Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-05-14
For Auditor General,
Hon. THOMAS 4. COCHRAN.
DR.. Bronson on Our Dangers.
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DR.. Bronson has long been known as one
Of the strongest intellects of the country
He was formerly a conservative among the
conservatives on the slavery question, but
since slavery has openly re5elled against
our government, he sees the dangers in it,
and has become one ofthe ablest opponents
Of its aggressive and dangerous character
While the masses of the people are taking
courage from the victories we gain in battles,
Bronson's great mind still takes in view
of the future, and sees startling dangers in
the prospect In late number of his Re
vjee he has lengthy article on The
Great Danger Now to be Guarded Against,
which we should like to copy entire, but
which our space compels us to take but
few extracts from. Among other things
he says:
The great danger now TO be guarded against
dses not come from the av0wed rebels. At
the moment we are writing, our victorious ar.
mics have penetrated into Tennessee, and
taken possession of its capital and already
we hear that new State government is soon
to be elected, and Tennessee is TO have her
full representation in both Houses Of Congress.
The press recommends to the Government
that az fast as State is reconquered, it shall
recognize it as loyal, allow it to elect its State
and Federal officers, and resume its place in
the Union. Whether the government will
adopt such policy or not, we know not, for
we are not its organ, and are not in its Sc
But precisely now comes our danger, and
never, at any moment since the secession of
South Carolina, has the danger to the Re
public been greater or more imminent The
old pro-slaVery party at the North, aided by
the Border States nominally in the Union,
but in the Union only through fear of our
battalions, rears its head, and threatens to
reader all our sacrifices useless, and all our
victories abortiVe. This party is all the more
dangerous. because it professedly adopts
what was IN the outset apparently the policy
of the Administration itself, and claims TO
approve and sustain the executive-a policy
the useless and dangerous character of which
Mr.. Conway, of Kansas, in the remarkable
speech placed at the head of this article, was
the first thoroughly to expose. Let Tennes
see and one or two more of the rebellious
States, or even Tennessee alone, be represen.
ted, and this party has regained its majority
in Congress, and the whole nation is brought
under the domination of the slave interest,
represented now principally by the Border
States, nominally loyal, but really disloyal.
Here is the danger which will only be in
creased by any addition to the representation
IN Congress of the SO called Union men in the
seeding States
III thYro- L.. L
insisted on, it is that the expenses of putting
down the rebellion should be paid out Of the
property of the rebels, of rebel States and
rebel individuals. This is alike the dictates
of justice and sound policy.
But even as Congress is now constituted
this could hardly be effected. Let all the Sc.
eeded States come back, and the United States
would soon find that in addition to the Fed
eral debt, in addition to the damages done to
property Of so called loyal men, by either ar
my, Federal or Confederate, the Federal treas
ury would be drawn upon to pay the script
of the Confederacy, and discharge all the OBJ
legations contracted by the rebels in their
war against the Union. Some Northern
g doughface"--say the Hon. Mr. Diven, of
New 4 ork, for instance, could be found to in.
troduce q bill to that effect; it would be sup
ported by all the Union men of the Border
States from interest and the desire to stand
we'll with their neighbors, late rebels to the
government, By the whole southern delega-
ton' as a matter of course. and by fair
snare OF Northern men who would be anxious
70 prove t1at the era of good feeling had re
turned, and that they entertained no grndpe
against their southern brethren, and TIA Hill
gould be passed, if necessary, even over the