Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-09-03
the RAFTsmAN'S JOURNAL.


live in peace as twas, nor trnst to legal mode.
of modifying its laws in the matters they pro
| fessed to complain of. The rebels and theil
sympathizers are the only enemies of the u
MON as it was, and they are deadly, lifelong
unscrupulous enemies, who will not rest from
violence against it until they are crushed into
/ helplessness. The loyal States and loyal peo-
pie are fighting to restore the former equality
and prosperity Of the whole Union. The end
| they aim at is as necessary to one section as
to another. Everything that the people of
| the south can find to be their interest here
after will be attained through the success of
the Union arms. There is no man of sense
| in the whole disloyal region who does not
know that the substitution of new, despotic,
quarrelsome authority like that of the con-
federate States would be a scourge forever in
the future, as 1t has been in the year past
Secession is an atrocious cheat, sham, an
utter ruin tothe foolish dupes of its leaders.
They are ruined by their own act, and We
must fight to restore to them all that can be
restoi ed of the blessings of the old Union.
1t is falsely asserted by seces sion sympa-
thizers in the north that We are fighting to set
up new theories of government. and to make
the Union essentially different in future. On
this pretence they attemp. to get up party
opposed to the war, and give as much of aid
and comfort to the rebellion as they can and
keep from arrest. The people. however, know
the falsity of all this cry about ssthe Union as
it was," uttered by half loyal lips. They
know that in every essential i; is the Union as
it was that will be restored That which is
incompatible with future peace and prospert-
ty will alone be struck from the list of condi-
tons which will surround us after the war
but whatever the war shall show to be incom
patible will be brought to an end without
shadow of doubt. The people of the south
are entitled to exemption from rebellion and
its terrible consequences hereafter, we'll
ourselves. We are entitled to peace also.
No cause for war has been given by the loyal
States, and one war, forced on US by the des-
peradoes of secession, will suffice for the next
century. If there can be no indemnity for
the past from the subdued rebels, there must
at least be security for the future, and it is in
a spirit OF the puresi devotion to the glorious
memories of the Union as il was that We shall
demand ample guarantees that the fires of an
other rebellion not left in the ashes Of this.
1t passes comprehension that any other than
a secessionst should attempt to make any
thing Of this pretence of devotion to the u
nion as it was as against this patriot war. As
cover to treason, the attempt to create par
ty on that point is perfectly consistent aud
intelhgible, bat not otherwise. 1t is true thai
the determination is everywhere formed to
settle the contest so that it shall remain set
tied, not to destroy the rights of the people
of the south, but to save them as well as our
selves from another such devastating war.
Precisely what may be necessary for this pur-
pose all are not now agreed to say /; but before
the war ends there will be substantial agree
ment. That which originated this rebe llion
| must not have power to originate another, and
whether that is the necessary and inseparable
| outgrowth of slavery a national institution
| for such those who are now secessionists
have done their best to make it's for the
| full course of events to show. The Union as
| it was had its spirit explained, by long list
| OF honored southern statesmen, on this cry
point. of slavery. While Calhoun survived,
one OF the olden statesmen remained to rep.
resent new creed, but he was the only one
With him, it is universally agreed, the game
of rebellion began. He FIRST ciamored to make
the Union something it was not before. His
/ successors, in attempts to break up the old
Union, have added many heresies and many
| crimes, but they are simply cumulative OF
the original criminal intent. This body o
haters of the Union have now become numer-
Gus and malignant enough to assail it in arms
and for the time to break it up, but they mus
perish, and with them the basis Of the Who'll,
scheme of treason.
No doubt We shall have many hypocritica
mourners over the death of Calhoun's treason
which JEFF Davis finally developed. No doub
many will cry ont that all these men claimed
was part of .sthe Union as it was and the Con
stitution as it is.'' No doubt all these clam
orers would have been glad if Calhoun ha
succeeded in his rebellion of 1888, and thai
triumphed in 1861, utterly sweeping away a
; that the old Union guaranteed, and involvin
US in endless warfare as the alternative of re
fusing to become parts of new despotisn
| But the people are overwhelmingly loyal, an
they reckon no sacrifice too great to sav
I themselves from this impending ruin. The
will turn out a million Of men in arms
{ crush this rebellion, and in crushing it, the
q, will take care that its secret springs are d.
lieyed, even if, in doing so, they take Il
he trines of some of the institutions and do
at shadowine aye grown to poisonous and owe
of of Calhoun and artions under the cultivate
rk in greater part undeavis, and have SO grow
be as it was.