Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-11-09
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bss published q manifesto TO the people OF
Kentucky, dated at Bowling Green, the Rebel
headquarters, but we have been unable to get
sight Of it. The ST. Louis Republican
appears to have been more fortunate, and
gives us some insight into it's contents. Mr.
Breckinridge says 1t is written at the fret
MON, ut since bis expusion from home that
he could place his feet on the soil Of Ken.
tucky. This is a most impudent perversion
OF the truth, for be never was expelled from
bone be left Lexington impeled by his
guilty fears Of arrest, and bis retreat was
lighted by the burning self consciousness OF
his completely with treason.
When the mock Duke" of Tobin's Comedy
is compelled to 10y aside the borrowed robes
Of authority, he does it with a constrained
grace "as q well bred dog walks down stairs
when be sees preparations making for kicking
hin down." and iD the same spirit Breckin
| ridge resigns bis seat as o n uember OF the
Senate OF the United States, saying, II
exchange with proud satisfaction a term OF
six years 10 the United States Senate for the
musket of soldier" This is the bluster OF
the "AUcent Pistol" for We all know that
the service OF the ex Senator, if be serves at
all, will be 10 some honorary position, with
sword and on q charger. Our st. Louis
contemporary says the address would fill two
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seutations. Breckipridge says there is no
longer a Senate of the United States within
the meaning and spirit OF the Constitution
"ihe United States no longer exists-the
Union is dissolved"
But Kentucky is still one Of the United
States; his deceived and betrayed coustitu'
ents are still loyal; they recognize proudly
the existence Of the government of tue
fathers. and they. deny that the Union is
dissolved. By what argument can Mr.. Breck.
! iDridge assert that the Union is dissolved
now more thap it was 10 August last, or that
the existence of the United States has been
imperilled since the session Of Congress,
when he occupied his seat as Senator OF the
United States from the Slate of Kentucky,
and drew his pay from the Federal Treasury
for bis services II Mr.. Breckenridge bs.
lieved, when be took the Governments gold,
that the United States no longer existed. ard
that the Union was dissolved, he acted like
petty larceny thief and a swinder. He
knows that bis course is in6efepsible be is
self convicted Of the vilest treachery 10 the
State which has honored him i; and being
unwilling to face the indignsnt people Of
Kentucky, he has sneake6 away from their
presence, and, surrounded by cot throats and
thieves, incendiaries and felons, as q body
guard, hus issued this impudent manifesto.
We do not care particularly about seeing
the text Of this last dying speech and confes
sion OF John q. Breckiuridge. We know
that ne cannot justify bis conduct, bat that
be has the iusidious taleut to conceal his real
purposes beneath grttering sentences aud
honeyed words. The Republican calls them
frivolous and unjustifable excuses for a bud
act." But the trial and condemnation OF
MIR. BreckinriJge we're held and pronounced
h..E, b.x, 4 .b,
months ago. While he was holding the
second office 10 the gift of this people, and
presiding over the S.nate Of the United
States while be wes afterwards candidate
for the Presidency, nnd while he was exerci'
sing the duties Of United States Senator.
he was plotting to be,rny his country, and
was 10 league with the Infamous traitors who
conspirrd to break up the Government.
Or all the persons engaged 10 this nefsrous
work, be achieved the lowest depth of
degradation, for be allowed himself to be used
as a fourth candidate to distract and divide
the vote OF the country, with the full conf
dence that it would lead to the election of
MIR, Lincoln, and thus pres IN: to the Southern
malcontents pretext for their acts Of seces'
sion. While those who were his followers in
this treachery left their seats in Congress, he
remained there, and gave aid to them in
! opposing every appropriation Ot men hDu
uleans to resist the rebellion, although it was
menacing, within five or six miles. the very
Federal Capital where be was sitting. No
man is more deeply and terribly responsible
for the blood und pllage and crime and horror
OF the last six months. lie knows it, too :;
be knows that he is as guilty as Cain after
the first fratricide, and he flies from the
vengeance that awaits him. He is refugee
from his native State, with the brand upon
his brow and the gnawing vulture Of .emorse
at bis heart Ills fate will be that of a
traitor.
| in the last hattie,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles wars rattle
With gInans Of the dyng
There shall he be lying.
Monster of periidy, migrate and fend, bis
name will be etprnally linked with those Of
Judas and Arnold and when history seeks to
recount the damning deeds of those who have
entitled themselves to the eyecration Of man
kind, thot name will be foremost in the scroll
which was borne by one. who, 10 the very
spirit of the arch demon, thought 1t better
to reign in hell than serve in heaven
Louisville Journat Oct. 29h
ANOTHER SCANDAL CASE At CHICAGO.
The good people of Chicago never look for Cos.
sip for home consumptioy. The latest scandal
bids fair to rival the celebrated Burch case. and
in times of peace would be the absorbing topic at
all the tea tables in tho lake metropolis. The
circumstances in hrief that on recent eve
ming captaiu Burns, l.. =. A., was found under