Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-08-26


the white race in the Southern States
Peace has no place in this platform. 1t
proclaims Confscation and Abolition as |
the objects of the war, and the Southern |
leader catches up the words to stimulate |
his followers to fight TO the last. 1t is |
not the interest of Pennsylvania that a |
fanatical faction shall pervert and protract |
the war, for ruinous, perhaps nnattainable
ends What the North needs is the re-
turn of the South with its people, Its ter
ritory, its staples, to complete the lntegrl-
tv of our common country. This, and
not more devastation and social confusion;
would be the aim of patriots and states
men. The Abolition policy promises us
nothing better than a Southern Poland,
ruled by a Northern despotism. But his
tory is full Of examples how wise rulers
have assuaged civil discord by moderation
and justice, while bigots and despots. re-
lying solely on force, have been baffied by
feeble opponents That temperate Con-
stitutional policy will fail, in our case, TO
reap the fruit of success in arms cannot
| be known until it is tried. The times are
critical. France, under powerful and
ambitious monarch. is entering on the
scene, willing again to play an important
/ part in an American Revolution. The
/ English Government is hostile to us-it
! has got all If wanted from Abolition, and
will have nothing more to do with IT. Ihe
( secession leaders, and the presses under
their control, oppose reunion, preterring,
! perhaps, even humble dependence upon
{ European powers But from many parts
of the South, and across the picket lines,
and from the prisoners and the wounded,
has come the proof of a desire among the
people of the South to return to Consiitu-
tional relations with the people of the
North. Early in the contest this desire
was shown in North Carolina, one of the
old Thirteen associated with Pennsylva-
MIA on the page of Revolutionary history.
But the majority in Congress made haste
to show that Abolition, not Reunion,
was their aim. In moment of depres
sion, on the 22d of July 1861, being the
day after the battle of Bull Run, they
allowed the passage Of a resolution, offer
ed by Crittenden, defining policy for the
restoration of the Union. But they soon
rallied and filled the Statute Books with
acts of confiscation, abolition and emanci-
patton, against the remonstrances at emi-
nent jurists and conservative men of all
, parties. Mr.. Lincoln, too, yielding, he
, said, ''to pressure" put kis proclama-
/. tons in place of the Constitution and the
, laws Thus every interest and sentiment
. of the Southern people were enlisted or
; the side of resistance by the policy of {
: party, which, as Mr.. Stevens said, vii
| not consent to a restoration of the Union
with s'the Constitution as it is" 1t il
/ this policy that has protracted the war
and is now the greatest obstacle TO 1t
f termination. The reunion of the State
can alone give them their old security a
: home, and power and dignity abroad
@ This end can never be reached upon tn
: principles of the party now in power
d Their principles are radically false, an
II can never lead to a good conclusion
It Their hope of setting up the negro !;
20 the place of the white man runs counter t
" the laws of the race,-the laws of nature
Is Their craftsmanship has been weighe
IS in the balance and folnd wanting the;
g little blood letting" has proved delugC
: Their interference with our armies ha
Il often frustrated and never aided their SUI
/, cess. till it has become a military prOveT
" that the best thing for General is to
to out of reach from Washington. II
es party was founded upon the political an
ST moral heresy of opposition TO compromis
IN which is the only means, of union amor
he States, and of peace and good will c
st earth among men. In a popular govern
ne ment the people are the sovereign, al
vs. the sound sense of the whole communit
ry corrccts, at the polls, the errors of polit
m cal parties. The people OF Pennsylvan
n have seen, with regret, the unconstit
nd tional aims Of the Abolitionists substitut,
e. for the original objects of the war. The
=" have seen, with Indignation, many ga
an liant soldiers of the Union driven from
a service because they had not bowed dow
,r, to the Abolition idol. They will Sc
he with horror, the war protracted in ord
be to secure the the triumph of a par
hrs platform, or as Mr.. Chandler said, I"
IL save the Republican party from rupture
re- The time is now at hand when the vol
IN of the people will be heard The ovt
till throw of the Abolitionists at the pc
he and the re-establishment of constitution
till principles at the North, is the first, t
rs: indispensable step toward the restorati
md of the Union and the vindication of CT
ire liberty. To this great service TO
are country each citizen may contribute
a his vote. Thus the people of the No
be may extend the Constitution 10 the n