Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-09-19

restore to their friends our young men nosc
sickensag from the effects Of a Southern sum
D3er.
The threats of Abolitionisfs pass us like
the idle winds which we regard not.
:. We are in favor of a speedy settlement OF
the present difficulties by compromise.
g The small patriot band of Senators and
Representatives, in the last extra session OF
Congress, who dared to maintain the integ
rity of the Constitution, under the nenaces
of expulsion and imprisonment, are entitled
to the gratitude of every American citizen,
and impartial history will award them an
enviable distinction.
The persistent determination of the ma
jority of the members of the late extra ses-
sion of Congress to frown down every meas
ure that had for its object the peaceful ad-
iustment of our national difficulties, indicates
fanatical mania that would have much bet
CT become the crusaders of centuries gone
by than the representatives of free, intelli-
gent, and Christian people of the nineteenth
century"
Is this not monstrous? Could language
be tortured into the expression of more deciA
ded treason DIR. Boyer and his clique seem
| to have been writing for the atmosphere of
| South Carolina, rather than that OF Pennsyl-
vania. And yet, to show how utterly cor.
rupt and depraved the local Democratic ora
| CARNATIONS Of many parts of this State have
become, these sentiments bear the unanimous
approval of Democratic Legislative Con-
vention, and Messrs. Early and Nicholson
ask the suffrages of the people as their rep
resentatiye. If we take this record, we are
to believe that the Democracy of four conns
ties of Pennsylvania consider the enlistment
Of volunteers "the betrayal of our brave sol,
:. diers into acts of lawlessness )" the contest
for the Constitution at Manassas, "the re-
cent slaughter of Americans in Virginia ;"
the voice of the people, the threats of Aboli-
tionists )" the unanimity of the last Congress
fanatieal mania" and saeh avowed and
exultant traitors as Breckenridge, Burnett,
| aud May. :. smaA patriot band"
But we do not believe it. We know the
| honest Democrats Of Northern Pennsylvania
too well nUt to spurn any such base suspic-
ion. When treason was in their organiza>
tion they rebuked it. When the machinery
Of the party was placed in operation to shield
the infames Of an administration, and con-
sumate great wrong, they protested braye-
| ly and performed nobly. When othere fall
tered they were true, and it cannot be that
the men who were so prompt to punish trea-
500 to party should not be as prompt in the
punishment Of treason to the Republic
Democrats Of Pennsylvania, your honor
demands that every such expression of SYM
pathy with traitors be disavowed, and th at
1 every representative of it be crushed. You
are fighting .his fight nobly. Your brothers
are in the tent and field, aud many of Them
have given up their lives to maintain the
| Government. which the principles of your
great party in other days did SO mucn to
strengthen. With blood they scaled the tes
timoDy of thir devotion to the Republic
With blood they have written the loyalty of
true Democracy at Pnillippi, Springfield, and
Manassas. They are combating the in
trigues of traitors in Virginia and Missouri
will you permit the intrigues of traitors in
Pennsylvania? We write il now with con-
! fdence, and let i: be prophecy that when
October comes, and the issue is determined
at the ballot-box. the Democracy of the
| North will overwheim with unfathomable in
dignation the infamous conspirators who
still plot in our midst and none more effee-
tually and inally than this pestiferous brood
nestled by DIR. Boyer and his patrons in
| Northern Pennsylvania"