Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-03-26
WEDNESDAY, MARCH rs, 1862

fOuR q them.
We must cross this flood that swclls and
loans, or abandon the national hopes of our
glorious future. The issue already made
between oppression and liberty must be
fought out to the end now, or refought
hereafter, and perhaps under aggravated
circumstances. IaUcry reestaJliShed, and
l0aV again. X i
There is really no possible hopeful end
to this conflict but the end of siavery.-
There Is no such easy escape from our ma
tlonal troubles as some seem to IMAGINE
no prospect Of the war being short but by
being useless, or else by being radical and
determined, and, [ may add, in regard to
false principles, most unsparing. 70 pur-
pose, therefore, that the Union shall sur
vlve and its glory and power be triumphant
~ restored and perpetuated, is virtually to
doom slavery to speedy extinction The
preservation ofHe CRion and tie dcStruc.
tto@ Of Slavery are inscparaJie; aye, f}ca-
teal no'c; and he ,ehs rotes for tic one
necessarily ootes for tie other.
i have not thoxght it necessary to show
that, under existing circumstances, we are
released from all legal or moral obligation
to longer tolerate slavery in the land, if the
safety OF the nation demands its extinction
The case is too plain for doubt
The permission of slavery in the consti-
tuition, if such there be, as asserted and
generally admitted, is only implied, and
nowhere expressly declared That instru-
mont seems to have been made in anticipa-
ton OF better and more just time to come.
The trainers must have intended that when
slavery should be done away the constitu-
tlon should still remain and that with this
national progress and determination of evil,
the language of the constitution become even
now more appropriate, and this highest law
of a naticn where freedom and Justice and
equal rights are the inheritance of every
man abide in Its righteousness forever
General BueI Finds a HoSpital-Thc
Louisville Journal says, few days ago, as
General Ruel WIS riding on horseback
through the streets of Nashville, an aristo-
cratic lady, a Mrs. w, living in fne,
large house, stood at an open door or win
dow, waved a rebel flag toYards him, and
cried, 'Hurrah for jeff Davis and the
Southern Confederacy.. The general reined
in his horse, turned toward the lady,
touched his hat with all the courtesy and
suavity for which he is remarkable, and,
surveying the fine building from top to
bottom, with the eye Of copgoisScur,
quietly remarked, IAN excellent house for a
hospital. il lass than two ho:rs every
room was full cf sick soldiers, and Mrs w
politely requested to take kind care of
them, We heartily congratulate her 4pQn
her blessed privilege CT ministcring to the
needs Of suffering patriots
.SAoming Her L0iors-A gentleman
from Cheat Mountain tells the following
\ squ~d of Indiana volunteers, while out
scouting, came across an old woman in a
log cabin in the mountains After the
usual salutations, one of them asked her
well, old lady, are you secesh? p
No. was her answer
'Are you Union?'
No
what are you, then?'
a Baptist, and aroys hare Jeen.'
The Hoosier. let down.
BS~A young man seeing an acquaint
ance said
4 heard you were dead
But said the other, you see that l
am still alive
4 do not know how that may be- replied
he, you are notorious liar, and my infor-
mant was person of credit
b9-' May back this letter in your
store, asked an individual hurrying to-
wards the post Office. Well quietly re-
piled the storekeeper, IF you can't get it
in any other way you may back it in