Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-01-24

Eg&5 1he news OF the nFiHg INTO the steam
er Star of the West by the South Carolinians
has greatly excited cur neighbor up street.
and he calls upon all Union loving citizens to
arouse and teach these misereants that there
is point when forbearance ceases to be q
virtue" All we have TO say Is this: We are
| Union loving citizen, and if necessary,
! would shed the last drop of our blood to de-
4 fend or preserve the Union. But IN this crl-
sis, we shall expect those who brought the
/ country into the difficulty to come forward
/ and remove it. Our voice has been and shall
/ lie for 1edce ; but if war must come, we shall
call unon those chiyalrous gentlemen who last
fall paradpd cur streets with red capes ana
I tin lanterns, to q shoulder arms and march
/ to the scene of battle. Afterwards it will be
| time enough for Democrats to consider wheth-
er or not they too should enter the field.
We copy the above from the Lewistown
Democrat of last week, which are the only
comments thus far made on the insult to
the American flag by the South Carolina
tories. Those who will remember It's
course during the John Brown raid, when
it published all the silly stuff set afioat and
labored for weeks with charges that the
IIarper's Ferry affair was instigated by
prominent republicans, and aided and abet-
ted by the republican party-when 1t was
ready with fire and sword to preserve the
Union by hanging those who melted civil
war-wilI perhaps wonder why its note
should now be changed Then it was
few northern fools, who rightly paid the
penalty of their crime-now it is a South
ern plot-the scheme to the letter of that
arch traitor and tory Yancey Chat same
Yancey whom the Democrat upheld few
months ago as not a disunionistD , Why
this change? Is treason less a crime in
the South than in the North?
But the Democrat don't want to fight,
and expects those who brought the coun-
try into the difficulty to do it! The re-
publicans are not in power-no law is in
existence respecting slavery which was not
in existence years ago-ttey did not take
possession of the government arsenals, Gus
tom-houses and forts-ttcy did not haul
down the stars and stripes and substitute
loathsome snake or foul bird in its stead
-ttcy did not fire at flag which in times
past was upheld whether right or wrong"
All they did do was to exercise the consti-
tutional right of voting for whom they
pleased, right which none but tyrants
or traitors would deny them.
As for the chivalrous gentlemen" "who |
paraded our streets with red capes and tin
lanterns" (little boys it seems no longer |
they are ready whenever called on, and if |
war will come, will do no more discredt to |
their country in upholding the constitu-
tion and laws than they did to their party.
At the commencement of the Mexican
war, when many whigs deemed it unneces-
sary if not unjust, as soon as the constitu-
ted authorities declared its existence, they
did not say "you 60 first, we'll consider
about it." No, as was attested here and |
elsewhere, the members of that gallant
party shouldered muskets in equal if not |
greater numbers than the dcmocruts and |
repaired to an inhospitable climate to IL ht |
the battles of their country, "right or
wrong" If the democrat now represents
the sentiments of the democracy of this !
county, how changed the scene The
g Union, one and inseparable," is to them
no longer of sufficient Importance to call |
forth the spirit Of patriotism-treason may
stalk abroad but they'll consider about
putting it down-and insults to or faq
are regarded as hardly worth notice! We .
have a better opinion of the masses of the
democratic party than for moment to be-
lieve that they side with the Lewistown
Democrat. SO far as we kHow their senti-
ments We can safely say had Mr. Buchan
an ordered a dozen vessels of war to Charles
ton to convoy back the Star Of the West to .
Fort Sumter, his course would have met .
with the approval Of oU our friends and .
ninety nine out of every hundred demo-
Gratis
1t now seems to be we'll understood that /