Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-02-11

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has now repeated the confession. The
priests and rabbis of abolition taught him
that God would not prosper such a cause.
War for the Union was abandoned; war
Tor the negro openly begun, and with
! stronger battalions than before With
what success Let the dead at Freder-
ickshurg and Vicksburg answer
And now. sir, can this war continue?
Whence the money TO carry it on? Where
the men! Can you borrow? From
whom! Can you tax more? viii the
people bear it? Wait till you have col
lected what is already levied How many
millions more of illegal tender to-day
forty seven per cent below the par of gold
can You float? VIII men enlist now n;
any price! All, sir, it is easier TO die at
home beg pardon: but ] trust am
not "discoura9ing enlistments" fl am.
then first arrest Lincoln, Stanton, and
Halieck, and some OF your other generals.
and | viii retract? YES, will recant But
can you draft again ? Ask New England
New York. Ask Massachusetts
Where are the nine hundred thousand !
Ask not OhiO-the Northwest She
I
you all, al!-more than you demanded.
:. The wife whose babe first smiled that DAY.
The fair, fond bride Of yes;er eve.
Aud aged sire aud n.atron gray.
Saw the ioved warriors haste away,
And deemed it sin TO grieve''
Sir, in blood she has atoaed for her
crcduii;y; and now there i mourning in
every house, and distress and sadness in
every heart. Shall she give YOU any
more
But ought this war to continue? /
answer. NO, Not a d,zy! Not an
ho,u-y What then? Shall we separate
Again | answer, no, no, no, What then?
And now. sir, l come to the crandest and
most sublime problem OF craftsmanship
from the beginning? and to the God OF
Heaven. Hummer of hearts and minds, |
would humbly appeal for some measure.
ut least. of light and wisdom and strength
to explore and reveal the dark but posi-
ble future of this land
CAN THE UNION OF THESE STATES BE RE
STORED HOW SHALL IT BE DONE
And why not? Is ii historically I'M
possible? Sir. the frequent civil wars and
conflicts between the States of Greece dill
not prevent their cordial union to resist
the Persian invasion: nor did even the
thirty wears Peloponnesian war, apringin".
in part. from the abducti. n of slaves, and
pmbittcred and disastrous as it was-let
! Thucidides speak-whoily destroy the
! fellowship of those States. The wise Ro-
mans ended three years social war after
| many bloody battles, and much atrocity.
| bv admitting the States of Italy to all the
rights and privileges Of Roman citizenship
the very object TO secure which these
! States had taken up arms. The border
wars between Scotland and ENGLAND,
running through centuries. did not prevent
/ the final union, III peace and by adjust
mcnt, of the two kingdoms under one
| monarch. Compromise did at last what
/ ages OF coercion and attempted conquest
had failed to effect. England kept the
| crown, while Scotland gave the king TO
wear it: and the memories of Wallace
and the Bruce of Bannocburn, became
part OF the glories of British history. |
pass by the Union of Ireland with Eng
land-a Union of force, which God and
lust men abhor and vet precisely 90 the
Union as it should be" of the Abolition
lists of America Sir, thc rivalries OF the
houses of York and Lancaster filled all
England with cruelty and slaughter; yet
compromise and internIarriage ended the
strife at last. and the white rose and tho
red were blended In one. Who dreamed
: a month before the death of Cromwell
, that in two years the people of England
, after twenty years OF civil war and Usur
patton, would, with great unanimity, re
= store the house of Stewart in the perso:
} of its most worthless prince, whose fathe
( but eleven years before thy had behead
= ed? And who could have torctold in tn
Il beginning of 1912, that within som
: three years, Napoleon would be in exil
= upon n desert island, and the Bourbon
L restored? Armed foreign intervention di
# it but it is a strange history. Or VIII
= then expected to see a nephew of Napo
d leon, thirty-five years later, with the col
e sent of the people. supPlant the Bourbo
:. and reign Emperor of France! III
Ie many States and people. once separat'
d have become united in the course "f an
:. through natural causes and without col
le quest but / remember a single Instan'
he only in history oc States or people "n'
.e united, and speaking the same lanruaG
n. who have been forced permanently asu
:. der bv civil strife OF war, unless. they :vc