Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-05-13

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willing to purchase it at any sacrifice
Alas, for the delusion of the belief that
repose will follow the overthrow of the
Government
doubt not, from the temper of the
public mind, that the Southern States ,c7H
oil be diio,ced to uittd,uc peacetuiy !;
but when the work Of dismemberrnent
begins we shall break up the fragments
from month to month, with the nonchal-
unce with which we break the bread upon
our breakfast table.
If all the grave and vital questions
which will arise among these fragments
of the rupturcd Republic can be adjusted
without resort 10 arms, then we have
made vast progress since the history our
race was written. But the tragic events
of the hour will show that we have made
no progress OF all. We shall SOON grow
up race Of chieftains, who will rival the
political bandits of South America and
Mexico. and who will carve out to us "A
, miserable heritage with their bloody
swords. The masses of the people dream
not of these things
They suppose the Republic can be
destroyed to-day and peace will smile over
its ruins Tomorrow. They know nothing
. of civil war. This marah in the desert
of the pilgrimage Of nations has happily
been for them n scaled fountain. They
know not rs others 10 of its bitterness,
and that civil war is a scourge that dark
ems every fireSidc, and wrings every heart
. with anguish. They are TO be commise-
rated. for they know not what they do.
Whcnc,.is all this? 1t has come because
thn pulpit and the prnsa, and the covering,
unscrlpulous politicians of the North have
taught The people that they are RESPONSE
bie for the domestic institutions of the
South. and iil;,t thcv can be faithf T.
God only by being unfaithful to the COM
pact which they have made With their
feiiow-mcn.
Hruc" those Liberty bills, which de-
Grade rh. statute books Of some ten of the
free States. and are conftsSedlv Il shame
bss viul;.tio.I of the Federal Constitution,
i'll point vital 10 lcr honor We have
been presented from year to wear. the
Lumiliaiing spectacle of free and Sove-
rci2n States. nv solemn act of legislation,
/ Lc.Jah-mg 'Rr ttejt Of tied nGghborS' pro-
party. | say THEFT. since it is not the
less so because the subject of the dcspIca-
blo crime of chances to be slave, instead
OF Il horse or bale Of goods
From this same teaching has come the
perpetual agitation of the slavery question
which has rectclieR tie ntin1s o. tue aeu'e
roylbit,oa o. tie .@outh, and has rendered
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cure This is the feature of the irrepres-
sible c, n4ict with which the NothcrIi
people are not familiar. In almost every
! part or the South, ,niscreant fanatics have
been found. aud poisoning, and confaera-
tions have marked their footsteps. Moth
ers there law down AT night trembling be-
/ side their children, and wives cling 10 their
husbands as they leave th ir homes in the
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| have :, brother residing in Mississippi
who is lawyer by profession. and cot
ton planter, but has never had any ronnec-
tion with politics. Knowing the calm
and cons rva:ive tone of his character. |
wrote him a few weeks since, and implored
him 10 exert his influence in laying the
phrenzy of the popular mind around him.
He has replied TO me at much length. and
after depicting the Vaccinations of the
wretches TO whom | have alluded, and the
CONSERVATION which rcigns in the homes
of the South, he says 1t is the unalterable
determination Of the Southern people to
overthrow the Government, as the only
refuge which is left to them from these in
s,1ppOrtable wrongs, and he adds: g On
the success of this movement depends my
every earthly interest-the safety of nv
roof from the frebrand, and of nv wife
and children from the poison and the dag
gcrr."
give YOU his language because il
truthfullv expresses the Southern mind
which at this moment, "lows as Il furnace
in its hatred TO the North because of these
internal agitations. Think vou that any
people can endure this condition of things
When the Northern preacher infuses into
his audience the spirit of assassins and in,
cendiaries in his crusade against slavery
does he think. as he lies down quietly a
night. of the Southern homes he has rob.
bed of sleep and the helpless women ant
children he has exposed to all the name
less horrors Of serulIe nas,1Tecnons'
am still for the Union, because ! have
yet a faint, hesitating hope that the Nortf
will do Justice to the South, and save the
Republic, before the wreck is complete
But action. TO be available, must bi
prompt IF the free States viii SWEEP