.
And now, I'm dying, comrade,
And there is old John Brown,
A standing at tho Golde.n Gate,
And holding me a crown !
I do not hear the bob-oMink,
Nor yet the urum and fife ;
i only know the voice of God
Is calling me from life.
When it is remembered that this ban
ner, now waving over " God, and Christ
and all," was only a short time since re
garded by these very people as " a flaunt
ing lie." as "hate's polluted rag," &c.
&.c, how strange it is to find it now ex
halted in their imaginations into such
heavenly supremacy I And yet not so
strange after all, if we but recollect that
it now, under Lincoln, typifies all that
they have ever contended for that it is
no longer the banner of the Union and the
Constitution of our fathers, but the blood
stained ensign of Abolitionism and dis
union of white slavery and negro supre
macy. They have a right, therefore, to
exalt it, and, in their impious rejoicings,
it is no wonder that they see old John
Brown and the flag in close communion.
Nothing could be more appropriate, as
matters now stand. Besides it gives a
practical turn to their blasphemous ravings
to have them hold up a horse thief and a
murderer as the representative of their
party. Barring their stupendous insults
iqo.n Deity, and their impiety in claiming
to be the interpreters of His will, we can
see no objection in their doing honor to
their fallen chiefs, like old John Brown,
even if they do shock the moral sentiments
of mankind, and " rush in where angels
fear to tread." N. Y. Day Book.
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43" The wheat crop of Minnesota is
stated to be 2,800,000 bushels in excess
this year over that of any previous crop,
At the same time that young State has
sent twelve thousand of her laborers into
tlie field as soldiers.
C3 In 1810 Judge Taney was so
feeble that a gentleman, who had a law
suit, refused to give it to him for fear he
would die before the case was tried.
This was fifty-four years before tho great
' jurist died.
Gen. Meagher 03 M'CIellan
Tlie Sentiments of a Soldier.
General Thomas Francis Meagher, cj.
livered an address for Lincoln and John
son, last Thursday evening, October 27tL
in the Capitol at Nashville, Tennesste!
The most brilliant portions of his speech
and those which elicited the heartiett and
most enthusiastic applause from an audi
ence composed largely of soldiers and Ab
olitionists, were those in which he re
ferred to the character and services of
of Gen. Geo. I J. McCIellau. Here U an
extract from Gen Meagher's speech, the
effect of which was, according to an Ab
olition correspondent, to carry the audi
ence away in a frenzy of enthusiastic ap
plause :
Pronouncing in favor of the Baltimore
Convention and its nominees, as a matter
of course I pronounce against the Chica
go Convention and the nominations ema
nating from it. Hear, hear, hear."
This I sincerely regret being compelled to
do. for I widely differ from those who
assert that Gen. M'CIellan personally is
unworthy of occupying the Presidential
chair. Loud cheers for M'CIellan
Highly cultivated, rcfiued in manners as
in mind, deeply imbued with a rever
ence for all that ie virtuous, wise and he
roic in the bistosy of the Republic, proud
of his nationality and sensitively jealous
of the honor of his country, I am satis
fied that no man could bring to the dis
charge of his duties of the Presidency b
better spirit, nor to the position itself, ex
alted as it is, a more appropriate grace
fulness, manliness and dignity. Loud
and continued cheering.
In his truthfulness, in the goodness cf
his heart, in his disposition to serve the
country faithfully and earnestly, whether
in civil life or in the field, to the utmost
c f his ability, I have the fullest faith,
loud cheers ,- and this faith not only re
pels but resents the imputations again-:
his loyalty aud courage, iu which those
who do not know him have seen fit to in
dulge. Loud cries of hear, hear The
firm gentleness with which he has borr::
these aspersions, confirms in my mind the
belief, that a temjerment so well disci
plined as his, a nature so magnanimous,
a demaanor so chivalrously decorous,
qualify him personally, in a superior de
gree, for the highest office in the gift of
the people. Loud cries of bravo,
Meagher, and enthusiastic cheering. At
to his evasion of the dangers of the bat
tle field, all I shall say is this that if
General M'CIellan was not under fire at
Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill, neitlter wa
the Irih Brigade, (tremendous cheering,)
and this I should have said before the
Committee on the Conduct of the War,
had I been examined by that Committee.
(Loud and long continued cries of hear,
hear, and deafening cheers.) An up
right ard exemplary eitizen, an accom
plished and judicious soldier, true to his
men as he was true to his flag, (hear,
hear, hear.) indefatigable as he was scru
pulous in hi- work, honest and fearless,
(hear, hear, hear.) nothing, I repeat, can
with any perious force be justly urfi,!
against him personally in derogation ot
his claims to the Presidency. (Enthusi
astic cheering, and cries of well done
Meagher. )
For my part, if any man, in my pres
ence, dare call General M'CIellan a trai
tor or a coward, I will not stop to argue
with him I will at once knock him
down. I will answer such assertions only
by a blow and an Irishman's blow
at that!
True and Faltte l'ropbeta.
Four years ago the the Democratic
party predicted that the election of Mr.
Lincoln would provoke a civil war. The
Abolition party said " the South could.
not be kicked out of the Union."
The Democratic party predicted thai
the war would be one of magnitude, an J
demanded that the first call for troops
should be for at least two hundred thou
sand men. In April, 1861, Senator
Douglas urged the President to call for
that number. Mr. Seward and the Abo
lition party said the contest would be un
important, and that " it would end iu
sixty, or at the furthest, in ninety days."
Acting upon this supposition, the Presi
dent only called for seventy-five thousand
men.
The Democratic party predicted that if
the war should be perverted to an Aboli
tion crusade, the perversion would divide
the North and unite the South. The
Abolition party pledged itself if the war
was thus iererted to furnish nine hun
dred thousand volunteers for its prosecu
tion. When the object of the war was
changed, volunteering immediately ceased.
When the war began, the Democratic
party demanded immediate aud heavy
taxation, and predicted thai if the demand
was not complied with, the Government's
credit would sink to comparativa worth
lessness in consequence of its enormous
issues of paper currency. The Abolition
party said the war would soon end, and
the credit of the Government could bo
sustained without a material increase of
taxation.
The Democratic party predicted that if
negroes should be employed as soldiers,
the Government would be unable to pro
tect them, and that the measure would
lead to an inhuman and disgraceful system
of retaliatory warfare. The Abolition
party said the South would not dare to
refuse recognition to negroes as soldier.
Tha refusal ot tha Administration to