North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-10-14
Ira Avery again.

lie, Harvey, whistle we euPP'no tnio eie
CANT and highly expressive termination
should be understood, if not expressed, il
all his articles for the press. AS he repeat
ed the iniunction-told us to whistle twice
we have concluded to whistle once more
even though in SO doing, we may, again, ruff
tle up the judicial ermine.'
He addresses his article "To the reader.
of the Democrat" A pretty specimen, il
this Ira Aver, to talk to Democrats! A
man, who never through life, harbored 8
thought, feeling, OF emotion towards them
that was not fraught with hatred. revenge
and the bitterness of gall
Our readers will naturally inquire what il
is, that this ex-Justice OF the Peace, ex Ass
ocate Judge; AMI present Government tax
assessor, wishes To say to then2 Why il
is this: That you Democrats by Your oppo-
stion to the laws and the Government, u
made the draft necessity !" That The
leaders OF the Democratic Party are alone re.
| sponsble, in the first place, for he wl:-and
in the second place, for its prolonga,i"n !'-
This would say" excIaim> ira Avery,
" on my dea'h-bed"
This ,re will say, to Mr.. Avery that he
would die, with as black, ani damnng lie,
on his lips, as he has lived with one on his
soul since, with uncovered head and u lift
ed hand g. in the presence of Almighty Gud." +"
he swore that he "woul1 support the con.
sutu ion of the United States )" when &C
cording to his own declaration he " has Of
ten said' that he " would not.''
ifIra Avery can reconcile these " death
! bed' assertions, with his professei christian
ity or his present opposition to the PLAIN
letter of the constitution, with his repeated
oaths to support it; then he may palm HIM
sell off as christian and a patriot. Until
he does SO the people will assume, as they
are warranted IN SO doing, that be is liar, q
hypocrite, and traitor.
Even the aro1oed intdeI abolitionist, Wen
del Phillips, who declared year ago, that
he had labored nineteen years to take nine
teen states out Of this union," has more re.
gard for The sanctity OF an oath than the pre-
tended christian abplitIonist Ira Avery. In
late letter dated July q, 1869 published
in the Liberator, the leading abolition or
gan in the country, Phillips, in speaking o:
himself, and kindred ab"lItionists, said:
" I'VE refused TO take office and srear to
support the Constitution 6ecnu>e 11e could
not prnmise TO do aohdt zoe thought sin--RE-
TURN SLAVES To THEIR MASTERS, for instance
as required By the Constitution. Further
than that, our effort to break the Union ,oas
only q means to an end. OUR OBJECT WAS
THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY"
That Ira Avery has been " life long abo
litronst," no man who has Known HIN need
be told. He does no: and dare not deny it
now. The testimony Of scores, aye, hundreds
of men could be produced to prove the fact.
Twenty years ago, Gust the time Wendell
Phillips entered upon the sane work, Ira
Avery encouraged, feasted, fed, paid and lIs
tened to the Abolition Lee ure of p st and
Melvin in this town. And when The latter
was driven from the pulpit he was desecrat
ing; Ira Avery was foremost in urging on
prosecution for the offence. He was the
known and recognized abolition leader then.
Even his party friends point to him as an
original, simon pure one now. He has re-
peatedly declared himself one, and yet he has
not {" refused to take office" has not refused
to s1cedr TO support the constitution" but
has held Office almost constantly, for more
than twenty wears and in order to do 20 has
repeatedly taken oaths to support the con
stitution, which Required the return of slaves
to their masters" Like Wendell Phillips he
declared Slavery a sin like HIM he would
not "Teturn slaves to their mast ers," though
unlike him he swore before nigh Heaven to
support the constitution, which says they
shall be returned.
A man upon whose conscience an oath rests
80 lightly that for the sake Of the emolumtnt nts
of cffice, will swear to do, what he declares
he will not do, Is a fl tool to aid Phillips in
his eff,rts - break the Union, "a fit man
! to mourn the fate fhis cow Yorker, the traitor
and murderer John Brown-a ft man to aud
in Il perpetra,nn of the election frauds of
1888, where hundreds of illegal votes were re-
ceiyed from armed rnfians who drove from The
polls, the old sellers and legal voters Of the
district but, not a fit man to teach Demo
! Gratis their duty in a time like this, when the
very evils he has labored to consu nate and
they to avert, are upon the country.
! P.S.-Since writing the above, which was
crowded out of cur last issue, we find another
long winded and prnsy article, IN the Re pub
Hcan bv Mr. Avery, which we have not yet
read. IF after reading, We find it contains
any thing worthy of notice we may give IL and
! the writer the consideration they merit.
e A gentleman of reliability just from
the army of General Rusencrans, has arrived
at Louisville KY, and says that Rosencrans
loss will not tall short of 20, 900, some 5000 oi
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