The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-03-20

us like a bnmble-bee upon a clover-top.
When that dire day comes, if come it
! must, we will likely have a time of it
Well might we cxclainl, il the language
Of the Poet
"When Greek meets Greek,
Then comes the tug OF war"
quotation which would be very applica-
bic indeed supposing us all to be Greeks,
which is very Gar from the case, though
the quotation itself may be Greek to a
great many But for the sake OF our
wives and little ones, (of which fortunately
you and | have none), | hope TooMBs
will not be SO green to attempt the
experiment. If he does, ali | can say to
him, is that we will furnish 7oom5s for
him and all the men he brings with him,
and that too on the shortest notice and
on the most reasonable terms. In such
contingency, will, if it be agreeable to
all concerned, go myself at the head
of the Army, and would like to have
YOU, Charles at the head of the Navy
In other words, | propose that l shall
take the field, and that you shall take
tie rater-a thing which may so little
awkward with you at first, inasmuch as
you have always been used to something
stronger. As for myself | am sure that,
if an opportunity be afforded, | will add
still more military glory to that which [
achieved in the Mormon War, and in the
great Expedition which l sent against
the naughty and powerful republic of
Paraguay and as for you Charles, L
know your strategy would accomplish
wonders. If attacked, your very first fire
would in all probability be from your rear,
thus giving your adversaries ais-stink-tly
to understand that you would show them
no quarters, except headquarters. L
imagine that few shots such as you
would fire from the mortar at the stern
end of your craft, would have a telling
effect, particularly on the soil upon which
it would happen to land.
But, if [ may be permitted to use a
Yankee expression, "it seems to run up
the back of my leg" that we need not ap-
prehend an invasion at present. There
are, in my opinion, some cogent reasons
why we are likely to be ''let alone" in
that line. In the first place, as you we'll
know, Charles, the people of the South
have always been the strenuous advocates
of State Rights and State Sovereignty
They hold that the soil of any particular
State is and ought to be sacred to the peo-
pie thereof and so far have they carried
this theory, that, when OLD ABE under
took to send the Federal troops into GER
tain of their territory, they denounced the
movement in the most unmeasured terms,
and even went so far as to say that 1t was
Gan outrage upon free poople''-in which
expression they did not, of course, mean
to include their sIdueS. Now, if the people
Of the South are the people [ think they
are, (and | have no doubt they are,) |
cannot for one moment believe that they
will preach one thing and practice anoth-
er; that they will one day proclaim an
idea as their adopted theory, and the next
day repudiate it by their action-I say l
cannot believe this. Suppose we admit
the Rights and Sovereignty of their States
and the sacredness Of their soil-their
Rights and Sovereignty are no better or
greater, according to their own argument,
than the Rights and Sovereignty Of Penn
sylvania, nor is their soil any more sacred.
1t is very true that 'my successor" did
not heed their protests against what they
| termed "an INVASION nevertheless that
can afford them no excuse for invading
us. If they want to do right, let them
act upon the Golden Rule, and (not) ''do
unto others as they would have others
(noD do unto them" IF they want to be
''let alone they ought on the same prin-
oiple to let as alone, it being a well ascer-
tained fact that what is sauce for the
goose is, by parity of reasoning, sauce
for the gander also. But there is another
and what | conceive to be a greater reason
why our brethren Of the South will not
invade our State, and that is because, if
We may judge by recent events, it seems
likely that they will be kept busy to stay