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In this, the fairest; richest, and (until lately) the most fuvpjvd land of all the earth; here, where the last footprints of civilization tiad been planted ; in this land alone of all the Christian nations of the world—the fell *piric of war is now raging. Our proud and unexampled career of prosperity as a nation has been thus rudely checked; our industry, that is wot devoted to the purpose of a de structive war, has become paralyzed; our financial concerns have been thrown into ut ter confusion and debasement; we have henceforth—probably forever—to stagger under a load of debt greater, and under tax ation more onerous, tban that of any other nation on the globe ; confidence in the sta bility of oi\r institutions is everywhere sadly diminished -*in fine gloomy forebodings as to the future, alarm, embarrassment, and dis tress have taken the place of the happy peace confidence, security, good order, and content ment we so lately enjoyed. Nor can hope find a resting place in con templating the MEN who now control our Government and administer its laws; and it turns sickened and sadly awa) - fron. tne audacity, arrogance and tyranny it finds in high places, even iu the very citadel of the nation Sciolists in government ; atheists in religion; men who are free lovers in one sphere, and free thieves iu another ; rene gades in politics, and scoffers at every well eettled principles of public right and private virtue, now sway the destinies of this Re public, and are crushing out the very life of American freedom. For three long, fearful years have the best blood and sternest efii its of our people been freely given in a civil war which has no par allel in the history of the world. When this war commenced, the Democratic party in ihe North, as such, was prostrate under re cent defeat, which resulted Irorn its own tin fortunate divisions. But what a grand and inspiring spectacle was presented on hearing n.e first thunder of rebellious arms ! Pulit cal and partisan feelings, even in that hour "f party humiliation, were all laid upon the altar of the country, and the sun of Heaven never shone upon a people more united, res olute and determined t liar; those of the North t rr Slates at the period we refir ro. Whatever might have been the views of the Northern Democracy in regard to the causes which ultimately engendered this un happy strife; however much in their inmost s< uls they deplored the mad and reckless < a reer of Abolitionism; however deep was their detestation of the cour.-e .f those par' liaotrs. who lad bun for years sweeping up all the low, lui king el. menu of bigotry and iana 'icisni, end directing their vilest efforts against the rights, interests, and institutions "f the Southern people—stili, the attempt of a portion ofrt in to I.teak down ih e authority of the Constitu tion i ver the w hole country , and destroy the Federal c.mipact, was a criminal act which •■."uU not bo tolerated or justified. The amplest remedies for the wrongs complained of were not only wilhm hope, bat • hand.— Two millions of voters had just recorded their ballots in a general popular election against Abraham Lincoln an .| LHE ONE million who supported him and his p.. I joy. There was besides, a Democratic maj >rity in one, if not both branches of Conprese, which would render him powerless lo inflict any perma- I nent evil on the country. The right of secession, claimed by the South as the remedy for their grievances, is a political heresay, condemned by Madison with his latest breath, and by many others of our ablest statesmen in ai! sections of the Lnion. Call the Constitution a compact, if y.'U will—as does Jefferson in the Kentucky resolutions ol '9B—.but it is a < compact of States, made wi'h each other as such, hav ing no right of secession "nominated or con stitutod in the bond." The Union thus formed was in its nature, if not in terms, perpetual. Secession then, in view of' 1 ,, compact, is simply revoi' ttc- „ ! ~ breaking up n' j- "* ' a e -v,. l , " w,m ' n our Others had be queathed aa. was, under all the circumstan ces we have detailed, and the thousand other considerations an d consequences which must crowd every intelligent and patri( , tic mjnd not only treason ai law, but ag.in.t the bes , hopes of mankind. We could not then-can not noir-anu keter wiee consent to it. In this spirit of determined loyalty to the Constitution and the Laws, the Democracy of the N.-rth, with scarcely an exception, ru lying upon the pledges given by President Lincoln, yielded hi-n their ready and efficient support. Whet were some of those pledgea ? First, in his oath of office : "I will support the Constitution of the United States, so help me God." Then in his Inaugural Ad dress, and with his solemn adjuratjon fresh upon fiis lips, he said : •*- v.# mi'V *ri * -* .. - *. ' •> "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMATT9 RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson. "• 4 : • TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5, 1864. 1 do but quote from one ef my S( jeehes when I declare that " 1 have no purpose, directly or ind\- retcly to in terftre icilh the institution of slav ery in the States ithert it exists. A UMHSVK I H AVE NO LAAVPL'L RIGHT TO DOrBCV-ANWI HAVE NO INCLINATION TO DO, *6O. Those who nominated and sleeted mo did so with full knowledge that I made this and similar declarations and have never rocanted them. I now reitarate these sentiments ; and in dorng so, I only press upon the public attention the rnest conclusive evidence of which the ca.e is susceptive, that the property peace and soeurityyof no seation are to be in any wise endai geied by the now incoming Administra ticn, I add too. that all the protection which, con sistently with} the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all thy States when lawfully demanded, for wha'eia.- canse—as chee..u!ly to one section as te another. These repeated publfc pledges brought voluntarily to the standard ratsed in behalf of the Union, hundreds of thoueands of as brav? men as ever breasted a bayenet. The armies thus raised were precipitated on the Sonth with varied fortunes of victory and defeat ; and war, civil war—always the most bloody of all human strifes—has ever since ragad over some of the fairest portions of that tin hap py region. But the long cherished schemes of fanati rtsm for the extinction of African servitude could not be given up. No matter if Massa sixty or seventy years since, did sell slave to the people of the Southern Slates under the guarantees of a Constitution which shu helped to form—still, Massachusetts med dleis, both in Congress and out of it, now determined, since they could not "'rail," they would rend "the sea! from off the bond." The gallant " three thousand clercymcu of New England"—(worthy disciples of the Prince of Peace !) —rallied to a man, in the new crusade of fanaicism, and wrought, side hy side, wito infidels, who have for years been in the daily habit of sneering at the Ohristiiiii's faith, ridiculing tho Christian's Bible and blaspheming the Christian's God ! The fears of our timid and facile President were worked upon, as well as his vanity and desire of re-election, by the extreme and rad. teal members of his party, and the emancipa tion and confiscation measures were forced upon him, and made aj.a tof his policy in the condaet of the war. Every effort of the 'riends of peace put forth in Congress was defeated. The hostility of the Abolition leaders.to serfdom in the South—tr employ the words of the lamented Douglas—"was stronger than their fiedehty to the Constitu tion." They believed that a disruption of the Union would draw after it, as an inevita b!e consequence, civil war. servile insurrec. nous, and finally, through these, an utter ex. suction of slavery in all the Sou'hern States; tnd, it would seem, they acted even on tins teri ibie bel ief, Look at the recud ; On the 18th day of December, 1860, Senator Crittenden, of Ken. u.c'<y, Jthe bosoip friend of Henry Clay in his life time, introduced into the Senate "f the United States a series of resolutions, as a basis ol settlement between the two sec tions of the Union The secession of South Carolina took place on the day of the same month, and her members of Congress retired rotn their places. We are ihus particular in reference to thia subject, because our op ponents, through their Central Committee iq this S'.ale, have introduced it irto a late address lo you ; and 'here is & specious ef. iu that address to turn aside from the Republicans,!hejuet obloquy and repruaQh which the defeat of Senator Crittenden's proposition was fastened upon. I ht> compromise would, in terwp: I have sealed more than three-fourths of all our territorial domain against slavery forever placing about 900,000 miles under the pro visions of the Ordinance of 1787, more recent ly known as the " Wilmot Proviso"—.leavir: the remaining 300,000 miles subject to what ever laws those wfio settled upon it might establish for them&el v-*, wtenver they . be came a State. All the other features of the proposed compromise were nothing but re affirmances of the plainest powers and pro visions of the Constitution, save, possibly* the fair and equita'ole stipulation that alavery ahouldnof be abolished in the District of Co lumbia, as loug as it existed in Maryland and Virginia, the two Stat** whioh had ce ded that District to the General Govern ment. On the loth of January, 1861, Senator | Clarke, a leading Repuhr Gan tnoTed (Q | ♦he Critte" f - ' r- -"<en propo vl))n by striking out oi the material provisions—certainly all that contained the olive-branch of peace, and inserting a single resolution breathing war threats toward the South, This amendment was carried by a role of twenty five in f% vor •H Republicans, against twenty three Demo cratic votes. But, savs the address of the Republican Committee—" six Southern Sen atnrtv refused to rote at alt on the proposed amendment ; and then, with a degree of cool assurance reraarkrSle even m these times, it oes on to tell the people of Pnen B ylvania " that had these six Southern iW Tote d against the Clerk amendment, it would been defeated, and the Crittenden Compro 1 m.Be might hare been taken up and carried by the same majority," General Cameron, who puts firth thii Adcre s s, 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 voted roa this very Clark amend meet, (od the same day mired a reoonaider * ai'.M lJ tORw>OM , , . J.it r atiuit; and then, when this question was call ed up only three days afterwards, tut voted against h f own notion to reconsider. It was carried, however, with the aid of at least TWO J\ k #y ; 7 t, * ( >J -i (oohnson and Slidell) of the "six" 1 named. , . ~ t • -* and the Compromise was again tn statu quo before the Senate. It was finally taken up on the 3d of March ', and d feated— many of the Southern Senators having withdrawn Senate in the interim, their States having se ceded from th" Union. Now, General Cameron, who issued the Address, knows just as well as did Senator Cameron, who sustained the Clark amend ment, '.hat it required a two thirds vote to give vitality to the Crittenden Compromise He knows, too, that every Republican vote, including his owq, in the Seriate, was given against the measure, in effect, from firt to last. He knows further, that the Republi can Senators refused Senator Riglar's pro posal to submit this question to a vote of the people as instructive of Congress. He kno\v> also that Mr. Clemens, of Viiginia, on the 17th of February, before that State adopted secession, endeavored, in the House of Rep resentatives at Washington, to ob'ain a sim iiar arrangement in that body to test the question of compromise betore the people, and it was voted down by fl2 Republicans against 80 Democrats—every Republican in the House voting in the negative. They did nt dare to trust the people, the legiti mate suuice of power, on this question ! At the hazard of furnishing unnecessary proof on this point, we beg attention to tbr Ctear and explicit evidence of Senator Ptigh, a contemporary of the author of the Address, in the Senate of the United States. In tht course of his speech in the Senate, in March. 1861, he says: The Crittenden proposition has been endorsed by the almost unanimous vote of the Legislature of Kentucky. It has been endorsed by the noble old Commonwealth of Virginia It has been petitioned for by a larger number of the electors of the Unite 4 States than any proposition that was ever beforr Congress. I believe in my heart to-day that it would carry an overwhelming majority the people of mv State, aye, sir, of nearly every State m the Fnio< , Before the Senators frout the State of Mississippi left the chambel heard one of them, who assumes at least to be President of the Southern Confederacy, propose to accept it, and maintain the Union, if that ptoposition could receive the vote it ought to receive frtnn the other side of the chamber. Thorefore. all of your propositions, all of your amendment*, knowing as I do, and knowing that the bistcriar will write it down—at any time before the first o! January, a two thirds voto lor the Crittenden reso lutions in this chamber would have savod evety ( State in th Union except South Carolina. Ocorgi:; wonld be here bv her representatives, and LoUishm hose two great Suites—which at least would haw broken the whole columu of Secession— Globe, rag -1300, Upon the same point, of the same day, the clarion voice of the patriotic Douglas, Lor* testimony as follows ; The Senator (Mr. Uugh) ha* said that if the Crit - tendon proporition tould have been pressed oarly in the session, it would have save i all the states except South Carolina, I firmly believe thi*. while the Crittenden proposition was in accordauce with my cherished views- I avowed my readiness and eager, ness to accept it in order to save the Union, if we could nnite upon it* 1 can confirm the Senator's declaration that Senator Davia hinißslf when on the Committee of Thirteen, wl3 realy at all times to eoinproinisa on the Crittenden proposition . I wtll go furth r, and say that Mr. Toombs was also— Globe page 1861. IL.w preposterous at this day then, this attempt of one of the leading actors in thai eventful drama thus to stifle conscience, and so seek to rescue his co-conspirators from tne recorded verdict of history, aa J the served and inevitable condemnation of a be trayed people I r k ~ The controlling spirits of the Republican party never meant peace—never sought peace from first to lest, a*any time or in any form, Rave upon tho one drear and deviftsh 'condi tion of turning looSe upon our land three and a half millions of black semi barbarians un def the 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 deat i in an inbospita ble ch me c, J President Lincoln has but recently declar. Ed, in very definte terras, he will listen to no proposition for peace which does not in. elude tbia African millennium, uotwithstaDd. ing those plain c mutational prohibitions of all right on the J ;' ne ener4l <joTepn ment thus to intervene, which he himself with the oath of office fresh upon his lips, declared he " had no legal i ight and no "in tention" to disregard. If we were to credit the ravings of the chief advisers of the President, or, at leaßt, those who seem to influence him most fully Sumner, Beecher and Philipps—human rea son has been making 6uch rapid progress in these latter dnys,:that the haven of human perfection must be near at hand. But alas ! when we look hopefully for the blessed gale wh'ch is to bear us onward in Its course, we hear nothing but the loud breath of the < iu pest; see nothing all around us but the an gry and troubled sea, everywhere spafkfmg with foam and surging in its madDess ; khd tre attempted to ask, can this Hideed i 'Ths w\o<tand the stonn fulfilling bis wordf These ma* trc mistaken and mad, or are traitors of the dye, deserving a trai tor's darkest doom. This equality at the lock and while races tboy are tenk. Wi elev >!/• l o establish in this country is an absurd and idle dreatn,which a brief contrast >f the r progress and peculiarities must dispel J Irom a iloughtiul iloughtiul mind. * f A little more than two ren'ur our ftfrtiers first plfkrlte'l a few of our rnce at scattered poin's along the North Americhn co st, the whole number of that race in the old world c/id not exceed six mil lions. England, Scotland and Wales then numbered fewer inhabitants 'han New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio do now. Mark the progress : in North America at this tim<(in ciudirg a wholesome Celtic infusion,) there are a' least thirty millions, and in the whole world(confessing thercalsothe same infusion) irotn eighty to ninety millions of peosle, sub stantially Anglo Saxon in their .origin. We are every where thus displacing the tuore sluggish races, or hemming the n in on every side ; and at this current rate of increase, in one hundred and fifty years from this time, will run up to eight hundred millions of hu man beings—all speaking the same language, rejoicing in the same high intellectual cultur. -ltd exhiniting the same inherent and inallen able characteristics ! On the other hand, the African race has never, anywhere, given any proof of its capa city for a self sustained civilization. Suice the sun first shone on that continent it ha> remained in the same state of mental giooui Cii'el, brutal, voluptuous, and indolent by nature, the African has never advanced a sui te step beyond his own savage original.— Slavery has ever been, and to this hour ton Unites to be. his normal condition, through • >ut every clime he can call his own ! And let they hive had as many opp .riunities oi rnproveuneot as the inhabitants of Asia or oi Europe. Along the shores of the Mediterra nean was once concentrated the Literal ur< and Science "f the world. Carthage, the ri val ol imperial Rome in all the arts of com ■uerce and civilization,exeMed fbr>many years on the African border. The Saracens, the most polished race of their time founded and maintained for centuries a contiguous empire Still, for all th<s,the Alrican has continued to prowl on through his long right of barbarism and thus, in all human probability, he wiil continue forever. Tell us not that his wantoi progress iu civilization is the re-uitofloi g vstablishwd bondage. So, for centuries, was our own race bouni lo the earth under vari ous modifications of predial vassdage. Bji the white soul expanded, and mounted above ill its burthensjmJ trammel*, and finally, in this country, reached ihefuil fruition of re publican freedom. We grant this mental inferiority of the Af ncanv-( ve forbear, in the spirit of snbru-iy, any physical contemplation or contrast.) tipc-6 nut give a dominant race the right to convey him from his own benighted land to a foreigu bondage, even under the forms of a purchase from his African master. B_t tin* natural inferiority must bv considered by the statesman in Iraiuing laws, and adopting Con stitutions for human government. Iu Penn sylvania we have always affirmed this inferi ority in our fundamental laws ; and the same has been in almost all the free Stales of the Union—generally excluding the African (rem the right ofsufintge. This necessity of duly regarding the law of races, is thus forcibly commented upon by Lamartint(a scholar and a statesman, always iu favor of man's largtst lj,t.t i 'y)jn a recent work : The more I have traveled, the mote I am oonvie eed that races of men J arm the great secret .of men -Liu. manners. ,YUu is not su cao vbie of education as philosophers imagine. Tne iufiueuco of Govern ment and laws has less .power, radically, than is supposed, over the manners ani instincts of any peo ple. While the primitive constitution and blood of the race have always their influence, and mauhest themselves thousands of years afterwards in the physical formation nd habits of a particular fami ly cr tribe. Human nature flow# in ri#ci% and streams in the vast ocean of humanity ; but its wa ters mingle but slowly—sometimes they never mingle, and it emerges again, like the Rhone from the Lake of Gspeva, with its own taste and color Here is, indeed, an abyss of thought an v meditation and at the same time a grand secret for legislature As long as they keep the spirit of the race in view 'hey succeed ; but they fail when they str ve against this natural predisposition ; nature is Jtronger than they are. But why thus enlarge up>n * topic which has undergone so much, and such freqn. iu discussion ? Why—because this idea of work ip"* ou* **</-**/" ta }sn /1 fjt nr fK A Oftl't, O*'OUT f ,r * ~© ••My ~ - - r - ~ ponents is the very basis of mnr present politi< al struggle. Let ro man be mit; ken. This is really,ihe leading l --') • at the prc.M-nt moment between the two parties. To carry out his idea has corneaf last (o be Ihe ruling if not the sole purpose of the war ichicfi is now deluging [he I. ml with, fraternal blood! For this, the Constitution and the reserved rights of the States and the people have been mockingly trampled underfoot; for this,both imperious and imperial edicts, such as would send to the block any monarch in England, have been issued by the President, aud sought to be enforced ; for this, Secretary Seward's boast to Lord Lyons— "l can touch jny office bell at any mojnat, and urder to t be arrested any citizen of ikt* country"—has been all to frequently realized ! Ihe extent - hich the party supporting the President are willing to go in negro affil iation, finds a memorable llhistratiou*Ur the proposition made by Secretary Cameron,o* Uf6t of the several occupants of the place of Secretary of War under PrcklenftLiucoltj • * v- . gnileett *<■ r of 1 TIJRMS: S2.OOPER ANXUM |He codlly proposed, in his flist and last an nual communication, to free, add then to arm the whole black population of of the South, and thrn them aginst their whit* masters in a work ofiddi=rnminate butchery f tfiPsTreW infernal suggestion was not adopted* by''ft© Presidenf when first proposed, but ft has since been acted upon in more instances than one. We have charged the party at present in power, fellow citizens, with tyranny and us urpation. We now go further, and solemnly fts.ert our belief, that there is a deliberate do ign to change the character, if not the form of our government. The leading paper < in t*'e support Jof the Administration openly ad vocate a modiflcateion which will place great er powers in the hands of the President ; and if their advice should be adop-e i by the pa p'e. in a short time the chains will be firmly riveted, and our liberties completely subver ted. Ihe Philadelphia Press not long since remarked : Another principle must certainly be embodied in our reorganized form of government. The men who shape the legislation of this country when ths war is put, must remember that what wo want is power and strength. Lit problem mill be to combine the forms of Republican Government with the power* of a Munarchcal Gov ernment- About the same time, as if by c mceru, we find :n the l\or(h. Ameriran. This wr has already shown the absurdity of a Government icoh limited powers; it has shown that the power of eaery Government ought to be and must be UNLIMITED. Such doctrines as these would have met wilu rebuke even at the hands of the elder Adams ; but they were the naMril precu. sors of the "war power" which has been made to overr.de the most explicit doctrines •f the Constitution. The very wrongs, in •act, complained ..f by our fathers, and enu. unrated in their declarali in against tho English mouarch, have been revived uoon -ods. This A hninietration has willfully is <ath bound pledge-, and s .ught " p*e* lex-is of innovation upon llf established principles of the. Government; "it has fos u-ivd a • spuor of etiroach-nent which tends v, consolidate alt t he departments of the troceniment rnone. and th s creri'e. vznutev. er th* forms may be, a real flcspot'csnl." 1 It has rendered the -l/ie military superior to ike civil power" It has superseded in a reign o( lawless force the security prescribed by law gain*t seizure and imprisonment i ir,thnu t due process of lair." It has verify created a multitude oj new office?, and ent among its swarms of officers to haras* nurp o/ite and ea* out their sutetauy By an Wfjuitou* Conscription !-, it KKb, b >.. tnbu'i'd i ! s agents among the people, backed by bayonets and clothed with discrotiotiafv powers over the liberties, ifriot the lives of •"iroi tens It "Ar/.* quartertd la ge de mies of troops amongst it*.'' It 4 ftds itnpns'- etl ta.rrs <m us without our cO'isettt." Final Iv, it N chosen and purchased advocates are now elr.mt mus for a stronger G .verftment, tli 1 1 "owr charters may he taken away our mo* t vcttuubie. it was abolished . and the pott ers of our Government- alleted fundamental*- ly." 1 h 5 , we submit, fellow citizens, ' are all of them features fairly exhibited, of that "stronger Government," which our forefa thers, appealing "to the Supremo Jodgu of the world," eighty years ago, pledgted ',neir i : wt s?fVi 11 vi i I V*ti.r honor : to put aside forever . vtdi We have before spoken, feKoiv-cititenl, of the depressed condition of the country, Tjie of debt which has been piled up so recklessly, cannot be less than three thous and millions of dollars, wfjeu all is' fairly counted. Of this Pennsylvania's share wG beat letst one-tenth of the wholo, or £3000" 000,000. The anual interest upon this sum'is (Mo"e easily estimated than paid) will be about eighteen millions of dollars. Tbis, added to the annual interest of our former debt, makes an aggregate of interest now,and henceforth, to be borne by tlig people tf'iKw Common wealth, stated >u round numbers, of twenty millions of dollars ! Wo cannot heighten this picture of tho stern realify, which an inexorable aritljjneticil calculation gives. Some make even a deeper debt and a darker prospect than others. i luxation a!ways falls heaviost upon labor- 1 ; it will now grind the poor to tho very earth. An l yet the mock philanthropists of the rihy are increasing the taxuion. and urging on system of measures, which, under the tnnse of anu-horating the condition of the A#- " rie-tn, will*if carried on much longer, prkctl*- c&lly enslave tho laboring white nun and s'arve his faintly. And besides this, if the forcible abolition of bondage at the South should succeed, it wiH"onty be to bring the white working men and women of tho North in competition >n the same (.atbs of labor w >) t*.e A'rican thry have b en taxed and beggared to britfg Here, an l support amongjit U9} iMhh The favored capitalist, who have money lb lend to the Administration, gets his bonds upvp which the tf is no laxa ion ; aud . thus is increased (be burdens of tha laboring and middle classed. But we forbear to pamtte this metanehnlly train of faqts and : "[- 1 | and turn to the tnoro greatiui conajderatkm of how we can do sotjiaihing for the CQrffcc tu'O of these evils. T ■ C ' ' J® It must be plain fellow-citiieuf, -'hk only hope thai CDoiorvafivd uaij, cj,, j,.. , f _ I: T TOL. 4 NO. 9
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