The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-08-29
sTRoUDsBURG MONROE COUNTY, Pa. AUGUST %, 1861

! oidteu lduu Iue uaV ol iDiuTlaIeU passion
and crime is waving, with a vulture'
scream for blood, the sword Of civil war
And this is the Panddenonium whicl
some would have transferred to Ken
lucky.
/ But | am not here to discuss this prop
osition to night | wish solemnly to de
clare before you and the world, that l au
for this Union without conditions, one
and iDdivisi5le, now and forever. au
for its preservation at any and every cos
Of blood and treasure against all its as
sailants. know no neutrality between
my country aud its foes, whether they be
foreign or domestic; no neutrality between
that glorious flag which now floats over
US, and the ingrates and traitors whc
would traDple it iu the dust. My prayer
is for victory, complete, enduring and o
serwhelming, to the armies of the Repub'
lie over all its enemies. AN against
any and every compromise that may be
proposed to be made under the guns oi
the rebels, while, at the same time, au
decidedly in favor of affording every rea.
souable guarantee for the safety of South
era institutions, which the honest coDvic-
tions of the peop!e-not the conspirators
of the South may demand, a0heneUe1
they shall lag dorm their arms, bat not an
til then. The arbitrameDt of the sword
has been defantly thrust into the face oi
the government and country, and there ia
no honorable escape from it. All guar
antees and all attempts at adjustment by
amendments to the Constitution are now
scoTnfully rejected, and the leaders of the
rebellion openly proclaim that they are
fighting for their independence. In this
eontemptuous rejection of guarantees, and
in this avowal of the objects of the rebel.
lion now SO audaciously made, we have
complete exposure of that fraud which,
through the slavery agitation, has been
practiced upon the public credulity for
the last fifteen or twenty years. In the
light of this revelation, We feel as one "a
wakened from the suTocatiug tortures of
a Dig htmare, and realize what a baseess
dreams our apprchensions have been. and
OF what trartorous swiudle We have been
made the vistims. They are fighting for
their independence Independence of
what! Independence of those laws which
they themselves aided in enacting; inde-
pendence OF that Constitution which their
fathers framed, and to which they are
parties and subject to Inheritance; indie
pendenee Of that beneicent governI ent
on whose treasury and honors they have
grown strong and illustrious. When a
man commits robbery on the highway,
or murder in the dark, be thereby de-
olares his independence of the laws under
which be lives, and OF the society OF which
he is q member. Should be, when ar
raigned, avow and justify thereby be-
comes the advocate of the independence
be has thus declared; and. if he resists by
force Of arms the officer, when dragging
hin to the prison, the penitentiary, or the
gallows. he is thereby fighting for the in
dependence he has thus declared and sd
vocated, and such is the condition Of the
conspirators of the South at this moment
1t is DO longer a question Of Southern
rig BITS, which have never been violated
nor of security of Southern institutions
which We know perfectly we'll have never
heen interfered with by the general gov
ernment, but it is purely with US ques.
ton oil national existence. In meeting
this terrible issue which rebellion has
made up with the loyal men Of the coun-
try, we stand upon ground infinitely above
all party lines and party platforms
ground as sublime as that Oh which our
fathers stood when they fought the bat
ties of the Revolution. | am for throw.
iug into the contest thus forced upon us
all the material and moral resources and
energies of the nation, in order that the
struggle may be brief snd as little san.
culinary as possible 1t is hoped that we
shall soon see in field half million ol
PATRIOTS volunteers, marching in columns
which will be perfectly irresistible, and
borne 10 their bands-for no purpose o
conquest or sutjugation. but of protectior
only--we may expect within nine mouthi
to see the Stars and Stripes floating II
every Southern breeze, and hear going W
wild as the storm, the exultant shout o.
that emancipated people over their deliv
crapce from the revolutionary terror and
despotism, by which they are now tormen
ted and oppressed. The war. conducted
Oh such scale, will not cost exceeding
four or five hundred millions of dollars
and none need be startled at the vast
ness of this expenditure. The debt thu
created will press but slightly upon US; i
will be paid, aud gladly paid, by pos
terity, who will make the best bargain
which has been made since the worl'
began, if they can secure to themselves
in its integrity aud blessings, such
government as this, at such cost
Bot, If 10 this anticipation We are doomet
to disappointment; if the people Of the U
nited States have already become e.
degenerate--may [ not Fay so craven
iu the presence Of their foes as to surren
der up this Republic to be dismembere
and subEerted by the traitors who hav
veared the standard of revolt against IL