The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-04-16

organized? In reply to this, / have tr
say that it has been in process Of nrgani-
cation for more than forty years, as any
candid reader of the debates in Congress
must admit The track Of the foreshad-
| owed rebellion is distinctly marked al
through the speeches of Che men who had
been the pioneers and ringleaders in it,
It broke out upon the tariff question in
| 1882, in the notification proceedings of
South Carolina, but was crushed n 1888
by Gen. jackson, then President of the
| United States, as Buchanan might have
crushed the rebellion of 1860 by doing
his duty as Jackson did in 1888. The
old patriot Jackson then predicted that
the Southern conspiSatorssAgains. the In
tegrity of the Union 3uld next resort to
agitationso the slavery question as the
instrument by which 10 accomplish dis
solution of the Union, and he expressed
regret before his death that he had not
hung john G. Calhoun, the great leader
in all these troubles OF the country, when
he was in his power, The coaspiraisrs of
! 1882 and those, Of 1860 professed to JUS
tify their conduct upon the very princi-
pies upon which the Vahandigham and
Breckinridge Democrats are now orsani-
zing themselves against the GoyernseHtef
the United States, as-they, however, say,
against the administration of that Govern
ment--a discrimination having no merit
In it. Does the Government consist In
the paper upon which its Constitution is
written, in the walls Of the buildings in
which its archins are, or does it consist
in the living adl1ipistration Of With
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the principle Of organic life in it. You
have good many Douglas Democrats in
your county, and you should. bring to
their. view portion of a letter writtep By
StcpheA A. Douglas in reference to this
very rebellion, aud in reference TO the
duty every good citizen owes to the Coy
ernn,ent in its effol is to conquer it. The
following Will be found as d part of a let
ter written by him to Virgil Iiicox,
Chairman of the State Democratic Com
mittee os Illinois, dated Chicago, May 10,
1861:
Gall hope Of compromise with the Cot
ton States was abandoned when they as
sumed the position that the separation Of
the Union was complete and final, and
that they would never consent to recon-
struction III any contiDgency-not even if
we would furnish then, with blank sheet
of paper aud permit them to iuscribe their
own terms. Still the hopd was cherished
that reasonable and satisfactory terms of
adjustment could be agreed upon with
Tennessee, North Carolina, and the Bor-
der States; and that whatever terms. would
prove satisfactory to these loyal States
would create Union party in the Cotton
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at the ballot box to destroy the revolu-
tionary government, and bring those
States back into the Urion by the voice
of their own people. The hope wascher-
ished by the Union men North and South,
and was never abardoRed until actual war
was levied at Charleston, and .he author
itative announcement made by tire revoiu
tionary government at Montgomery THAT
the secession flag should be planted upon
the walls OF the capitol at Washington,
and proclamation issued inviting the
pirates of the world to prey upon the
commerce of the United States. ,sns
"These startling facts, taken in connec.
tion with the boastfui announcement that
the ravagcs Of war and carnage should be
quickly transferred from the cotton fields
Of the South to the wheat fields and corn
fields of the North, furnished conclusive
evidence that it was the fixed purpose Of
the secessionists utterly to destroy the
Government of our fathers and obliterate
the Cuitcd States frein the map Of the
world 7l ~
: ain view of this state of facts, there
was but one path of duty left for patriotic
men. 1t was net party question, nor a
question HIvolvinS partisan policy; it was
a question Of government or no Sbxern-
ment, country or no ccuLtry; aud hence |
it became Tie imperative. duty of every
Union man, every friend Of constitutional
liberty, to rally to the support of our
common country, its yoceramea md flag. |
as the only means o. checking the prog |
ress of revolution and Of preserving the
Unior of the States. **
81 know of no mode by which a loyal |
citizen may so well demonstrate his devo-
ton to his country as by sustaining the
aag. the constitution ana the Union under
Ill circumstances and under every admin
stration, (regardless Of party politics,)
against all assailants, at. home or abroad.
The course of Clay and Webster towards
he administration Of Gen. Jackson in the /
lays Of Modification, presents noble and /
worthy examplc for all true patriots At /
he very moment when that fearful crisis ,
vas precipitated upon the country, parti
,au strife between Wings and Democrats