Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-05-09
THE QUESTIONS AT ISSUE.

The QUESTIONS AT ISSUE.
The Lewi5town Democrat continues to
publish articles from doaJJm journals,
holding out the idea that peace can be
made or ought to be made between what
those papers call the opposing or contend
ing sections. Hou0 peace is to be made
these erudite editors do not say, and
while advising that step on the part Of the
constitutional authorities, they have hardly
4 word to say to the rebels and traitors who
are daily committing acts of war on that
government There IS but one way in
which peace can be made, and that is for
traitors to lay down their arms, restore sto-
len property and money to the government,
and suffer the Southern people to exercise
the right Of representation in Congress-
To ask the rulers Of our land, elected un-
der all the legal forms pointed out by the
constitution, to submit to usurpcrs Of au
thority, whose minions have insulted the
flag of our country as it never was insult
ID before, would be an act Of coWardice
and injustice without a parallel in history.
and We must confess We doubt that mans
patriotism and loyalty who would advise or
sanction such degrading step.
In 1914, when the New England States
we're dissatisfied with the war, the Rich.
mond Enquirer denounced them in un-
measured terms. That paper, then under
the guidance of Thomas Richie, the Nes.
tor Of Southern editors, was powerful
organ Of the party which, under the chief
tainship Of Jefferson and Madison. c1ntrolI-
ed the politics of Virginia, and from which
the modern States rights abstractionists
claim unbroken succession. When it is
considered that the Hartford Convention
only talked and dehberated about resist
ance, Mr.. Richie's fierce denunciation of
It's contingent treason, and his earnest de
NAL of the right Of secession, present an
instructive contrast when compared with
the doctrines now enunciated by the En-
quirer. Here is its language:
Turn to tue Convention Of Hartford and
learn 70 tremUle at the madness Of its authors
How tar will such doctrine advance? Thouoh
they conceal from you the project Of disun-
ION. though lew Of them may have conceal.
cd 1t from themselves, yet who will pretend to
get bounds to the rage Of disaffectign ? One
raise step after another may lead them 70 re-
slstance TO the laws 10 a reasonable nen,roI.
lty, to war against the Government of tho
United States. In truth, the first act aF rcsis.
tanca TO the law is treason 10 tha Tn;+sa
states. Are you for this state Of thiurs?-
VII! you support the men who will niunca
you into this ruin.
No man. 10 association Of men. no State
no set OF States has right to withdraw itself
from this Union, Of its own accord The
same power which knit US together can only
uhknit: Inc same tormality which forged
the links the Union is necessary In dissHIva
it. The majority Of the States which form
the Union must consent 10 the Withdrawal of
any one branch oft Until that consent has
been obtained, any attempt to dissolve the
Union Or to obStruct the efficiency If its con
sutuucnal laws, is decentralization n All in.
tents and purposes. Any other doctrine.
sHch as that "hich has lately been held forth
oy the Federal Republican, that anv one
State may withdraw itself from the TnioD i
an abominable beresy, which strins its anth6T
OF every possible pretention TO the nama ~
character of Federalst u
We call, therefore, upon the Gavarnroar+ of
the Union to exert its energies when tho eao.
son shall demand it, and seize the first rrait
or who shall spring out Of the hot bed of tho
Convention Of Hartford. This illustrious
Union, which has been cemented BY the blood
OF our tore!athers, the pride of America. and
the wonder Of the world, must not be tamelv
sacrificed to the heated brains or the aspiring
hearts of few malcontents. The Union
must De saved when any one shall dare to as
sal IT, - 80
Countrymen of the East! We call unon
you t" Keep vigilant eye upon those wretch.
ed men who would plunge US into civil var
and inevitable disgrace. Whatever NAV he
the temporary calamities which NAV ossaiI
u.s. let us swear upon the altar of onr com.
try to save the Union.
Such was the language held in 1914
"heh men assembled together to speak Of
"haf they conceived wrongs. Then Vir- .
gina was for making an example of the
first traitor who might spring forth. and
the reasoning held by that paper is inst
as strong now as it was then. Il tis idle 70