Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-12-28


of the Southern portion of this County. the
following eloquent and patriotic address. fsom
the Rev. Dir. Lovejoy. of Boston Its lam
guage is clear and forcible, and its sentiments
National and conservative. Read it careful
ly, and then pause and reflect:
MIR. LOvEJOY'S ADDRESS.
National Hotel, Washington. ID. G.
NorenaJer 25th 1859.
TO The People of New England.
Friends and COuntrynsen:- Sojourning for
| few days in this capital of the nation. wit
! messed on The morning of the last Sabbath
scene which ought to make us all pause for
reflection Gov. Wise passed through this
city with five hundred men, armed for war;
| not for war as of old against the scalping and
skuiking savage; not to repel the invasion of
foreign foe: but for ciril war 1t was
State arming to repel an invasion from its
| sister States from whom it ought to expect
kindly salutatIons and the most friendly re-
lations. These relations have now reached
crisis where the whole tone and action Of the
North must be changed. or a separation of the
States is inevitable. The South is indeed ex-
cited, well as it may be, but it is also fixed
and determined. One side or the other must
rcccde, or a collision civil war, streams of
blood and widespread desolation must follow.
Shall the work, the lives, the sacrifices of our
fathers all have been in vain? Look
this goodly city from one of its many lofty
towers. Survey its broad streets, the many
homes of happy families from all parts of the
land; look upon the solid grandeur of the
Capitol, the majestic public buildings, all i'm
posing and still progressive, showing that
of their greatness. Abroad and in every d.
rectioD, the rail roads, the rivers, the cities,
the fruitful valley and the teeming prairie,
give evidence, such as the world never saw,
of fruit of two hundred years of we'll directed
enterprise. See the thriving happy millions
that welcome the morning at the shores of the
Atlantic, and keep pace with the sun, till his
rays fade away in the western ocean Is this
Inheritance nothing? shall it be lost in day?
Let the wonderful harmonious machinery of
the Union, the work of our fathers and of
kind ProvideDce-iet 1t once be crushed
and no device. nor art, nor wisdom of IN an
can ever restore it to life and action again.
Let the sword once be heard clashing here
before the statute of Washington, and our
glory has departed. 1t needs no prophets
voice TO foretel that of these goodly buildings
not one stone shall be left upon another that
shall not be thrown down
The genus of this spot will cry from the air
and from the earth; Call me no more Wash
| irgton, but write Ichabod upon these desert
ed streets, and Nincvah and Babyloa upon
these columns in ruin" We shall hasten to
an untimely end. Now. on whom will this
terrible guilt rest? Before Heaven, and from
! the deepest convictions of my soul, say on
| the North-and first and chiefly on the State
of Massachusetts,. She will have the double
| fame of having rocked the cradle and built
the tomb of 4 great nation. The Msdean
tragady Of Euripides will be more than eclips
ed oy the hand of State that slaughters a
nation. You will say that Virginia and the
South are unduly excited-that no such cris-
is impends. | tell you, honest men aud true
! .herc is peril near, the abyss is opening be-
fore us. 1 cannot see but Virginia is fully
justified in preparing for a conflict. Look at
the facts: A body of men, insignificant in
numbers, invade that State. furnished, armed
and equip ped with thousand spears to be put
| into the hands of seryile race, TO cut the
| throats of men, women. and children; for this
they always do when they rise against their
masters; and, what is the most appalling fact
| of all, those blades we're manufactured aud
sharpened in New England, and paid for. at
least in part, by contribut ions taken up in the
churches. In that very fremont Temple in
| Boston, where recent of the piety of the
Old South Church (the junior pastor) embra-
ced on the same platform the blasphemy OF
| Ralph Waldo Emerson-in that church
year ago last May, John Brown received
contribution from the hands OF Christian men
for the purpose of murder aud bloodshed, IN
der the thin veil of Kansas operations -
Now, they did not know that he wsuld go to
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gagged in murder and robbery in Kansas; and
it is no worse 20 murder men in one place
| than in another. Then the aiding. abettiug,
and appreciation after the fact, give fearful
| iusignifcance to the contribution which pre-
ceded it. The Old South Church in Boston
under its wise and devout senior pastor, has
been the central point of conservatism on the
subject of slavery in New England: and Bow
its junior pastor joins hands with the most bit
| ter revilers of the church and the nation, in
order to glorify murderer. simply because
| he commits murder upon the soil of Virginia
| in the name of freedom. This same John
Brown dragged five men. the heads of fami-
! lies from their beds and murdered them as
he would dogs, by the wayside; and yet one
| speaker says there million hearts with
John Brown to-day. Why should not the
South be excited? Why not arm and be
ready for portion of this million OF ready in
vaders? Then, it is notorious that many of
the leading papers of the North have but
word or two of mawkish condemnation for the
folly of John Brown, while they print whole
columns of sEeers and scarcasms for Virginia
and the South This the North commit two
great mistakes; we meddle when we ought not
to and We meddle to the injury of all parties
the slaves, of the South an I the North, some
of you will remember that seven years ago l
told you some very plain and Wholesome truths
on another subject, which you repaid in abuse
and condemnation; but time, that infalible
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