Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-04-22
EBENsBURG, PA WEDNESDAY, April. %, 1868.

case in one of those sededed States
where the President would be authorized
to call out the military You must first
procure a writ from the judge describing
the crime; you must place that in the
hands of the marshal, and must meet
such obstructions as render il impossible
for him TO execute it; and then, and not
til! then, can YOU call upon the military
Where Is your judge in the seeded
States : Where is your marshal, You
have no civil authorities there, and the
President, in his inaugural, tells you he
does not intend to appoint any. He said
he intended to use the power confided to
him, to hold, and possess the forts, and
collect the revenue; but beyond this he
did not intend to GO. You are told, there
fore, in the inaugural, that he is going to
appoint no judges, no marshals. no civil
officers, in the seeded States, that can
execute the law, and hence we are told
that he does not intend to use the army,
the navy, or the militia for any such pur-
poses.
Is it your purpose to rush this country
blindly into war at a cost of $500, 000-
600 per annum; TO levy 100000 of
direct taxes upon the people, and then
call upon them to pay it because you
have involved us in civil war; Sir. | ex-
pect to stand by my country under all
circumstances and hence will save her,
if l can, from being plunged into civil
war of indefinite duration, that will re-
quire quarter of q million of men and
exhorbitant taxation, levied on one half
of the American people, to subdue the
other half Remember, this extraordi-
nary amount of revenue, these extraordi-
nary numbers of men, are TO be called for
! IN eighteen States to fight fifteen: tor it is
useless to disguise the fact, that whenever
yorr make the question one of peace or of
war, the slavehoIding States will be n
unit, and will be eighteen against fifteen.
Are we prepared for civil war, with all its
horrors and calamiiies
l repeat, ii is time that the line of pol
icy was adopted, and that the country
knew it In my opinion, We must choose.
and that promptly, between one of the
three lines of policy:
l. The restoration and preservation OF
the Union by such amendments to the
| Constitution as will insure the domestic
tranquility, safety and equality of all the
States, and thus restore peace, unity and
| fraternity to the whole country
Or, = A peaceful dissolution of the
Union, by recognising the independence
of such States as refuse to remain in the
| Union without such constitutional amend
ment. and the establishment of liberal
system of commercial intercourse with
them by treaties of commerce and amity,
Or. g. War, with q view to subIuga-
tion and military occupation of those
States which have seeded or may sccede
from the Union
/ repeat that, il nv opinion, YOU mus
adopt and pursue one of these three line:
of policy The s .oner YOU choose bctwe 1
them and proclaim your choice to th'
country, the better for you. the better to
US. the better for every friend of liberty
and constitutional government Throughout
the world. In my opinion, the first prop
osition il the best, and the last the worst
am in favor of such amendments Il
the Constitution as viii take that ques
ton out of Congress, and restore peace u
the country. That may be done by non
intervention-by popular sovereignty. n
il is called or by the Crittenden amend
ment. making an equitable PARTITION O
the Territory between the two sections
with self-executing clause prohibiting
on one side and protecting ii on the other
1t NAV be done in various ways lprete
such an amicable settlement to peaceabl
disunion and / prefer it a thousan
. times to civil war. If we can adoI
, such amendments as will be satisfac:or
. to Virginia. North Carolina, Tennesse
{ and the border States, the same plan {
= pacification which will satisfy them wi
e create Union party in the cotton State
I which will soon embrace large maIor1t
e of the people in those States, and brin
e them back of their own free will and N
i cord and thus restore, strengthen en-
e perpetuate the glorious old Union foreve
n repeat. whatever guarantees will 50
:. isfy MARYLAND and the border Stat'
e 1.-THE States now in the Union) will crea
d a Union party in the seeded States TIN
: will bring them back BY the voluntary a
Il ton of their own people. VOW can r
Y store and preserve the Union in tn
= nfode You can do il in no other.
N War Is disuniou. War is final, etern
it separation. Hence, disguise it as W
4 may, every Union man in America mu
er advocate such amendments to the Cons
,r tuition as will preserve peace and resto
il the Union; while every disrnioni:
whether openly or secretly plotting it= d
ts struction, i the advocate nf peaceful