North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-31
MORE UNION SOLDIERS BUCHERED

"A petition is now in circulation among the
citizens of New York, calling public meet
ing, for the purpose of expressing the senti-
ment o: the community in regard to the mis-
management of the war, and the suicidal
policy of the Administration. This move
ment is eminetly proper, and such meetings
should be called in every county in every
Northern State. 1t is high time that the
people should demand from those who conduct
this war an account Of the lives of brave men
who have been slaughtered to make an Abo-
lition holiday. What account can the Ad-
ministration give Of the reason that induced
them to cause the failure of the campaign be-
fore Richmond of that before Washington,
of the neglect to forward suitable supplies to
the army after the battle of Antetam, in or
der that an immediate advance into Virginia
could be commenced, of the removal of Gen
eral Mcclellan on the eve Of the completion
of his plans to force Lee into battle, of the
allure TO have pontoon bridges at Falmouth
when the advance column of General Burn
sides forces reached that place, and of the
peremptory order to Burnside to cross the
river and attack General Lee in position,
when suen movement was against the iudg-
ment of every officer in command at that
place 2 The people demand to know why,
in all these, cases, the army was sacrificed by
the stupidity or wilful acts OF the Adminis-
tration If the President and his military
advisers are determined to make this war an
Abolition job, regardless of the misery it is
entailing on its countless victims, the people
should know that fact, and then they can ap-
ply the proper and efficient remedy. But it
is idle to talk of success to Northern arms
whilst blundering imbecility or black-hearted
treason to the Union and the Contitution sits
enthroned in the White House, the War De-
partment and the office Of the General-in-
Chief of the Northern forces, and orders and
directs such scenes of wilful and aimess
murder and butchery as that on the heights
in the rear of Fredericksburg.
Will not the people of this City and State
initiate the excellent example of New York,
and hold meetings at which this whole ques-
tion of the war; its end or continuance, and
the mode which it has been and continues to
be conducted by the Abolition Administra-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln can be fully and freely
discussed The time for free, bold speech
has come. The cries and groans of the tens
of thousands Of men NAMED and crippled for
life, and the tears and wants and miseries of
the pale stricken ones made desolate by the
death of their protectors, who fell victims to
the blunder of an Abolition President, or Sc
cretary of War, or General.in-Chief, are the
proTocations and warrants for such course
as that mapped out by the originators and
supporters of these meetings More than this,
the Union will be gone beyond all redemp
tion If this Abolition conducted war is suffer
ed to longer bear such fruits as that plucked
at Fredericksburg. There must be change
and this can only be effected by arousing the
people Though the agencies of public meet
ings. Shall We have one ?-C5nstitWionaI
Union.