North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-19
"Mene, Meme, Tekel Upharsin,'

Anose SycOpnanttc endorSerS OF the present
Administration, the astrologers OF the New
York Tribune, the Chaldeans of the Times,
the soothsayers of the Post, and the less
noted wise men" of the abolition party gen.
orally, are terribly exercised in the work of
furnishing an Interpretation of the inscription,
which has just been written upon the hiStori
cal page of 1862.
The late elections in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
appear as ominous to the Chief Magistrate of
this nation and his retainers, as the 'Mene,
Meme, Tekel, Upharsin." traced by the ''Gn-
gers Of mans hand" before the astonished
gaze of the King Belshazzar did to that i'm
pious ruler. And as the "wise men" of Ba-
bylon failed TO furnish true Interpretation Of
| that wonderful warning which struck terror
to the heart Of monarch who was feasting
among his lords, and desecrating the golden
vessels of the temple Of Jerusalem to drink
wine with his princes, his wives, and his
| concubines, so 90 the shining lights of aboi-
tionism display their ignorance in their at
tempted definition Of the populer rebuke
which has overtaken ruler while pervert-
ing the sacred rights of the people, the time
honored compact Of the Constitution, the
universally acknowledged characteristics of
freedom, either weakly or desgnedy to pro-
| long feast of corruption, a carnival of blood.
Defeated, overwhelmed astounded. the
radical Journals and orators turn to leader
who has, perhaps reluctantly, but always i'm
plictly, obeyed their behests, and charge up.
on his imbecility in carrying out the emanci-
patton act, their overthrow at the batlot-box: ::
or with brazen etfIontery taunt the people
who have given their hundreds of millions of
money and hundreds of thousands Of lives
for the prosecution of the war, with having
voted the "peace ticket" through ayarice or
craven fear.
Falsiflers. They are wiifully blind, or
they read the signs of the times to better pur-
pose than this. 1t needs no inspired Daniel
to explain the analogy between the vision TO
the Belshazzar of the present
Tile one emanated from the hand of an in
suited and offended God; the other is the
protest of an outraged and determined peo
Pile:
The voice of tlt people is the voice Of
Cod"
Every flash of lightning which conveyed
the Intelligence of the triumph of conserva-
| tsm over radicalsm from the east to the
west and from the west to the east; from
Connecticut TO Delaware and from Illinois to
New York, revealed beneath the dry election
statistics, the dazzling words at orce of war
ming and Of encouragement:
"MENF, MEME, TEKEL, UPHARsIN."
Warning to abolition disunionists encour-
agement to loyal democrats.
"MENE; God hath numbered thy king
dom and finished it," The days of official
corruption, of Illegal arrests, Of unnecessary
imprsonments, of mob law, of emancipation
proclamation, Of political terrorism, ere pass
ed.
The people have so decreed.
"TEEEL Thou art weighed in the balance
and found wanting" On the one side dcaC
soldiers, weeping widows, starving orphans
a crippled commerce, a bankrupt treasury
an impaired credit, divided country y-aboli-
ionism AMI wr; on the other, nltj)nll
prosperity; personal wealth, universal happi
ness-democracy and peace. Anarchy agains
order Chaos has kicked the beam. Ultra
ism, abolitionism, despotism, and Lincoln
their representatives, have had a fair tria
and are repudiated by the people
they have been weighed in the balance anC
found wanting.
The balot-box has proclaimed it.
"PEREs Thy kingdom is divided and
given to the medes and Persans." The
North is locked in deadly conflict with the
South Negro com petition confronts white
labor; Despotistn is struggling with Lib
erty.
Is it not well, then, that the power is fin
ally passing into the hands of a party whose
respect for the requirements of the Constitu-
ton aud the rights of the people is as I'M
changable as the law of the Medes and Per
SLAMS ?--HGyne County Herald.