The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-08-06
Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The first rebel campaign in these States
resulted very disastrously to the armies
which invaded both, to desolate their
homes, carry off their property, and tenn
porariiy to destroy their resources In
pennsylvania, Lee was thwarted in all his
plans. lie was permitted to penetrate
the very heart of one of the richest vallies
OF the State, and when he most believed
that his progress would be triumphal
march over the entire commonwealth, he
was met, whipped, hum:liated and hurled
back upon the dreary shores of the Poto-
mac with force which has certainly i'm
pressed him with new ideas of celebrity
and dispatch. In Ohio, the cut throat
and robber, John Morgan, was even more
summariIY dealt with BY the loyalists.
His army was not only beaten, but he
himself was captured and now occupies a
criminals cell in the Ohio Penitentiary.
In one sense, Morgan is the first rebel
allowed to live and still considered as re-
ceiving lis just due; and if there was a
penitentiary sufficiently large it would be
an admirable plan to consign all the rebels
to its cells, to enjoy the reward Of hard
labor and solitary confinement for the re>
mainder of their miserable lives.
Since the first rebel campaigns in Ohio
and Pennsylvania resulted so disastrously
to the South, we may safely venture the
anticipation that the campaign of the
rebel sympathisers in the same States
will have similar result. In Ohio these
sympathisers are headed by a genuine
rebel Vallandigham is as ardent trail
tor as JEFF Davis. He has done as much
as any man whose hands are unstained
with blood, to destroy the Union and dis
place the legal authority of the Govern
ment. Without John Morgan's courage
to devastate the fields and desolate the
free homes Of Ohiu, Vallandigham is
still Us sincere in his desire for the tri.
umph Of treason. His soul is in the
work of treason, and that is as much as
any coward can give to bad cause. But
the loyal men of Ohio will deal with
Vallandigham as they did with John Nor
gan and while Morgan awaits his sen.
tence In the Ohio Penitentiary, Vallan-
digham will take his trial before the
people of that State. We do rot doubt
the result. Neither do VIC question the
result In Pennsylvania. Here we beat
tHC lSDcio in al dlHicu COHieSU, sum DIS
the world never before beheld. Here we
are about to wage an unarmed contest of
equal magnitude. Lee came boldly to
destroy freedom. Woodward is secretly
set up insidiously to advance and defend
the cause of slavery, which is of itself
the essence and the aninus of treason.
Does any man doubt the result of the
campaign against the treason sympathi-
zers in Pennsylvania after that which
followed the traitors Does any man
doubt that, after the true men of the
Commonwealth contributed to the defeat
and overthrow of Lee, the same bravery,
the same fortitude will not be invoked to
overthrow and humiliate Woodward He
who doubts the case in one result after
having beheld it in another, bears no
allegiance to his government, and is in
sympathy with the cause of treason.
The country will watch with anxious
feeling the progress of the campaign in
Ohio and Pennsylvania, against the rebel
sympathisers. As the first was victory
over the rebels, SO, with the help of the
truth, we feel that the other also will ter
inmate. 1t is at least worth struggling
for. Let loyal men remember this fact
and 60 to work.