Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-07-24
VOL. mo. AZ.

leaders of the confederacy-the wouIl-be
masters of the nation-is seen in the tact that
they have not submitted any of their seces-
sion measures to the vote of the people their
ilrst act has been to dethrone their constiru-
tional sovereigns; new power has risen that
KNOWS not the masses-a power of the few O.
yer the many-a power to decide upon the
destinies of the nation without consulting the
nations will. What have we at the North to
expect at the hands of successful traitors who
have ignored the rights OF their obsequious
friends 2 What but that our rights, both civil
and religious, will pass from ourselves to an
oligarchy sustained by military power.
That God has endowed all men with certain
1nalicnable rights, among which are life, lib
erty land the persut ofhsppiness is ihejmain pill
lar of the temple of Freedom. The new con-
Iederacy stands not upon that rock they
have built upon the curse of Ham; they car
ry the mark of Cain they arrogate to them
selves God-given right to trample under
their feet the children of Africa, into whose
veins the best blood of the South is being
transferred; these, too, to be held in bonds
forever. Even dog won't eat the flesh OF
dog; but the demon OF slavery devours its
own children; the tender and delicate female
that tolls unprotected in the cotton field NAV
be farer than the daughters of him under
whose lash she is driven forth. The Vice
President of the cor federacy proclainis slaperu
of that political heresy they thirst to deitige
our land with blood. Let that doctrine pre-
Wallet the supremacy of slavery be acknoWi-
edged-and what will be the practical state Of
things in the North 2 What but a duplicate
OF what already exists in the South A reign
OF terror is upon them-a terror verging upon
the worst days of the French revolution; and
the demon of despotiSm crushing out
their soul seeks to spread her raven wings c.
yer the fair land of the North.
Should the South succeed, then our book
OF Discipline becomes book of treason, and
the conference OF the NJ. f. church are con-
gregations of traitors. Bewley was hung in
Texas for no other cause than his adherence
to the NJ. E. Church. Others have been shot
down in Missouri. Almost every slave State
has its victims, and this war against conscience
and religious liberty must be carried every
where. Every other denomination of Chris
tians must also submit the rostrum, the pull
pit and the press must be bound subject to
the censorship of slaveocrats, they must all
take character from their masters and civil
and religious liberty would be buried in one
common grave.
America is now honored wherever the sun
shines. The United States has been and still
is the asylum for the poor and down troddeA
of the world, as on eagles wings the inhabi-
tants of the earth are flocking to us for refuge
Must this glory depart Must despotism
worse than that of Europe stalk over our free
mountains and unclaimed prairies7 Must the
hope OF the world be confoundcd Let jeff
erson Davis succeed let our republican insti-
tutions prove failure; let AdministIa-
tion succumb to the South-transier the
temple from LIBERTY to SLAVERY. aud tie
world has gone back a thousand years, and
the hopes of mankind buried forever.
ask not now whether slavery is a sin against
God. 1t has proved itself to be an enemy to
our civil liberties; it has developed a brood
of traitors, and organized an armed opposition
to the peaceful administration of our consii-
tutional government; and being thus fruitful
OF evil--caught in the very act of treason-it
has forfeited its very right TO an existence.
Time was when we believed that slavery, be-
ing creature of State law, should be controli-
ed only by the States in which it exists; but
that day seems to have gone by. The demon
spirit of rebellion has wandered beyond its
limits, and is shouting the battle-cry of the
nations dissolution. | fear the time has
come when the people will rise in the strength
of their reserved rights, aud, as matter of
State policy. in q constitutional tcay, sweep the
system from our land.
A soldier from the North has fallen in the
defence OF common country. That man
was my representative his blood was my
blood, and the blood of my children. Our
blood-the blood of the nation-has in him
baptized the earth, and craven and dastardly
must he be-unft to minge with freemen-
who would not give his own warm hearts
blood that the flag which he defended nigh;
wave undisturbed over the place where hs foil.
Our fathers bled upon the field of battle, that
the scacred inheritance of freedom might de-
scend to their children and their chIldren's
children forever. May the last dollar be ex-
pended, and the last man Of this generation
all, rather than our children's heritage should
perish in our hands. With the flag or our
country upon the Bible, and our hands upon
'oth together, let us, kneeling upon the blood
Baptized earth, pledge eternal allegiance to
he American Union, nor tire in our efforts
Until the spirit of rebellion is buried in an OBJ
iyion deep, dark, and relentless as the grave.
NEUFRALIzING PoIsoN.-The following if
rue is valuable ga poison OF any couceiy-
Ibie description and any degree of potency
which has been Intentionally or accidentally
ura llnxved may he rendare6 almost insfanflv