The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-12-12

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make it cloak OF righteousness, oh, how
much more is it a religious duty for US, in
this highly favored land to strengthen
the government, in whose stability, and
honor and efficiency centre all our hopes
for freedom, and tranquility and happiness. .
Inheritinga liberty the most untrammeled; !;
enjoying privileges unequalled in any ma
ton under heaven feeling security in
person and property the most complete
| let us devoutly hear the divine warning,
and obey the voice Of God-'As free, and
not using your liberty for cloak of
malicousness, but us the servants of God"
In the liberties we enjoy God has given
US precious boon, the tuil value of which
| no arithmetic can ever reckon. 1t Is much
talked Of by many who seem not to com
| prehend lis nature. The word Liberty
may be on the lips, while its Import is not
in the mind and by pursuing false kind
of liberty, men may rush recklessly into
the veriest slavery. The liberty pleaded
for by many in our day, is the liberty OF
tram ping upon law and despising govern
lnent They contend for the liberty of
erty. They fight for the liberty of demol-
ishing the temple OF liberty. They would
pluck up by the roots the tree Of librrty,
and plant in It's stead the deadly Upas,
whose pestilential influence would enslave
| and barbarize q nation Of freemen. THIS
as tie liberty Of the de0G. Satan would
have man cast off allegiance, subvert gov
ernment and live after the flesh, and let
anarchy run riot throughout the land.
! Let infides and rebels and revolutionists
say what they will, we assert liberty to
consist in cheerful and ready submission
to those just and wise and Wholesome laws
which guarantee our freedom, under pen
alties severe, and rigidly and impartialiy
enforced. We could have no liberty ii il
were not securely Guarded under constitu-
tional law. Mau's inhunanity to man is
natural and proverbial ; the depraved and
wick cd heart inclincs to injustice and fraud
and oppression and If men were not re-
strained by law, our country would soon
be a very picture Of hell murder, robbery
ani perjury would break all The relations
which bind men together, and upturn the
foundations of society and delugc the earth
with human blood For the protection
and defence of mankind God has ordained
government and he makes those who cx-
ercise it his ministers to execute wrath
upon them that do evil. Without this
there could be no civil liberty. The near
er, therefore, that the laws of Il country
come to the moral law of eternal justice,
and the more strictly they are enforced,
the greater is the liberty enjoyed.
This inestimable blessing, that compre-
hcnds all that is precious and dear to man
on earth, is to be rightly used We must
not SO undervalue this incaiculable legacy
of patriotic sires, as 20 barter away our
birthright for base and dishonorable con-
-iderations We are TO love warmly and
hold fast and use well Il privilege so noble
and freedom sc unrestricted as we enjoy
in this favored land. Liberty is the patri-
OTIS watch word, and the soldiers battle
cry To purchase liberty men have freely
poured out their blood and their treasure,
it is cheap even at such price,
the same costly sacrifices ought To be free
ly made for its preservation. Liberty dis
tinguishes the freeman from the slava
and the angel in heaven from the devil in
hell But liberty is holy and pure. 1t is
connected with everything that is noble
and elevating and great, and yet the very
name of liberty has been prostituted to
shelter and sanction that vile abomination
of human slavery. The worst crimes that
have ever desecrated the earth have been
perpetrated in the sacred name Of dishon-
ored and outraged liberty. Now we are
taught to guard against abusing or pervert-
ing our liberty, and so turning it into
cloak or covering or pretense for malicious
ness. either by word or act, by conversation
or conduct
Alas. how much of human passion and
party spirit and disappointed ambition and
grasping avarice and desire for power and
position, are at the root of the present un-
happy strife that RACES in our nation
Under the cry of liberty (5ruised, bleeding
and trampled on by despots) the hosts of
our misguided and deceived counrymen
are marshalled to the battle, the very OBJ
ject of which is to bury in a dishonoreG
grave the mangled form of the @oddess Of
liberty. "Using their liberty for cloak
of maliciousness," they rally around their
standard thousands and tens of thousands
who unwittinciy aim deadly blow at that
glorious constitution, which is the )nly
sure aud immovable palladium of our Ma
tional liberties The leaders in this I'M
holy crusade Will not any longer submit to
government in which they do not hold
the place to which, in their vanity, they
suppose themselves entitled-and, rather