Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-06-19

And sing win anger ch0lrS ABOVE
The songs of Paradise.
Mn. Row will you please pu blish the fol-
lowing chapter (V from article written
by the Rev. Robert j. BRECKINRIDGE, d. D.,
of Danvile, Kentucky, aud published in the
.Danvlle Quarterly Review Your neighbors
of the sClearfeld Republican having publish
ed the four proceeding chapters, deem it but
justice to the author, that the public should
be permitted to read his concluding remarks.
By giving them room in The Journal you
Siil oblige, Your friend, JUSTICE.
From the Danville Quarterly Review.
Our Country-Its Peril-Its Deliverance
BYREv.R. J. BRECKIsR1DGE, D. D.
V. !. We have said, on previous page,
that the revolution in the seeded States
would not stop where it now is. and that the
course it would hereafter take, depended up
on causes in some degree appreciabie now !;
of which causes we enumerated those which
appeared to us most important in the produce
tiou OF such results would restore those
States to their former position in the nation.
Amongst them, the conduct of the Federal
government towards The eStates-according as
il might be firm and yet temperate, or as il
might be vacilating and timid, was enumer-
ated as decided element of the future. No
one can doubt that this Is true, or fail to ex-
perience great anxiety on the subject. We
feel no disposition to speak confidently about
proceedings of the general government not
yet adequately explained nor, under any cir
cumstances: to judge the President harshly.
We consider Mr.. Buchanan to he situated just
"a that manner, that if he saves his country,
posterity will forgive him much, and place his
name high on the roll of history; but, that if,
either By his own fault, or by the fatal temper
OF the times, his administration is made the
term of his country's grand career, he must
bs ciassed with the greatest victims of mis-
fortune. Few have presided at Obsequies that
ought TO have been so illustriouS-and that
threaten to be SO ignominious. Apparently
the sport OF Cabinet divided into factions,
Of which was irresoute, another neither
loyal to him nor TO the country, and the iso.
lated members without authority; the use
made of the national administration seems to
have been to promote the interest of the lead
eFs of sedition; until the President found him
self with no alternative but to sacrifice alike
his official duty and his personal honor, or at
most perilous moment, to reconstruct his
Cabinet on the basis of one two faithful and
able men, the remnant Of his old advisers.
There may be some ground for difference Of
opinion as to the probable result, If the same
conduct had been pursued by the administra-
lion from the beginning, us has since the
construction of the Cabinet. Nothing short
Of complete success, rendered only more diff
cult by his own previous coudCct, can now a.
vert from the President, the stern condemDa-
t!on OF posterity. And the secession party.
prompt diligent, and sagacious, after securing
from Mr.. Buchanan the utterance of such opin.
ions, and the acquiescence in such proceed
Ings, rendered their first organized move
ments safe from interruptions and afte: treat
ing all national rights that stood in the way of
tAeIC subsequent movements as mere nullitieS,
and all national property in their reach as
lawful plunder; are now diligently engaged
inpropagating the sentiment, that all attempts
OF the nation even to expire with decency
much less to defend its dignity, its honor its
authority, Its military posts, or its property
should be esteemed outrages on sovereign
Ststes-and be condemned as acts of useless
folly that can lead only TO bloodshed seeing
that the premeditated work is done, and ali
composition is impossible. At the same criti.
cal moment, a signal change manifests itself
IN the bosom OF the party in the North, which
resists all fair settlement, and yet breads pop
llaF revolution there. AS long as threats of
violence We're particularly empty and insult
Ing, they were hurled at the South. Now,
when their disloyal hopes point in another di.
FectIon, the method they take to avert the
coming reaction which may save the country,
Is to unite in vehement protests against what
lney are pleased to designate coercion. If
Tie nation, first deluded and then dsgraced.
Can be paraly yzed-and the whole South driv-
sn into secessiuD-the extreme party of the
North, and the extreme party at the South.
esch gains its special ends and the mass of
Tue people every where, and especially in the
great Central States, may, at their leisure.
"4he 10 the reality Of a situation fatal and de-
Iestabte to them-which it would have been
lar easier tor them to have prevented, than it
"ili 0e 70 correct. In short, ii is TO deter the
"''loAdt gorernmenf from ere7y act ,chich can
tssH END 10 restore the Supremacy Of The Consti-
.I.0n' and The integrity Of the nation, that the
.Iy against what they call coercion. is substi-
'"'eu lot The cry against what they called OPP
P'esSl"n' IN the first stages of the revolt.
-, IL Is deporabe, in every stage and act
ei ingenuity of error has trifled with the no.
at s' Impulses of the people, and with the
;Apes. Truths which support all our institu-
oH'. i;o Let the dominant party in South Caro-
A sSFt with the political falsehood. that the
f.ypse o. mat State not citizens of the Uni
'afei, except through the constitution and
ssYssunment Of thai State and let the N ational
n.,'n ,''Hslfaiioa start with the corresponding
fTricai iaisehood, that the supreme tap Of the
S., ,"a eaEnof be enforGed touards the people Of
,s t carolina, contrary to the ioishes and acts
CO n.s' dominant party and let both parties
| u.n uur IN the additional political fasehood,
r,JI.e we ruin Of society is better than the risk of
h'On Tho. rlth any body in enforcing the la,rs
to- ol course, notification, secession, sedi-
| dr., evolution, anarcby-are inevitable pro-
,c cnssn The organization of society, and pub
r,v o.ref, and regulated liberty, and the secu.
property and life become more and