The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-04-09
A southern, Voice 10 the copper
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from old it was held periiops Tor men
to cry peace peace when there was no
peace. The dangers of it for US at this
moment are manifold. 1t encourages the
planting OF cotton Instead Of corn; it
unsettles the minds Of our soldiers In the
field, which is Generalization it stimu-
latcs the enemy to more vigorous prosecu-
tion of the war, by the idea that acc are 50
tired of it.
: There are some who reprqach the En-
qatrer. with being an advocate Of war, and
not Of peace
This is somewhat unreasonable, Is any
/ one offering peace I? Look round our
whole horizgn-isheye is it, on. sea or land,
that YOU discern amy fainsest 1.utter Of the
sswhite wings ~ 1t is all war al one
bottomless gulf of blood, one universal
carnival o. slaughter, and ravage and
ruin~
Truc, there is one way by which tI,e
Southern Confederates could Immediately
regain all the blessings of peaee; it Is by
spbmission-by reconstruction by desist-
ing. from the srehelhon," aud delivering
I'D our ringleaders TO tile punishment Of
the laws they have trampied upon. is
there, indeed. one single citizen Of this
eoafederacy who would have peace at any
price Wen, here is the price, say at
oncce--are We to pay it.:
But the symptoms Of breach between
tie East and Northwest May not they
be managed and turned TO accoant, per
haps. Why ''repeI'' the Northwest by
harrh and cutting language Truly, We
admit the language is a very inadequate
| weapon against those armed and bruta,
Invaders tsey would never be t'rcpelied"
by.vituperative eSi:hct; aud all tie bayo-
nets and Tcolnmbiatls We can muster ARE
scarcely enough to .repel the bfigands.-
Bat let US help aAd encourage, you say,
their intestine divisions. Yes, we are
willing : in the way we gave rise to those
divisions at first, we wish to encourage
thcm now. That is to say, by desperate
resistaace and defiance.
To be plain, we fear and distrust far
more these apparently friendly advances
of the Democrats than the open atroc;ty
OF phiianthropists Of Massachusetts., That
Democratic party always WAS cur worst
enemy aud but FOR is poisonous embrace,
these States would have been free and
clear of tho unnatural Union twenty years
age. 1t is not the Stewards, the Summers,
the Black Republicans ami 4 Aboiitiqpistsr
who have hurt US. They We're right al
along; there was an irrepressible conflict
between two different civilizations, two
opposite social organizations they were
| no more able TO ifye peaceably together III
one Government than two hands can wear
one glove If we dId not discover so soon
| as tie Abolitionists this great truth, L
/, Vas because the Democratic party, neutral
! as it was in principle, false TO both sides,
aud wholly indiifeyenc to the morale OF
either of the opposing communities, placed
itself between, and raised the banner OF
| the .spoils," ard-we all know the rest
i. The idea of that odius party coming to
+. life again, and holding out its arms TO US,
makes Us SILVER. Its foul breath IS nala-
: ria its torch is death.
Give US the open foeman; let liim be
as ferocious ana greedy as you will. Let
our enemy appear as an ezterminating
Yankee host, we pray, and not as
| Democratic Convention. Let him take
any shape but that. Already we have
visions Of the men of feeble knees, teAder
| feet and undulating spines, losing their
senses aud ~n,anhood by the contact, as.
they die las so often before. We scent
! from afar off the old dead compromises =
o5s:t onaeni and seem to feel upcn our
| tl.roats the strangulation of urclean fin.
gers. Bat it is n dream +; nobody lives IN
the Confederacy who viii dare to propose.
| or hint ever at a distance, that we should
sacrifice at that abominable shrine all the
gallant blood freely poured out to sanctity
our nationhood For it comes TO this
we can have no peace now. save py sub
mission no peace pow save bH making
once more an atiiiiation with a northern
parfy, and making The Demecracy'a pIz's-
ent of all that ipcstimable treasure of
the dearest blood that flowed in Southern
veins.
Peace. Docs the monstrous host be-
fore Yicksburg bring rs peace Is 1t
pcace that Rosecrans is making in Ten
nessee /? Does the military dispersion of
public meetings in Kentucky bode peace !?
The new Northern CONSUMPTION, enrolling
three millions, and making provision for
instantly commanding their service, or
exacting heavy exemption tax-does
this look ike peace? The deliberate
vestiny OF Abraham Lincoln of al the
| military power of dictator, with the
treasure Of the whole nation opened to