Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-10-07


New England sinks as low as its statute /
book But say we are not law abb
ding people. God be thanked for it !''-
Wendell Philips.
'If peaceful means fail us, and we are
driven to the last extremity, where bal
lots are useless, then we will make bull
lets effective "-Hon Erastus Hopkins, Of
Mass.
eff I am elected Governor of Ohio,
and | expect to be, | will not let any fu-
gitiye be returned to Kentucky or any
other slave State; and if | cannot prevent
it in any other way, as commander-in
chief of the military of the State, | will
employ the bayonet, so help me Cod
Co... De,,aiSOn Of Ohio.
"Whenever any portion of this Union,
large enough to form an Independent, self
! subsisting nation, shall see fit to say au-
! thentically, to the residue, 'we want TO
| get away from you,' we shall say-and
we trust self-respect, i not the regard for
| the principle of self-govemment, will con-
strain the residue of the American people
TO say-Go !"-Netc York Tribune, Dec,
! 1860.
g Let past differences as nothing be :;
and, with steady eye on the real issue
let us inaugurate the good old central
ideas of the republic We can do It The
human heart is with us! God is with
us. We shall again be able, not to de-
clare that all the States, as States, are
equal, nor yet, that all citizens, as citi-
zens, are equal but renew the broader,
better declaration, including both these
and much more, that all men are created
equal.-A. Liacola-.Speect del!reTed Sept
10th 1856.
"What a commentary upon the his
tory Of man is the fact that, eighteen
years after the death Of John Quincy Ad-
ans, the people have for their standard
bearer, Abraham Lincoln, confessing the
obligations of the Higher Law which the
Sage of Quincy proclaimed, and conten-
ding for veal or woe, for life or DEATH in
the irrepressibe conflict between freedom
, and slavery. I desire only to say that
we are in the last stage of the conflict, be-
fore the triumphal inauguration of thi:
policy into the Government of the United
States. - U'm. II. .Selcard.
'sI will not stultify myself by suppo
sing that we have any warrant in th'
Constitution for this proceeding.
t ''This talk OF restoring the Union as /
: was, under the Constitution as it is, is on
= of the absurdities which | have repeated
o until | have come about sick of it. Th
. Union can never be restored as it was
There are many things which render sucl
| Il I
: shall with my consent, be restored unde
q the Constitution as it is, with slavery t
It be protected by it.''-Hon. ThGdeus Ste
|, phe1as, the administration leader IN Con
i gress.
n ''I sincerely hope a civil war ma
rest upon this country. | want to Sc
= American slavery abolished in my day
1t is a legacy I have no wish to leave m
children. Then my most fervent prayC
< is that England, France and Spain ma
I'd speedily take this slavery-accursed natio
,e into their especial consideration, and whe
V the time arrives for the streets and citi
% of this land of the free and home of II
. brave to run with blood to the horse
bride, if the writer be living, there W
: be one heart to rejoice at the retributi'
5, justice of Heavenly. @. D,aal
id Near York, a lel3ing Republican political
u q Our Legislatures, State and Federa
IS should raise the platform upon which o
free colorcd people stand; they shou
give them full political rights to hold off
ge to vote, to sit on .juries, to give their te
of timony, and to make no distinction b
IS. tween them and ourselves. The instr
n ment called the Constitution, after pr
:, uouncing all men flee and equal, and ha
- ing equal rights, suffers slavery to ext
- a free colored person to be denied all ?
- litical rights, and after declaring that
- persons shall enjoy a free intercourse WI
the States, suffers the free negro to
g driven out of all, and excluded from su
h.. rights. Deliver me from such an instl
90 ment thus partial, thus unjust, that c
= be perverted, and made to sanction pre-
dices and party feelings, and note the {
cidental distinction of color '-CdSsius
re- C2ay.