Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-06-18
Sentiments of a True Democrat.

The Lewistown Democrat will please
read the following notions from Democrat
and soldier, and profit thereby:
Henry L. Cake, Colonel commanding of
the 96th Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol
unteers-who was private in Captain Nc
Donald's company, which was among the
first to reach the Capital after the fal! of
Sumter, when all was gloom and desponden-
cy, and who has since been promoted to the
high position he Occupies-is we'll known
in this State as an ardent Democrat. He
and his regiment are now in the advance
under General Mcclellan, and we are not
surprised to hear that he has proved to be
most efficient, energetic, and popular COM
mander. Col. Cake, in a recent letter to
Col. j. H. Puleston, military agent of Penn
sylvania, expresses some opinions which
will be read with interest, written, as they
are, from the battle: field, and being the
sentiments of conscientious Democrat.
That the war will be prosecuted to sue
cessfu! issue for the Union is beyond perad
venture. | did not vote for Mr.. Lincoln, but
l believe that God Almighty had a hand in
his election. He has three good years to
conquer peace, but the present Congress has
only one. 1t would seem impossible that this
violent and vindietiVe contest can drag out
another twelve month"; but it may. The old
stagers of the Democratic party are lying in
wait, and by a iudicious handling Of the war
debt the taxes the BLACK Republican,
Abolition scare crow, that annually eman-
cipates food Of black labor, and sets itNorth
to the undoing Of free labor at home,' it is
just probable that large ma jority of such
politicians as Biddle and Ancona will take
the place of the present more conservative
majority, and then ,chere are ace?
'As sure as it happens, believe the great
traitor Breckinridge, and his party, or all that
is left of them, will be invited back, and the
war will have accomplished nothing. Thus
it may overtake us again in your time and
mine. The Yanceys of the South will be
more exacting than ever, and while they again
come to the North to insult US with impunity,
will prohibit our speaking above a whisper in
Dixie.
I'VE can never be at peace with the South
until an infexible policy in regard to slavery
has been established. Therefore, meet the
question nom. Let its abolition be so gradual
as to be almost imperceptibe. If this can be
done, who doubts that every portion of the
South-the cotton, rice, sug T, tobacco, hemp,
and turpentine region-will accommodate it
self to the new order of things2 1t requires
no Daniel to suggest, but a great party only
can carry out the details of the mode
Let all who are slaves remain slaves till
they die but after the Ist Of January, OF the
4th of July, 1868, let no human being be born
to slavery in the United States of America.
This has Rothing to do with The disposition Of
the confscatod property of the rebels: and if
Government wants tp q further, let a price
be named and paid for the slaves Of such
States voluntarily asking the precipitation Of
emancipation.
This war should bear some fruit. Let
that fruit be a hundred years Of peace
Col Cake, it will be seen, goes further
than the Republicans do, and though ad-
voeating what used to be democracy
twenty years ago, will 10 doubt be de-
nounced by the Vallandigham tories as an
aboIitionist aud all the other choice terms
now usually found in Buchanan's dictiona-