The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-07-23

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adopts fer the national safety. Neither
n their public assemblies nor in their
newspapers do we ever find them using a
| word of cepsure for the cause of the
South. If they make a comparison be-
tween the leaders of the bogus Confeder-
acy, and the loyal Statesmen Of the
North, they invariably make it to the
prejudice of the latter. They pay glow
ing compliments to Southern States as
having furnished great men in the past,
| but they are studiously silent as to the
fact that those same States have also
| reared the arch. traitors of the Rebellion
They are always casting doubts upon the
ability of our people to preserve and
maintain the Union and whilst they are
too cowardly to endorse the right of
Secession, they attain the same end by
their expressed jealousy of the Central
Government, and the great ado which they
make about the rights of individual States
They attribute all the misfortune as we'll
as the cause OF the war to the accession
to power of tho Republican party, but
they carefully avoid saying aught of the
eight years under PIERCE and BUCHANAN,
which "their Southern brethren" devoted
to preparation for this bloody work.
They unscrupluously charge the inaug-
uration of active hostilities, upon the
Administration of President LINCOLN
and this they did, too, when the sound of
the rebel gun fired at the Star of the
West and at Fort Sumter had scarcely
| ceased to ring in their ears. The greater
the lcniency and latitude allowed and
| showed these men by the administration,
| the bolder and more impudent have they
become. They affect to draw distinction
between the Government and the officials
who administer it, and whilst they pre-
tend friendship for the former, vilify, and
abuse and hinder the latter in every way
possible. The Administration cannot do
a solitary act, or propose single measure
that meets with their appreciation on the
contrary every movement intended for the
suppression of the Rebellion is denounced
by them as impoitic, illegal and uncon-
| stitutional 1t has been so with the
National Tax; with the Copscription and
Confscatiou acts and with the Proclama-
nation of Emancipation. They have
counselled resistance to all these measures,
as well as to what they lyingly call the
"illegal al arbitrary arrests of peaceful
and uuefr, r,nding citizen" such "citizens"
being neither more nor less than open
mouthed, black hearted traitors, ike
CLEMENT i. VALLANDIGHAM.
The men who control this Copperhead
organization pretend 10 represent the
Democratic party of the country; and this
may be true, if black can be white, or sim
ners be saints, at one and the same period
Of time. But we deny their right, SO i'm
pudently assumed, to speak for the true
Democracy of the country; for there are
hundreds and thousands of true, loyal
l)GH.CcIdtS III eHHS duid. dhu othci
States, who neither synrathize nor act
with them, but, on the contrary, loathe
and despise both them and their traitorous
schemes. from the bottom Of their souls.
Copperheads are not and cannot be Dam
ocrats They are lineal descendants and
camp followers of the tories and traitors
of the Revolution, and Of the miscreants
who, in the war of 1872, sympathized
with Great Britain. They are wonderfully
true to the traditions Of their traitorous
fathers, and are effectually tarred with the
same dirty stick. When Government is
in trouble, it does not lack for traitors to
strike at It's existence; but when, upheld
and sustained by coed men, it survives
the shock and resumes its onward course,
its enemies are well marked and known.
1t has been SO in The past it is so now,
and it will be so in the future. The
perfdy of the Copperheads, whose abomi-
nable teachings have prolonged this
wicked war, and even caused blood to fow
in the streets of New York, will never be
forgotten. 1t will stick to them ike the
shirt of Nessus, and go down, as hateful
legacy, to their chiidren's children.
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