Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-03-05


The executive head Of the Government
| comes IN and goes out OF office every years.
lie IS the mere creature Of the people. |
talk about the Government without regard
to the particular executive officers who
have charge of it. 1t they do well, we can
continue them, if they do wrong We can
turn them out Mr. Line In having come
in accordance to the forms Of law and the
Constitution, loving my Government and
the Union, felt it to be my duty to stand
by the Government, and TO stand by the
Administration in all those measures that
believed to be necessary for the preserva-
tlon and perpetuation Of the Union
COERCION
How is this Government to put down
domestic violence in a State without cuer
cion How is the nation to be protected
against insurrection without coerciny the
citizens to obedience? Can it be done |?
When the Senator says he is against the
entire eeercive policy of the Government,
ne Is against the vital principle OF all gov
ernment. look upon this as the most
revolutionary and destructive doctrine that
ever was preached. 1t this Government
cannot call forth the militia, if it cannot
rcpel invasion, if it cannot suppress rebel
lion, | ask ifthe great objects OF the Govern
ment are not at an end!
Look at my own State, by way of illus
tration. There is open rebellion there !;
there is domestic violence; there is insur-
rection. An attempt has been made to
transfer that State to another power Let
me ask the Senator from Indiana il the
Constitution does not require you to guar.
anty US republican form of government
in that State !? Is not that your sworn
duty! We ask You To put down this un-
holy rebellion. What answer do you give
US! We ask you to protect US against i'll
surrection and domestic violence Wh.t is
the reply? am against your whole coer-
GIVE policy; | ain against the enforcement
OF the laws. l say il that principle be ac-
ted On, your Government Is ut an end it
fails utterly to carry out the object of its
creation. Such a principle leads to the
destruction of the Government, for it must
! inevitably result in anarch, and confusion
am opposed to the coercive policy Of
the Government, says the Senaior from
Indiana. That cuckoo note has been re.
iterated to safety; it is understood men
know the nature and charactet Of cir
Government, and they also know that co
ercion' aud 'subjugation' are mere al cap
tandum, idle and uumeaning slangwanglng.
Sir; may be little sensitive upon this
subject upon the one hand, wnlie | know
| fC do 10 h., L.
| took an oath to support the Constitution
Of the United States There is rebellion
in the land there is lnsurrection against
the authority of this Government Is the
Senator IRON Indiana SO unol servant or so
obtuse that he does not know now that
there has been a deliberate design Tor years
to change the nature and character and
genius OF this Government DO we not
know that these schemers have been delb-
erately at work, and that there is a party
IN the South, with some associates in the
North, and even in the West, that they
have become tired Of Tree government, in
which they have lost confidence? They
ralse an outcry against coercion, that they
may Paralyze the Government, cripple the
exercise OF the great powers with which it
was invested, fnally to change its form and
subject US to Southern desputism-Do
We not know il to be SO? Why disguise
this great truth? Do not know that
they have been anxious for a change of
Government for years? Since this rebel
lion commenced, it has manifested itself in
many quarters. How long is it since the
organ OF the Government at Richmond, the
Richmond Wing, declared that, rather than
live under the Government OF the United
States, they preferred to take the eonstitu-
tional Queen of Great Britain as their pro-
tector; that they would make Nm alliance
with Great Britain for the purpose of pre-
venting the enforcement OF the laws of the
United States? Do we not know this p
Why then play hide and 20 seek?' Why
say, 'Oh, yes, am tor the Union, while
every act, influence, conversation, vote is
against it? What confidence can we have
in one who takes such course?
UNION PEOPLE IN THE BORDER STATES.
The people of my State, downtrodden
and oppressed by the iron heel OF Southern
despotism, appeal to you for protection.
They ask you to protect them against do
mestic violence. They want you to help
them to put down this unholy and damna,
bic rebellion. They call upon this Govern
ment for the execution OF its constitution
al duty to guaranty to them republican
form of government, and to protect them
against the tyranny and despotism which
is stalaing abroad. What is the cold reply?
i am against the entire coercive policy |
am not for enforcing the laws Upon such
q doetrine Government crumbles TO pieces,
and anarchy and despotism reign through
out the land.
Indiana, God bless her is as true to the
Union as the needle is to the pole. She
has sent out her .hordes'-shs has sent her
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