North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-06-10
The Feeling I'm the West.

The following lstter. from resident OF
Ohio, written to q friend here, shows the
feeling of the people in the great west, on
the late usurpstions by the Lincoln Dynasty.
MIDDLrrowa GUERNSEY Co Ohio,
May 2Sth, 1863.
DEAR FRrENp:
Yours Of the 10Th inst.
is before me. was glad to bear that your
self aud family weie well. We also are bless
ed with good health. am truly gratifed
to find that you are still sssadfast in the
Democratic faith-That you arc Patriot,
and o fearless lover Of your country, in these
dark days when to love and seek to promote
her interests and welfsre-is to commit
treason Thank Gsd that there are such
men. Ohio is full Of the patriotic brother
hood. They are resolved, come veal, or
come woe, to defnd our Constitution and
our free Republican institutions, at all hsE.
yards. Valland,gham, the patriot, the states
man and the sage, was their leader, and not
withstanding he has fallen victim to . das
tard tyranny. his name and bis sentiments
are the watchword and spirit Of his two hun
dred thousand, patriotic, and abolition de-.
spising followers Of the State Of ONO. We
are perfectly imbued with the teachings of
our furefathers. We have learned from our
infancy to speak the name Of Liberty. We
love tive will defend it. The minions Of
the tyrsnt, who dUseerates the name Of the
faithful patriarch. can never subjngate our
will, nor our bedies. We are determined to
peacefully yet sternly combat for our rights,
until the sacred rights Of free suffrage IL ut
tcrnpted to be touched. Then, if the day
shall ever come when the Washington ne
gro desp ,t,sm, shall seek to deprive Us, di.
rectly, "r indirectly of the right of the free
cl,uce Of our rulers. or Of he ,ree and tul
expression Of our political views, then the
Plains Of Illinois, the valleys of Indiana and
the hills of ODio, will be filled and covered
with herds Of men, who will inaugurate a
revolution. which can never be queled nor
never appeased, until the blood of the tyrants
shall fully and completely atone for the out
RACES that they have bourne 80 very-vcry
long, nor then, not until our free plan Of
government is fully restored, nor till man
of their cnoice shall be made President after
the manner designed by the founders of the
Republic, not until tyranny is dead and des-
potism damned, not until the whole world
rejoices at tho new rising Of the bright efful-
gent sun Of our regenersted glory and great
ness. The west is ripe for revoution-l"ng
have they borne long have they suffered
long aave they been insulted-trodden down
and trsmpled upon by Yankee insoIence,
Yankee speculatlons, and Yankee IDEAS
They have determined no longer to b.ar It,
by their manhood, and by their interes ts,
they are resolved to avenge their wrongs.
God hasten the day when they shall be fully
avenged.
As to the Union, we will never consent to
its dissolution. The South shall never leave
US. II they are successful, as every appear
ance indicates they will be, the broad arms
OF the Mississippi all spread out by the God
Of Nature to clasp us to the bosom Of the
Great Southern and North Western Confed-
cracy, or if aboliticnism and God cursed abO.
litionists and their fAnalical tools who un-
fortunately hold the reins Of the G ,vernment
will inevitably force disunlon upon us. We
,re resolved to kick eff he Yankee curse, and
try Government Of our own, where Liber-
ty shall be free as the air Of heaven, where
peace shall reign, and all be happ ness and
joy. Vallandlgham shall be the first Pres,-
dcnt-the pride OF our nation and the bene-
factor Of the whole world. Truly as you
say, in the arrest of VaIlandigham, n blow,
a severe one was struck at the democracy of
ths whole country, but more particularly
those of Ohio, who designed making him
their candidate for Governor in the coming
| fall election. .,u. wrhst anding bis arrest and
bahish ent, we may yet nominate hm.-
The Ohio Democracy love him, they adore
hi,n-and were it not for the renegade chief
magistrate of OHIO, who holds the military
p"wer-be should have never been tried
scn,enced or punished,
am rs ever your friend
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