The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-09-10

nau deSerteu. Through the ADVICE OF
members Of his Cabinet, the ships of our
then little navy were sent to remote and
distant seas SO that when the conspiracy
should culminate, our gallant tars, re-
nowned upon many and heroic occasions,
should not be In place to respond to the
call of their country.
Through him and his Cabinet the
arsenals of the North were stripped of the
arms and munitions OF war so that when
the conspiracy broke forth at Sumter, the
loyalists of the North had neither imple-
ments nor appurtenances Of war to assail
the rebellion. We had to wait, almost
paralyzed, until guns could reach US from
the Continent of Europe. You know
that the union of the sword and the purse
is considered essential to successful war
And what did the Democratic Secretary
of the Treasury? He beggared the purse
Of the nation IN order to play into the
hands of the Democratic conspirators-
We were left in the deplorable. absence of
army, navy and treasury
And who did this foul and most miser-
able work ? Who accomplished it? Was
any Abolitionist in power, or any opponent
of the ancient Democratic party We
Democrats then had it all our own way.
We were intrusted with the sacred heritage
of our fathers; We were responsible to
men and to angels; and how did we act
Upon the accursed altar OF southern
oligarchy we sacrificed every thing that
was manly and everything that was honor
able. Your iight-fugered leaders may
say that the Abolitionists begat the war.
7 l..
assert that the charge is false. [
uChesitatingly assert that this rebellion
was begotten in the secret places Of the
so-called but false Democracy il was
nurtured by Buchanan aad his Cabinet,
who were the slaves and dupes of the
Yanceys, the Slidells, the Dayises and
the Breckinridges Of the South. I but
assert what the iron pen of history shall
record, that there never was a party so
betrayed, nor a country so slaughtered, as
by the so-called leaders of the modern
democracy.
What did we do, VIC young men of the
Wing, the American, and the Democratic
parties TO our eternal honor it shall
be recorded that we stood fast and firm
for al! the rights Of our Southern breth-
rem, so far as acknowledged by the Amer
lean Constitution. We taltered not
From every mountain top of the north,
and from every valley, we declared our
unswcrving attachment to the Constitution
Of our fathers We stood manfully, as
Christian men never stood before, By every
principle of the Fugitive Slave law. So
that when Alexander Il. Stephens made
his speech. in reply to Toom5s Of Geor-
gia, he was obliged to confess that never
was Christian civil law more faithfully
upheld than by the men OF the north
He further admitted that the general
government had never been false to its
duty to the South that none of its stat
utes had ever interiered with the iranchi-
ses or the privileges of the slaveholder
And reluctantly and lingeringiy Alexan-
der ii. Stephens, with his head turned
back 10 the glores and brilliant memories
Of the country-with his averted eye upon
Mount Vernon and Monticello, slowly and
tardiy did lie leave the clustered records
of the greatest republic upon which the
sun has ever shone.
No warrior, but thin. attenuated, In
telectual man, he may be compared to
the Sybil of Rome, who offered her vol
umes to corrupted government. When
history shall come TO correctly record this
rebellion, the auguries Of Stephens shall
stand as an everlasting blot of infamy
upon the men who created this rebellion
and are carrying it out.
/ have not time, on an occasion of this
sort, to enter into full detail of the history
of this most pefarious transaction. The
leaders of the modern Democratic party
say to me that they alone can restore
peace to the country and integrity to the
Union. i reply that another such Dem
ocratic Administration as the last one
would send my country into the jaws of
inevitable dissolution. What restore
such another Administration into power ?
Think of it. Think of its perfdy, its
treason, its corruption, its Weakness
Restore to power your Buchanans, and
your Fernando Woods, and your Vallan-
and your Hugheses Give
them the reins Of power? May Heaven
defend us from such a calamity
I have confidence in the masses-the
honest masses, [ mean-of the Democratic
party, but l have none whatever in the
pretenders who attempt to teach |
in the sacred names of Jefferson and
Jackson. | should be recreant to my
if I should fail to acknowledge |
the heroism and the bravery of the good,
honest men who have fought in this war.