Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-11-27
FOR ALL THINGS THAT ARE FOR THE UNION.

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FOR ALL THINGS THAT ARE FOR THE UNION.
Nv faith in all this matter is simple and
briefly stated 1t is this For all things
that are for the UniOn-against all things that
are against it, | am for the Union as uDcon
ditonaiy as / am for protecting my own body
at every cost and hazard from the knife OF
the assassin. No human Institution, no earth
" interest. shall ever by me be weighed IL
the scales against the life Of my country
Least of all, will ! approach with unsandled
feet, or permit to be thus weighed, an institu
ton the feeding fountain of whose being-the
African slave trade-the laws of my country
have for more than forty years denounced as
a crime worthy OF death-a crime not against
any particular CODE or any particular form OF
civilization, but crime against the very race
to which we belong. H0StlS hUman1 generts,
is the designation which the Christian leglSa
tion of the United States has given 10 the Af
rican slave trader.
| Weld to no man in veneratiOn for the Con
stitntion, or in determination that its blessings
shall be extended TO those who respect and
obey it. The door to all these blessings is
widely open to the Southern people, and they
are earnestly invoked 10y the President to en-.
ter in aud enjoy them.
INTEREST OF THE SOUTH IN ITS OWN HANDS.
These institutions and their every interest
are in their own hands, and can be saved not
only from ruin but from the slightest injury,
hy The utterauce Of single wOrd--a word OF
duty and OF honor. But, if in their passionate
pursuit Of separate empire, and in their blind
resentments against brethren who have never
wronged them, they refuse to speak that word,
and prefer to perish themselves, rather than
that the loyal States shall escape destruction
be it so. The world shall judge Alright, and
history will record its Judgment But, is 1t
not childish prattIe to say that the South can
claim to be at the same momeut the Pr0tCge
and the destroyer Of tie Constitution !
SATANIC AUDACTrY OF THE REBELLION.
Does it not require an audacity absolutely
satanic. to insist that the beneficial provisions
of that hallowed instrument shall be secured
to States aud people who are hourly spurning
and splitting upon its authority, and who are
leading foTWara vast armies 10 Overwhelm 1t,
and with it the homes and hopes of all who
are railying in It's defence? War-certainIy
one like this, in seitdefence--is clearly c0nStI
tnticnaI but, if such a war has its restraints
it has also its rights and duies prominent
among which is the right and DUTY Of weaken
inc the enemy by all possible meaus and thus
ablidgng the sanguinary conflict. Never un
til now has it entered into the imagination OF
men to conceive that among these duties is
that of seeing that the enemy is clothed and
fed and armed before be is struck.
The CONSTITUTION i CHARTER OF NATIONAL LIFE
II prosecuting the war, while exercising our
right to weaken the enemy, we may destroy
not only ships upon the sea, aud fortresSeS aud
cities upon The land, but human life upon the
battle field But what institution, what ma
tcrial interest is more haIlOwcd than human
life. and what material interest is there belong
Ing to the enemy that we are obliged to spare,
even though 10y so doing we perish ourselves
The Constitution is charter Of National life,
aud not of National death. All movements
which seek or tend to the dissolution of the
Government created by it, aud of which it is
the soul, are in conflict with its spirit and with
the scope and end OF It's Cnac mentS, and may
be resisted to the death by its express or i'm
piled authority. Neither the keenest vision
nor the most delicate ear can detect liz any
line or letter Of that glorious charter the faint
est throb of sympathy with treason or traitors.