North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-08-20

sexes, and onditions''-barbarity in war
fare-of which our ancestors complained
| against Great Britain who had employed
against them the &c mercless Indian sava-
ges." @
The history of negro wars and insurrestions
| in ST. Domingo, and other Yves. India ISL
ands, is replete with the barbarities of rapine
and slaughter of helpless women and infants,
that shock the sensibil;ties of the lowest de-
velopement of humanity in the white man.
! And yet, should the negroes in the Southern
States be employed and armed by the Feder-
al Government against the white population,
then the atrocities of the West India Islands
VIC may naturally expect to be repeated here's
on vastly more extended scale against such
fiendish policy would not only the moral
sensibilites of all the whites of the Northern
| States who have not become brutalzed by the
devilishness of Abolitlonism be most painfully .
shocked, but the whole civilized world would
condemn US, and probably, in the cause of
humanity, rise to stay atrocities so disgrace
| full. - M
| But what sane man can doubt that under
such policy the last spark of Union sentiment
/ in the South would be extingulshed, and the
entire Southern population become united as
one person against the Government 1t were
the merest folly to suppose otherwise How
then would such fighting bring back the re-
voted States into the Union Can the 5000
| 600 of VIII ite people there be held under our
republican form of Government, in subju.
CATION Is it believed that the people of the
| North can be maddened into the effort for
the determination of eight millions of people,
with whom we have hitherto lived in Union
held together by fraternal bonds, and most
are now bound to members of our own popu
lation by the closest ties of consanguinity !?
If we we're to exhaust all our physical resoar-
ces and all our pecuniary means; could we, If
we would, accomplish such purpose of exter-
mination Can we hold the Southern States
or people in subjugation without overthrow
ing our Constitution and the Union without,
in fact, establishing government the most
despotlc2
|
We know what must be the response of every
mind not demented by Aboltionlsm.
Have we not shown, then, the policy of
Abolitionism, if carried out, is to the over
throw of our Constitution and Union that
Abolitionists are the enemies of the RepubIic2
Believing we have done so, it remains to in
quire what IS the relief for us in this our
hour of gloom for our beloved country We
answer; Remove the causes remove Aboli-
tionism and Secessionism. Put down the
former at the ballot box put down the latter
(backed by arms) by force of arms. In the
execution of the latter, insist that the Gov
ernment shall stand by its pligkted faith---to
couduct the war to uphold the Constitution
and the Union, and not as Abolitonism
would have it, to make disunion complete
and to overthrow the Constitution AS
Pennsylvanians, you have possibly greater
stake in the preservation of the Union than
the people, of any other State Should the
cooperative, yet, in some sense, hostile
movements of Abolitlonism and Secessioaisln
succeed, and disunion become an establishes
fact, Pennsylvania, owing to her peculta,
geographical position, would be exposed &c
the desolation and become the battle fl eld~ot
the conflicting forces that might undertake u
settle all questions that would remain as II
heritage of disunion.
These, however, we forbear now to conteni@
plate ; for We arc unwilling to believe that
" that God who presides over the destlnies of
nations" will permit such terrible dispen-
sation to befal US. We are unwilling To. be
lieve that the people off the free States will
ever become so maddened as to aid the spirit
of Aboltlonism that seems now to brood over
us like some evil genius, that would control
US to our destruction. 1t cannot be that we
are to have doom worse than befel Babylon
after she had become the habitation OF dew
ills and the hold oil. every foul spirit"
The only excuse offered by Aboltionism
for its policy, is the plausible fallacy that
slavery is the cause Of our threatened dis
unicn." To those who look only to immedi-
ate and proximate causes, this position is
captivating but to those who remember that
the original Union which waged the war of
the revolution, was made up of thirteen slave
holding States that the Union at the time of
I the adoption OF the present Constitution, con-
sisted Of twelve slaveholdng to one free State
it is very plain, that instead of slavery pro-
ducing disunion that, unless it had been rec
ognized and the faith of the whole people
pledged for its protection, thisUnion would
have never existed.
1t would be as reasonable to argue that
houses and money should be exterminated
because so long as they exist there VIII he
incendiaries and thieves, as to argue hat
slavery should be destroyed, because 30 long