Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-06-25
Occasional" on Toryism.

In the campaign that is about to be
opened against the Administration and
the war, powerful emphasis is to be laid
upon the empty accusation that the friends
of Mr.. Lincoln favor unconditional Eman.
cipation and Negro Equality. Contempt
ible as this accusation is, it is frequently
repeated by men who, in their heated part
isanship, forget that they are intelligent
and reasonable beings As usual. the
name of Democracy is to be invoked as
cover to this arrant demagogueism. In
other days, before the people of the United
States were educated by great war, which
overturned old expectations and DESTROYED
| old theories, such advertisement as this
have passed current. But, unless our mas
| ses are indeed sunken into the deepest slough
of Ignorance, this attempt to seduce them
into wrong paths will be tearfully avenged.
| have very low estimate of the leaders
who bullied and coaxed the majority of the
Democrats of Pennsylvania into the sun.
port of Breckenridge in 1860, and who.
with all the treacheries and corruptions of
Buchanan revealed to their eyes and ears,
refused to denounce these crimes. The
bloody harvest of the seed thus sown should
admonish them against another experiment
upon the supposed credulity of the Ameri-
can people
The men in the free States who advo-
cate Unconditional Emancipation are very
few in numbers. h, tie Rcpublscan par
tg they do not number one an fUe hundred.
There is not traitor anywhere who does
not know this to be true, even as he re-
peats the reverse. As to negro equality,
still more conclusive reply might be
made to this silly talsehood. The practi-
cal ANAL gamationists are not in the free
States The most infatuated Abolition
fanatic rarely carries his free thought into
free love. 1t is only in the atmosphere of
rebellion that negro equality, in its worst
phase, has been accepted and illustrated.
The social distinction between the races of
white and black, in the free States, is as
broad and clear as it is in England and
France, where, in the face of laws that
make no distinction as to political rights,
the one preserves its relations wholly indie
pendent of the other
But why continue a reply to an argu-
ment not even believed by those who make
it?
This war is productive of great and new
issues. While it adds to the responsible
ties of the Executive, it reduces the reli-
ance OF the demagogue upon popular igno-
rance, and to this extent reduces the
weight of these responsibilities 1t aooulH
haze deem corse for sloVc,y # Treason had
taken mp arms aginSt a Democratic instead
of Republican administrator. Then
the ingratitudc of the shareholders would
have been more keeuly felt, and more mer-
cilessly punished. The Democrats, who
clamOr for compromise now, and are blind
to the atrocities of the rebels, in that event
would have discarded everything but the
sword, and believed anything bat rebel hu-
manity. Mr.. Lincoln's Administration is
doing only what that of Mr., Douglas would
have done, and less, had Douglas been
chosen President. Results haze sadly
proved that If Breckinridge had been elect
ed, four gears soould haze found the free
States aoittomt q country SAGE that which
soaS controlled by the institution ofs1auery
The rebellion of 1861-62 is the voice of the
devil proclaiming that, in the event of the
election of Breckinridge in 1860, FOUR
YEARS MORE WOULD HAVE FOUND US A
SLAVE MONARCHY
These are plain lessons. They need no
rhetoric to adorn and no witnesses to con-
firm them. They are facts, and facts are
better than history.