Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-11-26


OF Lee and Jackson which have SO recently
t ravaged Maryian and still from the banks of
the Potomac threaten the capital.
Ny faith in all the matter is simple and
briefly stated. 1t Is this: For all things that
are for the Union-against all things that are
against it. am for the Union as uncondi.
tionaiiy as am for protecting my own body,
at every cost and hazard, from the knife of
The assassin. No human institution no earth ;
ly interest, shall ever by ME be weighed in
the scales againstthe life of my country Least
OF all will 1 approach with unsandaIied feet
or permit to be thus weighed, an institution
the feeding fountain OF whose beDg-the Ar
rican slavery trade-the laws of nv country
have for more than forty years denounced as a
crime worthy OF death-a crime not against
any particular code, or any particular form of
civilization, but a crime gainst the very race
to which ,e belong. Hosts human geaeris is
the designation which the Christian legislation
of the United States has given the African
slave trade.
l yield to no man in veneration for the
Constitution. or in determ nation that its bIes.
sings shall be extended to those who respect
and obey it. The door to all these blessings
is widely open to the southern people. and
they are earnestly invoked by the President
to enter in and enjoy them.
These institutions and their every interest
are IN their own hands, and can be saved not
only from ruin, but from the slightest injury,
BY the utterance of single word-a word of
honor. Bnt, il in their passionate pursuit
OF separate empire. and in their blind resent.
ments against brethren who have never wron-
ged them. they refuse to speak that word, and
prefer to perish themselves, rather than thar
the loyal States shall escape edestructon--he it
So, The world will judge Alright, and history
will record tsjudgcment. But, lis it not childish
prattle TO say that the South can claim TO be
at the same moment the protege and the de
stroyer ofibe Constitution Does it not require
an audacity absolutely satanic to insist that the
bene1cent provisions of that halowed instru-
ment shall be secured to States ard people
who are hourly spurning and splitting upon
its authority, and who are leading forward vast
armies 10 overwhelm it, and with it the homes
and hopes of allwho are raliying in its defence
War-cetainly one like this, in self-defence
lis clearly constitutional7 but if such war
has its restraints, it has also its rights and du-
ties, prominent among which is the right
and duty of weakening the enemy by all pos
sible means, and thus abridging the sangunary
conflict. Never until now has it entered into
the imaginations of men to conceive that
among these duties is that of seeing that the
enemy is clothed nd fed. and armed before he
is struck. In prosecuting the war, while exer-
cising our right to weaken the enemy, we may
destroy not only ships upon the sea, and for
tresses and cities upon the land, but human
life upon the battle field. But what institution,
what material interest is more hallowed than
human life, and what material interest is there
belonging to the enemy that we are obliged
to spare, even though by so doing we perish
ourselves The Constitution is a charter of
national life. and not of national death. All
movements which seek or tend to the dissolu- |
tion of the governments created by it, and of |
which it is the sonl, are in conflict with its |
spirit and with the scope and end of its enact |
ments, and may be resisted to the death by its |
express implied authority. Neither the |
keenes, vision the most delicate ear can |
detect In any line OF letter of that glorious
character the faintest throb of sympathy with |
treeson or traitors.
Pardon these hurried words. which are spo-
ken in crimination of none, but in grief alone.
There is abundant cause for sorrow, but none
for despair. No man more sincerely desires
the re establishment of the Union than does
the President himself. Let it be our trust
that while an October sun is yet shining, the |
mind on which all depends will devise ways
and means to overcome every ohsticle TO the
onward march and triumph of our armies.
New York has already sent a hundred and
seventy regiments into the aed. The muskets
they beat prove that they unconditional
Union men. God forbid that the fathers, and
brother and sons whom they have left bebino
should, through show of dissension at the
ballot box, do aught to weaken their hands or
20 add TO the strength and courage of the trail
ors whose swords lifted against their bos-
oms. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant, ]. Hour.
A PErRIFIED MAN.-Accoriing to the ssTer-
'itorial Enterprise" petrified man was found
ome time ago in the mountains south of Grav-
lily Ford. Every limb and feature of the sto-
~ mummy was perfect not even excepting the
eft leg, which had evidently been wooden