Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-03-07
NUMBER 9
Correspondence.
AARoNsBURe. Feb. ed. 1861.

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Respected Friend IL embrace
this opportunity to inform you that the PEI
tition handed to me by Esq. Msssina, for
warded by you, met with the appreciation Of
all Union and liberty loving men to whom il
was my pleasure to present the same for their
signature. The only thing that We regret is
that we had not the opportunity of subacrib-
ing eur names, long ere this, to document
which expresses, in so few words, the real
essence of the method laid down in the Con-
stitution of the United States, which is, ia
my humble opinion, the only weapon that
can restore true peace, happiness and pros
perity to our afflicted country.
Now, friend Brown, that we have traitors
both North and South is indisputable, and is
not disputed by honest UnionsmeD. But
what are the plans proposed by the term.
ed Union>me1 to effect peace? Does not
every one demand concession of manliness.
honor and princiPlsf Does not every one
demand right to submit to wrong9 Again
l ask you, does not every enc demand the
majority to yield to the minority?
No, Mr.. Brown, so lsng as those eompro-
misses are principally intended to revive
rotten and corrupt party in place of restor-
ing peace and protecting U. 8. property. 1
would say, patriots, hands off for if our Con-
stitution whose counsel crowned Jackson
with glorious victory over nullifcation-I
say, if the counsel of that holy and sacred
document has become so stale that it requires
an amendment to restore peace, happiness
and prosperity let US have the result. am
constrained to look upon the man who tears
his coat wilfully, for the sake of having the
same patched, as fool. Again, am una
Bile to see my way clear in spiritual sense
of view, that am the possessor of honest
liberty, if the same be purchass ed by compro-
mise of set of traitors at the expense of a
poor ignorant, illiterate and uncultivated hu-
man beings liberty.
The crisis here in town, Mr.. Brown. IL
treated with silent contempt on the Repabli.
can side, and viewed ia its proper light, viz:
that the whole object of this fracus is tool
used to break up the Republican party, the
only conservative party in existence.
Where on the other hand, as you are well
aware, our opponents are fully represented
by the Reporter, especially when the same de-
clares in his diabolical language that Mr..
Lincoln aciU take bis seat on the 4th of March
If be takes it at ell, or when he says there
are any number of Democrats who can shoot
Republican at hundred Yards distance
Now we have also bad fine hint on slavery
some time past from the pulpit, viz: That
slavery was no sin per.se, the same was de-
Tended by quoting father Abraham, as being
favorable to the institution now whether
the allusion was made to prove our present
local stace7y divine institution or that sls-
very existed under divine authority in an
cient times l am unable to say. If the for.
mer, why net at once prove peligamy and
Wholesale murder divine institution by tbs
Biblef But this would hardly do, 60 lnne
as Paul classes msn-stealers with schore-
mongers. liars. nsurdsrers, &c., against whom
the law of God directed its awful curse, Now
to view our slavery in its proper light, what
else are those negroes but stolen property
and those who steal a man and sell him ara
doomed, according to the Mosaic Laws, to
diel Who, would like to know, empower.
ed the American people, or what divine law
authorized them, after discovering the Indi.
an to be an Improbable slave, to 10 to Afri.
ca and there steal the poor illtsrate African
Heathen and bring him into the United
States, and there sell him into perpetual
bondage?
Is not the above the whole sum and sub.
stance concerning slavery, and how the same
was begotten in these United States? With
these remarks Will close my epistoI.
REPUBLICAN,.