Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-10-15
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.r- Look to the grounds of this hope as given
in the same paper and; article: t.rl
%" We verify believe that if Vicksburg had
been held aud Lee had thoroughly defeated
Meade on his own ground, The Woods and
Coxes and Vallandighams, and their follow
ers, would have been rampant for peace and
separation. If johnson and Bragg can de-
feat Rosecrans and Burnside, if Lee, with his
recruited army, can defeat Meade, then may
we expect the most favorable results in the
Ohio election and Lincoln Congress. But
unless something of this kind is accomplished
speedily, then long farewell to the Peace
party Vallandigham will be defeated, and
Wood and his party paralyzed or overawed
in Congress, and peace postponed indefinitely
.withoSt foreign aid" .. ..as.-..
That the rebel governments believed the
importance of these suggestions and the re-
suits to be accomplished by them, you have
in evidence the recent battle in Georgia, near
Chattanooga Half of Lees army sent froa
in front of Meade in Virginia, to Georgia;
Johnson'a army, which could not be found
since the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson,
together with Pemberton's captured and pa
rolled army, all concentrated with Bragg to
stop and defeat Rosecrans, and thus enable
traitors at home to carry the election of VAL
landigham in Ohio, and thus have the Peace
men Of the North . once more to assert their
manhood, and speak out as they did before
the late disasters had choked their utterance."
And what are the "Woods and the Coxes
to speak OUT in Congress? Peace and sepa-
ration By withholding supplies of men
and money by organizing the House against
the Administration, and by stopping the war
to effectually break up the Union and de-
stroy our existence as nation ! By show
ing the loyal States arrayed against the Gov
ernment; to invite France, but too ready to
interfere in our concerns by'a condition Of af-
fairs similar to that which has enabled Louis
Napoleon to offer the throne of Mexico to
Macmillan of Austria, to recognize the in
dependence of the southern coniederacy, and
thereby render secure the work begun in
Mexico.
Men of Allegany's mountains and valleys,
are you willing and prepared, even indi-
rectly, to afford, by the election of secession
sympathizers or doubtful men, this aid and
sympathy to the rebels Of the South and at
the same time encourage the interference Of
foreign crowned heads in the humiliation, if
not destruction, of the nnly great Republic
of the world?
And what is it proposed to sci up in place
Of the Democratic institutions under which
we have grown to be great and mighty ma
ton? We quote from the Southern Literary
Messenger in which democracy is denounced
as the most hideous If tyrannies
"The South is now engaged in death
struggle with a radical democracy, the willing
instrument of consolidation in the hands Of
an abolition olisarchy. But the struggle will
not end with the physical triumph of the
South over the North. Our success will be
a staggering blow to tyranny, and will doubt
less paralyze its arm in many fierce en-
counter. But we need not hope for exemp-
tion from that never-endng conflict OF liber-
ty and despotism We have to encounter an
inuate disposition of man, with which the
human system seems to be thoroughly i'm
tued, to carry to excess every principle Of
good or evil which the mind may embrace.
The dangerous tendency TO ercess aciH almost
inevitably be rih ns, as in the late Union,
and in all free Governments, to,oards a de-
nocracy. Tile benign institution Of iStare,y,
which ii is NOW THE pride and glory Of the
South to ascribe to The conception Of Dirinity,
wW prore, IN preventing too heavy an infur
from foreign shores Of that class Of Qopula-
lion deroled to menial pursuits, another buL.
ozark against the encroachments Of those ten
denotes Of democracy achich hare been the
Paadoras boz Of disintegration and ruin to
all RepuJLics. We hare no special objections
to Royalty 'cAc" restrained By constitutional
barriers"
Fellow citizens, are you willing that, even
nd irncflv tbronnh sr1ph dor.
trines shall be permitted to take root and
grow on any inch of soil purchased by the
blood and toll OF our forefathers of 177G?
southern programme. Again:
"Secondly: Let us seek at once 10 eradicate
epery Uestige Of radical democracy, tuery .fea-
ture tending to make OURS a popular gorern-
ment, making ii subject only TO tie intelligent
and rirtuous, aAm those aoho are interested in
its successtulladministration."
The land which our fathers purchased with
their blood, and which, by their wisdom, they
created into temple of freedom,. where all,
even the humbest, might stand up in the
image Of his Maker and claim the equality
of man, is to be converted into the DWELLING
place of an aristocracy, whose highest claim,
perhaps, consists in the hundreds OF acres
and negroes which may have descended to
them through the energy oroppresson of their
1t is no longer to be the " land
of the free and the home of the brave" or
an asylum where the oppressed of all nations
may seek not only shelter and home, bat
have opened to them way by which they
may acquire position which makes them
the peer of any lord upon earth. One more
quotation from this beautiful picture, and we
have done with it:
But no foreigner ,oho comes among as
qfle, the struggle is over should erer enjoy the
electiue franchise. i ace cannot check tie
spread orey our territory Of that spaacn of
ignorance and crime ,chich t'ors in endless
issue from the prisons and dens of corrup-
ton in tho mat Of Europe, ace can at least
shut out its canhering effects fl ON the citals
Of our body polite. We sadly need. too, a
property qualification for natire as ,ceH as
foreigner"
Such, freemen of Allegany, are the doc
trines and sentiments held and advocated
openly by those engaged in this rebellion, and
though the same may not be done by their
sympathizers in our midst, yet every thing
which helps them directly or indirectly to
the sacriegious work they have