North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-10-29

where millions were plotting the ruin of
the land he loved more than his household.
his life.
Where was Governor Andrew? Twice
the meeting had been appointed-was he
afraid to meet the indignant people Of the
State? Who sent him to Altoona? Bos-
ton? No. Worcester2 No. Who sent
him there to plot against Mcclellan and the
administration Who paid his expenses
Ask the people-the indignant people.
Senators and Governors are sailors in the
forecastle. 1t Is unusual to dictate to the
captain how to steer
Come back again, old Massachusetts, -
Land OF the Pilgrims Land of Sachems =
Land of Heroes come back to me with thy
spotless memory--thy magnificent individu-
allty. This damnable outrage is worthy of
the Star Chamber and | will remind Mr.
Sumner, in the words of Henry, that Caesar
had his Brutus, Charles the Ist his Crom
well, and Mr.. Sumner can profit by their ex-
ample.
was not aware that women ruled the pol
itics of the Old Bay State.
The galleries were crowded with those
who have mourned so long over the negro,
they have forgotten the white man. The
Household rites of maternity are more fitting
for women than the fierce arena of politics -
Ask Mr.. Sumner if the women of Rome and
Athens were continually talking about the
galley slaves instead Of the Roman and Athe-
man citizen. Such women of Massachusetts
had much better have another Jubilee with
those clergyman who have been paid to talk
the gospel and slanted off on the negro.
| love women-patriotic women, but |
would advise them to leave pol tics to men
and attend to their children.
The politicians are running the State
Who embarrasses the President? The pol :
iticians. Who are trying to break up the ar
my by displacing Mcclellan ? The politicians.
Who conspire at Altoona? The politicians
Then l say, DOrn aOM Tie politicians and up
aruh the people.
Delenda est Serritude, said DR.. Sumner sig
nifying ,hat the white men of my State are in
bondage. No man dare speak, If he gives
an opinion that white men are as good as
black men he is called a secessonist. If he
says that white man is born free and equal
he is called traitor If he intimates that 4
white man is man and brother he is threat
ened with martial law.
| pity the Bostonians. | pity the mer
chants, the manufacturers, and the people |
always take the weaker side Poor old Mas
sachusetts.
Shail,AIassachusett soldiers live in old tents
in Port Royal, and contrabands in new wood
en- buildings Shame on the politicians who
do this thing. | saw the Massachusetts boys
dying in the Washington hospitals. Tell them,
they sad to me-tell them We fought the
battles of white men. Tell them at home
that if they would only make this White
Mans war peace would come before the end
of the year.
The brave army is indignant that black
men have been forced upon them. They do
not wish to divide the laurels with the black
race Do you remember Schamyl, who
fought for twenty years in the mountains of
Caucassia against old Russia? Do you re-
member MaAomet Ali against the First Ma
poeon Have you forgotten Abdel kader
and his band of Arabs fighting the forces of
the French Empire Do you not see few
New Zelanders keep back the trained cohorts
of England? Shall we, twenty-five millions
of braves, call in the assis tance of negroes to
Put down the rebellion God forbid !
Mr.. Summed spoke of Napoleon's battles as
being superior to ours. First, they were not
Second, he bad no fanatics at home to en-
barass his military movements with negroes :
In Egypt, he said, he would have hung n the
first tree any Abolitionist who dared to inter.
fere with the campaign.
The hypocrisy of the Abolitionists of Eng
land ought to be a crown to the dishonest Alb
olitionsts of Massachusetts. In round num-
bers. Old England uses 100000 bales of
slave grown cotton annually-Our New Eng
New England iay direct premium on slave
grown labor.
Mr. Sumner spoke in slave grown cotton
shirt, wore slave grown cotton rowsers, slave
grown cotton stockings, and slave grown
cotton hat, sleeps between slave grown cotton
sheets wipes his hands on slave grown cot
ton handkerchief-pu slave grown sugar in
his slave grown coffee-eats slave grown rice
corn and sweet potatoes-smokes slave grown
cigars, chews slave grown tobacco ,and uses
slave grown snuff. All buy slave grown fab
rics and staples at high prices, and yet pre-
tend to be honest in their abolitlonism. Chai
ty begins at home. Wake up, Boston Arouse
Massachusetts, or you will be in worse posi-
tion than England God never intended to
leave all the white men out in the cold and
put the black men next the stove.