The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-09-17
VOLUME 4 EBENSBURG, "a

/
oaths OF reasonable cons nspiracy-by
appeals to the prejudices of ignorant men
by calumnies against our brave soldiers
and sailors-by denial of their rights of
suffrage, and by constant misrepresenta-
tions Of the aims and results Of the war,
| endeavors to attain its purpose of assisting
the armed traitors who are striking deadly
blows at the heart of the Republic
Our opponents we'll know that the only
strength of the rebellion consists In its
military power. Therefore, they oppose
every measure which tends to strengthen
the national armies, and they support
every measure which tends to weaken
them. IF the General Government propo-
ses to require white men to render military
service, they oppose it as unconstitutional
and oppressive. If the General Govern
ment proposes to require black men to
| render military service, they oppose it as
unconstitutional, and favoring negro
equality. If the General Government
proposes to require red men to render
military service, they oppose it as uncon-
stitutional, and contrary to the usages of
civilized warfare; and they have thus far
failed to discover among the races OF man
kind any people whose skin is of the
proper constitutional color to permit the
Government to use them to shoot rebels
and traitors.
Our opponents denounce the arrest of
disloyal persons as violating personal Ito
erty. They denounce the suppression Of
disloyal practices as indicating military
tyranny. They thwart the needed reinforce
ments of our wasted armies, and the
collection of the national revenue by base
appeals to the basest impulses of men, and
the Inauguration of riot, rapine and muir
der, bringing the terrors of civil war to
our very hearthstones. Thus, by paraly-
zipg tho strength and vigor Of the mailed
hand of the nation, they give essential aid
aud comfort to the nations enemies. Their
cardinal principle is to embarrass the
Federal Administration in ali its measures
for the vigorous prosecution of the conflict,
for the prompt suppression of the rebellion
and the swift punishment of traitors.
1t IS needless to say that their triumph
in the pending canvass would proiong the
war Il is confessed at Richmond that
the only relief afforded to the darkness
and disasters which enshroud the rebel
capital, and the only encouragement to
continue a hopeless contest, comes with
the occasional CLEANS Of successes OF their
Northern allies.
On all other sides despair awaits them.
They see two-thirds of their territory
conquered and held in subsection New
Orleans returned to its allegiance the
Mississippi open all their harbors block
AIDED Charleston assailed; Rosecrans and
Burnside moving in triumph, and the
great struggle which embraced more than
half the Union narrowing to Georgia,
South Carolina, and portions of North
Carolina and Virginia The end is not
distant 1t can only be delayed, and the
way to it piled with the bodies of the
brave men who willingly taste death for
their country, by the triumph of Northern
sympathizers with treason at the approach
ing elections Such triumph would revive
the desperate and dropping fortunes of
the rebels, inspirit their demoralized and
deserving armies, and persuade their rulers
to renewed efforts to gather and hurl new
levies upon our defenders in the field.
1t follows necessarily that the triumph of
our opponents, by prolonging the war,
will render necessary renewed conscriptions
and increase the burdens of taxation
One way only leads to short war and a
lasting peace, and that is the glorious
path along which Rosecraps is marching,
and Banks, and Grant. and Meade
Everything which tends directly or indi-
rectly to weaken or embarrass these blessed |
peace makers is comforting to the enemy,
inducing them to refuse submission to the |
laws and to continue to waste more of our |
treasure and murder others Of our sons
The future will lay the responsibility of !
lengthening this horrible conflict, with |
whatever Of sacrifice its continuance in
wolves, upon those Northern men who !
supply its want of bullets by their ballots,
and by their sympathy nerve Its arm for
further blows.
To these principles, to this policy, to
the results they 50 plainly involve, of
long war, of other drafts, and of more |
heavy taxes, as we'll as to the candidates
who represent them, the loyal mea Of
Pennsylvania are irreconcilabiy opposed.
Our platform is brief and plain and |
comprehensive. We believe that the will |
of the people, lawfully expressed, is the
supreme law that no appeal can be per-
mitted from votes to bayone.s, and that
when such appeal is made, the only hope
for the Republic is to crush it by force of
arms. We therefore support the war with !
out limitations OF conditions, as the only
means of preserving the national integrity. |