The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-04-04
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what assurance do they propose to give
that the new Union would be more bind |
ing than the old one? If, for no real
cause, men could be induced to commit I
the most unheard-of acts of violence, per-
petrate the most unjustifiable outrages in
open day trample upon their oaths of al |
legiance raise large armies in time of
peace, with the avowed object of making
war upon the general government, as have
occurred day after day, for many months
past, in the far South, what guarantee do
the re-constructionists offer against re-
currence of these same unsightly scenes,
in four or eight years hence, if another
election goes contrary to their wishes?
These loud-mouthed creatures talk as
glibly of raising and throwing down vast
Governments as children could, and do,
about building and destroying their little
play houses. Consequently, if the demol-
ishing and re-constructing of great, power
the little labor connected with preparing
and passing empty paper resolves, to the
mighty giants who live on the other side
of the Potomac river, might not prudence
dictate to us the policy of recognizing the
recent rebellion as a successful revolution,
and forming treaties Of peace and comfy
with these people; formerly part of one
family, now, according to their own ale
cations, a separate and distinct foreign
nation We could then treat them as we
do the rest Of mankind-in peace as friends
and in war as enemies.
The whole song from one end of cotton
dom to the other is, give us all we demand
and there will be reconstruction of the
Union. If we are TO have less liberty, en-
JOY fewer privileges under some new form
of Government which our would-be mas
ters claim the right to dictate, if the sons
of the sires of '76 are to get form or
system OF laws more degrading to their
manhood than that which descended to
them from their glorious ancestors, as the
result of the existing foolish, political ex-
citement among the hot-heads at the South,
and as the price they are expected to pay
for permitting these wicked agitators to
discontinue their unnecessary acts of folly,
the information the oligarchy seem anxious
to obtain may as well be given to them at
once as to delay the matter till some future
period.
The highborn sentiments which anima-
ted our fathers to resist the expressions of
Great Britain which impelled the noble
heroes of the eight years war to deeds of
hardy daring, still swell the bosoms of
their descendants. Liberty, that blessed
boon, filled their souls with generous, en-
nobllng desires; fired their hearts and
nerved their arms to endure the terrible
privations of the days Of the Revolution,
and the same holy feelings course through
the heart and pulsate through the system
of each of their sons. Therefore there can
be no more preposterous idea than that
which supposes them capable Of becoming
the slaves and serls Of arrogant, naughty
tyrants-wherever they may dwell.
The great wonder is, not that there has
been this hasty, violent action on the part
of our neighbors of the sunny regions of
North America, bat, that disruption has
not sooner taken place For many years
the most heartless acts of cruelty, without
the shadow Of legal sanction, and without
causing the better portion of Southern So
ciety to repudiate the wrongs, have been
inflicted on the purcst and best citizens Of
the North by heartless fenis in human
form, extending to driving from their
midst innocent, unprotected females, who
had been induced to go South to teach
school, or who had been driven thither for
a restoration cf healfh under the genial
effects Of i warm climate. In other instan-
ces families have been broken up; husbands
have been compelled TO fly for their lives,
in the darkness Of night, away from their
gi.es and childron, leaving ali their earth.